🖌 a pig in a poke 🐷🎒

▶️ bedlam (noun) /ˈbedləm/ 🛌🐑
= a noisy and confusing place or situation
There was complete bedlam as everyone rushed for the shops.
synonyms: chaos, madhouse, mayhem, pandemonium, turmoil, uproar

💥- and it shows = used for saying that something is very obvious

- They used the cheapest materials they could find, AND IT SHOWS.💥📖🖌

💥⚡️⚡️⚡️- to steal someone's thunder 💥

#idiomatic_expressions

♠️ Alternate vs Alternative ♠️

Original meal = 🍗
Alternate meal = 🌭 (replaces 🍗)
Alternative meal = 🌭 (but 🍗 is still an option)

#Vocabulary

🆘 - Unique (adj.) - Absolute - Gradable or not? (2/1) 🛠🔍🔐

🆘 - Unique (adj.) - Absolute - Gradable or not? (2/2) 🛠🔍🔐

✳️ Show the Difference: ✳️

➡️ 1- We love each other.►( = I love her, she loves me.)
➡️ 2- We love ourselves. ►( = I love myself, she loves herself.)

🔘 give somebody/get a fair shake 🍧🥛🍨

🐟 PUT, FALL, JUMP, DIVE 🐠🐬🐳
➕ IN or INTO with no difference in meaning:
☑️ Can you PUT the milk IN / INTO the fridge?
☑️ Her keys FELL IN / INTO the canal.

✳️ tunnel vision ✴️

💠 Punctuating conjunctive adverbs - When used in a simple sentence as a PARENTHETICAL EXPRESSION, the conjunctive adverb has COMMAS around it 💠
🆘 HOWEVER 🛠

🛌 - ensconce (verb) /ɪnˈskɒns/

"At one end of the big barn, on a sort of raised platform, Major was already ENSCONCED on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam."
― George Orwell, Animal Farm🐷🐎 🦆🐕🐱

🥊 When the going gets tough, the tough get going. 🥊🥊🥊

✅ It has started raining. 💦
✅ It has started to rain. 💦
✅ It’s starting to rain. 💦
❌ It’s startING rainING. ⛔️🚫

#Grammar

✴️💥 a lost cause 💥✴️