🖌🖍🖋 - On the flip side = On the other hand

🖌🖍🖋 - Having said that, ...

🌕 - I feel good
🌕 - I feel well

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🌔 - I feel bad
🌔 - I feel badly

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🏃‍♀️🏃 - RUN - phrasal verbs 🏃‍♀️🏃

1️⃣ run down (sg) - [inseparable]
2️⃣ run across (sy/sg) - [inseparable]
3️⃣ run (sg) past/by (sy) - [separable]
4️⃣ run up (sg) - [separable]

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💡 - run (sg) past/by (sy) - phrasal verb - [separable] 🏃‍♀️🏃💡

~ I'd like to run an idea by you! 💡

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✳️ - look up to somebody

✴️ - look down on somebody

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📚📖 - look (sg) up - phrasal verb - [separable] 🔭🔭🔭

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- look up - phrasal verb

🖌 - things are looking up (for) ➡️ if a situation is looking up, it is getting better

~ Finally, things are looking up for me.

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😎😁🔭🔭🔭

Things are looking up!

▫️◽️🔳- Firstly / first of all / first
vs
▪️◾️🔲 - At first

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🏧💲- To rob Peter to pay Paul

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🔘 on autopilot

= automatically, without thinking about what you are doing

~ He never really cared about the job and is mostly operating on autopilot these days.

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🖌🖍🖋 - work in / at / for a company

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🌑 - inveterate (adj.) /ɪnˈvetərət/

= always doing a particular thing, especially something bad, and unlikely to change; confirmed in a habit

~ an inveterate smoker/liar/gambler/critic

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⚫️ - check back
◼️ - check back (on sy/sg)
◻️ - check back (with sy)

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🔲 - specious (adj.) /ˈspiːʃəs/ - formal - disapproving
= seeming to be true or correct, but actually false - SYN: misleading
~ a specious argument/claim
~ specious allegations/promises

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🔳 - plausible (adj.) /ˈplɔːzəb(ə)l/

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🆚 - 'on time' vs 'in time' 🆚
✴️ - 'just in time'

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▶️ - teething problems / teething troubles

~ early/initial teething troubles
~ Hopefully these are just teething troubles, and will be resolved soon.

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