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✨أنا مريض/ متوعك 🤒

I...

✨am sick/ill.
✨am sick as a dog.
✨am under the weather.
✨have come down with something.
✨think I've caught a bug.
✨am not feeling well/great/100%.
✨feel a bit rough.
✨feel rubbish.

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✨يتجاوز العقبات/يتغلب على الصعاب

✨Pull out all the stops

= do everything possible to make something succeed

➖The company pulled out of the stops to improve business, including cutting prices up to 50%.

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✨ما المغزي/الغرض/الهدف/المصلحة/الحكمة؟

✨What’s the catch?

➖Why are you selling this for so little? What's the catch?

➖Free food? It sounds too good to be true. What’s the catch?

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✨في إجازة مرضية

✨On sick leave

➖Ahmed is not in the office today. He broke his leg yesterday, so he’s on/he’s taken sick leave.

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✨المكان مزدحم/زحمة (مليان ع الآخر)

It's...

✨crowded.
✨full.
✨rammed.
✨chock-a-block.
✨chock full.
✨swarming.
✨full to the rafters.
✨full to the brim.
✨hustle and bustle.
✨jam-packed.
✨cramped.
✨loaded.
✨populous.

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✨كون كتاب مفتوح واضح و مكشوف و ما تخبي شي عن حياتك 📖

✨Be an open book

= be a person who hides nothing about your life

➖Please ask me anything. I'm an open book.

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✨احفظ قرشك الأبيض ليومك الأسود 💵

✨Save for a rainy day

= save something for the future when it is needed

➖Instead of spending money on a new TV, I'm going to save it for a rainy day. You never know when you'll need it.

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✨يحرز الدرجة النهائية في الاختبار (يطلّع العلامة الكاملة) 👏🏻💪🏻🥇

✨Ace a test

= get a perfect score⁦

➖Amber is going to ace tomorrow's quiz because she studies so hard, and she has a very good private tutor to help her.

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✨يفكّر ملياً قبل ٱتخاذ القرار (ياخذ وقته في التفكير)

✨Sleep on it

= wait until tomorrow to make a decision

➖She wanted to sleep on it before making such an important decision.

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✨شيء لا يستحق الذكر/ غير ممتع

✨Nothing to write home about

= not exciting or interesting

➖My trip was nothing to write home about. I didn't have much fun, and it was kind of boring.

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✨شخص اجتماعي جداً

✨A social butterfly

= someone who enjoys being around people

➖She's a real social butterfly and always seems to make friends so easily.

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✨يسكِّت / يهدِّيء 🤫

✨Hush up

➖The kids are being very noisy and loud. Please tell them to hush up.

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✨يتطلع للحصول على (بالعامية نقول "عينه عليه")

✨To eye up

➖Ahmed is eyeing up a new iPad.

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✨في متناول يديك

✨At one's fingertips 

= easily available; at hand

➖I don't have that information at my fingertips right now. Can you wait a minute?

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✨هو مُصر ﻋﻠﻰ ﻣﻮقفه

✨He put his foot down.

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✨هي اﺳﺘﮭﺎنت ﺑﻜﻼﻣﻲ

✨She sneezed at my words.

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✨ﻟﻢ أﻓﮭﻢ ﺷﯿﺌًﺎ ﻣﻤﺎ ﻗﺎل / ما فهمت شي من كلامه 😣

✨I could make nothing of what he said.

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✨ﯾﺎ له ﻣﻦ ﺷﺨﺺ ﻣﻤﻞ😑

✨He is such a drag.
✨He is such a dead rubber.
✨He is such a fun sponge.
✨He is so lame.
✨He is such a stiff.
✨He is such a white bread guy.

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✨لا أدري ﻣﺎذا ﺳﯿﺤﺪث

✨I don't know what will come about. 🤷🏻‍♀

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✨محدد و جاهز

✨Cut and dried

➖There are no cut-and-dried solutions here. We need to come up with something.

✨و تأتي أيضاً بمعنى "ممل"

➖The lecture was, as usual, cut and dried.

✨و بمعنى "واضح"

➖Now, this situation is not as cut and dried as it may seem.

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✨يساهم / يشارك في شيء

✨To pitch in

➖If we all pitch in, the cleanup shouldn't take long.

➖My brother pitched in with an offer to lend us some money.

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