📔 put the hammer down



📋Meaning
To press down the accelerator (of an automobile) as far as possible; to accelerate to or travel at an automobile's maximum speed. Primarily heard in US.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣It would normally take us three days driving to New York from Colorado, but with my brother putting the hammer down the whole way, we made it in two.
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📔 cut corners



📋Meaning
  do something perfunctorily so as to save time or money.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 "there is always a temptation to cut corners when time is short"
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📔 in the middle of nowhere


📋Meaning
In a very distant, remote, and isolated location.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I'll never understand why they built this campus out here in the middle of nowhere.
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📔 boxed in




📋Meaning
  feeling restricted or stuck due to one's limited options


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Sandra felt boxed in after having her third child because she couldn't afford child care.

🗣 Once I started working for myself as a freelancer I didn't feel so boxed in about what type of clients I could work with.
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📔 go halfsies



📋Meaning
slang To share something, especially the cost of something, in equal proportion between two people.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣You wanna go halfsies on the bill?

🗣I don't feel like cooking tonight, let's go halfsies on a pizza instead.
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📔 Between a rock and a hard place



📋Meaning
  In difficulty, faced with a choice between two unsatisfactory options.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “I can understand why she couldn’t make up her mind about what to do. She’s really between a rock and a hard place.”
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📔 be tipping (it) down


📋Meaning
To be raining very heavily. Primarily heard in UK.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣We have a football match scheduled for tomorrow, but if it keeps tipping down like it is today, I'm sure that it will be cancelled.

🗣Looks like it's tipping it down outside again. I guess I won't be cycling to work this morning.
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📔 At a snail's pace



📋Meaning
Very slowly.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I'm never coming to this restaurant again. They serve the food at a snail's pace.      

🗣I recommend you bring a book when you go to the post office. It's the holidays and they always work at a snail's pace this time of year.     

🗣  Traffic was moving at a snail's pace so I arrived 45 minutes late for work.
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📔 shaken up



📋Meaning
Greatly startled, shocked, or upset.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I was very shaken up after the car accident. I couldn't even speak properly to the police for about an hour.

🗣I remained shaken up for most of the day after hearing about my grandfather's death.
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📔 Rain or shine



📋Meaning
  Used to indicate that something will happen no matter what. This is one of the rare idioms that’s also often used literally, for outdoor events that’ll take place whether it rains or not.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “I’ll see you at the airport, rain or shine.”
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📔 run a temperature



📋Meaning
To have an abnormally high body temperature (a fever), which is indicative of or caused by illness.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Dan: "How's Pete feeling?" Marshall: "Well, he ran a temperature last night, but he seemed a lot better this morning after some rest."

🗣I think I've started running a temperature. Maybe I should go lie down.
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📔 walk someone through something




📋Meaning
  to explain how to do something in detail

to guide someone carefully or step-by-step about how to do something



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I wish you would've walked Samantha through the budget process. Now we need to go back and fix some of the coding.

🗣 I've walked Karen through QuickBooks at least seven times in the past two weeks and she's not grasping anything.
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📔 talk a mile a minute



📋Meaning
To speak in a very quick or hurried manner; to talk very fast.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣When the boss gets excited, she starts talking a mile a minute, and I can never follow everything she's trying to say!
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📔be at a crossroads

📋Meaning
to be at a stage in your life when you have to make a very important decision

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣After earning my degree, I'm at a crossroads. I need to figure out which direction my life should take.

🗣As a company, we're at a crossroads. We can continue business as usual, or we can take a risk and try to grow.
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📔 weep (one's) heart out


📋Meaning
To weep copiously; to cry intensely and for a long time.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Lauren wept her heart out at the news of her father's sudden death.

🗣What did you say to upset your brother? He's been weeping his heart out upstairs for the last half hour!
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📔 Castle in the sky



📋Meaning
  A daydream, a hope, especially for one’s life, that’s unlikely to come true.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “World traveling used to be a castle in the sky for most people a few decades ago, but with cheap flight tickets and the global use of English, many youngsters are living that dream.”
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📔on the hush-hush


📋Meaning
In a state of secrecy or minimal public knowledge; being known only by a select few people.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I need to tell you some important news, but you have to keep it on the hush-hush, OK?

🗣Apparently it's on the hush-hush, but I just found out John and Tracey are getting married soon!
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📔 Keep your chin up



📋Meaning
  “Stay strong, you’ll get through this. Don’t let these things affect you too badly.”



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “Hey, Keiren, have you had any luck finding work yet?”

“No, nothing, it’s really depressing, there’s nothing out there!”

“Don’t worry, you’ll find something soon, keep your chin up buddy and don’t stress.”
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📔 pitch a fit


📋Meaning
To become very or unreasonably angry or upset; to have an outburst of rage, frustration, or ill temper.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣My mom's going to pitch a fit when she sees what happened to the car!

🗣I was so embarrassed when Danny started pitching a fit in the grocery store.
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📔 Mad as a hatter (UK idiom)



📋Meaning
  Completely mad. 


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I know some of my students think I'm as mad as a hatter because of my weird methods.

🗣 I'll be mad as a hatter if I have to deal with these screaming toddlers for much longer.
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