📔 cross (one's) bows


📋Meaning
To annoy or irritate.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Boy, you are really crossing my bows today. Why can't you just do what I ask without arguing about it?
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📔 Gain ground



📋Meaning
  To become popular, to make progress, to advance.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “As Airbnb gains ground in many cities all over the world, many locals complain that they can no longer find a place to live. Landlords would rather rent their places out to tourists and earn more money.”
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📔 romp home



📋Meaning
To deftly or easily win a race, contest, or competition. Primarily heard in UK.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣With her arch-rival out of commission with a pulled hamstring, the defending champion romped home at the Olympics once again.

🗣Showing their utter superiority on the pitch, the boys in blue look set to romp home to a 6–2 victory.
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📔 Lost at sea



📋Meaning
  To be confused about something or to feel unsure about what to do.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “I am lost at sea with this new system at work. I just can’t understand it.”
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📔 plastic grin


📋Meaning
A forced, artificial smile; a smile someone wears despite having no feelings of happiness or joy.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣John seemed fine at first glance, but before long I could tell that he was wearing a plastic grin and that something was bothering him.

🗣Look at his big plastic grin—he's such a con man! I sure hope he doesn't win the election.
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📔 the big picture



📋Meaning
  the situation as a whole.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 "he's so involved in the minutiae that he often overlooks the big picture"
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📔 thanks for nothing


📋Meaning
An expression of annoyance, exasperation, or disappointment when someone does something unhelpful or disagreeable.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Thanks for nothing, Dan. Now I have to go get all these posters reprinted because of your stupid typo.

🗣I can't believe you squealed on me to the principal! Thanks for nothing!
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📔 To pony up





📋Meaning
  To pay for something or settle a debt.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “Pony up and give me the $5 you owe me.”

“I told my roommate Jane to pony up her portion of the rent money.”
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📔 not do a stroke (of work)



📋Meaning
To not do any work at all.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Now that Jim's retired, he just spends all day on the couch watching television. He won't do a stroke of work around the house!

🗣I'm going to have a long night ahead with this term paper, as I haven't done a stroke up till now.
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📔 Hit the Road



📋Meaning
  to leave (especially to go home); to depart on a journey (especially to travel to a place by car).



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I'm sorry but I have to go home—we're hitting the road to Chicago early in the morning.  

🗣 What time are we hitting the road tomorrow?
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📔 shank's nag



📋Meaning
One's legs and feet, used for walking; travel by foot. Also "shanks' nag." A reference to the shank— the lower leg between the knee and the ankle—and the use of ponies or horses for travel.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣My bicycle fell apart three miles away from home, so I had to use shank's nag to go the rest of the way.

🗣Unfortunately, with the sedentary lifestyle many lead today, shank's nag has largely become an obsolete mode of travel.
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📔 wait tables



📋Meaning
  to serve customers food and beverages in a restaurant or cafe


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I waited tables for five years to pay expenses while I was in college.


🗣 Waiting tables is a popular job for students and artists.
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📔 send a shiver down (one's) spine



📋Meaning
To cause an intense feeling of excitement, exhilaration, nervousness, or fear in someone.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The way that sonata swells always sends a shiver down my spine.

🗣It sent a shiver down my spine when Dorothy gave me such an amorous look.

🗣Can we get out of here? This creepy old house is sending a shiver down my spine!
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📔 Not one’s cup of tea



📋Meaning
  If something is not your cup of tea, it’s an activity you have no interest in, don’t enjoy or don’t do well in.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “Camping is really not my cup of tea so I’m going to visit my friend in New York instead.”
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📔 curse a blue streak


📋Meaning
To use profane language with great rapidity and intensity.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣My dad cursed a blue streak after he found out I'd put a dent in his car.
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📔 Every cloud has a silver lining




📋Meaning
  There’s a good aspect to every bad situation.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “Don’t worry about losing your job. It’ll be okay. Every cloud has a silver lining!“
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📔one after another


📋Meaning
Consecutively and in quick succession, with one person or thing rapidly following another in order (and usually indicating a large amount altogether). (Often formulated as "one (noun) after another.")

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The children walked silently, one after another, into the schoolhouse to begin their lesson.

🗣When I was cooped up in the house after my surgery, I started reading one book after another.
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📔  The lion's share




📋Meaning
  The largest part (or share) of something.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣My son is upset that his brother got the lion's share of the cake but I explained this was fair because it was his birthday.

🗣My husband does help out at home with some cleaning and cooking, but like most women, I do the lion's share of the housework.
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📔 in the thick of things


📋Meaning
Very busy; in the middle of or preoccupied with something or several things.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Sorry I couldn't make it to your birthday lunch on Wednesday—I'm afraid I'm really in the thick of things at the moment.

🗣Even when you find yourself in the thick of things, try to take a moment each day and take a deep, calming breath.
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📔 Have a sweet tooth



📋Meaning
  Do you like eating cakes, candy and other sweet-tasting food? If you do, then you can say you have a sweet tooth.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “Yes, I definitely have a sweet tooth. I can never walk past a bakery and not stop to buy myself a slice of chocolate cake.”
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