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🖌 Phrasal verb of the day 🖌
📒1-drop off

📖Meaning
to fall asleep

🤓For example ⤵️

💬My mum often drops off in her favourite chair in front of the TV, and we have to wake her up when it's time to go to bed.

💬If you're driving and you start to feel sleepy, stop and rest. If you drop off behind the wheel, you could kill yourself and a lot of other people.

📒2) drop somebody/something ↔ off to take someone or something to a place by car and leave them there on your way to another place
I’ll drop you off on my way home.

📒3) to fall to a lower level or amount
The number of graduates going into teaching has dropped off sharply.
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🖌 Moral story of the day 🖌
🎓When Adversity Knocks:

Mary was a young girl. She used to get annoyed with everything. She had a negative attitude towards life.

Once, when she felt that life was unbearable, she asked her father what to do. She told him that if she was able to manage and solve one problem, another one followed quickly.

Her father consoled her and took her to the kitchen. He asked Mary to take a potato, an egg and two spoons of tea leaves. Mary was surprised, and asked her father, "Do you want me to cook?"
"No," her father said.

He then took three vessels and poured one cup of water in each vessel. The vessels were placed on the stove. Once the water started to boil, he dropped the potato in a vessel, egg in the second one and the tea leaves in the third one.

"Why are you doing all these things?" Mary asked, really annoyed with her father.

"Just wait fifteen minutes," said her father.

The impatient daughter managed to wait for around 15 minutes.

Father removed the potato from the pot and placed in a plate. He did the same with the eggs. He filtered the tea decoction using a cup.

Now, he placed the two plates, one with the potato and the other with the egg, and the cup of tea in front of Mary.
He asked Mary, "What do you see?"
"Potato, egg and a cup of tea," said Mary.

"No, you are wrong," said her father. "Look at it closely and answer me."
Mary replied the same.
"Now touch it and answer me."

The potato was cooked and was soft, the egg was boiled hard, and the tea carried a nice aroma.
Mary couldn't find the correct answer.

Her father said, "The potato was so hard and strong before it was boiled; now it has turned soft and smooth. Also, the egg was delicate but after boiling it became hard. Sip the tea. It is delicious!"

Mary asked, "What does it mean father? I don't understand!"

"Each object responded differently to water. Each object was put under the same kind of circumstances, faced similar adversities, but reacted differently. The potato, when put in boiling water, became very weak. The soft egg became very hard when we put it in boiling water. And the tea leaves are unique. It changed the water itself, giving it a unique flavour and aroma! It gave something new."

Mary understood that we can create something new and unique even when we experience adversities.

So, what are you? A potato, an egg, or a tea leaf?

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🖌 Idiom of the day 🖌
📚kick the habit




✍🏾Meaning
If you kick the habit, you manage to stop doing something that has become a bad habit.


❗️For example

🔸I wish I could stop smoking cigarettes but I just can't kick the habit.

🔸Rashid used to bite his fingernails but his girlfriend made him kick the habit.
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🖌 Slang language 🖌
💠 kickback 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a payment made, often secretly or illegally, to someone who has helped to arrange a deal or a job


❕For example

🔺Several corrupt politicians were arrested for getting kickbacks from companies that were given huge government contracts.

🔺We'll have to pay a $50,000 kickback to the school's principal if we want to get the job of building their new assembly hall.
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🖌 Phrasal verb of the day 🖌
📒major in



📖Meaning
If you major in a field of study at university or college, that field is your main area of study.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 If you're thinking about studying at university, you'll need to think about what you'd like to major in.

💬When I studied at university, I majored in English literature and my minor was economics.
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🖌 Idiom of the day 🖌 📚off the top of your head



✍🏾Meaning
If you give someone information off the top of your head, you do so from memory, without checking beforehand.


❗️For example

🔸I can't tell you Maxine's phone number off the top of my head. I'll have to check.

🔸I don't know for sure, but off the top of my head I'd say that renting a two-bedroom apartment would cost about a thousand dollars a week.
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🖌 Phrasal verb of the day 🖌
📒face up to

📖Meaning
If you face up to a difficult or challenging situation, you accept that you have to deal with it, and then do something about it.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 We have to face up to the challenge of competing with new companies and new products.

💬It's time I faced up to the fact that I'm getting older and I have to start saving money for the future.
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🖌 Moral story of the day 🖌
🧑🏻‍🦰Real Vs Fake:

Minnu was a sweet, lovable and beautiful girl, aged six years. She was an adorable kid as she always obeyed her elders. Minnu's parents loved her for her amazing behaviour.

One day, Minnu's mother took her for grocery shopping. As they passed the shops, Minnu noted a cute plastic pearl necklace in dazzling pink! She asked her mother to buy her the necklace. Her mother told her that it cost quite a few pennies. She asked her to do some chores, so that for every completed piece of work Minnu would get some money and she could buy the pink necklace.

Minnu prepared a to-do list and assisted her mom with all the chores. Her mom was very happy, and she paid enough money to buy the pink necklace.

Minnu happily purchased the necklace and wore it just everywhere, every time, except while taking bath. Her mother said that her neck would turn pink and the pearls would lose their sheen if she wore it while bathing. But all other times, Minnu wore it, even while sleeping.

Minnu's father used to tell her bed time stories frequently. One night, after completing a story, her dad asked how much she loved him. Minnu replied, "You know how much I love you."

Dad asked, "Then give me your pearl necklace please!"

Minnu replied, "Please daddy, I love you so much but please don't ask for these pearls. I will give you the pink Barbie which you bought me a month ago."

Dad replied, "Fine, sweetheart."

After a few days, the conversation was repeated between Minnu and her dad. Again, Minnu refused to give her pearl necklace and instead asked her dad to take her pet. Dad kissed her and left with smile.

This was repeated several times.

pink-pearl-necklaceOne day, Minnu slept while her dad was reading her a story. She was holding the necklace in her hands. Her dad took the pearl necklace from her hand. The next moment, she woke up and asked, "Dad, what are you doing?"

Dad quickly opened a jewel box placed near her bed and handed her a real precious pink pearl necklace. He said, "Sweetheart, this is your real necklace. I wanted to take away the fake one all this while to give you this real one."

She replied, 'Thank you dad!'

Minnu immediately gave up her fake necklace for the real one.

God wants us to give up all the fake and cheap things we consider very precious in our life. It can be habits, hatreds, harming relationships, activities, negative thoughts, etc. He will provide us with genuine things if we give up the fake!

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