🍂Common Proverbs in English🍂
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🍃 MEANING 🍃
If something takes time to do, it doesn’t help to constantly check on it. You just have to give it time.
🍃 EXAMPLE 🍃
“I know you think he’s going to be a great guitar player one day, but stop criticizing him so much. He just started taking lessons two weeks ago! A watched pot never boils.”
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🍃 MEANING 🍃
If you’re in a bad situation and someone offers to help you, you have to take whatever they give you and shouldn’t ask for more
🍃 EXAMPLE 🍃
“I was unemployed, and they offered me a job cleaning prison toilets. I didn’t like the job, but I accepted it. Beggars can’t be choosers.”
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A WATCHED POT NEVER BOILS 🥀🍃 MEANING 🍃
If something takes time to do, it doesn’t help to constantly check on it. You just have to give it time.
🍃 EXAMPLE 🍃
“I know you think he’s going to be a great guitar player one day, but stop criticizing him so much. He just started taking lessons two weeks ago! A watched pot never boils.”
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BEGGARS CAN’T BE CHOOSERS 🥀🍃 MEANING 🍃
If you’re in a bad situation and someone offers to help you, you have to take whatever they give you and shouldn’t ask for more
🍃 EXAMPLE 🍃
“I was unemployed, and they offered me a job cleaning prison toilets. I didn’t like the job, but I accepted it. Beggars can’t be choosers.”
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🍁I HOPE...to express a wish🍁
• [S] + [hope] + [S + V + O]
• [S] + [hope] + [to V + O]
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• [S] + [hope] + [S + V + O]
• [S] + [hope] + [to V + O]
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🔴 Daily Conversations:
♦️9. Apology and Forgiveness (Part 1 of 2)
🔸9.1 When you apologize for offence or failure
🔹I'm sorry.
🔹I'm so sorry.
🔹I'm very sorry.
🔹I'm so very sorry.
🔹I'm really sorry.
🔹I'm terribly sorry.
🔹I'm sincerely sorry.
🔹Sorry.
🔹You cannot believe how sorry I am.
🔹I beg your pardon.
🔹I apologize.
🔹My apologies.
🔹My sincere apologies.
🔹Please accept my apologies.
🔹I offer my most sincere apologies.
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🔸9.2 When you apologize for bothering somebody
🔹Excuse me.
🔹Sorry to be a bother.
🔹Sorry to be a pest.
🔹Sorry for the inconvenience.
🔹Forgive me.
🔹Please forgive the inconvenience.
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🔸9.3 When you may bother somebody by moving about
🔹Could I get by, please? (used with "can" or "may" or "could")
🔹Watch your feet.
🔹I'm coming through.
🔹Excuse me.
🔹Would you excuse me?
🔹Pardon me.
🔹I beg your pardon.
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🔸9.4 When you apologize sarcastically
🔹Well, excuse me.
🔹Excuse me for breathing.
🔹Excuse me for living.
🔹Pardon me for being alive.
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🔸9.5 When you admit your mistake
🔹My mistake.
🔹My error.
🔹It's my fault.
🔹It's all my fault.
🔹I shouldn't have said that.
🔹I shouldn't have done that.
🔹I should have asked you first.
🔹I spoke too soon.
🔹I didn't mean it.
🔹I really didn't mean it.
🔹I sincerely didn't mean it.
🔹I didn't mean to say that.
🔹I didn't mean to do that.
🔹I didn't mean to hurt you.
🔹I didn't think that would happen.
🔹I didn't intend it that way.
🔹I don't know how that could have happened.
#Daily_conversations
#Apology_and_forgiveness
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♦️9. Apology and Forgiveness (Part 1 of 2)
🔸9.1 When you apologize for offence or failure
🔹I'm sorry.
🔹I'm so sorry.
🔹I'm very sorry.
🔹I'm so very sorry.
🔹I'm really sorry.
🔹I'm terribly sorry.
🔹I'm sincerely sorry.
🔹Sorry.
🔹You cannot believe how sorry I am.
🔹I beg your pardon.
🔹I apologize.
🔹My apologies.
🔹My sincere apologies.
🔹Please accept my apologies.
🔹I offer my most sincere apologies.
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🔸9.2 When you apologize for bothering somebody
🔹Excuse me.
🔹Sorry to be a bother.
🔹Sorry to be a pest.
🔹Sorry for the inconvenience.
🔹Forgive me.
🔹Please forgive the inconvenience.
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🔸9.3 When you may bother somebody by moving about
🔹Could I get by, please? (used with "can" or "may" or "could")
🔹Watch your feet.
🔹I'm coming through.
🔹Excuse me.
🔹Would you excuse me?
🔹Pardon me.
🔹I beg your pardon.
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🔸9.4 When you apologize sarcastically
🔹Well, excuse me.
🔹Excuse me for breathing.
🔹Excuse me for living.
🔹Pardon me for being alive.
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🔸9.5 When you admit your mistake
🔹My mistake.
🔹My error.
🔹It's my fault.
🔹It's all my fault.
🔹I shouldn't have said that.
🔹I shouldn't have done that.
🔹I should have asked you first.
🔹I spoke too soon.
🔹I didn't mean it.
🔹I really didn't mean it.
🔹I sincerely didn't mean it.
🔹I didn't mean to say that.
🔹I didn't mean to do that.
🔹I didn't mean to hurt you.
🔹I didn't think that would happen.
🔹I didn't intend it that way.
🔹I don't know how that could have happened.
#Daily_conversations
#Apology_and_forgiveness
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💢 BODY IDIOMS 💢
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#Idioms
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All ears
• Cold shoulder
• Itchy feet
• Long arm of the law
• Old hand
• Sweet tooth
• Elbow room
• Eye-catching #Idioms
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🍃 PELL-MELL 🍃
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#Idioms
#Phrases
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In mingled confusion or disorder; very fast and not organized #Idioms
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✨ALL TOGETHER 🆚 ALTOGETHER✨
• All together: in a group
🍃 We’re all together in this.
• Altogether: entirely
🍃It is not altogether his fault.
#Vocabulary
#confusing_words
#Homonyms
#VS
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• All together: in a group
🍃 We’re all together in this.
• Altogether: entirely
🍃It is not altogether his fault.
#Vocabulary
#confusing_words
#Homonyms
#VS
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✨ALLUDE 🆚 ELUDE 🆚 REFER✨
• Allude means “to mention indirectly.”
⚠️Do not confuse allude with refer.
If we say, “Good old Joe is here,” we refer to Joe.
If we say, “That man with the ready laugh is here,” we allude to Joe, but we never mention his name.
• Allude is also sometimes confused with elude, which means “to escape” or “avoid capture.”
#Vocabulary
#confusing_words
#Homonyms
#VS
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• Allude means “to mention indirectly.”
⚠️Do not confuse allude with refer.
If we say, “Good old Joe is here,” we refer to Joe.
If we say, “That man with the ready laugh is here,” we allude to Joe, but we never mention his name.
• Allude is also sometimes confused with elude, which means “to escape” or “avoid capture.”
#Vocabulary
#confusing_words
#Homonyms
#VS
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Forwarded from Deleted Account
🏨 Hotel Upgrade🏨
A: Good afternoon. What can I do for you?
B: I’d like to check in please. I have a reservation under the name Anthony Roberts.
A: All right R.O.B.E.R.T.S... Oh, Mr. Roberts we’ve been expecting you... And here is your keycard to the presidential suite.
B: But there must be some mistake; my reservation was for a standard room.
A: Are you sure? Let me double check.
B: Yeah... Here, this is my confirmation number.
A: You’re right Mr. Roberts, there seems to be a mix- up, unfortunately we’re overbooked at the moment.
B: So...
A: Not to worry. We’re pleased to offer you a complimentary upgrade.
B: Presidential suite baby!
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🏨 Key Vocabulary
• check in - register at a hotel or airport
• under the name - name used for the reservation
• reservation - booking
• confirmation - an approval, verification
• mix-up - confusion
• complimentary upgrade - free improvement of quality
• overbooked - full
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🏨Supplementary Vocabulary
• check out - pay and leave a hotel
• booking - reservation
• concierge - hotel employee that helps guests
• deluxe room - hotel room, better than standard
• receipt - paper showing payment details
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#Listening_practice
#Speaking_practice
#Daily_life_conversation
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A: Good afternoon. What can I do for you?
B: I’d like to check in please. I have a reservation under the name Anthony Roberts.
A: All right R.O.B.E.R.T.S... Oh, Mr. Roberts we’ve been expecting you... And here is your keycard to the presidential suite.
B: But there must be some mistake; my reservation was for a standard room.
A: Are you sure? Let me double check.
B: Yeah... Here, this is my confirmation number.
A: You’re right Mr. Roberts, there seems to be a mix- up, unfortunately we’re overbooked at the moment.
B: So...
A: Not to worry. We’re pleased to offer you a complimentary upgrade.
B: Presidential suite baby!
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🏨 Key Vocabulary
• check in - register at a hotel or airport
• under the name - name used for the reservation
• reservation - booking
• confirmation - an approval, verification
• mix-up - confusion
• complimentary upgrade - free improvement of quality
• overbooked - full
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🏨Supplementary Vocabulary
• check out - pay and leave a hotel
• booking - reservation
• concierge - hotel employee that helps guests
• deluxe room - hotel room, better than standard
• receipt - paper showing payment details
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#Reading_practice
#Listening_practice
#Speaking_practice
#Daily_life_conversation
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