🔹Essential American Idioms🔹


⭐️#ACCIDENT:


✨Have a blowout [for one's car tire]

▶️ to burst.

🔻I had a blowout on the way here. I nearly lost control of the car.

🔻If you have a blowout in one tire, you should check the other tires.

✨Hit-and-run

▶️ an accident where the driver of a car strikes a person or another vehicle and speeds away without admitting to the deed or stopping to help. (Fixed order.)

🔻Fred was injured in a hit-and-run accident.

🔻The state passed a law making any kind of hit-and-run accident a felony.

✨Pile something up

▶️ to crash or wreck something.

🔻Drive carefully if you don't want to pile the car up.

🔻The driver piled up the car against a tree.

✨Pile up

▶️ to crash or wreck.

🔻The car piled up against the tree.

🔻The bus piled up on the curve.

✨Plow into someone or something

▶️ to crash into someone or something; to bump hard into someone or something.

🔻The car plowed into the ditch.

🔻The runner plowed into another player.

✨Take a spill

▶️ to have a fall; to tip over. (Also with bad, nasty, quite, etc. Also with have.)

🔻Ann tripped on the curb and took a nasty spill.

🔻John had quite a spill when he fell off his bicycle.

✨Trip someone up

▶️ to trip someone.

🔻Bob tripped himself up on his own feet.

🔻The loose gravel beside the track tripped up Bob, and he fell.


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#️⃣#Method /ˈmeθəd/ BrE AmE #noun


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⚪️method ▶️ a way of doing something, especially one that is well known and often used:

✨You can choose whichever method of payment you prefer.
✨an environmentally friendly method for treating household waste

⚪️way ▶️ a set of actions that you use in order to do something. Way is more #informal than method and is used more often in #everyday_English:

✨What’s the best way to remove wine stains?
✨a new way of treating the disease
✨There are lots of ways of cooking mushrooms.

⚪️means ▶️ something that you use to do something or achieve something:

✨Their main means of transport is their car.
✨E-mail is often the most convenient means of communication.
✨He looked around for a means of escape.
✨Education and training are the most efficient means of improving the nation’s economy.

⚪️approach ▶️ a way of dealing with a particular problem or situation, especially a way that has been carefully thought about or planned:

✨Today’s approach to raising children is very different from 40 years ago.
✨I think we need to try a different approach.

⚪️technique ▶️ a particular way of doing something, for which you need a skill that has to be learned and practised:

✨tips on how to improve your exam technique
✨More patients are surviving thanks to improved surgical techniques.

⚪️tactics ▶️ methods that you use in order to achieve what you want, especially in a game or competition:

✨There were complaints about police tactics used to clear demonstrators.
✨The team was discussing tactics for the game.

⚪️strategy ▶️ a set of carefully planned methods for achieving something that is difficult and may take a long time:

✨our sales strategy
✨a strategy to reduce the level of teenage smoking

⚪️mode #formal ▶️ a particular way of doing something:

✨For him, painting is just another mode of expression.
✨You can choose between several different modes of operation.
✨the most efficient mode of transportation
✨Withdrawing a child from class is still the preferred mode of providing extra help to that child.


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Accompany by 🆚 Accompany with


🔹The president was accompanied BY his wife.
✨(accompany by is used with a person)

🔹The president was accompanied WITH a postage-due notice.
✨(accompany with is used with an object)


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Belong to 🆚 Belong with


🔹They belong TO the Secret Order of the Koala.
✨Belong to—be a member of

🔹These flowers belong WITH the plants classified as grasses.
✨Belong with—be classified or placed among


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💢THE ACCUSED


🔺The accused HAVE nothing to say for themselves.

🔺The accused HAS nothing to say for himself/herself.


✨THE ACCUSED is used in formal legal contexts to refer to one person OR more than one, but we have to say:

🔘he's/she's accused✔️
🔘he's/she's an accused❌

🔘they're accused✔️
🔘they're accuseds❌


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#️⃣#Punish /ˈpʌnɪʃ/ #verb


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⚪️punish ➡️ to do something unpleasant to someone because they have done something wrong or broken the law:

✨Drug smugglers are severely punished.

✨She wanted to punish him for deceiving her.

⚪️fine ➡️ to make someone pay money as a punishment:

✨The company was fined for safety violations.

⚪️sentence ➡️ if a judge sentences a criminal, he or she gives them an official punishment, usually sending them to prison for a period of time:

✨The judge sentenced Margolis to a year in prison.

⚪️penalize (also penalise #British_English) ➡️ to officially punish someone, especially by taking away their right to do something or by limiting their freedom in some way:

✨New laws will penalize firms that continue to pollute the environment.

⚪️discipline ➡️ to punish someone who has broken the rules of an organization that they belong to or work for:

✨Officers are expected to discipline soldiers who do not keep their uniforms in good condition.

⚪️come down hard on somebody #informal ➡️ to punish someone or criticize them severely:

✨The judge came down hard on Harris, saying that his crime was ‘inexcusable’.

⚪️make an example of somebody ➡️ to punish someone so that other people are afraid to do the same thing:

✨Athletics officials felt they had to make an example of him for using banned drugs.

⚪️teach somebody a lesson #informal ➡️ to do something in order to show someone that they must not do something again, when they have behaved very badly:

✨I didn't want to hurt him - I just wanted teach him a lesson.

✨Maybe a night in jail will teach him a lesson.

⚪️make somebody pay (for something) #informal ➡️ to make someone wish they had never done something, by making them suffer:

✨We should make him pay for all the mischief he's caused!


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🔵TRADE IN

(separable phrasal verb)

= to exchange something (usually something used) for payment.


✨My old car is in such bad shape that I don't think the car dealership will let me trade it in.


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#️⃣#Represent /ˌreprɪˈzent/


1️⃣SPEAK FOR SOMEBODY [transitive] ➡️ to officially speak or take action for another person or group of people:

🔹Mr Kobayashi was chosen to represent the company at the conference.

2️⃣IN COURT [transitive] ➡️ to speak officially for someone in a court of law

💢represent yourself

🔹She decided to represent herself (=speak for herself without a lawyer) during the trial.

3️⃣BE SOMETHING [linking verb] ➡️ to form or be something ⇨ amount to:

🔹European orders represented 30 percent of our sales last year.

💢represent a change/an advance/an increase etc

🔹This treatment represents a significant advance in the field of cancer research.

4️⃣GOVERNMENT [transitive] ➡️ to have been elected to a parliament, council etc by the people in a particular area:

🔹He represents the Congressional District of Illinois.

5️⃣SIGN [transitive] ➡️ to be a sign or mark that means something SYN stand for:

🔹Brown areas represent deserts on the map.

6️⃣SYMBOL [transitive] ➡️ to be a symbol of something SYN symbolize:

🔹He hated the school and everything it represented.

7️⃣SPORTS [transitive] ➡️ if you represent your country, school, town etc in a sport, you take part in a sports event for that country etc:

🔹Her greatest ambition was to represent her country at the Olympics.

8️⃣be represented ➡️ if a group, organization, area etc is represented at an event, people from it are at the event:

🔹All the local clubs were represented in the parade.

9️⃣DESCRIBE [transitive] ➡️ to describe someone or something in a particular way, especially in a way that is not true SYN portray ⇨ depict

💢represent somebody/something as something

🔹The article represents the millionaire as a simple family man.
🔹He had represented himself as an employee in order to gain access to the files.

1️⃣0️⃣ART [transitive] ➡️ if a painting, statue, piece of music etc represents something or someone, it shows them:

🔹Paintings representing religious themes were common in medieval times.


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⚪️describe ➡️ to talk or write about a person, place, event etc, in order to show what they are like:

✨Could you try and describe the man you saw?
✨In her book, she describes her journey across the Sahara.
✨Police described the attack as particularly violent.

⚪️tell somebody about somebody/something ➡️ to describe someone or something to someone. This phrase is more commonly used than describe in #everyday_spoken_English:

✨So, tell me about your holiday!
✨My friends have told me all about you!

⚪️depict #formal ➡️ to describe someone or something in a piece of writing:

✨His stories depict life in Trinidad as seen through the eyes of a young boy.
✨In this new biography she is depicted as a lonely and unhappy woman.

⚪️portray/represent #formal ➡️ to describe someone or something in a particular way:

✨College teachers are often represented on television shows as slightly eccentric.
✨The magazine has been criticized for the way it portrays women.
✨The treatment has been portrayed as a painless way of curing cancer, which is simply not true.
✨Police have represented her as a willing participant in the crimes.

⚪️characterize somebody/something as something #formal ➡️ to describe someone or something by emphasizing one particular quality or feature about them:

✨He characterized himself as ‘an average American’.
✨The successful schools were characterized as innovative and creative.

⚪️paint somebody/something as something ➡️ to describe someone or something, especially in a way that makes people believe something that is not true:

✨Not all young people are as bad as they’re painted in the press.
✨We won, yet the media is painting it as a victory for our opponents.
✨The woman was painted as having only a slight grasp of reality.

⚪️paint a picture ➡️ to describe a situation, so that people can get a general idea of what it is like:

✨Can you paint a picture of life in Japan for us?
✨My uncle’s letters generally painted a rosy picture of how things were.
✨The report painted a bleak picture of the management’s failures.


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✨Prepositions with BELONG

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🔵 Across & through


The difference between across and through is similar to the difference between ON and IN.

We use through to talk about movement in three dimensional spaces with things on all sides.

✨We walked ACROSS the field.
(= We were ON the field.)

✨We walked THROUGH the wood.
(= We were IN the wood.)


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#️⃣#Shake /ʃeɪk/ #verb


💢shake something out of/off/from something

🔹She shook the sand out of her shoes (=removed it by shaking).

2️⃣BODY [intransitive] ➡️ if someone shakes, or part of their body shakes, they make small sudden movements from side to side or up and down, especially because they are very frightened, cold, ill etc SYN tremble ⇨ shiver:

🔹The little boy’s hand was shaking.

💢shake with fear/laughter/anger etc

🔹I could see my neighbor shaking with laughter.
🔹What’s wrong with you? You’re shaking like a leaf (=shaking a lot because you are very nervous or frightened).

💢be shaking in your shoes/boots (=be very nervous)

🔹I was shaking in my shoes – I thought he was going to fire me.

3️⃣shake your head ➡️ to move your head from side to side as a way of saying no, or to show disapproval, surprise, or sadness:

🔹When asked if he wanted anything else, he just shook his head.
🔹Mark shook his head in disbelief.

4️⃣shake sb’s hand/shake hands with somebody ➡️ to move someone’s hand up and down with your own hand as a greeting or as a sign you have agreed something:

🔹He shook my hand warmly.
🔹Wilkins shook hands with him.
🔹If we have a deal, let’s shake on it (=show that we have made an agreement by shaking hands).

5️⃣SHOCK [transitive] ➡️ to make someone feel very upset or shocked:

🔹Kerrie was so shaken by the attack that she won’t go out alone.
🔹The murder shook the whole town.

6️⃣shake sb’s confidence/beliefs etc ➡️ to make someone feel less confident, less sure about their beliefs etc:

🔹His confidence was badly shaken.

7️⃣sb’s voice shakes ➡️ if someone’s voice is shaking, it is not steady and they sound very worried, angry, or frightened:

🔹Her voice was shaking as she announced the news.

💢shake with rage/emotion etc

🔹Reg’s voice shook with rage.

8️⃣shake your fist (at somebody) ➡️ to show that you are angry by holding up and shaking your tightly closed hand:

🔹He shook his fist at the driver of the other car.

9️⃣shake a leg #spoken ➡️ used to tell someone to hurry, or quickly start doing something:

🔹C’mon, shake a leg!


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#️⃣#Shake /ʃeɪk/

💢shake down #phrasal_verb

1️⃣shake somebody down #American_English #informal ➡️ to get money from someone by using threats:

🔹Corrupt officials were shaking down local business owners.

2️⃣shake somebody/something down #American_English #informal ➡️ to search a person or place thoroughly

3️⃣if a new situation or arrangement shakes down, people start to get used to it and it becomes more effective:

🔹The restructure has shaken down, and staff are showing a new sense of purpose.

💢shake somebody/something off #phrasal_verb

1️⃣to get rid of an illness, problem etc:

🔹I can’t seem to shake off this cold.

💢shake off your image/reputation as something

🔹Outside investment has helped Sheridan to shake off its image as a depressed industrial town.

2️⃣to escape from someone who is chasing you:

🔹I think we’ve shaken them off.

💢shake out #phrasal_verb

1️⃣shake something out ➡️ to shake a cloth, a bag, a sheet etc so that any small pieces of dirt, dust etc come off:

🔹He shook out the handkerchief and put it back in his pocket.

2️⃣if an organization or industry shakes out, it becomes calmer after a difficult period of time:

🔹He’ll look for bargains after the real estate market shakes out.

3️⃣shake something out ➡️ to change a situation by removing things from it that are not useful or that do not make a profit:

🔹As the airline industry shakes out all but the very fittest, catering companies could face serious troubles.

💢shake somebody/something up #phrasal_verb

1️⃣to give someone a very unpleasant shock, so that they feel very upset and frightened:

🔹She was badly shaken up by the accident.

2️⃣to make changes to an organization in order to make it more effective SYN overhaul:

🔹the government’s plans to shake up the educational system


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#️⃣#Shake /ʃeɪk/ #noun

رجة ؛ مصافحة ؛ ارتجاج ؛ هزة ؛ تحريك ؛ هزة أرضية ؛ ارتعاش ؛ طرد ؛ صرف ؛ قشعريرة

1️⃣[countable] if you give something a shake, you move it up and down or from side to side:

🔹Give the bottle a good shake before use.

🔹He refused with a shake of the head (=a movement of the head from side to side to mean ˈnoˈ).

2️⃣[countable] a cold drink made from milk, ice cream, and fruit or chocolate SYN milk shake:

🔹a strawberry shake

3️⃣the shakes ➡️ nervous shaking of your body caused by illness, fear, too much alcohol, not getting a drug you are dependent on etc:

🔹If I don’t smoke, I get the shakes.
4️⃣in a couple of shakes/two shakes #informal ➡️ very soon:

🔹I’ll be back in two shakes.

5️⃣no great shakes #spoken ➡️ not very skilful, or not very good:

🔹He’s no great shakes as a singer.

6️⃣get/give somebody a fair shake #informal ➡️ to get or give someone fair treatment


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📚#Thesaurus:

■ person

⚪️shake ➡️ if a person or part of their body shakes, they make small sudden continuous movements from side to side or up and down, especially because they are very frightened, cold, ill etc:

✨Suddenly he started to shake. ‘Don’t ever scare me like that again!’ he whispered.
✨The poor girl was shaking.

⚪️shudder ➡️ to shake for a short time, especially because you think of something very unpleasant, or because you feel frightened or cold:

✨Corbett shuddered when he thought of what might have happened to them.
✨I shuddered when I read the article.
✨He was still shuddering with the cold.
✨She clung to him, shuddering with emotion.

⚪️tremble ➡️ to shake slightly in a way that you cannot control, especially because you are frightened, worried, or angry:

✨Ernest opened the letter in silence, his hands trembling.
✨Her whole body trembled with fear.
✨He hadn’t dared to move. He was trembling with shock.
✨‘I won’t be coming back,’ she said, her body trembling with anger.

⚪️shiver ➡️ to shake slightly, especially only a few times, because you are cold or frightened:

✨She shivered, pulling her coat closer around herself.
✨You make me shiver when you talk like that.

⚪️quiver especially #literary ➡️ to shake slightly and continuously because you are very worried or excited – used especially about someone’s lips, mouth, or body:

✨Her bottom lip began to quiver, and she turned away to hide her tears.
✨Alice’s eyes began to fill with tears and her mouth quivered. ‘I 'm going away,’ she said.

⚪️wobble ➡️ to move unsteadily from side to side:

✨Mrs Hamilton wobbled precariously on her high heels.

⚪️rock ➡️ to move gently backwards and forwards or from side to side:

✨He rocked to and fro in his chair.

■ object/vehicle/the ground etc

⚪️shake ➡️ to move suddenly from side to side or up and down, usually with a lot of force:

✨The floor shook from a distant explosion.
✨The walls were still shaking.
✨The trees were shaking in the wind.

⚪️rattle ➡️ to shake and make a noise:

✨The windows rattled in the wind.
✨The train was rattling over the bridge.

⚪️vibrate ➡️ to shake continuously with small fast movements:

✨The music was so loud that the whole room vibrated.
✨The atoms vibrate at different frequencies.

⚪️wobble ➡️ to move unsteadily from side to side:

✨The bike began to wobble alarmingly as she fought to control it.
✨The cup wobbled and he grabbed it to stop it from falling.

⚪️rock ➡️ to move gently backwards and forwards or from side to side:

✨The trailer rocked in the wind.
✨The boat was rocking from side to side with the waves.

⚪️shudder (also judder especially #British_English) ➡️ if a vehicle or machine shudders, it shakes for a short time:

✨The lift shuddered then began to descend.
✨The engine shuddered into life (=it shook and then started working).
✨The car juddered to a halt (=it shook and then stopped) outside the house.


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#️⃣#Spread /spred/ #verb


💢spread through

🔹Fire quickly spread through the building.

💢spread over

🔹He watched the dark stain spread over the gray carpet.

💢spread among

🔹The disease spread rapidly amongst the poor.

💢spread (from something) to something

🔹The cancer had spread to her liver.
🔹Revolution quickly spread from France to Italy.

2️⃣INFORMATION/IDEAS

🅰️[intransitive] to become known about or used by more and more people:

🔹News of the explosion spread swiftly.

💢spread to/through/over etc

🔹Buddhism spread to China from India.
🔹The news spread like wildfire (=very quickly).
🔹Word spread quickly that she was leaving.

🅱️[transitive] to tell a lot of people about something:

🔹Andy loves spreading rumours about his colleagues.
🔹They are spreading the word about the benefits of immunization.

3️⃣OPEN/ARRANGE (also spread out) [transitive] ➡️ to open something out or arrange a group of things so that they cover a flat surface

💢spread something over/across/on something

🔹Papers and photos were spread across the floor.
🔹He spread the map out on the desk.
🔹a table spread with a white cloth

4️⃣THROUGHOUT AN AREA [intransitive] (also be spread, spread out) ➡️ to cover or exist across a large area

💢spread over

🔹the forest that spread over the whole of that region

💢spread throughout

🔹The company has more than 2,500 shops spread throughout the UK.

5️⃣SOFT SUBSTANCE [intransitive and transitive] ➡️ to put a soft substance over a surface, or to be soft enough to be put over a surface

💢spread something on/over something

🔹He spread plaster on the walls.

💢spread something with something

🔹Spread the toast thinly with jam.
🔹If you warm up the butter, it’ll spread more easily.
🔹Spread the nut mixture evenly over the bottom.

6️⃣ARMS/FINGERS ETC [transitive] ➡️ if you spread your arms, fingers, or legs, you move them far apart:

🔹He shrugged and spread his hands.

7️⃣OVER TIME [transitive] (also spread out) ➡️ to do something over a period of time, rather than at one time

💢spread something over something

🔹Could I spread the repayments over a longer period?
🔹There will be 12 concerts spread throughout the summer.

8️⃣SHARE [transitive] ➡️ to share or divide something among several people or things

💢spread the load/burden

🔹The bills are sent out on different dates to spread the workload on council staff.
🔹They want the country’s wealth to be more evenly spread.

9️⃣SMILE/LOOK [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] ➡️ if an expression spreads over someone’s face, it slowly appears on their face

💢spread over/across

🔹A slow smile spread over her face.

1️⃣0️⃣spread your wings

🅰️to start to have an independent life and experience new things:
🔹A year spent studying abroad should allow him to spread his wings a bit.

🅱️if a bird or insect spreads its wings, it stretches them wide

1️⃣1️⃣🅰️be spread (too) thin/thinly ➡️ if money, effort etc is spread thin, it is being used for many things so there is not enough for each thing:

🔹They complained that resources were spread too thinly.

🅱️spread yourself too thin ➡️ to try to do too many things at the same time so that you do not do any of them effectively

1️⃣2️⃣spread seeds/manure/fertilizer ➡️ to scatter seeds, manure etc on the ground

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#️⃣#Spread /spred/ #noun

سطح ؛ غطاء السرير ؛ مأدبة ؛ نشر ؛ انتشار ؛ امتداد ؛ صفحة ؛ فوطة ؛ غطاء المائدة ؛ مزرعة المواشي ؛ منشور ؛ غماس ؛ مفروش ؛ منتشر

1️⃣INCREASE [singular] ➡️ when something affects or is known about by more people or involves a larger area

💢spread of

🔹an attempt to stop the spread of nuclear weapons
🔹the rapid spread of cholera in Latin America

2️⃣SOFT FOOD [uncountable and countable]
🅰️a soft substance made from vegetable oil that is used like butter:

🔹one slice of toast with a low-fat spread

🅱️a soft food which you spread on bread

💢cheese/chocolate etc spread

3️⃣RANGE [singular] ➡️ a range of people or things

💢wide/broad/good spread of something

🔹We have a good spread of ages in the department.
🔹a broad spread of investments

4️⃣AREA [singular] ➡️ the total area in which something exists:

🔹the geographical spread of the company’s hotels

5️⃣double-page spread/centre spread ➡️ a special article or advertisement in a newspaper or magazine, which covers two pages or covers the centre pages:

🔹There’s a double-page spread in Sunday’s paper.

6️⃣LARGE MEAL [singular] #informal ➡️ a large meal for several guests on a special occasion:

🔹Tom’s mum laid on a huge spread.

7️⃣HAND/WINGS [uncountable] ➡️ the area covered when the fingers of a hand, or a bird’s wings, are fully stretched

8️⃣BED COVER [countable] ➡️ a bedspread

9️⃣MONEY [countable] #technical ➡️ the difference between the prices at which something is bought and sold, or the interest rates for lending and borrowing money

💢spread between

🔹the spread between the city banks’ loan rates and deposit rates

1️⃣0️⃣SPORT [singular] #American _English ➡️ the number of points between the scores of two opposing teams:

🔹a four-point spread

1️⃣1️⃣spread of land/water ➡️ an area of land or water

1️⃣2️⃣FARM [countable] #American_English ➡️ a large farm or ranch


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📚#Thesaurus:

⚪️farm ➡️ an area of land, used for growing crops or keeping animals:

✨a 300-hectare farm
✨a dairy farm
✨a sheep farm

⚪️ranch ➡️ a very large farm in the western US, Canada, or South America where sheep, cattle, or horses are bred:

✨a cattle ranch in Wyoming

⚪️smallholding #British_English ➡️ a piece of land used for farming, that is smaller than an ordinary farm:

✨a smallholding used for organic farming

⚪️plantation ➡️ a large area of land in a hot country, where crops such as tea, cotton, and sugar are grown:

✨a rubber plantation
✨a tea plantation

⚪️homestead ➡️ a piece of land for farming that was given to people in the past by the US and Canadian governments:

✨He still farms on the family homestead, a hundred years after his grandfather received it.

⚪️spread #American_English #informal ➡️ an area of land used for farming or ranching:

✨They have a pretty big spread just south of the Canadian border.

⚪️market garden ➡️ an area of land, often with greenhouses on it, used for growing vegetables and fruit:

✨He runs his own market garden, and sells his produce to the big supermarkets.

⚪️orchard ➡️ an area of land with trees, used for growing fruit:

✨an apple orchard
✨cherry orchards

⚪️allotment #British_English ➡️ a small area of land of land, especially in a town or city, which you can use for growing your own vegetables.The land is usually owned by the local council, who charge a very low rent:

✨We grew the tomatoes on our allotment.

⚪️agriculture ➡️ the practice of farming:

✨More than 75% of the land is used for agriculture.

⚪️arable adjective ➡️ relating to growing crops:

✨a lack of arable land


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✨EAT YOUR HEART OUT


= To feel great sadness.

🔹I feel just awful for Mary—she's been eating her heart out ever since she found out she was rejected by her top-choice school.

= To be very jealous.

In this usage, the phrase is often said as an imperative and sometimes mentions a famous person (when the speaker comically claims to be more talented than that person).

🔹Eat your heart out—I got tickets to the concert and you didn't!

🔹Look at him dance! Eat your heart out, John Travolta! (= he dances even better than John Travolta).


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⌚️To keep time


1️⃣ = In music, to keep rhythm or maintain tempo.
‎(في لغة الموسيقى) يبقى على الإيقاع

🔹The guys in the band can play—just not together. They almost never keep time.

2️⃣ = Literally, for a clock or watch to accurately track and indicate the time.
المعنى الحرفي: بالنسبة لساعة اليد أو الحائط أن تشير الى الوقت الصحيح

🔹My grandfather's old pocket watch is a bit tarnished, but it still keeps time perfectly!

3️⃣ = To monitor the clock in a sporting event or other contest.
يراقب الساعة في حدث رياضي أو مسابقة أخرى.

🔹It must be nerve-racking to keep time during a game that important. One mistake could affect the whole season!


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