🔹Essential American Idioms🔹


⭐️#ACCOUNTING:


✨Balance the accounts AND balance the books
▶️ to determine through accounting that accounts are in balance, that all money is accounted for.

🔻Jane was up all night balancing the accounts.

🔻The cashier was not allowed to leave the bank until the manager balanced the books.

✨Cook the accounts
▶️ to cheat in book-keeping; to make the accounts appear to balance when they do not.

🔻Jane was sent to jail for cooking the accounts of her mother's store.

🔻It's hard to tell whether she really cooked the accounts or just didn't know how to add.


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#️⃣#Process /ˈprəʊses $ ˈprɑː-/ BrE AmE #noun


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⚪️system ▶️ an organized set of ideas, methods, actions etc that you use to do something:

✨the airport security system
✨the system for dealing with refugees

⚪️process ▶️ a series of actions that are done in order to achieve a particular result:

✨the process of teaching children to read
✨Repeat the same process, until all the sugar has dissolved.

⚪️procedure ▶️ the official or usually agreed way of doing something:

✨You must follow the normal complaints procedure.
✨Large companies have a standard procedure for informing new employees about conditions of work.

⚪️formula ▶️ a method or set of principles that you use to solve a problem or make sure that something is successful:

✨The team are hoping to use the same winning formula that they used last season.
✨There is no magic formula for success (=a method that is certain to succeed).

⚪️deal with something ▶️ to take the necessary action, especially in order to solve a problem:

✨We need to deal with problems like pollution and climate change.
✨I spend most of my day dealing with customer enquiries.

⚪️handle ▶️ to deal with a problem or difficult situation by making particular decisions. Used especially when talking about how well or badly someone does this:

✨He handled the situation very well.
✨Most customers were happy with the way their complaints had been handled.

⚪️tackle ▶️ to start to deal with a problem, especially one that is complicated:

✨We need to tackle the issue of drugs in schools.
✨The government is introducing new measures to tackle online crime.

⚪️see to/attend to somebody/something ▶️ to deal with all the practical details of something that needs to be done or organized. Attend to is more #formal than see to:

✨My son saw to all the funeral arrangements.
✨I have some business to attend to.

⚪️take care of something ▶️ to do the work or make the arrangements that are necessary for something to happen. Used especially when you do this for someone else so that they do not have to worry about it:

✨My secretary takes care of all the paperwork.

⚪️process ▶️ if a company or organization processes a letter, form etc, they do the things that are usually done as part of their official system, in order to deal with it:

✨It will take a minimum of 14 days to process your passport application.
✨I called their office, and they said that my request was still being processed.


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🍏The fruit(s) of something
ثمرة الشيء ( حصيلة أو خلاصة ) = النتائج الجيدة لأي نشاط أو موقف

= the good results of an activity or a situation

🔹Enjoy the fruits of your labours (= the rewards for your hard work).
استمتع بثمار عملك و جهدك.👍🏻👏🏻

🔹The book is the fruit of years of research.
الكتاب هو ثمرة سنوات من البحث.📗🥇


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✨With tongue in cheek
يقول مازحاً

= If you say something tongue in cheek, you intend it to be understood as a joke, although you might appear to be serious

🔻He said that he was a huge fan of the president, although I suspect it was tongue in cheek.


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🥊Roll with the punches


= to deal with problems or difficulties by doing whatever you need to do, rather than by trying only one method

🥊Losing my job was really tough, but I've just been trying to roll with the punches until I get back on my feet.

🥊Well, there’s nothing we can do to change things. We’ll just have to learn to roll with the punches.

🥊He has had to learn how to roll with the punches and seek out the positive in every problem.


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💢Prepositions with EXPERIENCE


🔹Experience OF something that one has experienced:

🔻experience of life
🔻experience of foreign travel
🔻experience of working on a farm

🔹Experience IN a particular field:

🔻His experience in surgery is very limited.
🔻I wish to work in an up-to-date office, where I can gain experience in modern methods.

🔹Learn BY or FROM experience:

🔸BY suggest the method of learning.
🔸FROM the source of one’s knowledge.

🔻The best way to learn is to learn by experience.
🔻I have learned from experience that the cheapest method often turns out to be the dearest in the long run.


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Can enough be used with a that-clause?👇

The differences between a long story and a tall story👇

Example: I couldn't believe such a tall story.

Always keep in mind tall story is one word (noun); it is not an adjective + a noun.

⭕️At the beginging 🆚 in the beginning


▶️At the beginning is used for the time and place when something begins.

✨We're going to Japan at the beginning of July.

▶️In the beginning means at first and suggests a contrast with a later situation.

✨In the beginning he had one small shop; now he is the owner of a vast business, with many branches.


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✨Forms of address (title)
By: Paul Jan


In English there are many forms of address or titles such as:

• Sir (for a knight)
• Dr (for a medical doctor or a holder of a PhD doctorate)

but the common forms of address are Mr, Mrs, Miss and Ms.

• Mr for men
• Mrs, Miss and Ms for women.

💢The first rule to know is that these titles should NEVER be used with the person's first name in the English speaking culture.

👱🏻‍♂️If my name is John Smith then you would call me:
• John✅
• Mr. Smith✅
• or Mr. John Smith✅
depending on the circumstances, but never Mr. John.❌

⚠️When I visit India and other Eastern contries they call me Mr Paul, or, in Japan, they call me Paul san, this is them being polite in their culture. I don't have a problem with this, it's just not our way.

👑One exception to this rule is for Royalty and knights, or their wives, Sir John Smith and Lady Janet Smith, would be called Sir John and Lady Janet.

👩🏻For women the title depends on her marital status.

• Mrs is for a married woman.
• Miss is for a woman who is definitely single.
• Ms is used when there is uncertainty about her marital status.

🔻If my name was Janet Brown you would never call me Mrs Janet, or Miss Janet.❌

I would be Mrs, or Miss Brown, or even Mrs Janet Brown.✅

🚩These titles tend to only be used in formal situations.

🚩Business customers are addressed using their title.

🚩People in a more senior position to you may have to be referred to by their title.

🚩Students, particularly young students, may have to do the same with their teachers. In schools in the English speaking world teachers are called sir and miss. Even if a woman teacher is married she is still called miss.

✨Examples:
🔹'Is my answer correct sir?'
🔹'May I go to the toilet miss?'.

🚩Outside schools the term 'sir' is only used in formal circumstances such as in business, it is used in lieu of their name.

🇺🇸The Americans tend to use 'sir' more often than other English speaking countries.

✨For most of the time, in non-formal situations, we will only use the person's first name when addressing them.


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#️⃣#Since /sɪns/ #preposition, #conjunction, #adverb


✨Since can be used in the following ways:

🚩as a preposition (followed by a noun):

🔹Everything has changed so much since last spring.

🚩as an adverb (without a following noun):

🔹She left home in 1993 and hasn’t been seen since.

🚩as a conjunction (connecting two clauses):

🔹Paul’s had several different jobs since he left school.

🔹Since there’s no more business, we can all go home.

🚩When since is used for talking about time, the verb in the main clause of the sentence is usually in the present perfect or past perfect tense:

🔹It hasn’t rained since the end of July.

🔹He had been composing music since he was ten years old.

🚩Sometimes the present simple or past simple is used in the main clause:

🔹It’s over twenty years since we last met.


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Q: 1_ I really don't like her.
2_ I don't really like her.
Are two above sentences different in meaning?

Good question!
The first sentence means u don't like her at all. Here really means definitely.
The second sentence means also u don't like her, but sounds less emphatic and more polite than the first sentence. PLACING REALLY AFTER DON'T REDUCES THE FORCE OF SOMETHING U R SAYING.

Because of the two points I mentioned above, we say I don't really agree with your opinion about something (to sound polite), but we say I really don't mind lending u some money (to emphasise that I don't mind lending u some money).

HOWEVER, IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT IN SOME CASES THE POSITION OF REALLY CAN CHANGE THE MEANING OF THE SENTENCE. I don't really know means u r not sure about something; I really don't know emphasises that u don't know.

Answered by Omar Alamri