📚asking for trouble


✍🏾Meaning
If someone is asking for trouble, they're doing something risky that could lead to a problem.

❗️For example

🔸Don't you think that working all day and then partying all night is asking for trouble?

🔸Running fast without warming up properly is asking for trouble, and could easily cause a muscle strain.

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📒order around


📖Meaning
If you order people around, you tell them what to do in a bossy way.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 The workers hate the way their supervisor orders them around. They say she's rude and bossy.


💬 Army recruits soon get used to being ordered around.

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📒 None so deaf as those who will not hear


📖Meaning
Nobody is deafer than the person who decides he does not want to listen. Often used in reference to prejudice and intolerance.

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💠 junkie | junky 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a drug addict; a person obsessed with something

❕For example

🔺A lot of junkies are still being sent to jail instead of being given treatment to overcome their addiction.

🔺It's sad to see people who start out in politics with high ideals turn into power junkies. They'll do anything to stay in power, from rigging elections to arranging violence to intimidate their opponents.

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📚answer the call of nature


✍🏾Meaning
If you answer the call of nature, you go to the toilet.

❗️For example

🔸Could we stop somewhere? I need to answer the call of nature.

🔸Does anyone need to answer the call of nature before we set off?

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📒put back (2)


📖Meaning
to change the time or date of something to a later time

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 We could put the meeting back a week if you like.


💬 Would you mind if we put back your appointment until April the first?

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📒 The best things in life are free


📖Meaning
We don't have to pay for the things that are really valuable, like love, friendship and good health.

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💠 nerd 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a studious person with few social skills

❕For example

🔺The nerds at our school spent lunchtime in the library or in the computer lab.

🔺Bill might have been a nerd in high school, but he's certainly done well in his career.

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📚just the ticket


✍🏾Meaning
You can say something is just the ticket if it's the perfect thing or if it's exactly what's needed.

❗️For example

🔸That's just the ticket! Edna loves brooches, especially if they have bird designs, so she'll absolutely love this one.

🔸As soon as he saw the painting, grandpa said, "That one's just the ticket. It'll look lovely over the fireplace."

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📒speak out


📖Meaning
If you speak out, you publicly state your position on an issue, or publicly oppose or defend someone or something.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 He was arrested after he spoke out against the military government.


💬 The former Vice President has spoken out in defence of his policies on torturing political prisoners.

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📒 A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush


📖Meaning
It's better to have one of something for certain than to run after two of the same thing and not be sure of getting them.

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💠 rubber 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a condom

❕For example

🔺It's really important to use a rubber whenever you have sex. It'll stop you from getting nasty diseases like AIDS and gonorrhea.

🔺Cindy says vending machines that sell rubbers should be in schools, universities, department stores and public toilets.

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📚mend your ways


✍🏾Meaning
If you mend your ways, you improve your behaviour and stop doing things that cause trouble.

❗️For example

🔸Terry had better mend his ways or Rosie will leave him forever.

🔸It took him a long time to mend his ways, but these days Jack is a good father and husband.

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📒end with


📖Meaning
to have something act as the final part of something

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 The celebration ended with a spectacular fireworks display.


💬 After the main part of the seminar is over, it ends with each speaker giving a summary of their ideas.

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📒 If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys


📖Meaning
An employer who pays low wages will have bad staff.

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💠 emo 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a style of music and fashion that developed among American teens in the early 21st century

❕For example

🔺Emo kids love to wear tight black jeans, tight sweatshirts or T-shirts, and scarves, and they dye their hair black and grow long bangs to cover most of the face.

🔺My brother has decided he's an emo kid, so he's taken to moping around in silence while looking like a sulky teenage vampire.

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📚the moment of truth


✍🏾Meaning
The moment of truth is a time when the truth about something is revealed, or when an important decision is made.

❗️For example

🔸We're getting our exam results today so the moment of truth is nearly here.

🔸We've been at the tennis tournament all weekend, and now we're watching the last game in the last match, so the moment of truth is here at last.

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📒put forward (1)


📖Meaning
to offer an idea, an opinion, a suggestion, etc. for other people to consider

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 He put forward an interesting argument, but no-one was really convinced by it.


💬 If you have any ideas or suggestions, please feel free to put them forward and they'll be given our full consideration.

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📒 Man proposes, God disposes


📖Meaning
Human beings can make any plans they want, but it's God that decides their success or failure.

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💠 honky 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a derogatory term in black American slang for a white person

❕For example

🔺When we were visiting the Apollo Theater in Harlem in New York, a woman passing us on the street said, "What are you honkies doin' round here?"

🔺I have a lot of black American friends, and they all say they hate racist language, including anti-white words like "honky".

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📚jockey for position


✍🏾Meaning
If you jockey for position, you try to get yourself in a good position in relation to others who're competing for the same opportunity or the same goal.

❗️For example

🔸Several of us are jockeying for position as we negotiate with the manager for the job of running the new branch office.

🔸Four candidates will jockey for position in the run-up to the Democratic convention next month.

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