📚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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📒take off (1)


📖Meaning
to remove a piece of clothing, or the top of a container

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 If you go to Asia, you should take off your shoes before going into someone's home.


💬 Can you take the top off a beer bottle with your teeth?

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📒 Barking dogs seldom bite


📖Meaning
Don't be afraid of dogs that bark or people that threaten you (say they will do something bad to you) - in both cases they rarely take action.

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💠 limo 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
limousine

❕For example

🔺Are we going to rent a limo and a driver for the wedding?

🔺The limo's got a TV, a computer, and a bar in the back, and about six people can sit in there.

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📚think the world of


✍🏾Meaning
If you think the world of someone, you admire and respect them very much.

❗️For example

🔸If there's one person most of us think the world of, I guess it'd be Nelson Mandela.

🔸You're a wonderful teacher Miriam, and your students think the world of you, so please don't quit your job.

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📒factor in


📖Meaning
to include a certain item when calculating or planning something

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Don't forget to factor in transport costs when you make the quotation.


💬 You need to factor the political situation in when deciding on a country to invest in.

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📒 Great oaks from little acorns grow


📖Meaning
The normal order of words would be "Great oaks grow from little acorns." We understand: sometimes small and modest things can become very large and impressive things with time.

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💠 goof off | goof around 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
waste time, play around

❕For example

🔺Whenever the teacher leaves the classroom she tells her students to keep working, but as soon as she leaves they start goofing off.

🔺It's the kids who goof around in college instead of taking their studies seriously who'll be in trouble when they try to join the workforce.

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📚yellow journalism


✍🏾Meaning
Journalism in which sensational stories are used to boost sales, or biased reporting is used to change the reader's views on an issue. Both of these are unethical.

❗️For example

🔸Have you noticed how, during a war, normally trustworthy professionals start writing the worst sort of yellow journalism to justify their government's actions?

🔸Joe: "Is there any difference between yellow journalism and propaganda?" Kate: "I think yellow journalism can be even more dangerous than propaganda if it's being presented as objective reporting by well-known journalists."

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📒chat up


📖Meaning
to talk to someone in the hope of beginning a romantic relationship with them

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Juan is very good at chatting up girls. He knows how to make them laugh.


💬 Mark finds it difficult to chat guys up because he often feels shy, and he doesn't know what to say.

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📒 Fair exchange is no robbery


📖Meaning
Swapping one thing fairly in return for another is not the same as stealing.

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💠 blast (1) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a great experience, a very enjoyable time

❕For example

🔺You should have come to Neil's birthday party. It was a blast!

🔺The Sydney Gay Mardi Gras was such a blast that we're going again next year, for sure.

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📚the ins and outs


✍🏾Meaning
If you know the ins and outs of something, you know all the details about it and understand how it works.

❗️For example

🔸Louis knows how to drive a car, but he knows nothing about the ins and outs of how they work.

🔸It seems that Yoko and Sato are having problems, though I don't really understand the ins and outs of their relationship.

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