Top 10 Most Common Idiomatic Expressions with ‘Like’
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💥Sleep like a log
✅Sleep very deeply, sleep very well

💥Sell like hotcakes
✅Sell very well, very quickly

💥Like a fish out of water
✅Completely out of place, not belonging at all

💥Feel like a million
✅Feel very happy

💥Like a bump on a log
✅Do not react in a useful of helpful way to the activities around them

💥Read someone like a book
✅Know exactly someone’s thinking or feelings without having to ask

💥Watch someone like a Hawk
✅Watch someone very carefully, especially because you expect them to do something wrong

💥Fit like a glove
✅It fits exactly

💥Eat like a bird
✅Eat only small amount of food

💥Know someone or something like the back of one’s hand
✅Know very well, in every detail.

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SV RAMANUJ

think outside the box
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🔴 Variation :
🔻think out of the box
🔻out of the box thinking

🟢 Meaning :
🔺think differently
🔺to be creative and produce something that is not usual or boring
🔺to come up with something that is unique and interesting
🔺look at the broader context of a problem, challenge etc.

🔵 Synonyms :
🍁pull a rabbit out of a hat
🍁rise to the challenge
🍁square the circle

🟣 Example Sentences :
🔹The team always thinks outside the box to come up with unique advertisements for all its clients.
🔹This particular technology is quite out of the box in nature and should be a hit really easily.
🔹I teach my children to think of solutions which are outside the box. It helps them with problem solving and innovative thinking.
🔹In our organization, thinking outside the box has an added advantage for all of the employees.
🔹This out of the box thinking has helped save many lives when travelling by the sea.
🔹I am trying to think outside the box to make this event a success at any cost this year.
🔹Sonal has spent her whole life in performing a routine job work so don't expect that she would ever be able to think outside the box.

🔸Advertising agencies must think outside the box to come up with fresh new ideas that will grab consumers' attention.
🔸Some of the best inventions have come from someone taking a regular product and adapting it by thinking outside the box.
🔸Scheduling walking meetings rather than sitting around a table is a good example of how corporate America started thinking outside the box about group discussions.
🔸Our company encourages thinking outside the box by allowing us to work on whatever we want every Thursday afternoon.
🔸We've hired a consultant to help us foster activities that will help our employees think outside the box.
🔸This company is going to go out of business unless we start thinking outside the box.
🔸Parents who home school their children often think outside the box when creating educational activities.
🔸Talk about literally thinking outside the box! EBay's new augmented reality feature helps sellers determine which size U.S.
🔸Postal Service Flat Rate Box will best fit their items.
🔸If Apple hadn't thought outside the box, we'd probably still be using flip phones and carrying MP3 players.
🔸Here's an idea: Why not just provide excellent customer service instead of trying to think outside the box to create a new product?

🟤 Origin :
The phrase originates from a simile which draws a person’s thought in comparison to a box and how anything outside seems far-fetched and unachievable. It comes from the advertisement and marketing world where products compete for space in the market. Thinking outside the box helps the product life-cycle to become longer. The literary origin can be traced to the 20th century.
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SV RAMANUJ

a man of action
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🟢Meaning:
🔹a person of energetic activity
🔹someone who prefers to act first and think later
🔹a man who prefers to do things rather than think about and discuss them
🔹a man who is inclined to physical activity or deeds

🟣Examples:
🔸The country needs a political leader who is a man of action
🔸The new boss at the company is a man of action. Since he’s taken over, there have been so many changes.
🔸Right now we need a man of action; someone who would jump in start working instead of thinking it out.
🔸Shailesh was a man of action and did not have much time for planning and discussions.
🔸We’ve had enough of our brainstorming session. Now we need a man of action who is going to implement our ideas.
🔸The two team members were opposites – one was a man of action while the other believed in meticulous planning.
🔸I trust him to finish the job in time. He is a man of action and does not waste his time.

🔵Origin:
The origin of this phrase is not known. The words used are very common, and hence it is quite possible that the expression developed in a natural flow of evolution of the language.

🎥Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVAHf7sytos

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