⚫️ Break your back
🔴 Meaning: If you break your back to do something, you work extremely hard to try to do it.
🔵 Example: These days you have to break your back to make a business work
🔴 Meaning: If you break your back to do something, you work extremely hard to try to do it.
🔵 Example: These days you have to break your back to make a business work
✴️be taken bad
_(BrE) (informal) to become ill
He was taken bad in the middle of the night.
_(BrE) (informal) to become ill
He was taken bad in the middle of the night.
✴️cement a freindship
_to strengthen a friendship
We cemented our friendship with a meal and a few drinks.
_to strengthen a friendship
We cemented our friendship with a meal and a few drinks.
be taken aback
_(phrasal verb)to be very surprised about something.
Emma was somewhat taken aback by his directness.
_(phrasal verb)to be very surprised about something.
Emma was somewhat taken aback by his directness.
❇ In a funk
_ it means " depressed or upset"
✍ She is in a funk about her new haircut. Because it is too short.
_ it means " depressed or upset"
✍ She is in a funk about her new haircut. Because it is too short.
✴️ Be on the ball
_to be quick to understand and to react to things.
My brother is always on the ball, so it's hard to trick him or catch him unawares.
_to be quick to understand and to react to things.
My brother is always on the ball, so it's hard to trick him or catch him unawares.
✴️fix on somebody/something
phrasal verb
_to choose a suitable thing or person, especially after thinking about it carefully.
We’ve finally fixed on a place to have the concert.
phrasal verb
_to choose a suitable thing or person, especially after thinking about it carefully.
We’ve finally fixed on a place to have the concert.
✴️fight your corner/fight somebody’s corner
_(BrE) to try very hard to defend yourself in a discussion or argument, or to do this for someone else.
My line manager supports me, and says she’s willing to fight my corner.
_(BrE) to try very hard to defend yourself in a discussion or argument, or to do this for someone else.
My line manager supports me, and says she’s willing to fight my corner.
⚫️ Cross your mind
🔴 Meaning: If something crosses your mind you suddenly think of it
🔵 Example: It crossed my mind that she might be lying about her age.
🔴 Meaning: If something crosses your mind you suddenly think of it
🔵 Example: It crossed my mind that she might be lying about her age.
✴️ (come) rain or shine
_means (spoken) whatever happens or whatever the weather is like.
Don’t worry. We’ll be there – rain or shine.
_means (spoken) whatever happens or whatever the weather is like.
Don’t worry. We’ll be there – rain or shine.
✳ Monkey business.
_It means " do something illegal".
✍ Do your homework and forget about all this monkey business.
_It means " do something illegal".
✍ Do your homework and forget about all this monkey business.
✴️ Clear as mud:
_Not clear at all, not easy to understand.
“He’s a great scientist, but I find his explanation of bacteria and microbes as clear as mud.”
_Not clear at all, not easy to understand.
“He’s a great scientist, but I find his explanation of bacteria and microbes as clear as mud.”
✴️HANG IN THERE
-Don't give up.
Dear you are able to do that.Hang in there.
-Don't give up.
Dear you are able to do that.Hang in there.
✴️IT'S RAINING CATS AND DOGS- It's raining hard.
Jack how is the weather in you land?
It is climate but now it is rainging cats and dogs.
Jack how is the weather in you land?
It is climate but now it is rainging cats and dogs.
✴️AS RIGHT AS RAIN
-Perfect.
Our project is as right as rain.
-Perfect.
Our project is as right as rain.
✴️HIT IT OFF
to quickly become good friends with.
to quickly become good friends with.