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🖌Phrasal verb of the day 🖌
round somebody/something ↔ up
phrasal verb
1) if police or soldiers round up a particular group of people, they find them and force them to go to prison

-Thousands of men were rounded up and jailed.

2) to find and gather together a group of people, animals, or things
-See if you can round up a few friends to help you!
-His dog Nell started to round up the sheep.

3) to increase an exact figure to the next highest whole number → ➔ round down

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🖌 Idiom of the day 🖌
📚a pain in the neck



✍🏾Meaning
You can say someone is a pain in the neck if they annoy you, or something is a pain in the neck if you don't like doing it.


❗️For example

🔸Lenny's being a pain in the neck today. He keeps interrupting me while I'm trying to work.

🔸It's a real pain in the neck when you're trying to get some sleep on the train and people keep shouting into their mobile phones all around you.
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🖌 Short Story of the day 🖌
🐰The Hare and the Porcupines

A porcupine went to the market to buy vegetables. He was walking very slowly as all porcupines do when he met a hare.

The hare made fun of him saying, “Look how slowly you walk!” The porcupine replied, “I am slow, but I can still beat you in a race!” “Fine!” said the hare, ” If you win, I will give you a penny!”

The clever porcupine went home and told his brother about the race and they thought of a plan to fool the hare.

The race began and the hare ran as fast as he could. But when he reached the finish line, he found the porcupine waiting for him saying, “Slowpoke! Look how fast I can run!”

The hare had lost the race. He was amazed that the porcupine had won and meekly gave the porcupine a penny. He did not know that there were two porcupines in the race. One had started with him and the other had been waiting at the finish line!

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