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📔 Cut the mustard 📋Meaning   To meet acceptable standards. 🤔For example ⬇️ 🗣 Unless you raise the stair treads up, this project won’t cut the mustard.  🗣 "I didn't cut the mustard as a hockey player" ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ➠@PhrasalCards ➠@SlangWords ➠@IdiomsLand ➠@Vocabulix ➠@GrammarCards ➠@EnglishGate ➠@StoryPage

📔dig your heels in 📋Meaning to refuse to change your plans or ideas, especially when someone is trying to persuade you to do so. 🤔For example ⬇️ 🗣 Even though the developer offered them more than their houses were worth, the owners dug their heels in and refused to sell up and make way for the office block. 🗣When their record company told the band to change their style and make more commercial music, the band dug their heels in and refused to change. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ➠@PhrasalCards ➠@SlangWords ➠@IdiomsLand ➠@Vocabulix ➠@GrammarCards ➠@EnglishGate ➠@StoryPage

📔 be snowed under 📋Meaning   To be very busy or overwhelmed with something. This phrase evokes the image of being buried under an avalanche. 🤔For example ⬇️ 🗣 Kate's not coming tonight because she's snowed under with research for her thesis. 🗣 I'd love to go out to dinner tonight, but I'm totally snowed under at the office right now. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ➠@PhrasalCards ➠@SlangWords ➠@IdiomsLand ➠@Vocabulix ➠@GrammarCards ➠@EnglishGate ➠@StoryPage

📔 break the ice 📋Meaning   To do or say something to make people more relaxed in a social situation and get people talking to each other (e.g., party, business meeting, conference, first day of class). 🤔For example ⬇️ 🗣 At the conference will have several activities to help people break the ice. 🗣 It’s always easiest to break the ice with a few drinks. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ➠@PhrasalCards ➠@SlangWords ➠@IdiomsLand ➠@Vocabulix ➠@GrammarCards ➠@EnglishGate ➠@StoryPage

📔 make someone sick 📋Meaning   to make someone appalled, shocked or disgusted. 🤔For example ⬇️ 🗣 I can’t believe you ate that entire bucket of fried chicken—you make me sick. 🗣 Listening to my sister talk to her boyfriend in her whiny baby voice makes me so sick. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ➠@PhrasalCards ➠@SlangWords ➠@IdiomsLand ➠@Vocabulix ➠@GrammarCards ➠@EnglishGate ➠@StoryPage

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📔 back away from (something/someone) 📋Meaning   to move away from something or stop supporting something. 🤔For example ⬇️ 🗣 Our supervisor wanted us to start working on Sundays but after everyone complained he backed away from the idea. 🗣 The government has backed away from plans to increase taxes. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ➠@PhrasalCards ➠@SlangWords ➠@IdiomsLand ➠@Vocabulix ➠@GrammarCards ➠@EnglishGate ➠@StoryPage

📔 back in the saddle 📋Meaning   doing something that you had stopped doing for a while. 🤔For example ⬇️ 🗣 I started working out at the gym again and it feels great to be back in the saddle. 🗣 Don’t worry, it’s just an ankle sprain—you’ll be back in the saddle playing tennis in a couple of weeks. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ➠@PhrasalCards ➠@SlangWords ➠@IdiomsLand ➠@Vocabulix ➠@GrammarCards ➠@EnglishGate ➠@StoryPage

📔 ahead of the game 📋Meaning   doing well in a situation and making progress. 🤔For example ⬇️ 🗣 I’m always taking training courses so that I can get ahead of the game. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ➠@PhrasalCards ➠@SlangWords ➠@IdiomsLand ➠@Vocabulix ➠@GrammarCards ➠@EnglishGate ➠@StoryPage

📔 safe and sound 📋Meaning   not hurt or injured. 🤔For example ⬇️ 🗣My cat disappeared for two days and I was so worried but today she showed up safe and sound. 🗣Drive safely, and when you get home don’t forget to call us to let us know you’ve arrived safe and sound. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ➠@PhrasalCards ➠@SlangWords ➠@IdiomsLand ➠@Vocabulix ➠@GrammarCards ➠@EnglishGate ➠@StoryPage

📔 be the butt of someone's jokes 📋Meaning   to be a person who is joked about or laughed at 🤔For example ⬇️ 🗣He was sick of being the butt of their jokes. 🗣No one wants to be the butt of a joke. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ➠@PhrasalCards ➠@SlangWords ➠@IdiomsLand ➠@Vocabulix ➠@GrammarCards ➠@EnglishGate ➠@StoryPage

📔 be the butt of someone's jokes 📋Meaning   to be a person who is joked about or laughed at 🤔For example ⬇️ 🗣He was sick of being the butt of their jokes. 🗣No one wants to be the butt of a joke. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ➠@PhrasalCards ➠@SlangWords ➠@IdiomsLand ➠@Vocabulix ➠@GrammarCards ➠@EnglishGate ➠@StoryPage

📔 knock one's socks off 📋Meaning   to impress someone 🤔For example ⬇️ 🗣This song will knock your socks off. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ➠@PhrasalCards ➠@SlangWords ➠@IdiomsLand ➠@Vocabulix ➠@GrammarCards ➠@EnglishGate ➠@StoryPage

📔 A blessing in disguise 📋Meaning   an apparent misfortune that eventually has good results. 🤔For example ⬇️ 🗣"being omitted from the World Cup squad was a blessing in disguise" ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ➠@PhrasalCards ➠@SlangWords ➠@IdiomsLand ➠@Vocabulix ➠@GrammarCards ➠@EnglishGate ➠@StoryPage

📔 Give someone the benefit of the doubt 📋Meaning   Trust what someone says 🤔For example ⬇️ 🗣I didn't know whether his story was true or not, but I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ➠@PhrasalCards ➠@SlangWords ➠@IdiomsLand ➠@Vocabulix ➠@GrammarCards ➠@EnglishGate ➠@StoryPage

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📔 Pull yourself together 📋Meaning   recover control of one's emotions./ Calm down. 🤔For example ⬇️ 🗣"you've got to pull yourself together and find a job" ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ➠@PhrasalCards ➠@SlangWords ➠@IdiomsLand ➠@Vocabulix ➠@GrammarCards ➠@EnglishGate ➠@StoryPage

📔 Go back to the drawing board 📋Meaning   Start over 🤔For example ⬇️ 🗣The current system just isn’t working – we need to go back to the drawing board and start afresh. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ➠@PhrasalCards ➠@SlangWords ➠@IdiomsLand ➠@Vocabulix ➠@GrammarCards ➠@EnglishGate ➠@StoryPage

📔 A dime a dozen 📋Meaning   very common and of no particular value. 🤔For example ⬇️ 🗣"experts in this field are a dime a dozen" ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ➠@PhrasalCards ➠@SlangWords ➠@IdiomsLand ➠@Vocabulix ➠@GrammarCards ➠@EnglishGate ➠@StoryPage

📔 call it a day 📋Meaning decide or agree to stop doing something. 🤔For example ⬇️ 🗣"after three marriages, many men would have been more than ready to call it a day" ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ➠@PhrasalCards ➠@SlangWords ➠@IdiomsLand ➠@Vocabulix ➠@GrammarCards ➠@EnglishGate ➠@StoryPage