#Vocabulary


🔘Saunter

~verb [I always + adv/prep]

to walk in a slow relaxed way, especially so that you look confident or proud.

Saunter along/around/in etc.

➖He came sauntering down the road with his hands in his pockets.

— saunter noun [singular]

#Slang

‼️Noggin
🟰 Head or brain.
Use your noggin (=think) 


‼️Char
🟰Tea
▪️I'd like a cup of char .


‼️Ticker
🟰Heart.
▪️How is your ticker's health ?


‼️Gnashers
🟰Teeth.
▪️It's to brush your gnashers  and go to bed.


‼️Loo
🟰Toilet
▪️Excuse me!  l need to use the loo.


‼️Do
🟰Party
▪️We are having a do to celebrate your success.

#Vocabulary
#Informal


ARGY-BARGY

🔶noisy arguments or quarrelling


🔶Jones was sent off after a bit of argy-bargy with other players

#Phrasal_verbs


🔘Brazen something out

▪️to deal with a situation that is difficult or embarrassing for you by appearing to be confident rather than ashamed.

▫️She knew she could either admit the truth or brazen it out.

🫧Incumbent
/ɪnˈkʌmbənt/ noun [C]

(formal)

➖someone who has been elected to an official position, especially in politics, and who is doing that job at the present time.

➖In the June elections, Morris easily defeated the incumbent, Tom Smith.

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🫧adjective (formal)

1) it is incumbent upon/on somebody to do something : if it is incumbent upon you to do something, it is your duty or responsibility to do it.

▪️It is incumbent upon parents to control what their children watch on TV.


▪️the incumbent president/priest/government etc : the president etc at the present time

#phrases

🔸Clear the decks 

➖to do all the work that needs to be done before you can do other things

➖I’m trying to clear the decks before Eid .

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Eid Mubarak!🎉

May the divine grace and abundance be bestowed upon you and your loved ones.

Let us not turn a blind eye to our brothers and sisters who endure the shackles of tyranny in Palestine and across the globe. Let us remember them in our thoughts and prayers, and strive for a world where freedom and justice reign supreme.

Have a blissfully happy Eid!🎉🎉🎉

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🫧Recover

🍃to become healthy again after you have been seriously ill or injured, or had a bad experience.

🍃My mother’s been very ill, and she’s still in hospital recovering.
🍃 She needed time to recover from the shock.



🫧Get better

🍃 to recover from an injury or illness. In everyday English, people usually say get better rather than recover.

🍃I hope you get better soon.
🍃My back’s been quite bad recently, but it’s getting better slowly.



🫧Get over something

🍃to recover from a bad experience, or a minor illness. In everyday English, people usually say get over rather than recover.

🍃She never got over his death. I’m getting over my cold.



🫧Get well

🍃to recover from an illness or operation – used especially when you are writing to encourage someone to recover .

🍃Get well soon – we all miss you!
🍃I hope you get well quickly.



🫧Be back on your feet

🍃 to have recovered and be able to live life as usual again.

🍃It may take a week or two until you’re back on your feet.



🫧Be on the mend

🍃 to be showing definite signs of recovering after an illness or injury.

🍃I’m glad to see you’re on the mend again.



🫧Recuperate (formal)

🍃to spend time resting and getting your health or energy back, after you have had an illness or had a difficult or tiring experience.

🍃It had been a hard year, and I needed a few weeks in the sun in order to recuperate.
🍃He is recuperating from a heart attack.



🫧Convalesce (formal)

🍃 to spend a long period of time recovering from a serious illness, especially by resting in a comfortable or warm place.

🍃She was at home convalescing after major surgery.

#usefullanguage

🔸Indeed, his tactless comments possessed a potent quality capable of raising the hackles of even the most composed and serene individuals.


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🔸If something raises your hackles or makes your hackles rise, it makes you feel angry and hostile.

Have You Ever Seen 'A Storm in a Teacup'?

If you want to describe something as nice and easy, you can say it was "a tea party", but if something was very difficult you can also say it was "no tea party!"

Maybe you took a very long journey by bus to visit family and the bus was not very comfortable, you could say, "Well, that bus ride was no tea party, but I'm here!"

"A tempest in a teapot" or a "storm in a teacup" is when something makes people angry or worried, but isn’t actually very serious. A "tempest" is a storm, but one that's small enough to be in a teapot can’t cause much damage.

Perhaps your bus was late to arrive, and it made all the passengers very angry. You could tell your family, "Everyone was angry about waiting, but then the bus arrived, so it was a storm in a teacup really."

Fruitcake is often eaten at Christmas with black, English tea. Calling someone "nutty as a fruitcake" is a way of saying they're crazy. This is because "nutty" and "nuts" are also ways of saying crazy, and fruitcakes are usually made with both fruit and nuts.

So if your cousin asked if you were taking a bus home when you left, you might say, "You must think I'm nutty as a fruitcake. I'm going to fly home!"

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How to Say You're Sad in English!

Everyone will have to go through a sad event in their life at some point in time. So if you're ever "feeling blue," or sad, here are some expressions you can use.

When people get sad news, they might be so sad that they "cry their heart out," or cry for a very long time. Or they could just feel sad, and say they have a "heavy heart." For example, you could say "When my best friend moved away, I cried my heart out, and since then I've had a very heavy heart."

Some say that the idea of a "heavy heart" might have come from old Egyptian stories, that said the gods would weigh your heart when you die to see if you should go to heaven. Thousands of years ago, the Egyptians believed that all thoughts and emotions came from the heart.

If someone or something makes a person feel so bad that they start to cry, then you could say they have been "reduced to tears." Or, if something makes a person feel so sad that they can no longer behave normally, or they lose control of their emotions, you could say they have "fallen to pieces."

For example, "His comments reduced me to tears. They were so mean I fell to pieces in front of my friends."

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🪩 Out of the woods

🔹This means the worst part of a difficult situation is over, and the end goal is in sight.

Example:

🔻The surgery went very well, so he’s officially out of the woods. He just needs to recover now.
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🪩 Can’t see the forest for the trees

🔹This means someone is unable to see the whole situation clearly because they’re looking too closely at small details.

Example:

🔻He’s worried about the flowers, but the rest of the wedding has been beautiful. He just can’t see the forest for the trees.
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