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📌big deal!

🔸So what? That doesn't really matter.

🔸EXAMPLE 1: You won five dollars in the lottery? Big deal!
EXAMPLE 2: Your father has a job with a big company in New York City? Big deal!

📌better off

🔸in a more fortunate position

🔸EXAMPLE 1: We're better off leaving for France on Thursday evening, so we can spend the entire weekend there.
EXAMPLE 2: If you're interested in studying languages, you'd be better off attending Northwestern University than the University of Chicago.

🔸NOTE: This expression is often used with conditional tense (would), especially when you're giving advice: "you would be better off doing something" or "you'd be better off doing something."

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📌beside the point

🔸not relevant; not important

🔸EXAMPLE 1: Whether or not I asked the waiter to bring us water is beside the point. Waiters should always bring water to the table.
EXAMPLE 2: The reason you're late is beside the point. The fact is, your dinner is now cold.

📌beat around the bush

🔸to talk around the subject; to avoid getting to the point

🔸EXAMPLE 1: Kara beat around the bush for an hour, then finally told us she needed a ride to Kennedy Airport.
EXAMPLE 2: If you want something, tell me. Don't beat around the bush!

📌basket case

🔸someone or something in a useless or hopeless condition

🔸EXAMPLE 1: After working a 12-hour day and then coming home and cooking dinner for her family, Tanya felt like a basket case.
EXAMPLE 2: After running the marathon, Brian felt like a basket case.

🔸NOTE: You may also see the expression "economic basket case" to describe an economy that is doing very poorly. Example: After years of dictatorship, North Korea is an economic basket case.

📌burn the midnight oil

🔸to stay up late studying or working

🔸EXAMPLE 1: Michael burned the midnight oil studying for his algebra test.
EXAMPLE 2: The project is due tomorrow and we're far from finished. We're going to have to burn the midnight oil tonight.

📌butt in

🔸to interrupt; to interfere

🔸EXAMPLE 1: Nancy is always butting in to other people's business.
EXAMPLE 2: Sara is really rude. She always butts in to other people's conversations.

📌buy (some) time

🔸to make more time available (in order to achieve a certain purpose)

🔸EXAMPLE 1: We're not sure yet whether or not we want to buy the house. We'd better buy some time so we can think about it over the weekend.
EXAMPLE 2: I'm not sure whether or not I want to take the job offer. I'd better buy some time to think about it.

📌buy out

🔸to purchase an entire business or someone's share of a business

🔸EXAMPLE 1: Microsoft bought out Adam's company for $12 million.
EXAMPLE 2: Harriett and Jane sell homemade snack chips. They hope one day a big company will buy out their business.

📌by a hair

🔸just barely; very narrowly; by a small amount

🔸EXAMPLE 1: Larry won the bicycle race by a hair. The second-place winner came in just a second behind him.
🔸EXAMPLE 2: Was the tennis ball in or out? I think it was out by a hair. You know the old saying: "When in doubt, call it out!"

📌by far

🔸by a wide margin; by a great difference

🔸EXAMPLE 1: Some people think Tom Hanks is by far the best actor in America today.

🔸EXAMPLE 2: Mediterranean Grill is by far the best restaurant in town. No wonder it's so hard to get a reservation there!

SYNONYMS: by a long shot; far and away; hands down

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📌 Great minds think alike

🔸Meaning
This saying suggests that very intelligent people think like each other. It is often said as a joke when two people think of the same thing.

Note
alike (adverb) = in the same way | Also: "Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ.

📌hit the roof

🔸Meaning
You can say someone hits the roof if they lose their temper and show their anger.

🔸For example

🔸When the boss saw Jim's mistake, he hit the roof. He yelled and thumped the desk and told Jim to get out.

🔸When Johnny's dad found out that he'd been smoking ci******es, he hit the roof.

📌kill the goose that lays the golden egg

🔸Meaning
If you kill the goose that lays the golden egg, you destroy something that has made you a lot of money.

❗️For example

🔸The thing that attracted tourists to the island was the peace and quiet. But greedy developers have killed the goose that laid the golden egg by opening noisy nightclubs, so no-one goes there now.

🔸Parents and agents of successful child actors and singers often kill the goose that laid the golden egg by making the kids work too much, and the kids lose the magic spark that made them special in the first place.

📌after all

🔹Despite everything; when everything has been considered; the fact is.

🔹Example 1: You'd better invite Ed to your party. After all, he's a good friend.
Example 2: It doesn't matter what your boss thinks of you. After all, you're going to quit your job anyway.

📌about to

🔹ready to; on the verge of

🔹Example 1: It's a good thing Bob left the furniture store when he did. Peter was so angry, he was about to throw a dining room chair at him.
Example 2: I'm glad you're finally home. I was just about to have dinner without you.

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📌all along

🔹throughout; from beginning to end.

🔹EXAMPLE 1: Jenny told Nicole she would vote for her, but all along she was planning on voting for Andrea.
EXAMPLE 2: I never believed Joel when he told us he was marrying a princess from Denmark. I knew all along that he was lying.

📌all better

🔹completely cured

🔹EXAMPLE 1: "All better?" asked Maureen, after her son stopped crying.
EXAMPLE 2: If you're not all better, you shouldn't go to work tomorrow.

📌all over

🔹throughout; everywhere

🔹EXAMPLE 1: Nicole's classmates are from all over the world, including Argentina, Brazil, China, Japan, Korea, Poland, and Ukraine.
EXAMPLE 2: Oh no! I got ketchup all over my white sweater.

📌all the rage

🔹the latest fashion; popular right now.

🔹EXAMPLE 1: Have you seen those new alligator-skin cowboy boots? They're all the rage this season!
EXAMPLE 2: At Nate's high school, salsa dancing is all the rage this year.

📌at first

🔹in the beginning.

🔹EXAMPLE 1: Nicole didn't like Don Quixote at first, but after 200 pages she started to get into it.
EXAMPLE 2: Don't get discouraged if you don't succeed at first. The important thing is that you keep on trying!

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📌at least

🔹anyway; the good thing is that...

🔹Example 1: We've run out of coffee, but at least we still have tea.
Example 2: Tracy can't afford to buy a car, but at least she has a good bicycle.
Note: The second definition of this phrase is "no less than": There were at least 300 people waiting in line to buy concert tickets.