English of the Day

Slang of the Day 🔰da bomb 🇺🇸American English ✍🏾Meaning: excellent, extremely good ❗️For example: 🔺This new Batman movie is da bomb, dude! 🔺Joey's new chick is da bomb, man! She's hot! 👁‍🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but...

Idiom of the Day 📚kill time ✍🏾Meaning: You kill time when you do something to amuse yourself while waiting for something. ❗️For example: 🔺I had to kill time at the airport because of the delay so I bought a book of crossword puzzles. 🔺We kill time on...

Slang of the Day 🔰lardass 🇺🇸American English Offensive ✍🏾Meaning: an overweight person, esp. one with large buttocks ❗️For example: 🔺Madge has become such a lardass since she stopped exercising and started eating too much. 🔺Bill and Jill get on really...

Phrasal Verb of the Day 🔰belong to ✍🏾Meaning: If something belongs to a person, it is owned by that person. ▪️For example: 1️⃣belong to 🔺Who do these CD's belong to? Are they yours? 2️⃣belong to sb 🔺Native Americans couldn't understand the idea that a...

Slang of the Day 🔰Hush-Haush ✍🏾Meaning: ▫️Very secret; classified ▫️highly secret or confidential ▪️For example: 🔺I want you to keep this hush-hush, but my wife is pregnant! 🔺a hush-hush political investigation. 🔺a hush-hush border meeting ━━━━━━━━━━━ #Slang_of_the_day...

Idiom of the Day 📚back to the drawing board ✍🏾Meaning: You can say "back to the drawing board" when a plan or a design has failed, and you decide to begin all over again. ▪️For example: 🔺Their plans to open a hotel in Fiji fell through, so it was back...

Slang of the Day 🔰egosurf ✍🏾Meaning: to search for one's own name on the Internet ▪️For example: 🔺When Trevor tried egosurfing, he was surprised to find seven websites that mentioned his name. 🔺Wheh he egosurfed, John Smith found his name in over two...

Idiom of the Day 🔰year dot year one ✍🏾Meaning: You can say "the year dot", or "the year one", when you're talking about a very, very long time ago. ❗️For example: 🔺There have been people living in Australia since the year dot, but Europeans have only...

Slang of the Day 🔰upfront ✍🏾Meaning: honest, open ❗️For example: 🔺Politicians aren't always upfront about their objectives or goals when running for public office. 🔺Do you think the U.S. government was upfront about their motives for attacking Iraq, or...

Idiom of the Day 🔰tighten your belt ✍🏾Meaning: If you tighten your belt, you try to spend less money. ❗️For example: 🔺I'll have to tighten my belt for a while so I can pay off my debts. 🔺Pablo says his family have had to tighten their belts because everything...

Phrasal Verb of the Day 🔰chat up 🇬🇧 🇦🇺 INFORMAL ✍🏾Meaning: to talk to someone in the hope of beginning a romantic relationship with them ❗️For example: 1️⃣chat up sb 🔺Juan is very good at chatting up girls. He knows how to make them laugh. 2️⃣chat sb...

Idiom of the Day 📚a hidden agenda ✍🏾Meaning: If someone has a hidden agenda, they have a secret plan or motive for doing something. 🔺For example: ▪️Some people claim that the U.S. had a hidden agenda in Iraq, and that it had something to do with oil....

Slang of the Day 💥hip ✍🏾Meaning: trendy, stylish, fashionable among young people ❗️For example: 🔺It's hip for young guys to look cute and a bit "fem" these days, so many are taking good care of their skin and spending a lot on clothes and haircuts. 🔺When...

Idiom of the Day 💥a ballpark figure a ballpark estimate 🇺🇸American English ✍🏾Meaning: If you give a ballpark figure or a ballpark estimate, you give a number which you think is fairly close to the actual one. ❗️For example: 🔺We don't know the exact cost,...

Slang of the Day 💥fib ✍🏾Meaning: a small, harmless lie (n.) to tell a small, harmless lie (v.) ❗️For example: 🔺I can tell you're fibbing because you're trying not to smile! 🔺We told our youngest child a little fib about where our pet dog went when he...

Idiom of the Day 📚a gut feeling ✍🏾Meaning: If you have a gut feeling, you sense something about a person or a situation, without knowing why, but you're sure what you sense is true. ❗️For example: 🔺As soon as I came into the room I had a gut feeling that...

Slang of the Day 🔰tight-ass 🇺🇸American English Offensive ✍🏾Meaning: 1) sby who spends as little money as possible, a miser 2) sby who's repressed and very strict about following society's rules ❗️For example: 🔺Our boss is a real tight-ass; we never get...

Idiom of the Day 🔰a roller coaster a roller-coaster ride ✍🏾Meaning: You can say an experience is a roller coaster, or a roller-coaster ride, if it involves many emotional highs and lows, or really good times alternating with really difficult times. 🔺For...

Slang of the Day 💥zero ✍🏾Meaning: a worthless person, someone who's done nothing worthwhile in life ❕For example: 🔺Clive is such a zero. He's spent his whole life stacking shelves in his father's shop during the day, and watching television in his room...

Idiom of the Day 🔰wet behind the ears ❗️INFORMAL ✍🏾Meaning: If someone is wet behind the ears, they don't have much experience of life. ❕For example: 🔺He's just finished high school, so he's still wet behind the ears. 🔺Joni's still wet behind the ears...