💠 - maverick (noun, adj.) /ˈmævərɪk/

#Vocabulary

✴️ go the extra mile =

to make more effort than is expected of you; try very hard to achieve something

#idiomatic_expressions

📚📓📔📒📕📗📘📙📖

1️⃣ be in one's good books
2️⃣ by the book
3️⃣ bring to book
4️⃣ like a book
5️⃣ in my book

- Punctuation - Comma or no comma?

✳️ As long as you live here, you will follow my rules.

✴️ You will follow my rules as long as you live here.

✳️ carry the ball 🏈

🔶 drop the ball 🏀

💠 be on the ball 🌎

✳️ - all - every - each - - - difference ✳️

💠 - other - the other - another - - - difference 💠

✅ - The other books are ... ☑️
✅ - The others are ... ☑️

▶️ Special case:

✴️ Another + number + plural noun ✴️
~ We need another three teachers ...

✴️ Another + couple of / few ✴️
~ ... another couple of months to ...
~ This will take another few minutes.

💥 Unexpected results can also be introduced by BUT or YET. 🐳

🖌 the last but one / the next to last / the next but two 🖌

🔘 be in the right 🔘

🌀 be in the wrong 🌀

💥 catch/take someone unaware(s) 💥👽👻

~ We were caught unawares by the fierce storm. ⚡️🌪💦

✴️ - regret + gerund or to-infinitive

▶️ - I regret doing something => I did it and now I'm sorry about it.

▶️ - I regret to say / to tell you / to inform you => I'm sorry that I have to say (etc.)

🌕 the coast is clear ☀️🌈😎

🖌 Not Good or No Good?

~ This car is not good, but it gets me to work.
~ That car is no good; it doesn’t run at all.

~ TV no good for babies, study shows. Not bad, either.