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🔻 ”OFF” IDIOMS 🔻


🔸Off and on

▫️Meaning: occasionally.

✨We are not very good friends anymore. I see him off and on.

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🔹Off base

▫️Meaning: inaccurate

✨If you think I paid one thousand dollars for this coat, you are way off base.

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🔸Off color

▫️Meaning: in bad taste, rude, dirty.

✨He told an off-color joke at the party that embarrassed my wife.

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🔹Off one’s rocker

▫️Meaning: crazy

✨He is off of his rocker if he thinks I’m going to help him decorate for the party.

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🔸Off the hook

▫️Meaning: out of something, freed from an embarrassing situation.

✨I don’t want to have dinner with him. Let’s tell him that we will be out of town so that we will get off the hook.

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🔹Off the record

▫️Meaning: privately, unofficially, not for public announcement.

✨I need to tell you about one of my accounts, but it needs to be off the record.

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🔸Off the top of one’s head

▫️Meaning: from memory, spontaneously.

✨Off the top of my head, I think her last name begins with an ‘M’.



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🔻Get the hang of 🔻


🔸To learn to handle with some skill, become good at, become proficient at, comprehend, understand.


✨Driving feels awkward when you are new to it, but it's easy once you get the hang of it.


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🔹lay out

spend or pay.


✨Will you lay out the money for the meal and I will pay you back tomorrow?


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🔹learn the ropes

acquire special knowledge of a job.


✨Now that you have started your new position with the company, it will probably take you a few months to learn the ropes.


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🔻RAIN EXPRESSIONS 🔻


🔸It's drizzling: very light rain

🔹It's raining: normal rain

🔸It's pouring: heavy rain

🔹It's bucketing down: very heavy rain - bucket of rain

🔸It's raining cats and dogs: heavy rain

🔹It's wet outside: it's raining

🔸To get wet/to get soaked: to become wet, very wet



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🔷High and low


♦️Meaning: every place.


✨I can’t seem to find my keys. I’ve looked high and low.



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🔹lie through one’s teeth : lie so you don’t get in trouble

✨The man lied through his teeth even though he was guilty of the crime.


🔸rip someone off: cheat someone

✨I decided to hire a lawyer because the salesman ripped me off.


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🔻Get the hang of 🔻


🔸To learn to handle with some skill, become good at, become proficient at, comprehend, understand.


✨Driving feels awkward when you are new to it, but it's easy once you get the hang of it.



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🔻Gloss over🔻


🔹To try to hide; to cover up a mistake or a crime; to hush up or whitewash.


✨They glossed over the problem, hoping that the customers wouldn't notice.

✨She glossed over the details of her accident.



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🔷Pull something off


♦️Meaning: accomplish something remarkable.


✨He never thought he would be able to put on a show, but he pulled it off.



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🔷Cream of the crop


♦️Meaning: the best of a group, top-choice.

✨Example: This university only accepts the cream of the crop.


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🔶Sustain


♦️Meaning: Continue

✨Example: No animals or plants can sustain life without water.


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🔷Hold back


♦️Meaning: conceal, hide.

✨Example: He held back his feelings and acted as if everything was alright.



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🔻Don't Joke With Me🔻


🔶 Meaning/Usage: Used when asking someone to be serious

🔷 Explanation: "Joke" is defined as something that is said to cause amusement. In this phrase, the person does not find it funny because that person is involved in some way. So they can ask the person to be serious using this phrase.

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✨He told me she likes me but I said don't joke with me.

✨My sister told me I was in trouble and I told her don't joke with me.

✨He said I had won a million dollars and I said don't joke with me!


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✏️NB: Other Common Sentences

"Stop messing around."
"Please be serious."


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🔻Good for Nothing🔻


🔶 Meaning/Usage: Negative statement to indicate someone has no value; useless

🔷 Explanation: Another way to look at this statement is to say "There is nothing good about that person."

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✨That guy is good for nothing.

✨That girl is a good for nothing troublemaker.

✨I would not let anything he says bother you, he is good for nothing.


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✏️NB: Other Common Sentences:

"He is no good."
"He is worthless."



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Count me in


to plan to include (someone) in an activity , to consider (someone) as one of the people who will be doing something.


✨Do you want to go to the beach with us? Yes! Count me in!


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🔷Cream of the crop


♦️Meaning: the best of a group, top-choice.

✨Example: This university only accepts the cream of the crop.


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🔶Sustain


♦️Meaning: Continue

✨Example: No animals or plants can sustain life without water.


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🔷Hold back


♦️Meaning: conceal, hide.

✨Example: He held back his feelings and acted as if everything was alright.



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🔷 Corner the market


♦️Meaning: If a company corners the market in a particular type of product, it is more successful than any other company at selling the product


✨Example: They've more or less cornered the fast-food market - they're in every big city in the world.


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🔷 Up to the mark


♦️Meaning: The term ‘up to the mark’ is used to describe something that is good, excellent and meets or exceeds the standards or expectations.


✨Example: Tim’s performance in the grand-finale was up to the mark.



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Get cold feet ✅



🔶 Shoot yourself in the foot


to do or say something that causes problems for you.


✨I think you might be shooting yourself in the foot if you don't take his offer.


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🔷 Find your feet


to start to be comfortable in a new situation , to begin to be confident or successful.

✨They quickly found their feet in their adopted country.


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🔶 Get cold feet

to feel too frightened to do something that you had planned to do.

✨I was going to try bungee jumping, but I got cold feet.



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