🤪 Ways to say you don't understand


1️⃣ Formal short phrases you can use:
🙂 Pardon?
🥹 Sorry?
😊 Excuse me?
😠 I beg your pardon?


2️⃣ Informal short phrases you can use:
😧 What did you say?
😏 Huh?
🙂 ‘Scuse me?
😱 What was that?
🤔 Hmm?


3️⃣ Now, let's see some slang phrases:
💭 Come again?
💭 Pass that by me again?
💭 I don’t get it


4️⃣ And some idioms:
((Idioms aren't translated literally))
📰This is all Greek to me
⚡ I think our wires are crossed
🪨 That was as clear as mud

👄 Everything you said is just a word salad

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
#sirjimmy
#teamjimmy
#tips

5⃣ Informal Ways to Say "Yes"
1. Yeah
2. Yup
3. Mm-hmm!
4. Uh-huh!
5. Sure!


5⃣ Informal Ways to Say "No"
1. Nope
2. Nah
3. Mm-mm
4. Uh-uh
5. No way!

=========================
#sirjimmy
#teamjimmy
#tips

Bird idioms 🦜

🐦a little bird told me
🐦to be free as a bird
🐦the birds and the bees
🐦to get your ducks in a row
🐦to go on a wild goose chase
🐦to watch somebody like a hawk
🐦to take someone under your wing


#sirjimmy
#teamjimmy
#idiom

🔔Word Of The Day🔔


🔻Ways to Encourage Someone🔻


🔸Keep up the good work!

🔹That was a nice try.
(say this after someone made a good effort but failed)

🔸That’s a real improvement.

🔹You’re on the right track.

🔸You’ve almost got it.

🔹You’re doing great.

🔸Don’t give up! / Hang in there!
(when someone is currently having difficulties)

🔹You can do it!

🔸Give it your best shot.
(best shot = best try, best effort)

🔹Nice job! / You did great!
(after the person has done something good)


#Word_Of_The_Day
#Phrase_Of_The_Day
#Teamjimmy
@Sirjimmy

🇬🇧Popular English Idioms to Sound Like a Native Speaker

💣 BLEW ME AWAY:

✍🏽when something blows you away, you’re extremely impressed by it

🔺The exhibition just blew me away. I’d never seen so many beautiful paintings before.

☁️ BLOW SMOKE:

✍🏽to exaggerate or say things that aren’t true to make you seem better/ more knowledgeable than in reality

🔺I’m not blowing smoke. I have honestly read War and Peace by Tolstoy.

🐺 CRY WOLF:

✍🏽to call for help when you don’t need it

🔺Do you think Peter is in trouble or is he just crying wolf?

#sirjimmy
#teamjimmy

🔔 Idiom Of The Day 🔔


🔷 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.


➕➕➕➕➕➕➕➕➕➕➕


🔷 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.



#Idiom_Of_The_Day
#Teamjimmy
@Sirjimmy

@sirjimmy
#Teamjimmy
#Idiom

Common Mistakes

Interested in (not "interested on")
✔️ I am interested in learning English.
❌ I am interested on learning English.

Good at (not "good in")
✔️ She is good at math.
❌ She is good in math.

Married to (not "married with")
✔️ He is married to Sarah.
❌ He is married with Sarah.

Listen to (not "listen")
✔️ I love to listen to music.
❌ I love to listen music.

Afraid of (not "afraid from")
✔️ She is afraid of spiders.
❌ She is afraid from spiders.

Depend on (not "depend from")
✔️ It depends on the weather.
❌ It depends from the weather.

Think about (not "think on")
✔️ I am thinking about my future.
❌ I am thinking on my future.

Responsible for (not "responsible of")
✔️ He is responsible for the project.
❌ He is responsible of the project.

Tired of (not "tired from")
✔️ I am tired of working late.
❌ I am tired from working late.

Proud of (not "proud for")
✔️ She is proud of her achievements.
❌ She is proud for her achievements.

🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥
#teamjimmy
#sirjimmy
#tips

@sirjimmy
#Teamjimmy
#Idiom

💜Power Writing 💜🖌📝📌
Complete the sentences to make up a story:

1 Our life is full of surprises...

2 I'd like to share one of them...

3 Every time I recall it...

4 It's a good thing that...

5 Our sense of humor...

#PowerWriting
#TeamJimmy
@Sirjimmy

Phrasal Verb ⬅️➡️ Basic Word

1. Hold on – Wait
2. Catch on – Understand
3. Cut down – Reduce
4. Spell out – Explain
5. Find out – Discover
6. Take off – Remove
7. Come in – Enter
8. Own up – Admit
9. Figure out – Solve
10. Kick off – Start
11. Carry on – Continue
12. Put off – Postpone
13. Call off – Cancel
14. Put up with – Tolerate
15. Show up – Arrive
16. Make up – Invent
17. Run into – Meet
18. Get away – Escape
19. Get back – Return
20. Give out – Distribute

🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥
#teamjimmy
#sirjimmy
#tips

🔔 Word Of The Day 🔔


🔻 Ways to say AS YOU CAN SEE 🔻


🔸 Evidently

🔹 Obviously

🔸 As demonstrated

🔹 Therefore

🔸 It is easy to see

🔹 As shown


#Word_Of_The_Day
#Teamjimmy
@Sirjimmy

🔔 Correct Answer 🔔


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.


➕➕➕➕➕➕➕➕➕➕

🔷 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.


➕➕➕➕➕➕➕➕➕➕➕


🔶 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.



#Test_Of_The_Day
#Idiom_Of_The_Day
#Teamjimmy
@Sirjimmy

📝Power Writing 📝
Complete the following sentences to make up your story:

1 Watching movies is..
2 My favorite ones are...
3 There are a few actors I do love...
4 As for cartoons...
5 I wish I could meet a famous actor/ actress...

#PowerWriting
#TeamJimmy
@sirjimmy