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🅛🅘🅢🅐 in progress Lisa

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2020.02.22 00:37

~ Happy Saturday!
GRAB your ☕️ Americano! It’s time to learn

some idioms (colloquial phrases). Try these with your English speaking friends~

1. “What do you have on tap today?” - What is your schedule like for the day? What is on your schedule for today? Can specify a specific time or date, whether it’s a week, a month, a holiday.

2. “On cloud 9.” - Describing how you feel, your current state of mind or someone else - as extremely happy, blissful, in love.

3. “Piece of cake.” - easy

4. “Dead as a door nail.” - Dead 😳😵💀 inanimate objects - batteries or living things - dead pet goldfish your parents flushed down the 🚽toilet - RIP Goldie 😢

5. “Holy cow!” - OMG! 🙀아이구

6. “Bob’s your uncle” - Easy as that, simple as that. Like demonstrating ease of something afterwards you declare “Bob’s your uncle!” - actually, this is very British.

7. “Quit cold turkey” or “cold turkey” - Give something up immediately (not in a gradual process) i.e. smoking, drug addiction, alcoholism, girlfriend/boyfriend, cake, ice cream, soda—you get it 😉

8. “The elephant in the room” - pretty obvious and/or big issue or an awkward situation.

9. “Jelly” - jealous but in a cute and funny way, not a resentful way. i.e. “I’m so jelly of your cute Jimmy Choos!” 😉

10. “Don’t give up your day job” - joking way of breaking it to someone that the “thing” (talent) they really think they are great at ( being talented), they are actually really bad at 😆😇 i.e. cooking, singing, being popular with women or men, walking in heels, Kung Fu 😹

Let me know if you have any questions...
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  • josh 2020.02.22 02:20

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    ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ “What do you have on tap today?” In Australia if you ask this at a pub/hotel/restaurant it means “What is the beer that is on special?”. In Australia our most popular beers in a pub/hotel/restaurant are served cold from a gas pumped tap.ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
  • 🅛🅘🅢🅐 in progress Lisa 2020.02.22 03:13

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    @josh Josh, lol! I forgot to put that! That is the most common use yes, but now used also in conversations. If you aren’t at a pub and asked this by someone then it’s an idiom. So funny! Cheers! 🍻
  • 🅛🅘🅢🅐 in progress Lisa 2020.02.22 03:14

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    @josh ”Gas pump tap?” Never heard of that before...
  • josh 2020.02.22 03:28

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    @🅛🅘🅢🅐 in progress Lisa ummmm tap at one end, the beer is in lines which is pumped by gas. Same as US. Keg system.
  • 🅛🅘🅢🅐 in progress Lisa 2020.02.22 03:37

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    @josh ahhh ok. I’m a “babe in the woods” on thud one...
  • 🅛🅘🅢🅐 in progress Lisa 2020.02.22 05:19

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    Correction: “Babe in the woods” on that one...
  • josh 2020.02.22 05:39

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    @🅛🅘🅢🅐 in progress Lisa 👍😁
  • Claire 2020.02.22 16:44

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    리사 최고~👍👍
  • 🅛🅘🅢🅐 in progress Lisa 2020.02.22 17:49

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    @Claire Awww, you are so kind. I like you guys too! 🥰
  • Tracie 2020.02.27 19:29

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    I was 40 years old before I knew “Bob’s your uncle” haha.
  • 🅛🅘🅢🅐 in progress Lisa 2020.03.02 00:57

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    @Tracie ha!
  • Tracie 2020.03.02 01:33

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    I have asked “what’s on tap?” But it’s always Coke’s light 😭 Frugal drinking tip - tap beer gets you drunk quicker, if that’s your thing. Or it could just be me. Lol
  • Mery 2020.10.12 17:50

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    @🅛🅘🅢🅐 in progress Lisa Stupendous and really handy! Thank you! You never fail to impress me as usual! 💜💛
  • 🅛🅘🅢🅐 in progress Lisa 2020.10.12 20:31

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    @Mery Hey Mary ☺️ Thanks so much. I will post more. See you in the group 😉
  • ᵃᵇᵉᵈ l عابِد 2020.10.21 00:04

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    Thanks Lisa
  • Ismael AⵢUR 2020.10.21 00:39

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    Woww great too bad I missed this but still gonna learn the idioms anyway lmao thanks lisa ✌✌✌✌
  • 🅛🅘🅢🅐 in progress Lisa 2020.10.21 05:49

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    @Ismael AⵢUR any time Ismail. You can always message me to discuss...
  • 🅛🅘🅢🅐 in progress Lisa 2020.10.21 05:50

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    @ᵃᵇᵉᵈ l عابِد You’re so welcome Abed. Let me know if you have any questions.

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