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A figment of your imagination

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something imagined or created by your mind

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To my dismay

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means being mildly shocked by someone or some event in a negative way
sys: to my surprise

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Laugh my head off

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to laugh a lot, loudly

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Be all the rage

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to be very popular or

fashionable.

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Go back to the drawing board

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to start planning something again because the first plan failed

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Love-hate relationship

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strong feeling mixture of love and hate

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More money than sense

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saying that you think someone is wasting their money

Ex: My father thinks that earbud it’s more money than sense

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Give someone the benefit of the doubt

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decide that you will believe someone, even though you are not sure that what the person is saying is true
Ex: he seems doubtful when he said he was in a car accident, but I will give him the benefit of the doubt

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Speak volumes

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it makes an opinion, characteristic, or situation very clear without the use of words
Ex: his face speaks volume

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Door-to-door

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+from the beginning of a trip to the end
Ex: the trip took 3 days and 2 nights door-to-door
+going from one house or building to the next in order to sell or ask something
Ex: he was a door-to-door salesman for a small company/ a door-to-door campaign will underlie for our big moves in future
-go/sell/campaign door-to-door

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Rough edges(also be “rough around the edges”)

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-work or performance has rough edges, some parts of it could be improved
Ex; such a gift player, but his game lately has rough edges
-A person does not always behave well and politely
Ex: experiences and times have mitigated his rough edges

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eaves drop

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tolistento someone’sprivateconversationwithout themknowing
Ex: I was eavesdropping on what my parents argued about

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Pull your weight

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toworkas hard as otherpeoplein agroup

Ex: During the semester, I’ve seen you weren’t pulling your weight at all

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Goof around

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tospendtimedoing nothingimportantorbehavingin asillyway
Ex: He just spend a whole day Goofing around

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Clear as mud

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Very difficult to understand

Ex: the explanation was as clear as mud

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Tough nut to crack

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a problem that is very difficult to solve or a person who is very difficult to understand
Ex: the problem is a hard nut to crack/ he’s a tough nut

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Be in sb’s shoes

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to be in the situation, usually a bad or difficult situation, that another person is in
Ex: I don’t want to be in his shoes

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Shedding light

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To reveal information or details about something

Ex: the truth about his sexual harassment will shed light

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Take its toll

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it causes suffering, deaths, or damage

Ex: the recession has taken its toll

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In denial

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an unwillingness to accept that something unpleasant is true

Ex: To be frank, he is still in denial after an affair with his wife

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Crunch time

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A point at which sth difficult must be done

Ex: His performance quite of rough edges, I’m worried he still produces in a crunch time

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Be out of the questions

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That area is off-limits, even the president is out of the question also

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Max out

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-Do sth too much
Ex: I was maxed out due to workload/ Open too much tab could make RAM maxed out
-Spend too much money
Ex: Don’t try to max out all the resources right away, cake up, and then use them effectively
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Mind-boggling

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difficult to understand or imagine
Ex: When it comes to math, we used to think of a mind-boggling logic in its complexity/ The complexity of politics totally boggle the mind

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A (whole) host of sth

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A very large number of people or things

Ex: A host of sneakers has been allocated around the world

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At short notice

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With little time for preparation

Ex: There’s no way you can accomplish IELTS at short notice

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Bottom out

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-stops getting worse or lower, usually before improving again
Ex: the crisis started to bottom out/ There was no bottom out after his lost
+knock the bottom out: make sth fail suddenly(market, industry)
Ex: A turnover in a clutch moment has knocked the bottom of the team

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Dole out

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Distribute sth(money, food,etc)
Ex: programmed itself to dole out fatigue symptoms accordingly.
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On this/that account

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Say sthsaythat somethinghappensfor thereasonyou have justmentioned.
Her father’s dead, and on this account her kids turned depressed

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Reinvent the wheel

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Waste time create sth that already exists

Ex: ip13 just reinventing the wheel things that its on previous versions

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Come into play

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Start to happen or have an effect

Ex: When the new rules come into play, most students have to conform to it

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Worked up

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excite, arouse

Ex: Why is he so worked up today/ He got worked up of getting a high score

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String someone along

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To deceive someone that you will help them

Ex: Be careful of his words, maybe he just stringing young along

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Rule out

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Exclude, make sth impossible

Ex: Rain ruled out the picnic/ It easy to be ruled out of the event

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In place of

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Instead of

Ex: Toeic can be used in place of IELTS as a certificate

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Stumble upon/across

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Find or learn sth unexpectedly

Ex: I have to stumble upon in learning to code

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not be cut out for sth

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to not be the right type of person for something

Ex: I’m not cut out for a venture job

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Double down sth

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to continue to do something in an even more determined way than before
Ex: Instead of reviewing the mistakes, he just keep doubling down/ The adrenaline rush is doubled us down, especially during deadline

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Wear off

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If a feeling or the effect of something wears off, it gradually disappears
Ex: After a couple of hours, the affection started to wear off/ A taste in honeybee never wears off

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Gut-wrenching(adj)

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extremely unpleasant or upsetting.
Ex: The movie depicts gut-wrenching moments based on real-life events/ What really gut-wrenching is how he’s fighting cancer

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