PHRASE (1--15) Flashcards

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AT TIMES

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মাঝে মাঝে
Occasionally,
Now and Then,

😖At times,he loses his temper.

🏖️ Her attitude is imperiousat times.

🥝Life is sadat times, but it is up to you to make your own life happy.

🌐These two aims are not always mutually complementary:at timesthey conflict.

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A PIECE OF CAKE

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A task that can be accomplished very easily.

❤Getting tickets to the game will bea piece of cake.

🏵The exam wasa piece of cake.

🌻Landing this type of aircraft isa piece of cakefor an experienced pilot.

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ALL BUT

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প্রায়,
Nearly,
Almost,

🌺Sheall butfainted when she heard the news

🦀His left arm wasall butuseless.

🐠The party wasall butover when we arrived

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CAT’S PAW

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অন্যের হাতিয়ার হিসেবে ব্যবহৃত ব্যক্তি

🐶Politicians often use students as cat’s paw.

🏵He served as acat’s paw.

🍅She’s actually acat’s pawfor her boyfriend, poor girl.

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DOG DAYS

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Hot weather

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CALL A SPADE A SPADE

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স্পষ্টাস্পষ্টি কথা বলা,
উচিত কথা বলা,
Speak Plainly.

🍄I believe in calling a spade a spade.

🎂Why don’t youcall a spade a spade? He’s a rude, uncaring, selfish man!

🍔I’m pretty good at calling a spade a spade.

🏺Let’scall a spade a spade. This man is a swindler.

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CALL IT A DAY

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Stop Work,

🏟Let’scall it a day.

⌛I think I’llcall it a dayand go home.

🚦So he agreed tocall it a day.

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TAKEN TO TASK

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তিরস্কার করা,

🏟He was taken to task.

🎁He was taken to task for not reporting the problem earlier.

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TAKE FOR GRANTED

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স্বাক্ষ্যপ্রমাণ ছাড়া না ভেবে কোন কিছুকে সত্য বলে ধরে নেয়া।
accept without verification or proof.

🎁You shouldn’t take for granted.

🎖There are many things Itake for grantedand don’t even realize.

⚽I came into adult life clueless about a lot of things that most peopletake for granted.

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SIT ON THE FENCE

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বিবাদের সময় নিরপেক্ষ থাকা,

🎱You can’tsit on the fenceany longer - you have decide whose side you’re on.

🏀He tends tosit on the fenceat meetings.

🎯They are sitting on the fence and refusing to commit themselves.

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AT LARGE

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মুক্ত,

🤲The anti socials are still at large

🌿The soldier reported that a prisoner wasat large.

🦄The escaped prisoners are stillat large.

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AT SIXES AND SEVENS

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এলোমেলো অবস্থা,
In confusion,

🐅The Boy made the roomat sixes and sevens

🌻I’m reallyat sixes and sevensover taking the new job.

🐻Things happened so fast that Mary wasat sixes and sevens.

⚽My room isat sixes and sevens.

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A SOPORIFIC SPEECH

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Put one to sleep

⚽After hissoporific speechfor an hour, the speaker received no applause from the audience.

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AT THE OUTSET

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শুরুতে,
প্রারম্ভে,

🐻I warned youat the outsetnot to trust him, and you wouldn’t listen to me.

🌻You made a mistakeat the outset.

🐼He was not hereat the outsetof the experiment.

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AT LENGTH

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অবশেষে,
Finally,

🐹’I’m still not sure,’ he saidat length.

🌳At lengththe young lady raised her head and looked steadily at his intelligent face.

🐌He told meat lengthabout his new job.

🌾At lengththe bus arrived, forty minutes late.

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