💠 footy 🇺🇸

✍🏾Meaning

Australian Rules Football, Aussie Rules Football

❕For example

🔺I grew up in Melbourne in Australia, so when I was kid I was crazy about footy and about my favourite club, St. Kilda. And I still love footy today!

🔺Hey Mark! You wanna go to the footy on Saturday? Collingwood's playing St. Kilda at the M.C.G., so it should be a beauty!

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📒 Waste not, want not

📖MeaningIf we do not waste things we will not be short of things. If we use our resources carefully, we shall never be in need.

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📒take up (1)

📖Meaningto fill an area of space or a period of time

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 We're selling the dining table because it takes up too much room in our new apartment.

💬 I don't have much spare time, and exercising takes most of that up anyway.

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📒keep up (3)

📖MeaningIf somebody or something keeps you up, you cannot go to bed.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 The noise from my neighbour's party kept me up most of the night.

💬 The noise from my neighbour's party kept me up most of the night.

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📚wash your hands of something

✍🏾Meaning
If you wash your hands of something that you were involved in, you decide to stop being involved in it after losing your interest or belief in it.

❗️For example

🔸She washed her hands of the whole project after she found out that people had been stealing donated money.

🔸Jim washed his hands of politics long ago after realising how corrupt most politicians were.

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💠 thick (2) 🇺🇸

✍🏾Meaning

full-figured without appearing overweight

❕For example

🔺That chick is thick, dude! She has meat on her bones in all the right places; her thighs, breasts, hips, and her booty.

🔺Jamie says some girls who clearly have a weight problem try to kid themselves by claiming they are thick, but not fat.

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📒get away with

📖Meaningto do something illegal or immoral and not get caught or punished

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Janet got away with shoplifting clothes the first few times, but she soon got caught and now she's stuck with a police record for the rest of her life.

💬 Bobby nearly got away with the robbery, but he spent the money too quickly and local police who knew him got suspicious.

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📚mend your ways

✍🏾Meaning
If you mend your ways, you improve your behaviour and stop doing things that cause trouble.

❗️For example

🔸Terry had better mend his ways or Rosie will leave him forever.

🔸It took him a long time to mend his ways, but these days Jack is a good father and husband.

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💠 ecofreak 🇺🇸

✍🏾Meaning

a person with strong views on the importance of protecting the natural environment

❕For example

🔺Before becoming Minister for the Environment, Peter was a rock star and an ecofreak.

🔺All these ecofreaks came and lay down in front of the bulldozers to stop them from clearing the forest.

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📚wide of the mark

✍🏾Meaning
If something is wide of the mark, it isn't true or accurate, or it misses the target.

❗️For example

🔸The manager expected sales to double this year, but his prediction was wide of the mark. They only increased by ten per cent.

🔸Ronaldo's first shot was wide of the mark, but his second one went right into the back of the net for a goal.

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