📒 Even the prayers of an ant reach to Heaven

📖MeaningGod hears all living beings.

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📒fall over

📖MeaningIf someone falls over, they fall to the ground.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 My little girl was running along when she fell over, so I picked her up and gave her a hug.

💬 Be careful when you're walking in the forest. You can get seriously hurt if you fall over.

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📚set your sights on

✍🏾Meaning
If you set your sights on something, or set your sights on doing something, it becomes the target of your ambition or the object of your attention.

❗️For example

🔸Stanley has set his sights on coaching Liverpool, so he'll start getting to know people who have influence in the club.

🔸Microsoft has set its sights on one of the biggest search engine companies, so I wouldn't be surprised if the company's shares go up.

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📒 Many a true word is spoken in jest

📖MeaningSomething said as a joke may often contain wisdom and truth.

Note: jest (noun): a joke; something said for amusement or comedy

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📒wait around

📖MeaningIf you have to wait around for something, you have to wait a long time for it.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Why do we always have to wait around when we have an appointment with a doctor or a dentist?

💬 Drug addicts spend most of their time waiting around for dealers to come with the drugs they need. What a boring life it must be!

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📚throw someone in at the deep end

✍🏾Meaning
If you throw someone in at the deep end, you give them a difficult job to do, or a serious problem to deal with, before they have the knowledge or experience for it.

❗️For example

🔸In her first overseas teaching job, Kathy was thrown in at the deep end with a class of 30 kids and no training, no books, and no guidelines.

🔸Our manager thinks the best way to introduce new staff to the job is to throw them in at the deep end and see how they go.

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💠 knackered (1) 🇺🇸

✍🏾Meaning
very tired, exhausted

❕For example

🔺After climbing up and down hills and mountains all day, we were totally and completely knackered.

🔺Trevor is incredibly fit. Everyone else was knackered after running ten kilometers, but Trevor looked like he was just warming up.

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📒 Graves are of all sizes

📖MeaningPeople die at all ages; no one is too young to die.

Note: grave (noun) = (usually) a hole in the ground for a dead body | Compare: "In Golgotha are skulls of all sizes." "Death devours lambs as well as sheep."

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📒interest in

📖MeaningIf you interest somebody in something, you make them want to know more about it.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Companies try to interest people in their products by promoting and advertising them.

💬 It's amazing how a well-made documentary can interest people in a subject that they've never been interested in before.

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📚talk through your hat

✍🏾Meaning
If you're talking through your hat, you're talking about something without knowing much about it, or you claim something is true when it isn't.

❗️For example

🔸Evan says that quantum physics proves that space and time don't really exist, but Kathy says he's talking through his hat.

🔸I proved that George was talking through his hat by checking on the internet to find out if what he said is true - and it isn't.

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