📒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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💠 fib 🇺🇸

✍🏾Meaning

a small, harmless lie (n.) | to tell a small, harmless lie (v.)

❕For example

🔺I can tell you're fibbing because you're trying not to smile!

🔺We told our youngest child a little fib about where our pet dog went when he died. She was too young to understand the truth.

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📒 Share and share alike

📖MeaningGive everyone an equal portion.

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📒 Neither a borrower nor a lender be

📖MeaningDo not borrow things. Do not lend things.

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📒kick out

📖MeaningIf somebody is kicked out of a place, they are forced to leave.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Ali was too afraid to tell his parents that he was gay because he knew his father would kick him out.

💬 If you get drunk and make trouble, you'll be kicked out of the bar.

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📚fill somebody's shoes

✍🏾Meaning
If you can fill somebody's shoes, you can replace them and do what they do.

❗️For example

🔸Greg was a great captain for the team so it'll be difficult to find someone who can fill his shoes now that he's retiring.

🔸The general manager is training his son to fill his shoes when he passes the business on to him.

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📒 Even the prayers of an ant reach to Heaven

📖MeaningGod hears all living beings.

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