English with Mike

🥚 A bad egg: someone who does bad things. He was dishonest, but he was the only bad egg in the group.

🥚 Walk on eggshells: be extremely cautious about one's words or actions.

"his air of tetchy perfectionism encouraged those around him to walk on eggshells"

🥚 Don’t put all your eggs in one basket 🧺

don't risk everything on the success of one venture.

"we need to be more tactical and not put all our eggs in one political basket"

🥚 You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs

Sometimes, when we want to create or achieve something, we must sacrifice or destroy another thing to do it.

SHOOT THE BREEZE = to spend time talking about things that are not important:

👉🏻We sat out on the porch, just shooting the breeze.

👉🏻They expected me to sit up and shoot the breeze with them till one or two in the morning

🦇 ⚾️

🔵1. Bat ( a stick like a baseball bat)

👉🏻 She showed me how to hold the bat.

🔵2. Bat 🦇(a flying animal)

👉🏻There’s a rumor that covid19 comes from a bat

🔵3. Bat your eyelashes (flirt with someone)

She kept batting her eyelashes at me each time I talked to her, so I'm thinking of asking her out on a date.

🔵4. Blind as a bat (they have a poor eyesight/ they can’t see the truth)

👉🏻 She’s blind as a bat without her glasses on

Shows

💜 HEARTWARMING

Touvjing and good therefore causing feelings of pleasure and happiness:

👉🏻a heartwarming tale of triumph over adversity

😂 HILARIOUS

extremely amusing and causing a lot of laughter:

👉🏻Her jokes are absolutely hilarious

🤷‍♂️ CORNY

showing no new ideas or too often repeated, and therefore not funny or interesting:

corny jokes

👉🏻I couldn't watch the whole movie - it was just too corny.

🤔SUSPENSEFUL

causing a feeling of excitement or nervousness because you are waiting for something to happen or are uncertain about what is going to happen:

👉🏻a suspenseful thriller

Drop the ball 🏈

To make a mistake and fail to do what you’re responsible for

👉🏻I'm so sorry I dropped the ball and forgot to buy the wine for the dinner party.

👉🏻I admit it, I dropped the ball on this one

🔴KEEP IN MIND (Don’t forget that)

🔵Keep in mind, this is only the second year that she's been on the board.

🔵Just keep in mind that it gets dark a lot earlier these days. I don't want you to have any trouble driving home.

🔵Keep in mind, our budget is pretty small.

🔴PET-PEEVES

🔵IT BUGS ME WHEN ...

👉🏻It bugs me when people speak loudly in a restaurant

🔵I CAN’T STAND IT WHEN...

👉🏻I can’t stand it when someone asks me personal questions

🔵IT GETS ON MY NERVES WHEN ....

👉🏻It gets on my nerves when people have high expectations of me

🔴Evidence

🔵I’VE HEARD THAT...

👉🏻I’ve heard that extroverted people tend to live longer

🔵I READ SOMEWHERE THAT...

👉🏻I read somewhere that in America there are suicide clubs".

🔵STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT...

👉🏻Studies have shown that low self-esteem predicts depression.

🔴Requests

🔵I was wondering… (polite request/ offer)

👉🏻• I was wondering if you could babysit my child today

👉🏻We were wondering if you’d like to have dinner with us

🔵I would be grateful if you could/would …(Very polite )

•👉🏻 I would be grateful if you could/would send me further information

👉🏻• I would be grateful if you could/would send me an invoice

🔴Food 🍲 🍱 🥘

🔵Chew (to crush food with your teeth)

• You don’t chew your food enough. That’s why you get indigestion

 

🔵Munch (to eat noisily)

• He was munching on an apple

 

🔵scarf sth down / wolf sth down (eat too quickly)

• He scarfed down his lunch and went back outside

 

🔵Pig out

• I’m meant to be on a diet but I pigged out last night

🔵scarf sth down / wolf sth down (eat too quickly)

• He scarfed down his lunch and went back outside

 

🔵Pig out

• I’m meant to be on a diet but I pigged out last night

🔵Sip (to drink a very small amount)

• He sipped the red wine

• He took a sip of his hot coffee

 

🔵Slurp (to drink something noisily)

• Try not to slurp

• I wish you would stop slurping your soup like that

🔵Chug (to drink fast without stopping)

• He was so thirsty he chugged three glasses of water