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Phrasal Verb of the Day

💢attribute to

✍🏾Meaning:
to believe that something results directly from a certain event or fact

❕For example:

attribute to
🔺Scientists now attribute the melting of the polar ice caps to global warming.

attribute to
🔺The rise in heart disease and certain cancers can be attributed to the high amount of red meat that many people can afford to eat these days.
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Idiom of the Day

📚kill two birds with one stone

✍🏾Meaning:
If you kill two birds with one stone, you achieve two things with the one action.

❕For example:

🔺I need to go to the bank, and if I drop the books off at the library on the way I'll be killing two birds with one stone.

🔺Jenny says that she kills two birds with one stone if she does her own housework because she gets the house clean and she gets some exercise at the same time.
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Slang of the Day

🔰donkey
American and Australian English

✍🏾Meaning:
a stupid or silly person

❕For example:

🔺I remember breaking a window with a cricket ball while playing in our garden. My dad came out and said, "Who was the donkey who did that?"

🔺You forgot to bring your ATM card? Well, you're a donkey, aren't you?

📌Variety: This slang term is typically used in American and Australian English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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Idiom of the Day

📚on your last legs | on its last legs
INFORMAL

✍🏾Meaning:
If you say you're on your last legs, it can mean you're close to exhaustion, or it can mean you're close to death. If a thing is on its last legs, it's close to breaking or wearing out.

❕For example:

🔺Bobby looks like he's on his last legs. Do you think he can make it to the top of the mountain?

🔺My old printer is on its last legs. It's time I got a new one.
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Slang of the Day

🔰ankle-biter
American and Australian English

✍🏾Meaning:
a child

❕For example:

🔺Diana loves kids. She's always happy if there are lots of ankle-biters around.

🔺Richard's such a big guy now that it's hard to imagine him when he was a little ankle-biter running around in short pants.

⚡️Variety: This slang term is typically used in American and Australian English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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Idiom of the Day

📚make the most of

✍🏾Meaning:
If you make the most of something, you get as much as possible from it.

❕For example:

🔺The warm weather won't last long, so we should make the most of it while we can.

🔺After I retire from work I'll make the most of all the free time and do all the things I've never had time for.
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Slang of the Day

🔰fruitcake
Offensive

✍🏾Meaning:
a crazy or eccentric person

❕For example:

🔺The old guy who lives down the hall is a fruitcake. He rides a bicycle on the roof of our building while reading the newspaper.

🔺Our English teacher is a total fruitcake.
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