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“Social butterfly” – English idiom

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Social butterfly

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Example sentences from the web:

  • Because he was not a social butterfly, he rarely went out in Washington.
  • Jessica is constantly out and about; she’s a real social butterfly.
  • Lulu is a social butterfly. She is always surrounded by people.

“Butty; buttie” – British slang

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Example sentences from the web:

  • Get yourself a piece of bread, I’ll make you a chip butty.
  • Give us an egg butty and don’t break the yolk.
  • “What’ve you got for your dinner?”
    “Cheese butties.”

Notice that you could also hear the term ‘sarnie’ (British slang) referring to a sandwich.

Bacon-Sarnie

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Example sentence from the web:

  • Do us a favour, pop to the shops and get us a sarnie.

“To endure” – What does it mean?

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To endure

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Other synonyms:

To endure - synonyms

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Example sentences from the web:

  • I cannot endure your insolence any longer. => Here “endure” means “tolerate”, “bear”, “support”.
  • The style endured for centuries. => Here “endured” means “continued in the same state”, “lasted”.
  • Even in the darkest ages humanity has endured. => Here “endured” means “suffered patiently”, “suffered without yielding”, “persisted”.

Words from the example sentences you may not know:

  • INSOLENCE => being rude or impolite, show a lack of respect or other people.
  • YIELDING => TO YIELD => to collapse, to give up, to surrender.

“To be/feel/look bushed” – English idiom

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Be/feel/look bushed

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Example sentences from the web:

  • After all that exercise, I’m bushed.
  • The poor kid is bushed, I’ll take her home. She’s not in any shape to take more right now.
  • “We’re off to bed now”, said Alfonso. “We are bushed!” Isabella laughed.
    “Well, we are”, said Ronnie, indignantly.
    “We’ve done a lot today, you know. And walked miles.”
    “I know that. I’m not laughing at you being tired, Ron. It’s just when we say in Australia that we’re bushed, it can also mean that we’re lost. Or confused. Like we don’t know what’s going on. Not just tired […].”
    Taken from Whitely, M, 2014, Bushed!, Elm House Publishing, p. 84.

Words and expressions from the example sentences that you may not know:

  • TO BE IN SHAPE => to be in good condition physically and functionally
  • TO BE OFF TO BED => .to go to bed; to go to sleep.

“Two heads are better than one.” – English Proverb

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Two heads are better than oneExample sentences from the web:

  • Mary: Can you figure out what this insurance document means?
    John: Why ask me? I don’t know anything about insurance.
    Mary: Neither do I, but two heads are better than one.
  • I couldn’t figure out the answer of the puzzle so I asked Sarah to help me out. After a short time, we figured out the answer. It really shows that two heads are better than one.

Words from the example sentences you may not know:

  • INSURANCE = coverage under a contract in which one party agrees to compensate another for a loss.
  • TO FIGURE OUT = to solve; to understand.

“The sky is the limit” – English idiom

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Example sentences from the web:

  • I have an anniversary coming up, and my husband said the sky is the limit. So I was thinking why not make it jewelry?
  • With two important film roles and a major award, it seems like the sky’s the limit for this talented young actress.
  • Order anything you like on the menu—the sky’s the limit tonight.