Work Up | What does this phrasal verb mean?
The phrasal verb that we are going to look at today is one of those that you come to understand after seeing many examples, but which in practice is extremely difficult to …
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Make a Splash | What does this expression mean?
If you’ve read the title of this article and thought of a child jumping all over the pool and splashing water everywhere, then you already know the literal meaning of make …
Win Out │ What does this phrasal verb mean?
Win out is a verb that essentially means the same as win – that is, “to win”, “to win”. However, the preposition out adds an important nuance to the verb: thus, win out not only means “to …
Fill Someone’s Shoes │ What does this expression mean?
Fill someone’s shoes means, as you can see, “fill someone’s shoes” (or “fill someone’s shoes”, as the Google translator, always full of good intentions, suggests). But what this idiom really means is “taking someone’s …
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Cut The Crap | What does this expression mean?
Do you know when someone comes to tell us something, usually negative, and goes around and around? We start to get impatient, wanting the person to get to the point in …
Real Quick | What does this expression mean?
There are some expressions in English that, despite not being 100% grammatically correct and not accepted by the “cults” of the language, are widely used in the daily lives of …
Off The Mark │ What does this expression mean?
Among the heaps of results that the word mark has, we find the following: “target”, “objective”. Hit the mark , “hit the target”. Off the mark? “Off target”. As you can see, off the mark means that someone …