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2023-05-15 18:31:01 keep from (1)


Meaning
If something or someone keeps you from doing something, it means you can't do it.

For example

Are you busy? I don't want to keep you from your work.

Most parents find it very difficult to keep their kids from eating unhealthy snacks.

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2023-05-14 19:54:55 gasbag


Meaning
a person who talks too much


For example

Are you sure we should invite Betty? She's such a gasbag that no-one else will have a chance to say anything.

My wife's friend Gillian is such a gasbag. I swear, from the moment she arrives until the moment she leaves, she talks non-stop.
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2023-05-14 08:03:10 learn the ropes


Meaning
If you learn the ropes, you learn how to do a job properly, or how things work and how to get things done.


For example

Ruth will teach you what to do, and it shouldn't take you too long to learn the ropes.

It can take quite a while for a new lawyer to learn the ropes in a big legal firm.
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2023-05-13 18:30:14 If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys



Meaning
An employer who pays low wages will have bad staff.

Note: peanut (noun) = a seed like a hard pea, typically eaten by monkeys | peanuts (noun) = a very small sum of money |
pay peanuts (verb) = pay very low wages | monkey (noun) = a small to medium-sized, human-like animal living in trees in tropical countries
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2023-05-12 18:31:47 see to


Meaning
If you see to something, you take responsibility for it and make sure it's done.

For example

The police chief promised he'd see to it that whoever was behind the attacks would be caught and punished.

That's a nasty cut. You'd better go to the hospital and have it seen to.

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2023-05-12 06:30:35 KO | kayo


Meaning
a knockout, especially in boxing (n.) | to knock someone out, usually with a punch (v.)


For example

Three of the boxers won their fights with a kayo, and the rest won on points.

The fight was stopped after Tony KOed his opponent in the fourth round.

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2023-05-11 18:30:41 a raw deal



Meaning
If you think that you got a raw deal, you think you weren't treated fairly or as well as other people.


For example

Doctors in small hospitals in country towns get a raw deal. They earn less, and usually work longer hours, than doctors in big-city hospitals.

If it wasn't for the transport workers union, drivers would still be getting low wages and a raw deal all round.
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2023-05-11 06:30:04 Soon learnt, soon forgotten



Meaning
Something that is easy and quick to learn is easy to forget.
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2023-05-10 18:30:42 talk over


Meaning
to discuss a situation with someone, usually before making a decision


For example

I'd like to talk it over with my family first.

Before deciding whether to take the job or not, Sandra wanted to talk it over with her husband.

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