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| To bite off: |
to accept as a responsibility or task. This idiom is often used when one accepts more responsibility than one can handle alone. It is usually used in the form ‘to bite off more than one can chew’. |
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| To tell apart: |
to distinguish between (also: to tell from). |
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| All in all: |
considering everything. |
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| To pass out: |
to distribute (also: to hand out); to lose consciousness. The verbal indiom ‘to hand out’ can be made into the noun ‘handout’ to refer to items that are distributed. |
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| To go around: |
to be sufficient or adequate for everyone present; to circulate, to move from place to place. |
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| To be in the/one’s way: |
to block or obstruct; not to be helpful, to cause inconvenience (for both, also: to get in the/one’s way). |
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| To put on: |
to gain (pounds or weight); to present, to perform. |
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| To put up: |
to construct, to erect; to lift, to raise upwards. |
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| To put up with: |
to tolerate, to accept unwillingly. |
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| In vain: |
useless, without the desired result. |
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| Day in and ｄay out: |
continuosly, constantly (also: day after day; for longer periods of time, year in and year out and year after year). |
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| To catch up: |
to work with the purpose of fulfilling a requirement or being equal to others. The idiom is often followed by the preposition ‘with’ and a noun phrase. It is similar in meaning to ‘to keep up with’ from Lesson 17. |
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