Some of your favoured or humours English slang phrases? 😂
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Cat got your tongue?😁
My favourite is a British-ism of using nouns to describe how drunk people are, aka: He was totally gazebo-ed They got completely tabled She was so trolley-ed she forgot her purse
'Get over yourself' - don't take yourself too seriously. Where I come from in England, a city called Birmingham, we are known for not liking arrogant people: "You should have heard me on this call to a client, there was no way I wasn't going to make a sale, I was ready, I was fired-up, and I just knew that I was going to bring it home!" Hey, I'm happy you made the sale, but you need to get over yourself. What we'd hope to hear is something like: I had a great call today and made an amazing sale.
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1.Cheugy This word (pronounced choo-gee) has swooped in to replace old fan-favorite “basic”. It refers to the painfully mainstream or, along the same vein, someone hanging onto things that were cool years ago but would now be deemed basic or “cheug 2.Rent free Can’t stop thinking about someone? Sounds like they’re living rent free in your mind. This is most often used when you can’t get something out of your brain – whether it’s a song, video, experience or person. They’re stuck in there and they’re not even paying rent for the space they’re occupying. 3.Vibe check Is someone acting shady or negative? Sounds like they didn’t pass the vibe check. This describes when you check in on someone’s vibe and assess what it’s giving. Good vibes? You’ve passed the vibe check.
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Its shows possession and it's is short for (reduced form of) 'it is'
- "I could be a morning person, if morning happens around noon".
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- What does "as above so below" mean?Sarrah
I met this phrase in the book and I was wondering about the meaning of "as above, so below." Here is the context where I met this phrase: In the meticulously designed garden, the arrangement of the flowers and paths reflected the harmony of the stars above, truly embodying the principle "as above, so below."
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It simply compares the harmony of the flowers to that of the stars... meaning same harmonous path the stars portray above (in the sky), it's same with the flowers below.
