English Idioms | مصطلحات إنجليزية
 

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💢 to keep an eye on .

🔖 يراقب .
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to look after something or someone .
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You're busy, so you'll need to keep an eye on the time. Remember that we have to leave at 4:30 .

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💢 run for one's life.

🔖 ينقذ نفسه .
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to save oneself.

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🔹 I*ran for my life*when I met the bear on the camping trip.

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💢 lay down one's life .

🔖 يضحي بحياته.
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scrifice one's life.

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🔹 The martyrs had*lay down their lives for their country.

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📧 put one's feet up
يـرتـاح

🎐 Example
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🔹 All I want is to*put my feet up*when I finish working on this project .


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💢 keep something under one's hat = keep*secret about..

🔖 يبقي او يكتم السر .

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🛑 Example
🔹 He wont say where he is going for his holiday. He wants*
to*keep it under his hat.

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💢 come hat in hand =come*
apologizing

🔖 يأتي معتذرا 🤕
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When Jack realized he had been rude to her, he*came with his hat in hand .

#Nail it

👉 (verb) to do something perfectly or successfully
تفعل شي بنجاح.. او تنجح ف فعل شي ما ..

🖍Good luck on your performance today, Jimmy. I hope you nail it!

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💢 bring ... to life

🔖 يعيد إلى الحياة .
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cause to live or recover.

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🔹 The lifeguard used artificial repiration to*bring to life*the unconscious swimmer.

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bide your time

ينتظر الفرصة المناسبة

Description
If you bide your time, you wait for a good opportunity to do something.

Example
She was biding her time until she could get her revenge 😠

الفرق بين كلا من : Believe و Believe in
 

⚪️ الفرق بين كلا من :
✨Believe

✨Believe in

♨️believe - to accept as true

Do you believe his reports.

I can hardly believe my eyes.


In ancient times, it was believed that the earth was flat.

♨️believe in - to have faith in somebody or something.

We do not believe in ghosts.
He believes in getting plenty of exercise.

In the days of the French Revolution, people believed in liberty, equality and fraternity.

♨️Comparing the two sentences :-

✨ I believe him ( = I believe what he says )

✨ I believe in him ( = I trust him )

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💢 talk through one's hat = to make*
exaggerated or inaccurate statements about something .

🔖 يبالغ في الحديث .
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If someone is talking through their hat, they say stupid things about something that they do not understand

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The man is always*talking through his*hat*and you never know if you can believe him or not

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at all/any cost
بأي ثمـن .. مهما كلف الأمر

Description
no*matter*what*the*price,
regardless*of*the*cost


Example
🔹*We*must prevent*war*at*any*cost.

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under the weather = not in a good health
تعبان .. ليس بصحة جيدة

Description
If you are under the weather, you are feeling a bit ill or sad.

Example
🔹 Fatema looks under the weather 🤕

✨ Next of kin
من الأقارب ؛أقرب الأقارب؛ قرابة؛ قريب (عَائِلِيّ )
the person or group of people you are most closely related to:

🔹Example:

We cannot release the names of the soldiers who were killed until we have informed their next of kin.

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📧 be on one's feet

🔹له معنـيـيـن
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a- be standing 🕴
وأقــف

🎐 Example
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🔹The crowd was on its feet for the last ten seconds

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b- Fully recovered, as after an illness*
يتـعافى

🎐 Example
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🔹 The patient*is on her feet*again .


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go to pieces = emotionally*fallapart*or*breakdown
إنكسـر عاطفيـا ..

Description
If you go to pieces, for example after a terrible shock, you are so distressed 😓 that you cannot lead a normal life.


Example
He just went to pieces 🤕 after his wife died.

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💢 have a job to do .

🔖 عمل صعب .

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a difficult job to do

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🔹 You have a job to do convincing your teacher that you were sick 🤒.

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all ears

اذآن صاغية .. ينتبه للكلام


Description
very eager to listen to what someone is going to say

Example
🔹 Tell me who else was invited? I'm all ears.

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💢 fall out with .

🔖 يتجادل أو يتخاصم مع .

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have an argument and are no longer friendly .

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🔹 When she realized he was cheating her, she fell out with him .

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💢 put-up job .

🔖 عمل مخادع او مزور .


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a fake or false job


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🔹The whole thing was a put-up job to make him agree to the deal .

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💢 in no time = very soon .


🔖 فورا أو حالا .
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🔹 In no time, the soldiers had set up the sand barriers .


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💢 far and wide = everywhere .

🔖 في كل مكان .
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🔹 The police searched*far and wide for the killer .

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💢 at one time .

🔖 في وقت من الأوقات في الماضي .

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during a period of time in the past.

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🔹 At one time*I thought you were*going to lose .

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add fuel to the fire/flames

يزيد الطين بله 🤦🏼‍♂


Description
to make an argument or bad situation worse

Example
✋🏼Don't add fuel to the fire 😳

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💢 bring home the bacon .
= to earn money to live on

🔖 يعمل لكسب لقمة عيشه .

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🔹 If Jo's going to be at home looking after the kids, someone needs to bring home the
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🔘idiom #
مصطلح عامي #

We are in the same
boat🤦🏻‍♀
كلنا في الهوا سوا
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Example✨
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- I need some money💸
محتاج فلوس


- Me, too
I'm broke.
#We_are_in_the_same_boat 😂
والله حتى انا مفلّس

كلنا بالهوا سوا

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TO BE UP
انتهى او انقضى
To be up: to expire, to be finished

تستعمل غالبا مع الوقت، بمعنى انتهي او انقضى

✨This idiom is used only with the word time as the subject.
Examples of BE UP

📚When the time*is up, he said, they will have to move out or buy the mobile home.

📚As soon as your time*is up*they sack you and get another free worker.

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مصطلح عامى :
🔘piece of cake -
المعنى الحرفي : قطعة كيك
المعنى المجازي: سهل جداً

❣very easy

🔲EXAMPLE 1: Nicole finished her physics test in just 25 minutes. It was a piece of cake.
🔲EXAMPLE 2:
The driving test is a piece of cake. Don't worry about it.
⚫️SYNONYM المرادف

❣easy as pie

المعني الحرفي: اسهل من الفطيرة
المعني المجازي: سهل جداً

🔲You should have no trouble passing the driving test. It's as easy as pie.
⭐️⭐️❣❣❣⭐️⭐️

🔘idiom#
مصطلح عامى #

❣Couch Potato 🥔 شخص كسول

a lazy person who spends a lot of time sitting at home watching television.

الشخص الكسول الذي يقضي وقتاً كثيراً جالساً في البيت يشاهد التلفاز.

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❣idiom # مصطلح عامى
(to) give (someone) a ring -
‎اتصل بي / او اعمل لى رنة

🔘to telephone (someone )

EXAMPLE 1️⃣
Give me a ring tomorrow so we can discuss plans for this weekend.
EXAMPLE 2️⃣

If you're free on Saturday, give me a ring and we can go to the movies .
✨✨✨✨⭐️⭐️⭐️✨✨✨✨

❣out of work -
عاطل عن العمل

unemployed; not working
EXAMPLE 1️⃣

Gary was out of work for a year before finding a new job.

EXAMPLE 2️⃣

Bob is out of work. Do you
know anybody who might
want to hire him?
✨✨✨⭐️⭐️⭐️✨✨✨

▪️idiom #مصطلح عامي
😄thank goodness -

معبر عن الشكر /مقر بالجميل

I'm grateful; I'm relieved
EXAMPLE :1️⃣

When Ted came home at 4 a.m. last Sunday, his mother said, "Thank goodness you're home! I was so worried about you."
EXAMPLE :2️⃣

Thank goodness you didn't go to California on Monday. It rained there every day this
week.
🔘🔘⚪️💧⚪️🔴🔴

🔘مصطلح عامي #

🔹Lend me your ear

ينطق: لِنْد مي يور إيْر

ترجمته: أعرني أذنك ..
والمقصد هو " استمع أو انصت إلي" ، نقوله لشخص عندما نرغب في أن يركز فيما نقول ..

✨Lend me your ear Ahmed. I'm talking to you
أنصت إليّ يا أحمد. أنا أتحدث إليك!

✨idiom # مصطلح عامي

❣(to) cut class -

تغيب او تترك الكلاس / يعني تغيب عن الدراسة بدون عذر .

to miss class without an
excuse
EXAMPLE :1️⃣

Ted often cuts class to spend more time with his girlfriend.

EXAMPLE :2️⃣


If you keep cutting French class, you're going to fail it.

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✨idiom # مصطلح عامي

❣(to) cut class -

تغيب او تترك الكلاس / يعني تغيب عن الدراسة بدون عذر .

to miss class without an
excuse
EXAMPLE :1️⃣

Ted often cuts class to spend more time with his girlfriend.

EXAMPLE :2️⃣


If you keep cutting French class, you're going to fail it.

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❣idiom # مصطلح عامي

(to )slack off- to waste time
اهمال الوقت / اضاعة الوقت EXAMPLE 1️⃣

Amanda doesn't get much done at the office. She's too busy slacking off.
EXAMPLE 2️⃣

I'd better stop slacking off. My essay is due in two
hours.

NOTE: 👀

People who slack off all the time are called "slackers."

❣idiom # مصطلح عامي

✨out of this world -
لذيذ / شهي
delicious
EXAMPLE 1️⃣


Mrs. Field's oatmeal raisin cookies are out of this

world!

EXAMPLE 2️⃣

Mmmm, I love your chicken soup. It's out of this world!

✳️“All but” =
#الكل ما عدا.
1. everything except for: I’ve eaten ALL BUT two doughnuts. 🍩🍩

"doughnut"🍩كعكة مقلية

2. almost: The match is ALL BUT over; we’re going to win! ⚽️🏆

❣idiom #مصطلح عامي

(to be) in a bad mood -
‎مكتئب/ محبط/ غير سعيد
unhappy; depressed; irritable

EXAMPLE :1️⃣

After her boyfriend
broke up with her, Nicole was in a bad mood for several days.
EXAMPLE :2️⃣

I don't like to see you in a bad mood. How can I cheer you up?

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🔺Pay*on the*nail👌
دفع فوراً (دون تأخير )مالية

🔹To pay (someone) immediately, on the spot, or without delay. Primarily heard in UK

✨She'd turn up to court to pay their fines, cash on the nail

✨I will pay your bill on the nail

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