🗣« D’abord, #Zelensky a quasiment rejeté l’initiative de Russie d'un cessez-le-feu pour le Jour de la Victoire mais ensuite il a recouru à une ruse tactique, déclarant une « trêve » pour la nuit du 5 au 6 mai »
– Léonid Sloutsky, président de la commission des affaires internationales de la Douma, s’exprime sur le cessez-le-feu pour le Jour de la Victoire.
« D’abord, Zelensky a quasiment rejeté l’initiative de Russie sur le cessez-le-feu pour le Jour de la Victoire mais ensuite il s’est décidé à une ruse tactique, déclarant une « trêve » dans la nuit du 5 au 6 mai. La raison est banale : un ego meurtri. Comme si Moscou et Washington avaient discuté de cette idée mais que personne ne s’était adressé officiellement à Kiev à ce sujet.
[…] En réalité, les néonazis ukrainiens n’ont besoin ni d’un cessez-le-feu ni de la paix. Zelensky veut jouer selon ses propres règles, en comptant sur des provocations, et fait le singe devant ses sponsors européens. »
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💥Let the 'side down (BrE)
○to disappoint your
family, friends, team, etc. by not being as
successful as they expect, or not helping or
supporting them.
☆ John would never let the side down.
☆ I knew I was letting the side down (=
disappointing my family, etc.) by not going to
college.
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💥Water off a duck's back
○criticism or unpleasant things have no effect on someone; they don't take it personally.
▪️ No matter how much they criticize her, it's like water off a duck's back — she just keeps going.
▪️ He laughed off all the negative comments, letting them be water off a duck's back.
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💥A BOOTLICKER
🔅Someone who flatters or obeys others in power to gain favour.
▪️Jeff is such a bootlicker, always agreeing with the boss no matter what.
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☆Crunch time
•The period of time just before a project has to be completed and everyone has to work hard .
●I’m not getting much sleep these days,
because it’s crunch time at work.
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☆Run on fumes
•To continue to stay awake when feeling exhausted .
●I really have to take a nap now. I haven’t slept for twenty hours and I’m
running on fumes.
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⚜Turn the clock back
●to return to a situation that existed in the past; to return to
old-fashioned methods or ideas.
●This new law is
an attempt to turn the clock back.
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💥 leave sb to their own devices
▪️to leave sb alone to do as they wish.
🔅Once I’ve explained things to him I tend to leave him to his own devices.
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💢To pull out all the stops
♠️To make every possible effort to get something done
Ex:- The company pulled out all the stops to advertise their new product.
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💥in a bind | fix | jam
⚜If someone is in a bind, or in a jam, or in a fix, they're in a bad or difficult situation.
⚡️Jimmy's in a bind because he owes a lot of money to some mafia guys, and he hasn't got it.