✏️Keep your eyes peeled — pay attention; be alert; смотреть в оба, держать ухо востро, быть начеку
Фраза подразумевает образное снятие "пелены с глаз" для улучшения восприятия, подчеркивая необходимость оставаться бдительным в различных ситуациях.
Examples:
- I regularly keep my eyes peeled to identify any new opportunities that come my way at the company.
- They drove there in Charlie's car, so Michael kept his eyes peeled for parking places.
📍Популярная версия происхождения этого выражения относит нас ко временам, когда министр внутренних дел Великобритании сэр Роберт Пил (Robert Peel) основал первую профессиональную полицию в Лондоне в 1829 году.
Офицеры полиции быстро получили прозвища bobbies и peelers — Bobby сокращение от имени Robert и peelers от фамилии Peel — из-за того, что они подчинялись непосредственно министру. Прозвище "bobbies" до сих пор живо в отношении полицейских, а вот "peelers" уже нет, но, возможно, оставило свой след в выражении keep your eyes peeled, согласно указаниям основателя их службы
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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.