#Vocabulary

💥Obdurate 
   
⚜Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action. 
   
⚡️ Despite the evidence presented, he remained obdurate in his beliefs.

#idioms

💥Not to be sniffed at

🔅good enough to be accepted or considered seriously

⚡️Her achievement is not to be sniffed at.

#phrasal verbs

⚜Fizzle out
▫️Idiomatic ▫️

◇ to gradually come to an end or to fail after a
promising start. It often implies that something started with enthusiasm or excitement but lost momentum over time, leading to a
disappointing or anticlimactic conclusion.


☆"The party started off lively, but it began to fizzle out by midnight as people left."
☆ "The team's hopes for the championship season fizzled out after a few early losses."

#How_to_say " my way or the highway" ي انا يا انت

#Expressions

#How_to_say
#Expressions

#Grammar

English Grammar Lesson:
Since vs For vs From vs Until

🔹 SINCE – :Used with a point in time (when something started)
– I’ve lived here since 2010.
– She’s been waiting since morning.
– It hasn’t rained since last week.

?? FOR – :Used with a duratio

n (how long something lasts)
– I worked there for 5 years.
– He stayed for two hours.
– We’ve known each other *for* >a long time.

🔹 FROM –: ng>Indicates a starting point in time or place
– The class runs from 9 AM to 11 AM.
– I’m traveling from Delhi to Mumbai.
– This offer is va

lid from July 1st.

🔹 UNTIL – :Used

to indicate the end of a time period
– Wait here until I return.
– She studied until midnight.
– The store is

open until 10 PM.
Example Sentences:

🔹 SINCE
- He has been ill sincetrong> Monday.
- I haven’t seen her sincong>e college.

🔹 FOR
- She lived in Paris for a year.
- We talked for hours.

🔹 FROM
- I’ll be out from 5 PM.
- Open from Monday to Friday.

🔹 UNTIL
- Don’t leave until the bell rings.
- He worked there until 2020.

#Phrasal_verbs

💡Welsh on sb/sth (informal, disapproving)

☆to not do sth that you have promised to do, for example to not pay money that you owe a
person:

☆l'm not in the habit of welshing on deals,’ said Don.

#idioms


💥Tear sb off a strip / Tear a strip off sb (BrE)

☆ to speak angrily to sb you think has done sth wrong:

☆The boss tore him off a strip .

#Phrasal_verbs

💡wall sth in
●to put a wall or a barrier around
sth:
● Apartment blocks walled in the playground completely.


💡wall sth off
● to build a wall or a barrier around an area to separate it from another area:
●Part of the yard had been walled off .



💡wall sb up
● to keep sb as a prisoner in a place surrounded by walls:
●a story of a woman who
was walled up in a small room and left to die.


💡wall sth up
●to block a space with bricks or a wall so that it can no longer be used:
●The entrance had been walled up in the 17th century.

☆Often used in the passive.

#Vocabulary
Dicey

#phrases with HOPE

⚜THESAURUS⚜

cure 2 noun

▪️remedy : a way to treat a health problem, especially a small problem such as a cold, using plants or other natural methods:

▫️Rinsing with salt water
is a good home remedy for a sore throat.
▫️ The store sells herbal remedies.


▪️antidote : a
medicine that will stop the effects of a poison or dangerous drug.

▫️There is no known
antidote to a bite from this snake.
▫️ There is an antidote to rabies, but it can be
extremely painful.

🔅 You also use antidote about something that makes you feel less
unhappy or worried
▫️ Laughter is a good antidote to stress.
▫️ A cruise across the
Mediterranean had seemed the perfect antidote to a long hard winter in England.


#Fwytm
#Collocations
#Thesuarus

⚜THESAURUS⚜
Cure1 verb

▪️heal : to cure someone – used especially when someone cures people using special
religious powers, rather than using medicine. Also used when saying that a cream or
treatment makes a wound better.
▫️He claimed that he could heal the sick.
▫️This cream is good for healing minor cuts and bruises.


▪️make sb (feel) better: to make someone who is ill well again, especially when they have an illness that is not very serious:
▫️The pills did make me feel better.


▪️relieve/ease also alleviate (formal) : to reduce someone’s
pain or unpleasant feelings.
▫️Aspirin will help to relieve the symptoms of flu (=reduce
the effect of the things that you usually get when you have an illness, for example by
making a high temperature lower).
▪️ I can give you something to alleviate the pain.


#Fwytm
#Collocations
#Thesuarus

💢 You can’t win

💢 You can’t win ’em all

♨️ You can’t win
(also: you just can’t win)

no matter how much you try, there is no wayi> to succeed

🌀 Ex:- Even though we try to educate everyone we come in contact with, sometimes you
just can’t win.



♨️ You can’t win ’em

all
note:- ’em = them

is used to say tha

t it is not possible to succeed at everything one does

🌀 Ex:- You can’t win ’em all. If someone doesn’t respond to you or indicates lack of interest, just move on.

💠 Note: 💠

The expression does not correlate in meaning with the phrase

🌐 You can’t fight city hall

used to say that one is unable to overcome officialdom or bureaucracy

🔰 Ex:- When it comes to judicial review of local government abuses, the fox is too often left guarding the henhouse. That all adds up to the depressing adage “you can’t fight city hall.”