Tag: give your all
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Make your mark
Phrase: Make your mark If you want to be successful, leave something behind for your children, or be remembered in posterity, you want to make your mark. Making your mark means leaving an impression or impact on something, whether it’s a project, a community, or the world at large. When you strive to make your…
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Hold your head high
Phrase: Hold your head high Hold your head high as long as you make every effort to be your best and improve every day. Hold your head high is a common expression that means maintaining self-confidence and pride, especially in strenuous or challenging situations. Never allow uncontrollable circumstances or other people’s opinions to bring you…
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Up your game
Phrase: Up your game You live in a dog-eat-dog world that forces you to up your game daily. There’s no doubt about it. Just when you are bringing your A-game and finally getting ahead of the game, it all starts to fall apart right in front of your eyes. You are doing your best, giving…
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Take a lot out of you
Phrase: Take a lot out of you Although it may not involve much strenuous physical activity, office work can take a lot out of you. Something can take a lot out of you when it is physically, mentally or emotionally tiring. Hard work, stress and worry take a lot out of you. My father was a…
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Give your all
Phrase: Give your all For many people, January is the time of year when you give your all, turn over a new leaf, work on self-improvement and become the person they’ve always wanted to be. The sad part is that most of them give up in a very short period. The road to failure is paved…
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Keep your nose to the grindstone
English Idiom: Keep your nose to the grindstone Keeping their noses to the grindstone is one of the things that the Japanese do best. When you keep your nose to the grindstone, you concentrate on your work for a long time. Japanese are specialists at persevering with a task until the job is done and…
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With flying colours
English Idiom: With flying colours If a person passes an exam with high marks, they pass with flying colours. The marks don’t have to be the highest in the class, but they do have to be exceptionally good. Now, some people are content with only passing an exam. They are not aiming for high marks.…
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Crash and Burn
English Phrase: Crash and Burn Believe me; you never want to crash and burn. Yes, you may say, it sounds like it hurts. Perhaps it does hurt, but at least not physically anyway. The meaning of crash and burn is to fail in something. But it is also a little more than that. The failure…
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The whole shebang
English Expression: The whole shebang When a student studies with me, I correct all their mistakes, from articles to idioms and the whole shebang, which means everything considered or concerned with a topic. I promise to give my all, correct 100% of my students’ errors, and explain those corrections to them. In order for that…
