🔘 be in the right 🔘

🌀 be in the wrong 🌀

💥 catch/take someone unaware(s) 💥👽👻

~ We were caught unawares by the fierce storm. ⚡️🌪💦

✴️ - regret + gerund or to-infinitive

▶️ - I regret doing something => I did it and now I'm sorry about it.

▶️ - I regret to say / to tell you / to inform you => I'm sorry that I have to say (etc.)

🌕 the coast is clear ☀️🌈😎

🖌 Not Good or No Good?

~ This car is not good, but it gets me to work.
~ That car is no good; it doesn’t run at all.

~ TV no good for babies, study shows. Not bad, either.

✴️ - frisson (noun) /ˈfriːsɒn/

= a sudden strong feeling of excitement, fear, or pleasure

#Vocabulary

◼️ broken English
🔘 the Queen's English
⚪️ plain English

📖📚📓

⏹ - retentive (adj.) /rɪˈtentɪv/

➡️ = Able to retain or remember many things.

▶️ ~ I don’t have a retentive memory; I quickly forget most of what I hear and see.

#Vocabulary

TROOP = group of soldiers, police, etc.

TROUPE = group of actors, singers, etc. 💃

I left the police 👮👮👮 TROOP to join a singing TROUPE. 🎤

#Vocabulary

🐾 - find your feet 🐾🐾 🐈🐕🐎

= to become familiar with a new place or situation:

~ It took a while, but I've finally found my feet in my job
~ New students need a little time to find their feet.

💧- clear the air 💦 💦🌦⛈🌤

💡💡💡- according to one's (own) lights 💡💡💡

#idiomatic_expressions

- I wish he WERE here. ✔️

#Grammar

🖌🖍🖋📖 🔍
- I wish she WERE here. (correct)
- I wish she WAS here. (informal)

#Grammar

▶️ salubrious (adj.) /səˈluːbriəs/
= favorable to or promoting health or well-being
A salubrious place is pleasant, clean, and healthy to live in:
~ He doesn't live in a very salubrious part of town.

🖌🖌🖌 - have/take/claim/seize the moral high ground

#idiomatic_expressions

🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎
- I saw a galloping horse down the hill. ❌
- I saw a horse galloping down the street. ✔️
- I saw a galloping horse speeding down the hill. ✔️

#Grammar