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✳️ - outgoing (adj.) - directed to an intended recipient; addressed and ready for posting:
~ outgoing mail
✴️ - incoming (adj.) - newly arrived or received:
~ incoming mail

#Vocabulary

🖌🖍🖋 Punctuating Dialogue
- dialogue tags, actions, and/or thoughts ➡️ go outside of the quotation marks

#Grammar

✒️✏️📝 Punctuation - quotations within quotations - double and single quotation marks

#Grammar

✳️ an ordinary/average/regular Joe
= an ordinary man

#idiomatic_expressions

✂️ - be a cut above sy/sg = to be much better than someone or something else
~ a cut above the rest
~ a cut above average
~ This is a cut above the average Hollywood thriller.

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💰 - avarice (noun) /ˈævərɪs/ - formal 💵💶💷
= insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth

- avaricious (adj.) /ˌævəˈrɪʃəs/

#Vocabulary

👩‍💻 pull/tear your hair out 🙅🙅‍♂️
= to feel very worried or very annoyed about something
~ When they still weren't home by midnight, I was pulling my hair out.

#idiomatic_expressions

▶️ Passive voice 2/1

✳️ Present/Future Modals —> The passive form ➡️ modal + BE + past participle
✴️ Past Modals —> The passive form ➡️ modal + HAVE BEEN + past participle

#Grammar

▶️ Passive voice 2/2

✳️ Present/Future Modals —> The passive form ➡️ modal + BE + past participle
✴️ Past Modals —> The passive form ➡️ modal + HAVE BEEN + past participle

#Grammar

🔘 fat chance = slim chance

#idiomatic_expressions

🔘 fat chance = slim chance

#idiomatic_expressions

🔘 fat chance = slim chance

#idiomatic_expressions

🔘 fat chance = slim chance

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⚪️ - blind someone with 📈📉📊
⚫️ - blind someone with science/technology 📡🌡🔬

#idiomatic_expressions

✳️ vocation (noun) /vəʊˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/
✴️ avocation (noun) /ˌavəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/
~ Mason regarded teaching as his vocation.
~ He's a professional musician, but his avocation is photography.

#Vocabulary

▶️ Verbs Followed by Gerunds OR Infinitives

✳️ can't bear + gerund OR to-infinitive ✅☑️
✴️ can't stand + gerund OR to-infinitive ✅☑️

#Grammar

- the boondocks (noun) [plural] /ˈbuːndɒks/
- the boonies (noun) [plural] /ˈbuːniz/

#Vocabulary

- druthers (noun) [plural ] [ˈdrʌðərz] - informal
- one's druthers
- if one had one's druthers / given one's druthers
['druther' - alteration of 'would rather']

#idiomatic_expressions

🖌🖍🖋 - May - In formal English, the modal verb ‘may’ is often used when expressing your hopes and wishes for others.

- May the odds be ever in your favour. (The Hunger Games)
- May the Force be with you. (Star Wars)
- May all your wishes come true.
- May he rest in peace.
- May they be very happy in the future.

#Grammar

🖌🖍🖋 - May - modal verb - to express a wish or hope - formal

#Grammar