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🆚 - 'most' vs. 'most of the X' 🆚

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🆚 - 'most people' vs. 'most of the people' 🆚

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🏃‍♀️🏃🚶‍♀️🚶 - be ahead of the pack / lead the pack 🐎🐎🐎

~ This kind of innovation will keep the company ahead of the pack.

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💡💡💡 - ahead of/behind the curve

= more advanced (or less advanced) than other people in what you do or think; ahead of (or lagging behind) current thinking or trends

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▶️ - while + lest

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~ Work hard LEST you SHOULD fail. ✔️
~ Work hard LEST you fail. ✔️

~ Work hard, OR ELSE you will fail. ✔️

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~ She wrote down the address LEST she forget it.
~ She wrote down the address LEST she SHOULD forget it.
~ She wrote down the address SO THAT she MIGHT not forget it.

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~ IF this be the case, we will go there tomorrow.
~ IF that be true, come back immediately.

⚪️ - SHOULD (instead of the Present Subjunctive) makes the indicated action less likely to happen:
~ SHOULD this be the case, we will go there tomorrow.
~ SHOULD that be true, come back immediately.

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✳️ - give someone or something a (good) run for their money

💰🏃‍♀️🏃💃

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😁😎

✳️ - give someone or something a (good) run for their money

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🌕 - be/become second nature (to someone)

= an acquired deeply ingrained habit or skill

~ Swimming is second nature to Jane.

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🆚 - rip-off 🆚 - bargain 🆚

1) a rip-off (noun) 😏😡
2) a bargain (noun) 😊😎

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