#Thesaurus

🌟beat

~ to get more points, votes etc than someone. Beat is used especially in spoken English.

~We should have beaten them easily.
~I always beat my brother at tennis.




🌟defeat

~ to beat someone. Defeat is more formal than beat and is used especially in writing.

~England were defeated by 2 goals to 1.
~Bush defeated Kerry in the election.


🌟trounce /traʊns/

~ to defeat someone completely in a game.

~They were trounced 20–0 by Kuwait.



🌟thrash (BrE)
cream (AmE) (informal)

~to beat someone very easily in a game.

⚡️Of course, they totally creamed the other team.



🌟Wipe the floor with somebody (informal)

~to beat someone completely in a game or argument.

~She wiped the floor with her opponent in the debate.

#Vocabulary


🫧Mutilate
/ˈmjuːtleɪt/ verb [T]


1) to severely and violently damage someone’s body, especially by cutting or removing part of it.

⚡️ The prisoners had been tortured and mutilated.

⚡️ extra protection for mental patients who might mutilate themselves.


2) to damage or change something so much that it is completely spoiled.

⚡️The sculpture was badly mutilated in the late eighteenth century.

#Phrasal_verbs

🔘Trespass on something


▫️to unfairly use more than you should of someone else’s time, help etc for your own advantage.

▫️ It would be trespassing on their hospitality to accept any more from them.

#Phrasal_verbs

🔷Trail away/off

▫️if someone’s voice trails away or trails off, it becomes gradually quieter and then stops.

▫️ She trailed off, silenced by the look Kris gave her.

#idioms

🔘FALL ON DEAF EARS


▪️to be heard but ignored, or to be heard but to have no effect.


1. Ashley went to the bank to beg for a loan because she
had no job, but no one would listen to her. Her pleas
fell on deaf ears.

2. The young husband tried to tell his wife why he was
late getting home, but his excuse fell on deaf ears.

▪️Compare to: turn a deaf ear.
▪️The expression is used to describe spoken words. The listener is not really deaf, but acts that way. This idiom is essentially synonymous with turn a deaf ear, but whereas the request falls on deaf ears, the person who ignores the request turns a deaf ear.

#idioms

🔘LEARN THE ROPES


🔸to become familiar with a task or situation.

1. The bank manager told the new trainee to keep his
eyes open and watch what the other tellers did until
he learned the ropes.

2. I’m willing to work long hours and I’ll work for free.
I’m anxious to learn the ropes of this business.

🔸Synonym: learn the ins and outs


🔸Compare to: know the ropes
~These expressions are similar, but take place at different times. Before one knows the ropes, one learns the ropes.

INSIST v.
📖 to say very firmly that something must be done

📌🎧 I insist that you try some of these cookies. 🍘
📌 We insist on formal dress for the upcoming ceremony.
📌 We were going to go home, but they insisted that we stay for dessert.


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📒 (#family) phrasal verbs ✏️

✱ Take After Someone ✱

✲ Personality Traits : صفات في الشخصية

✲ Take after my (family member): I am similar in personality to ....

✲ Stubborn : ( عنيد )
Someone who doesn’t change their mind easily

✲ Level-headed : ( رزين )
Calm, rational, doesn’t get very emotional

✲ Taking after someone more and more: becoming more and more similar

✲ Get that from my dad: learned that personality trait from my dad

👉🏻 How to use it:

“I’d like to say that I take after my dad, because he’s the down-to-earth one, but I think that sometimes I’m much more like my mom.”
“Even though she’s only a few months old, people are saying she already takes after her father because she loves food!”

- be down-to-earth (adj.) : شخص عملي/واقعي

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