Good morning to all ❤️

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
🔹 better to arrive late than not to come at all

📌 Well, better late than never, but where on earth have our colleagues been all this time?
📌 However, better late than never and it is a very good thing indeed that this is being undertaken.
📌 I know the many difficulties there are, but it is better late than never, so do it now.
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English idiom - “go for broke” 🎰

This idiom means to risk everything on one big effort to possibly achieve success.
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🔘Employees / Staff🔘


▪️Both of these words refer to people who work at a company – but staff is always
singular and uncountable – it describes the entire group of workers as one thing.

▪️Employees is plural and countable – it describes the collection of individual workers.
➖The entire staff was happy about the extra day off.
➖ All the employees were happy about the extra day off.

▪️Note that “staff” takes the singular verb was, and “employees” takes the plural verb were .

▪️Whenever you use a specific number, use employees or staff members.
➖Thirty employees received raises.
➖Thirty staff members received raises.
➖ Thirty staff received raises.

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🔘Extend / Expand🔘

▪️Both of these words mean to get bigger, or to make something bigger.

▪️Extend has more the sense of making something longer in one direction, whereas
expand gets bigger in all directions.
➖ You extend a TV antenna.
➖A balloon expands when you blow it up.
➖You extend your arm.
➖A pregnant woman's belly expands.

▪️We also use extend, not expand, when making a period of time longer:
➖extend a visit
➖extend a deadline


▪️We use expand when talking about businesses or areas getting bigger:
➖ The company expanded its operations to five additional countries.

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💭Need I ask/need I say more/need I go on, etc? 

♦️ used to say that it is not necessary to ask or say more about something, because the rest is clear.

♦️She’s lazy, slow, and stubborn. Need I say more?



💭Bottoms up!

♦️a call to drink; to empty one’s glass.

♦️ We had better finish our drinks because the bar is
closing. Bottoms up!


💭...... and whatnot.

♦️used at the end of a list of things when you do not want to give the names of everything

♦️Put your bags, cases, and whatnot in the back of the car.

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⚜See the forest for the trees.

🔅(idiomatic) To discern an overall pattern from a mass of detail; to see the big picture, or the broader, more general situation.

🔅Smith is good at detail, but can't see the forest for the trees.

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⚜Look askance (at somebody/something)


🔅 if you look askance at someone or something, you do not approve of them or think they are good.

🔅A waiter looked askance at Ellis’s jeans.