#idioms

⚫️FAT CAT

▪️a rich but usually lazy person


▪️Examples :
1. Now that Mr. Anderson is rich, he rides around town
in a fancy car like a fat cat and has everyone else do
the work.

2. Richard is such a fat cat businessman. He owns
several supermarkets.


🔘The expression is primarily used to describe a man (usually not a woman) who, although rich, is not seen as industrious.
He has perhaps become wealthy through hard work but is now relaxing, or he has never had to work for his wealth.

#idioms


⚫️DARK HORSE


▪️a competitor who is little-known by most people but who is expected to win by someone more knowledgeable.

▪️Examples :
1. The voters know very little about Mr. Johnson, but
he’s a dark horse and I think he’ll win the election.

2. At the racetrack, we placed our money on a horse
most people had never seen before, but was expected
to do well. He was a dark horse in the race.


🔘The expression originates from horse racing jargon. It is often used to mean a surprise candidate in a political election.

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⚫️SWEAT BLOOD

▪️to put out a great deal of effort; to work very, very hard

1. Gary had to work day and night to keep his large
family in food and clothing. He sweat blood for them.


2. There’s no point in sweating blood for some people.
They’ll never be happy no matter how hard you try.


▪️The expression suggests that one works so hard that one sweats blood, a fluid more vital than perspiration.

#common_mistakes

🔘Travel/journey/trip/voyage

😨I’m going away on a business travel.✖️
😇I’m going away on a business trip.✔️

😨We had to do quite a long car travel.✖️
😇We had to do quite a long car journey.✔️

⚜Travel, meaning ‘the act of travelling’ is uncountable. Do not say a travel.
Instead, use a journey, a trip or, less commonly (on a ship)¸ a voyage:
🔅We’re going on a day trip to the seaside.
🔅On long journeys, Emily often gets sick.
🔅It was the ship’s second voyage.

⚜Note that you do not use the verb do with any of these nouns. You make or
go on a journey, you take or go on a trip, and you make a voyage:
🔅He made the long journey to India.
🔅We took a bus trip to Oxford.
🔅The ship made the 4,000-kilometre voyage across the Atlantic.

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🔘Arrival

😨At your arrival, please report to the visitors’ office.✖️
😇On your arrival, please report to the visitors’ office. ✔️

😨At his arrival, he went straight to the hotel.✖️
😇On his arrival, he went straight to the hotel.✔️


⚜If you want to say that something happens immediately after someone
arrives at a place, you can say it happens on/upon their arrival.

⚜Note that this is a slightly formal phrase. Do not say at their arrival.

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🔘Arrive

😨We arrived to London at nine o’clock.✖️
😇We arrived in London at nine o’clock.✔️

😨We finally arrived in the coach station.✖️
😇We finally arrived at the coach station.✔️

⚜You arrive at a place, such as a station, airport, etc. and you arrive in acountry or city. You never arrive to a place or a country or city.


⚜Note also that you do not use a preposition between the word arrive and the words home, here, there, somewhere, or anywhere:

🔅We arrived home just after midnight.
🔅I arrived here yesterday.
We’d only just arrived there.

Basic English vs Advanced English Vocabulary

1. Improve = Enhance
2. Sufficient = Adequate
3. Apply = Implement
4. Hard = Arduous
5. Poor = impoverished
6. Rich = Affluent
7. Eliminate = Eradicate
8. Loud = Deafening
9. Smart = Ingenious
10. Worsen = Aggravate
11. Boring = Tedious
12. Foolish = Imprudent
13. Inspect = Scrutinize
14. Clear = Evident
15. Illustrate = Exemplify

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(حسب فهمك) 👇🏻✨
"I asked god for flowers
And he gave me rain."