#Vocabulary
#phrases


🔘Gird

[ Gird (Girded/ Girt) ]

▪️[I,T] if you gird for something, or gird yourself for something, especially something difficult, you prepare for it


➖gird (yourself) for something.

▪️By midsummer both police and protesters were girding for confrontation.



🔘Gird (up) your loins : to get ready to do something difficult – used humorously.

#Vocabulary

⚫️Res‧tive
/ˈrestɪv/ adjective (written)


▪️dissatisfied or bored with your situation, and impatient for it to change.

▪️Communist leaders struggled to rule over increasingly restive populations.


— restively adverb
— restiveness noun [U]

#Expressions

⚫️Giddy heights


➖ a situation in which you have a lot of success



🔘Although she had been quite a successful model, she had never reached the giddy heights of the Paris fashion world.

🪩 Out of the woods

🪄This means the worst part of a difficult situation is over, and the end goal is in sight.

Example:
The surgery went very well, so he’s officially out of the woods. He just needs to recover now.

🪩 Bring home the bacon

🪄To bring home the bacon means to make an income or earn a living to support your family.

Example:
Ever since her father was injured, she’s been working two jobs to bring home the bacon