#idioms


🔮GO TO POT/SEED

to fall into disrepair; to deteriorate from lack of
attention.

1. The house has really fallen into disrepair. It’s too bad
they let it go to seed like that.

2. George really neglects his appearance nowadays. He
has let himself go to pot.


Synonym: go to the dogs

📌Go to seed originates in the idea that the fruit on plants ‘goes to seed’ if it is not picked when ripe.

#idioms

🔮HALF-BAKED

poorly planned or thought out


1. John suggested some half-baked idea to get rich
quick. Anyone with any brains could see that it
wouldn’t work.

2. You come in here and present some half-baked plan to reorganize the company and fire half of the employees. That won’t go over too well with the
workers!


📌The expression suggests that when something is only half- baked, it is not completely cooked, i.e., not properly prepared

#common_mistakes

🔮Onto


😱They lifted the patient on the bed.✖️
😇They lifted the patient onto the bed.✔️

😱I helped him on his horse.✖️
😇I helped him onto his horse.✔️



📌After many verbs you can use on or onto with the same meaning. However, after lift and verbs which mean ‘to lift’, you can only use onto.

#common_mistakes

🔮Until

😱Stay with me until help will come. ✖️
😇Stay with me until help comes. ✔️


😱I’ll wait here until you will have had your breakfast.✖️
😇I’ll wait here until you’ve had your breakfast. ✔️


📌Do not use a future form after until. When you are talking about the future, you use the present simple after until. When you are talking about something that will be completed by a particular time, you use the present perfect after until.

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🔮Get to know someone

😱I’d like to know her a bit better.✖️
😇I’d like to get to know her a bit better✔️

😱I’ve enjoyed getting to know Sam over the last few weeks. ✖️
😇I’ve enjoyed knowing Sam over the last few weeks. ✔️


📌To express the idea of starting to know someone after spending time with them, use the phrase get to know someone. It is incorrect simply to use know for this.

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#Vocabulary

🔘corroborate
/kəˈrɒbəreɪt $ kəˈrɑː-/


verb [T] (formal)to provide information that supports or helps to prove someone else’s statement, idea etc

➖ SYN back up


➖We now have new evidence to corroborate the defendant’s story.

➖Experiments elsewhere corroborate these results.


— corroboration (noun)  [U]


— corroborative (adjective)
corroborative evidence