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🔘 HAVE (SOMEONE) /BE IN STITCHES.

➖to make someone laugh very hard.

▪️We hired a very funny clown to perform at the
company picnic. He had the children in stitches from
beginning to end.

▪️The movie was hilarious. We couldn’t stop laughing.
We were in stitches.

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🔘ON THE UP AND UP

➖honest; ethical; fair

▪️The salesman offered us an unbelievable price on
computer equipment. Do you think his offer is on the
up and up?


▪️Governor Russell is a very honest politician. He
would never do anything that was not on the up and
up.

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🔘TILT AT WINDMILLS

➖to fight against impossible odds in an attempt to
do good

▪️Don’t waste your time and energy trying to change a
situation that cannot be changed. The bureaucracy is
too big to fight. You’ll just be tilting at wind

▪️I’ve always been one to try to help the helpless, even when I know I have little chance of success fighting against the powerful. I guess I’ll always tilt
at windmills.

▪️The expression originates from Miguel de Cervantes’s novel
Don Quixote, in which Quixote comes upon several windmills
and, thinking that they are giants, tries to defeat them in
battle by tilting at them (stabbing while running or riding past) with his lance (long spear).