The Word today is GIN! (AGAIN?!?!?!?)

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Yes, we have one more post for today…. we’re on fire!

And the second word is: GIN

Do you know what gin means? Probably you already heard someone ordering it in a bar. It’s is an alcoholic drink made of cereals and juniperus berries and it’s used on many cocktails such as martinis. But this word also means a cotton-separating machine.

 What else? In what more cases can we use this word? Let’s find out:

 

Phrasal Verb:

To gin up: to excite/to boost or to drink (particularly gin)

Idioms:

gin and tonic: a beverage made of gin and tonic water

gin rummy: a card game to be played by 2 or more people, in pairs or against each other.

Collocations:

Double gin: a double measure of gin

Large gin: a big glass of gin

To Sip gin: to drink gin in small quantities

Stiff gin: a very strong gin

  

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The word today is PLATE!

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Continuing with the posts about phrasal verbs, idioms and collocations with  determined words, today we are going to see some other ways to use the word plate.

As everybody knows, plate is where we put our food to eat. It can be made of glass, porcelain or plastic and we can find it at home, in restaurants, hotels.

Let’s check in which different situations we can find "plate":

Phrasal Verb:

To plate up: to arrange the food on a plate

Idioms:

Give something to somebody on a plate: to make things easy to someone

Somebody’s head on a plate: when you are very angry to someone and want him/her to be punished

Have too much on one’s plate: means the person is too busy

Collocations:

Clear plate: empty

License plate: car tag

Soup plate: a special plate to have soup

To clear away the plate: to eat all the food

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The word today is MAKE!

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Continuing the last post, today’s word is MAKE! Make is a word that is very used in English. Only the word make has several meanings: fazer, construir, elaborar, and many other meanings. Here we want to show how “make” works used with other words in idioms, collocations or phrasal verbs.

Idioms:

Make do – quebra galho.

E.g.: We don’t have a stapler here, can you make do with some scotch tape?

Make fun of – tirar sarro de.

E.g.: Americans used to make fun of canadian accent. 

Make ends meet – ser capaz de pagar as contas com o que se ganha. 

E.g: I wonder how John manages to make ends meet on such a low salary!

http://www.englishexperts.com.br/2007/06/18/expressoes-utilizadas-pelos-americanos/

Make mistakes – cometer erros. E.g.: Everybody makes mistakes sometimes.

Make a scene – fazer uma cena, armar barraco. E.g.: When she saw her husband cheating on her, she made a big scene at the bar.

Make progress – progredir. E.g: He is making a big progress in English.

http://xokmax.com/blog/2008/03/07/expressoes-idiomaticas-com-make-e-do/

Collocations:

make a baby – fazer um bebê; ter relação sexual. 

E.g.: They have been trying to make a baby for years.

Make a bath – preparar um banho na temperatura certa. 

E.g.: When I get home I Will make a very relaxing bath.

Make a breakthrough – fazer uma importante descoberta. 

E.g.: Pedro Alvares Cabral made a breaktrhough when she found Brazil.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Collocations_of_do,_have,_make,_and_take

Phrasal Verbs:

Make (something) out to be - clamar; assertar.

E.g.:

• He makes himself out to be an important artist but his paintings are utter garbage.
• I think the critics make that movie out to be more profound than it really is.

Make ( somebody) out – entender o caráter de uma pessoa.

E.g.: Since she is normally quiet and reserved it is hard to make her out.

Make up for – compensa por alguma coisa; repor alguma coisa perdida.

E.g.:

• What she lacked in experience, she made up for in the way she learns quickly.
• She spend two weeks with her family to make up for her year long absence.

http://www.vocabulary.cl/Advanced/Phrasal_Verbs/MAKE.htm

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The word today is HORSE!

Hello guys, today we’re beginning a range of posts where you can find some phrasal verbs, collocations and idioms using a determined word.

It works like this: we choose a word and show you some of the phrasal verbs, collocations and idioms that you can use with it.

By giving these examples, we believe you’ll recognize them more easily and will be able to use them correctly.

As the title already said, the word we’re working today is Horse.

Of course everybody knows what horse means, right? It is a big animal, which was very useful to men in the past, by taking them through paths and joining them in the war. Nowadays we can find the majority of them in the countryside, where they’re used to help on the fields with the agriculture and cattle farming. And they’re used in sports too, such as polo and derby. 

But all this explanation above won’t help you to find out the meaning of the expressions you’re about to see.

Here we go:


Phrasal Verbs:
To horse around: to act in a silly and careless way

Idioms:

Hold your horses: restrain/control yourself
A horse of another color: a totally different subject
Beat a dead horse: to pursue a cause that hasn’t hope to succeed.


Collocations
To breed a horse: to raise a horse
To shoe a horse: to put on the horseshoes in the animal
To get the horse ready: to prepare it to ride
Horsebox: where people transport the horses
Horseflesh:  horses as a collectivity (in groups)

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