“Be at your wits’ end” means “to be worried about something and not know what you should do next”.
Example: Can you help me to solve this problem? I’m at my wits’ end.
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Usage in a TV series (“Prison Break”):
- You’re gonna let me traipse on out of here.
- Depends on the information. Who’s pulling your strings?
- You know, I got a hunch you’re speaking with a forked tongue, pretty.
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Hello everybody! Our idiom of the day is “Put all your eggs in one basket”, which means “to put all your efforts or all your resources into one plan or one course of action”.
This proverb, first recorded in 1710, has largely replaced the much older “trust all one’s goods to one ship”.
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Hi there! 😊 Our idiom of the day is “Time flies”, which means “time passes quickly”.
This idiom was first recorded about 1800 but Shakespeare used a similar phrase, “the swiftest hours, as they flew,” as did Alexander Pope, “swift fly the years.”
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Hello everybody! 😀 Our idiom of the day is “Down the road“, which means “in the future“ (chiefly North American). Another variant of the phrase - “Down the line”. An Australian variant of this phrase is down the track.
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Hey there! 😊 Our idiom of the day is ”Race against time”, which means “to do something very quickly.”
The phrase is speculated to have originated in the old American English but there is no literary proof to support this claim.
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Hello everybody! 😊 Our idiom of the day is “Give someone the creeps“, which means “to make you feel frightened or nervous.“
This idiomatic phrase refers to a feeling that loathsome things are creeping on one’s skin.
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Hello everybody! 😀 Our idiom of the day is ”Beat it”, which means “to go away immediately”.
Origin: Based on the phrase “beat a retreat (leave a battle quickly)”, which itself comes from the use of drums to signal soldiers to leave the battle field.
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Hi there! 😊 Our idiom of the day is ”Nuts and bolts”, which means “the basic, practical details of a job or other activity.”
The phrase alludes to nuts, which are almost always used in conjunction with a mating bolt to fasten multiple parts together. 🔩
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Hello! 😀 Our idiom of the day is ”Burn the midnight oil”, which means “to work late into the night”.
Originally this was by the light of an oil lamp or candle. More recently, the phrase is used figuratively, alluding back its use before electric lighting.
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