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Definition: to know everything about a subject

Example:

"Never have I seen such a Taylor Swift fan! She knows Taylor's life and professional achievements inside out!"

Collocations:

subjects or fields:

To know the rules inside out

To know the law inside out

With work and studies:

To know the material inside out

To know the exam topics inside out

With places and things

To know the city inside out

To know the machine inside out

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(To) Pull your socks up

To make an effort to improve your work or behaviour because is not good enough.

Example:

"He needs to pull his socks up if he is to make a success of his career"

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To have something/nothing/little/a lot to show for something 

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To have something/nothing/little/a lot to show for something 

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If you have something/nothing to show for your work or effort, you have/have not won any advantage from it.

Example:

I've been trying to write this essay all day and I have nothing to show for it.

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If someone or something gets better by/in leaps and bounds, he,she, it imprimes very quickly.

E.g.: Her Spanish has come on in leaps and bounds this year.

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Every night for a period of time.

Example: She stayed in night after night studying for a Phonetics exam.

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If you say that you are going to turn over a new leaf, you mean that you are going to start to behave in a better or more acceptable way.

Example

The student realized he was in the wrong and promised to turn over a new leaf.

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Two weeks/three years/four times running

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Two weeks/three years/four times running

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Definition: consecutive years or weeks, indicating a period of time that has passed without interruption or a change in the sequence.

Example: “I’ve been working on this project for two years running, and it’’s still not finished.”

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To make oneself work hard in order to complete something successfully

Example: If you apply yourself, you might be able to finish the project on time.

Collocations

Apply yourself to

Over the next months, he applied himself to improving the technique.

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To demonstrate indications or behaviors that suggest a certain characteristic, development, or state exists.

Example: A student showing signs of struggling might be disengaged, have poor attendance, or show difficulties with emotional regulation.

To indicate or suggest: The phrase suggests that something is hinted at or has begun to manifest.

To exhibit evidence: It means that there are observable pieces of evidence pointing to a particular outcome or quality.

To become apparent: Something that was previously hidden or unobservable is now beginning to be noticed.

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To be difficult or strange for someone to understand.

E.g.: Some of what the teacher said went over the children's head.

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With flying colours

Definition: If you do something, such as pass an exam with flying colours, you do it very successfully.

Example: If you read the material for the exam, you will probably pass with flying colours.

Collocation: To pass an exam/course.

Scrape through something: To succeed in something but with a lot of difficulty.

Example: He managed to scrape through his funal exams.

Collocation: Scrape through an exam.

Tell somebody off

Definition: To speak angrily to someone because they have done something wrong.

Example: The teacher told me off for swearing.

Collocation: Tell somebody off for something/for doing something.

A matter of routine/course

Definition: If something is done as a matter of course, it is a usual part of the way in which things are done and is not special

Example: Students sing a welcome song as a matter of routine/course.

Cut something out

Definition: Removing curriculum content that is no longer relevant or effective.

Example: She cut out the irrelevant information from the textbook chapter.

Mark somebody down

Definition: To reduce the mark given to somebody in an exam.

Example: She was marked down because of poor grammar.

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(This phrase is usually used in the negative to convey the opposite.

make heads or tails of

To (attempt to) understand something or someone

Ex: I've read all the bibliography and I can't make head or tails of the subject yet.

make heads or tails (out) of (someone or something)

To understand someone or something.

Ex: After spending hours working with the

new piece of software, I still could not make heads or tails out of it.

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• To keep somebody from advancing to the next stage, grade, level.

She was held back in first grade

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Very little, almost nothing.

Example: If you consider all the time I need to prepare for my lessons and homework, I make next to nothing per hour teaching English.

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It is used to say that someone's lack of success is not due to a failure to try to succeed.