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🔶Throw/put somebody off the scent

🔸 to give someone false information to prevent them from catching you or discovering something.


🔸Was he trying to put me off the scent because I had come too close to the truth?

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🔶The be-all and end-all


➖the most important part of a situation or of someone’s life.

🔸Jim, making money was the be-all and end-all of his job.

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🔘The powers that be 


▫️the unknown people who have important positions of authority and power, and whose decisions affect your life.


▪️The powers that be don’t want the media to get hold of the story.

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🔘back/box/force/push somebody into a corner.

🔸To put someone into a situation where they do not have any choices about what to do.


⚡️Don’t let your enemies back you into a corner.

⚡️The writers have painted themselves into a corner by killing off all the most popular characters in the first series.

⚡️ He found himself in a tight corner (=a very difficult situation) looking for a way to get out.

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🔘That’s not saying much

▪️used to say that it is not surprising that someone or something is better than another person or thing because the other person or thing is so bad.


🔸This version is better than the original, but that’s not saying much.


🔘No more Mr Nice Guy! 

▪️used to say that you will stop trying to behave honestly and fairly.

🔸OK, no more Mr. Nice Guy. The next person to speak out of turn gets detention.



🔘Work it/things .

▪️ to make arrangements for something to happen, especially by behaving in a clever or skilful way.

🔸We should try and work it so that we can all go together.

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🔘Godsend

~noun [singular]

🔸something good that happens to you when you really need it.

🔶Godsend for/to

⚡️ The hot weather has been a godsend for ice-cream sellers.