#Phrasal_verbs
#Informal


🔘Shell out (something)


🍃to pay a lot of money for something, especially unwillingly.

🍃If you want the repairs done right, you’ll have to shell out at least $800.

🫧[shell out (something) for].
🍃 She ended up shelling out for two rooms.

#Vocabulary

⚫️ Petulant

➖Definition :
🍃behaving in an angry or sulky way, especially because you cannot do or have what you want.


➖Examples :
🍃He behaved like a petulant child and refused to cooperate.

🍃Her tone of voice became abrupt and petulant.

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#ADVANCED_ENGLISH_CONVERSATIONS

🌟 You mean she was pulling my leg!

👨🏻 Jack: Don’t be such a gullible person. Did you truly believe that Jessie got the tender for the hospital project?
👱🏻‍♂ Tony: You mean she was pulling my leg!
👨🏻 Jack: Without doubt. I don’t deny that she is an ambitious girl and bold enough to go to extremes but this deal is definitely beyond her means.
👱🏻‍♂ Tony: Then, she making fun of me!
👨🏻 Jack: Not exactly. She is trying to get you worked up so that you give up trying.
👱🏻‍♂ Tony: She is such a dirty rat!



◾️ Vocabulary ◾️

◼️ Gullible: (adj) easily persuaded to believe something; credulous.

◼️ Pull someone’s leg: to deceive someone playfully; tease someone.

◼️ Without doubt: Without question; certainly; definitely.

◼️ Go to extremes: to do something much more than is usual or reasonable.

◼️ Beyond one’s means: beyond (or within) one's budget or income.

◼️ Make fun of someone: to mock or direct insults at someone or something.

◼️ Worked up: (adj) upset or very excited about something.

◼️ Give up: to stop trying to do something before you have finished.

◼️ Dirty rat: Any malicious act against you or your friends can qualify the perpetrator to be called a dirty rat.