🇬🇧😃 LET'S ALL CHEER UP - LANGAUGE 😃🇬🇧
Hello my dear friends! How have you all been? 🤗 When I asked loads of students this week how they felt, the general mood was rather down. And this inspired me to write a post on useful collocations and idioms in order TO KEEP YOUR SPIRITS UP 🤩
👨🎓✅ THINGS HAVE BEEN GETTING ON TOP OF ME LATELY (1) because I'm overloaded and have near to no sleep. I kind of feel like I'M BUCKLING UNDER THE PRESSURE (2) but am just ABLE TO STAY AFLOAT (3) thanks to the loving support of friends and family. I do try to KEEP MY CHIN UP (4) among all this calamity , and well, I guess we've all got to KEEP PUSHING ON (5)
👩🎓✅I never LET THINGS GET THE BETTER OF ME (1) because the moment I start FUSSING OVER (2) stuff, well, that LEADS DOWN A SLIPPERY SLOPE (3) I do have some COPING STRATEGIES (4) like PUTTING A SMILE ON (5), or CONDITIONING MYSELF (6) to see the positive sides of life. It's tough but the results are well worth it.
💃✅ Rather than WALLOW IN SELF-PITY (1) because I've got some massive CHIP ON MY SHOULDER (2), I prefer to have a positive outlook on life. I PRACTICE GRATITUDE (3) and show my happiness for the success of others. This is how I CULTIVATE A POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE (4). You'll find this attitude IS RECIPROCATED IN KIND (5) so always be the first to display your compassion.
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(1) Very common spoken phrase meaning: I've been subjected to a lot of stress
(2) This is like when you put too many books on a shelf and it starts to bend (buckle) under the weight (pressure) and then it snaps; you fall apart.
(3) Meaning not to sink, survive. We can also use this with businesses that are able to survive but barely.
(4) To stay cheerful during difficult times.
(5) Continue doing something which is difficult. You might hear: To push on till the very end (like sports, writing a thesis etc)
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(1) If you get the better of someone/something, you have an advantage over it or defeat it by being superior. This is a very common phrase used when giving advice to friends about not giving into stress: Don't let all this get the better of you!
(2) To pay a lot of attention to smth in a nervous way such as details, problems etc, If you fuss over someone, you annoyingly give someone too much attention because you love them.
(3) Heading towards a bad place/danger.
(4) Nice collocation: Ways to make you feel better
(5) Nice informal phrase: you start smiling. You can put a smile on someone's face because you make them happy: My jokes tend to put a smile on students' faces... as well as shock horror.
(6) To train yourself to think in a particular way.
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(1) To constantly feel sorry for yourself
(2) A huge feeling of resentment and bitterness because of feeling interior.
(3) Nice collocation: to make yourself express gratitude.
(4) Nice collocation, a bit more formal than saying: to create a PMA
(5) Something you give (attitude/behaviour) is returned to you. 'In kind" just adds more to this phrase meaning: in the same way.
😎😎😎 There, so much juicy sexy language in this small post! I feel sorry for my speaking club students as they get SIX A4 pages of such material every two weeks 😁😁😁🙈🙈🙈 Anyway, I hope you feel a little cheered up ❤