Daily English Idiom/Slang/Common Mistake of the Day – 05 December 2017

By | December 5, 2017

Idiom of the Day
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➡ Beat the rap
✔️ Meaning:
▪️If someone beats the rap, they avoid being found guilty of a crime.

✔️ For example:
▪️Everyone knows that Jimmy the Snitch did the robbery in Green St., but he beat the rap because he’s in with the cops.
▪️Henry was charged with drunk driving, but his lawyer helped him beat the rap on some technical detail.

✔️ Variety: This idiom is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.

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Slang of the Day
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➡ Twink
✔️ Meaning:
▪️ A young man with boyish good looks

✔️ For example:
▪️There were a lot of cute twinks at the gay club last night.
▪️Did you know that straight men call cute young girls “babes”, and gay men call cute young guys “twinks”?

✔️ Note: This word is common among gay men, though it may not be known at all by other people. If it’s used outside gay circles, it probably won’t be understood.

✔️ Origin: Possibly derived from a U.S. snack cake called a “Hostess Twinkie” which is “golden-colored, sweet and full of cream”, a description which some claim also describes the typical gay image of a “twink”.

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Daily One #Common_mistakes with #Confused_words
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➡ Take or have a shower, not make a shower.
❌ Don’t say: I make a shower every morning.
✔️ Say: I take a shower every morning.
Or:
✔️ I have a shower every morning.

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