📎 burn the midnight oil - to stay up late working on a project or task
👀 сидеть допоздна за работой
🌟Denise has been burning the midnight oil trying to finish this report, so she must be exhausted.
📎 pull (one's) own weight - to contribute to a group activity or project in proportion to one's abilities or role
👩❤️💋👨 вносить свой вклад
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if you don't
pull your own weight
, our presentation will never be finished on time.
📎 make a killing - to earn a lot of money in a short time and with little effort
😝 заработать кучу денег, сорвать куш
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they made a killing
with the sale of their London house.
📎 at the top of the ladder - In the highest or most important position in a group or organization
😙 на вершине карьеры
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with her new promotion,
Jill is now at the top of the ladder
as CEO.
📎 back to the drawing board - back to the beginning of a process to start it again, because it is not working
🫲 вернуться к исходной точке
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we need to
go back to the drawing board
on this project. I think it had some fundamental flaws from the start.