kelly’s english

😚 train wreck - something that fails completely or goes extremely badly
🌟полный провал

📎 the movie was a train wreck.

🤍Madison Beer - bittersweet🤍
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play it by ear - to decide how to deal with a situation as it develops, rather than acting according to plans made earlier
💫 принимать решение по ходу дела, действовать по обстоятельствам

🌟we can't make a decision yet. let's just play it by ear.

insinuate - to suggest, without being direct, that something unpleasant is true
📎 намекать

🌟are you insinuating (that) I'm losing my nerve?

🌟✨ Adjectives to Describe Joe Goldberg

📎 possessive - собственнический, ревнивый

🌟Joe Goldberg's possessive behavior is a major red flag.

📎 pensive - задумчивый

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You can see Joe becoming

pensive

right before he does something terrible.

📎 fickle - непостоянный

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Joe is too

fickle

to ever be happy, no matter who he's with.

📎 calculating - расчетливый

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Joe is too

calculating

to leave any detail to chance.

take something or someone for granted
🤍If you take situations or people for granted, you do not realize or show that you are grateful for how much you get from them
📎 принимать как должное

🌟one of the problems with relationships is that after a while you just take each other for granted.

make amends - to do something good to show that you are sorry about something you have done
✨ загладить вину

📎 I wanted to make amends for the worry I've caused you.

second wind - a return of strength or energy that makes it possible to continue in an activity that needs a lot of effort
📎 второе дыхание

😎✨we started to feel we couldn't walk any further but when we saw the town in the distance we got our second wind.

in the heat of the moment
🤎If you say or do something in the heat of the moment, you say or do it without thinking because you are very angry or excited
📎 сгоряча

❤️he didn't mean it - he said it in the heat of the moment.

🍎✨the apple of someone's eye - the person who someone loves most and is very proud of
😙 тот, кого любят больше всех, кто вызывает огромную нежность и гордость

📎 his youngest daughter was the apple of his eye.

in and of itself - by itself, without considering any other factors
📎 само по себе

🌟yes, in and of itself, your statement isn't a problem. but you have to understand how it sounded in the context of the conversation.

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that event

in and of itself

was not a big deal, but it did get me to think about what is really important in life.

plethora - a very large amount of something, especially a larger amount than you need, want, or can deal with
👨‍🦱 изобилие, избыток

🌟there's a plethora of books about the royal family.

rest assured
📎 If you tell someone that they can rest assured about something, you mean that they can feel confident that it is true or that it will happen
❤️‍🔥 будьте спокойны, не сомневайтесь

🌟rest assured, things are not as bad as they seem.

bad omen - something considered to be a sign that something bad will happen in the future
🌟дурное предзнаменование

😸 a black bird such as a crow is often seen as a bad omen.

(every) now and then/again
🤍 if something happens now and then, it happens sometimes but not very often.
📎 время от времени

🌟I love chocolate, but I only eat it now and then.

🤎✨ be another/a different kettle of fish - to be completely different from something or someone else that has been talked about
совсем другое дело

🌟having knowledge is one thing but being able to communicate it to others is another kettle of fish.