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Put your money where your mouth is.
Meaning: To show by your actions and not just your words that you support or believe in something.
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volume_up1: "Put your money where your mouth is,” said the employee. “We've complained about low wages for years and you promised us a raise."
2: Ned and Grace are sitting at their kitchen table one morning. Ned is complaining about their neighbor who is always making noise in his backyard very early in the mornings. Ned complains and complains about the neighbor's noise until Grace says ...
"Ned, put your money where your mouth is and go and talk to the neighbor!"
If Ned is serious about what he says, he will go over and have a chat with his neighbor about the noise.
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KABOON NUMBER 2
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Have a finger in the pie.
This means to be involved in something, often when your involvement is not wanted.
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volume_up1: When new projects were under consideration he was in a position to have a finger in the pie, and he was able to borrow freely from a local bank in which he was a director.
2: “I’m sure they’re aware of the amount of money that’s being spent in politics and I’m sure they’d like to get their fingers in the pie.”
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You have learned two expressions: "Put your money where your mouth is" and "Have a finger in the pie."
Write down a sentence with an example for each of these expressions.
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KABOON NUMBER 3
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Get out of bed on the wrong side.
To be in a bad mood and to be easily annoyed all day.
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volume_up1: Be careful when you talk to the boss. He get out of bed on the wrong side this morning.
2: He shouted at me for nothing. Must have got out of the wrong side of the bed.
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KABOON NUMBER 4
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When the cat is away the mice will play.
This means that people do what they want, or misbehave when their boss or another person in authority is away.
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volume_up1: When the cat's away, the mice will play; I'm not surprised that the children were making so much noise while the teacher was out of the room.
2: While the bosses are out of the room, the workers watch the game – a case of, while the cat's away the mice will play.
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You have learned two expressions: "Get out of bed on the wrong side." and "When the cat is away the mouse will play."
Write down a sentence with an example for each of these expressions.
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