• arrogate
    DEFINITION: (verb) Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession. SYNONYMS: take over, usurp, seize, assume. USAGE: The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely entrusted. Discuss […]
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be home and dry
to have completed something successfully.
I’ve just got one more report to write and I’ll be home and dry.

dry run

an occasion when you practise doing something to make sure there will be no problems when you really do it.

We decided to do a dry run at the church the day before the wedding. We’d better have a couple of dummy runs before we do the real thing.

but:

run dry

to be all used completely

We have been told the Social Security trust fund will run dry in a few more years because so many people will be retiring

writing self-improvement

Parents are very important people in life children(1). They must good bring up their kids.(2) I think that good parents should be understanding and tolerant. Parents should be married because child(3) needs both parents: mother and father.(4) It’s not important if parents are rich or poor. The most important that couple looked after and love children.(5) The most difficult part(6) for parents is responsibility for child.(7) The most fun part (8) of begin (9) a parent are games with baby (10). If now I have a baby I will be very busy and tired (11). I haven’t many(12) spare time. I spend a lot of time in school(13), at home I must study. When I will be 25 years(14) I will better mother than now(15). When human being(16) is older is experienced and mature(17). Well potentially(18) older people are better parents. They are education(19), work and better conditions life(20). My character should be the same now and when I will be 25 or 35 years(21). I am shy, reliable, stubborn and tolerant, sometimes lazy(22). I’m usually energetic but sometimes I wany doing nothing(23). I like going out in the evnings(24).

1. Art. / genitive: [of]

2 Adverb, syntax: [their kids well]

3 Art.

4 Art.

5 Syntax, tense, art: [important thing is] [couple should]

6 Voc.

7 Art. [the] [their]

8 Comparison

9 Voc.

10 Art.

11 Conditional 2, syntax: [I had a baby now, I would]

12 Syntax, countability: [got]

13 Preposition

14 Conditional 1, syntax: [I am] [old]

15 Future, art: [be]

16 Art

17 Syntax: [they]

18 Syntax, style: * użyj przecinków żeby wyjaśnić znaczenie zdania

19 Voc: [have]

20 Genitive

21 Conditional 1, voc.

22 Style: *ułóż przymiotniki wg. jakichś kryteriów, rozdziel je wyrażeniami [and] i [but also]

23 Voc, syntax: [to do].

24 Spelling

Castles on the sand

castles in the air/on the sand

plans or hopes that have very little chance of happening.

She tells me she’s planned out her whole career, but as far as I can see it’s all just castles in the air.
Before you start building castles in the air, just think how much all this is likely to cost.

And you may want not to choose one to describe You & Your partner:

  • casual relationship/sex
  • one-night stand
  • cut friends
  • fling
  • fuck buddies
  • romantic relationship
  • committed relationship
  • full-fledged relationship
  • long-term relationship

oh… and don’t ask me for translations of those you’ve to try ‘em…