ADVANCED ENGLISH: Idioms, Phrasal Verbs, Vocabulary and Phrases: 700 Expressions of Academic Language by Robert Allans & Metin Emir

ADVANCED ENGLISH: Idioms, Phrasal Verbs, Vocabulary and Phrases: 700 Expressions of Academic Language by Robert Allans & Metin Emir

Author:Robert Allans & Metin Emir [Allans, Robert & Emir, Metin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-09T05:00:00+00:00


Jubilant

Meaning: feeling or expressing great happiness and triumph.

Examples: The fans were jubilant at/about/over their team's victory.

Thousands of students and teachers will be jubilant at the additional funding.

There were milling, dense crowds of jubilant patriots at that event in the war.

Beat a dead horse

Meaning: waste energy on a lost cause or unalterable situation.

Examples: He keeps trying to get it published but I think he's beating a dead horse.

We've all moved on from that problem, so there's no use beating a dead horse.

The PM is trying to beat a dead horse by invoking the martyrs (in his election speeches).



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