Reach your full potential

Idiom

To achieve the standard that you are capable of

The teacher’s job is to help you reach your full potential.

Be proud of your progress and keep taking steps forward no matter how small, you'll eventually reach your full potential and you'll look back on the days you thought you'd never make it and you'll smile and be proud that you never gave up on yourself!

Synonym: Realize your full potential

by Zami Karzai September 13, 2018

Smart-phoning

Noun

To use your smart-phone for gaming, browsing, chatting etc....

Smart-phoning in the dark at night is a visual suicide for your eyes.

by Zami Karzai September 06, 2018

Make the final cut

Idiom

to be finally selected

For every music album, song-writer writes many more songs out of which 12 or 15 are selected for the release, the rest that don't make the final cut are released in the Deluxe version of the album later on.

by Zami Karzai September 22, 2018

In the sense that

Idiom

It is used to distinguish between two possible senses of a word or phrase.

I wouldn't describe myself as black in the sense that I do not actually have black-coloured skin - it is brown.

by Zami Karzai September 09, 2018

Ears feel like burning

Idiom

To be irritated too much by someone's talkativeness.

My ears feel like burning whenever I talk to her - she talks until you are blue in the face.

by Zami Karzai August 25, 2018

Overshoot your goal

Idiom

If you overshoot your goal you achieve more than the goal you assigned to yourself.

If you want to overshoot your goal stop getting complacent!

You must overshoot your English goals to achieve them.

by Zami Karzai August 15, 2018

To the point that

It is used to to talk about something that changes slowly, until it finally turns into something else.

Idiom

At first I was nervous, but as time went on I got more and more comfortable, to the point that now I actually enjoy it.

His behavior has gotten worse and worse, to the point that now we're thinking about pulling him out of regular school and sending him to a special school for kids with behavior problems

by Zami Karzai August 15, 2018