To Be Top Notch: To Be Of Very High Quality

To be top notch: If something is described as "top notch", then it is excellent because it is of very high quality and standard.

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• Borden: Magic!
• Angier: I'll perform this feat in a manner never before seen by yourselves or by any other audience anywhere in the world.
• Borden: His trick is top notch.
• Olivia: (We) need to celebrate.  

   Vocabulary 

•  A feat is something very impressive that requires a lot of skill and it is extremely difficult to do.
• Audience is a group of people who attend or watch something.

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Have A Crush On Somebody: To Feel Attracted To

Have a crush on somebody: You have a crush on someone when you like that person, feel attracted to them and think about them in a romantic way.
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           How do you tell if you have a crush on somebody?

Ways to use have a crush on somebody:

• I'm almost 100% sure that she has a crush on you.
  
• It's obvious that  you have a huge crush on that girl.
• You can really tell if someone has a crush on you or is just being good friend.
• A: She's got a crush on you[she has got]. B: You telling me.

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   Vocabulary

• How do you tell also means how do you know.
• 100% in words[in full] you call it "one hundred per cent".
• She has got a crush has the same meaning of she has a crush.
• You telling me is the same as I know that.
• You can really tell means the same as you don't really know.

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It's A Dog's Life: To Be A Hard Life

It's a dog's life: You describe your life as a dog's life, when you are saying that you work very hard in order to survive or your life is very miserable because you have very few pleasures.

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Vocabulary 

• A newshound  is a journalist who collects a lot of information.
• To sniff out stories is the same as finding out stories.
• To strut into means to walk in a very confident way.
• "bark out orders" means to give orders.
• As far as I'm concerned means as far as I know.

     

   Phrases

• It's a dog's life having to work under those conditions.
  
• As far as I know, he leads a dog's life.
• Shes is leading a dog's life since she married her husband.
  
• As far as I'm concerned, she's been leading a dog's life.

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Go Through The Roof: To Increase Quickly

Go through the roof: If the price or cost of something goes through the roof, it quickly increases to a very high level. It's also possible to use this expression with a number of different words meaning the same. Example sentences are shown below.

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  Phrases

• The cost of builder has rapidly become very expensive
• If the price of food goes through the roof again...
• If by chance, the insurance costs go through the roof...
• I'm almost certain that the gas price will go through the roof very soon.  
• The price of oil is going though the roof once again. 
• The price of rubber has gone through the roof as usual.
• The youth unemployment has gone through the roof in some cities [it has increased very quickly]
• As always, the rents in São Paulo have gone through the roof [not exactly the prices but the rents themselves]

  

   
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Be No Match For Somebody: Not To Be Able To Defeat

Be no match for: If you or something is no match for another person or thing, then you are not able to defeat that person or thing, or make them stop doing something.You usually use this expression when talking about competition.
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    Phrases

• Shane Mosley is no match for Canelo
• Alvares Helmets are no match for tornadoes
• Jeremy Lin was no match for Derick Rose
• Conventional weapons were no match for them
• Jhon Carter will be no match for Lorax    

 

•  In news headlines you are likely to see “no match for” instead of “be no match for”: 

• Warriors India no match for Royal Challengers

•  No Match for McCain

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