Weigh in on
phrasal verb
If you weigh in on a plan, decision, or discussion, you add your advice or comments to it. Ex:
The President’s political advisers also weighed in on the plan.
Cranston and others were improperly trying to weigh in on the decision.
Karen, you haven’t weighed in yet. What’s your take on this?
Later on the show, Senator Williams will weigh in on the debate.
Pentagon weighs in on short-range ballistic missiles issue.
Illustrious
notably or brilliantly outstanding because of dignity or achievements or actions :
Despite his illustrious career spanning 107 acting credits, Delon won very few acting awards.
— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2024
Albert Einstein was one of the most illustrious scientists of the century.
full of yourself
Thinking that you are very important in a way that annoys other people
Examples
I doubt he even thought about what you might need, he’s so full of himself.
Tom is full of himself, no humility, a privileged boy.
weedy adjective (WEAK)
UK informal disapproving
used to describe a person who is thin and physically weak
Ex.
Weak and weedy.
He was small and weedy.
Maybe it’s time to prune these weedy desires and vices of mine.
From Huffington Post
This makes sense in certain situations, but often comes off as weedy and inappropriate.
From The Verge
Raise one’s eyebrows or raise eyebrows
To elicit shock, surprise, or offense, typically through unconventional actions or words. The phrase typically suggests negative attention or judgment.
He raised eyebrows when he walked down the street in a winter coat during summer.
Her irreverent chatter during the ceremony raised many people’s eyebrows.
Sarah’s pink hair definitely raised a few eyebrows, but if she likes it, then that’s all that matters.
The scandal raised eyebrows all over town.
Puke
noun
vomit.
any food or drink that is repulsive.
anything or anyone that is contemptible or worthless.
a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
These propagandist pukes!
“You cowardly little pukes!”
Smoke screen or smokescreen
something that hides the truth about a person’s action or intention:
The row is turning into a farce – and a convenient smokescreen for the Government at a time of economic meltdown.
The Sun (2009)
The truth was hidden behind a smoke screen of lies.
part with
to give up (property, control, etc.); relinquish:
to part with one’s money
to give something to someone else, especially when you do not want to:
to part with one’s money
Make sure you read the contract before parting with any money.
Scientists think that the experience of parting with real money in real time is fundamentally different from the experience of pledging to part with real money at a later time. WikiHow
My concern is that all these changes are about getting people to part with money. The Guardian
Information from the internet
rise from the ashes
To emerge renewed, revitalized, or reborn as something different following some total destruction or ruin. A reference to the mythical phoenix, a bird that in many stories bursts into flames upon its death, being born again among the ashes.
Over the next few years, a new tower rose from the ashes of the heinous attack, standing as a monument of the country’s strength and pride.
The company quietly faded into obscurity following its bankruptcy in the late ’90s, but now that it has been purchased by the billionaire CEO, it has begun rising from the ashes like the phoenix.
She went through a tough childhood but rose like a phoenix from the ashes to become a successful entrepreneur.
She had expected that in her case love and happiness would have worked a miracle, as though miracles were ever effected by mere human agencies; that she would rise like a phoenix from the ashes of her past, reborn, rejuvenated with an inexhaustible fund of moral strength.
– Not Like Other Girls, a Novel by Rosa Nouchette Carey, 1891
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