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📚one in a million

✍🏾Meaning
If you say someone is "one in a million", you mean they're an exceptionally good person.

❗️For example

🔸My grandmother was the kindest and sweetest old lady ever. She was one in a million.

🔸Kenny was a really great guy. One in a million, he was.

✏️Note
In American English, "one in a hundred" and "one in a thousand" are also used, and they have the same meaning.

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🔸Phrasal verbs🔸

🟢 write down 
to write information on a piece of paper 
▫️Do you want to write down my phone number?

🟢 lie down 
to start lying (on a bed, etc) 
▫️I'm going to go and lie down for a while.

🟢 go away 
to leave a place/someone 
▫️Why don't you just go away and leave me alone?

🟢 build up 
to increase 
▫️These exercises are good for building up leg strength.

🟢 blow up 
to explode 
▫️Luckily, the bomb didn’t blow up.

🟢 read out 
to say something out loud which you are reading 
▫️He read the list of names out.

🟢 go off 
to no longer be fresh 
▫️Has this milk gone off?

🟢 put back 
to return something to where it was 
▫️Can you put the book back when you've finished with it?

🟢 let down 
to disappoint 
▫️You've really let me down.

🟢 take off 
to remove (a piece of clothing) 
▫️It felt good to finally take my shoes off after a I on 9 day.

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