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Once In A Blue Moon
Meaning : Rarely
Sentence : Once in a blue moon I go to the cinema, only when there's a film I really, really want to see.
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Rain On Someone's Parade
Meaning : To spoil something
Sentence : I hate to rain on your parade, but I think your A in chemistry was actually a clerical error.
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The Devil Is In The Details
Meaning : It looks good from a distance, but when you look closer, there are problems.
Sentence : The newly appointed art teacher assigned a new task to each pupil. Although they got excited as the project seemed easy to them, they didn’t realize that the devil is in the details.
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The Early Bird Gets The Worm
Meaning : The first people who arrive will get the best stuff
Sentence : The admissions in this college get filled in very early. If you really want to enroll your son here then you should remember that the early bird catches the worm.
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The Elephant In The Room
Meaning : The big issue, the problem people are avoiding
Sentence : When he arrived at the meeting yesterday, he had a huge black eye. He gave us no explanation, and nobody dared ask him about it. So we sat there for the whole morning with this elephant in the room.
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