English Vocabulary

Collective nouns name a group of people, animals, or things. People: family, team, army, staff, class, band Animals: herd, pack, school, colony, nest, swarm Things: bundle, bunch, set, box, collection, fleet   Use a singular verb when you consider the members of the group as one unit. The team has …

  great minds think alike  spoken (intelligent people think like each other) Let’s break for a cup of coffee. – I was just going to say the same thing; great minds think alike. Both of them had the same idea at the same time; great minds think alike. envocabulary.com

give someone a piece of your mind  informal (speak frankly and angrily to someone because they have done something wrong) He’s late again; I’ll give him a piece of my mind when he gets in tonight. I’m going to give the plumber a piece of my mind if he doesn’t …

get your mind around something (succeed in understanding something difficult) It’s going to take a while for me to get my mind around such a complex issue. It was a novel idea to the seminar members, and it was hard to get your mind around it. envocabulary.com

get someone or something out of your mind (stop thinking about; forget) I really can’t get Ethen out of my mind; I just miss him too much. I just can’t put the burglary out of my mind. envocabulary.com