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Throwback to this year’s Teacher’s Day 👩🏻‍🏫

ITEnglish summer party 🌊🛶🌿
A lot of us kayaking for the first time 💪🏻

🔴 to catch red-handed - to catch a person in the act of doing something wrong.
🔴 to be in the red - spending and owing more money than is being earned.
🔴 to roll out the red carpet - to welcome someone as a very important person or guest.
🔴 to see red - to become very angry suddenly.
🔴 not to be worth a red cent - to have no value

Wear Red Day is dedicated to raising awareness about heart health.

TATTARRATTAT
a knocking at the door
The longest palindromic word (reads the same backwards as forwards) coined by James Joyce in Ulysses.

A LEMON CAR
/драндулет/
a term for a car with a significant defect or malfunction that makes it unsafe to drive

Etymology: It originated in England where it was used in the early 1900's to describe unloading something defective on someone else as “handing off a lemon.”

consciousness ['kɔnʃəsnəs] - сознание
conscientious [ˌkɔnʃɪ'enʃəs] - сознательный в значении добросовестный
(self/un/sub)conscious ['kɔnʃəs] - сознательный в значении сознающий (стеснительный/без сознания/подсознательный)

conscience ['kɔnʃəns] - совесть

POLISH PLAIT [plæt]
/колтун/
A formation of hair referring to either a hairstyle or a medical condition.
It originated from the system of beliefs in European folklore, and healing practices in traditional medicine in medieval Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that supported, matted hair as an amulet, or as a catchment for illness leaving the body.

The ITCrowd Minsk
collected by Veriko Lataria

1. - Sergey, why are you coughing? [‘kofin]
- Yes!
- ???
- Cuz coffee is yummy!
2. They will be pleased – Они скажут спасибо!
3. It was fantastic – Это было нормально.
4. They were no longer gold – Они недолго были золотыми.
5. Help yourself to salad - Помогите сделать салат!
6. She was walking ALONG the street – Она гуляла по ДЛИННОЙ дороге.
7. She decided to fly to her motherland – Она решила улететь на... мать природу!
8. Ресницы - Eyehair.
9. So do I! – Хорошо, я займусь!�
10. The sport centre includes gymnasiums and sport halls – Спортивный центр включает гимназии, тьфу, спортивные залы и спортивные коридоры.

Happy New Year, everyone! ✨