{"id":3811,"date":"2024-01-08T17:45:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T16:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2024-01-08T17:45:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T16:45:21","slug":"word-up-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/en\/word-up-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Up &#8211; Kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/kill-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/kill-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/kill-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/kill-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/kill-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/kill-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/kill-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/kill-12x12.jpg 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Turn off the sound or lights &#8211; e.g. <strong><em>Kill the sound on the TV or Kill the lights<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; turn them off.<\/li><li>To finish a drink<strong><em> <\/em><\/strong>&#8211; <strong><em>kill it.<\/em><\/strong> E.g. Do you mind if I have a sip of your cola? &#8211; Sure, Kill it.<\/li><li><strong><em>You can kill time<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; do something unimportant to help time go by more quickly.<\/li><li><strong><em>A killjoy<\/em><\/strong> is a person who stops you having fun \u2018 Don\u2019t be such a killjoy\u2019.<\/li><li>Idiom &#8211;<strong><em> kill two birds with one stone<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; do one thing that brings two results.<\/li><li><strong><em>Overkill <\/em><\/strong>&#8211; the excessive use of something with negative results: e.g. a lot of music today suffers from production overkill.<\/li><li>To do something really well <em><strong>\u2018to kill it<\/strong><\/em>\u2019 e.g Johnny was killing it when he played<br>that Jimi Hendrix guitar solo.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turn off the sound or lights &#8211; e.g. Kill the sound on the TV or Kill the lights &#8211; turn them off. To finish a drink &#8211; kill it. E.g. &#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-word-up"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3813,"href":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions\/3813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}