✅PRESSY/PREZZIE - (ˈprɛzɪ ) - (slang for present) 👉 Father Christmas, aka, the OZON delivery driver, brought loads of cool pressies/prezzies this year!, ✅GOODIES - (slang = presents; X-mas, birthdays, shopping) 👉 I managed to do some last minute Christmas shopping and picked up (found) some goodies! And I didn't break the bank! (didn't spend more than one can afford), ✅ ENTER(get) INTO THE FESTIVE SPIRIT (formal) - 👉 Come on guys, we need to enter into the festive spirit! Put on your Christmas hats, bung on some Christmas tunes and let's get wasted., ✅ BE IN THE CHRISTMAS MOOD (semi-formal) - 👉 Oh, I'm not really in the Christmas mood, I'm afraid. I have to work all day on the 25th. KFC shows no mercy!, ✅ ALL THE TRIMMINGS (semi-formal idiom) - you provide extra things to make whatever you're doing more special, esp in cooking - 👉 Today I'm going to cook Christmas dinner with all the trimmings; Yorkshire puds (pudding), cranberry sauce, I'll give us a nice board or cheese and biscuits. Everything to make this meal super special., ✅ CHEESE & BISCUITS - (culture thing) 👉 It's tradition in the UK, usually sometime after dessert and not just for Christmas but often when we invite guests over for dinner, we have cheese and biscuits. That's basically a cheeseboard of various cheeses and a selection of crackers/biscuits. If you want to go to the max, we throw in some homemade chutney., ✅ GO TO TOWN - (informal = to do something enthusiastically, extravagantly) 👉 This Christmas I want to go to town; I don't want a simple Christmas lunch but the feast fit for a king! Plus, let's decorate the house top to bottom and not just have a simple plastic tree but a real one!, ✅ STUFFED - (informal; have eaten to full capacity)👉 Wow Paul, you've polished off your plate! Would you like any seconds? - Oh no thanks. I'm stuffed. I can't manage another bite., 💥 Polish off one's plate - to eat up every crumb, nothing's left, 💥 To have seconds - another portion, helping of everything, 💥 Can't manage another bite - can't eat more, ❗ STUFFING - a mixture of ingredients to insert inside a chicken/goose to be cooked., ✅ IN THE LEAD-UP TO CHRISTMAS - 👉 In the UK in the lead-up to Christmas, we decorate the Christmas tree and hang decorations all around the house to get into the festive spirit., ✅ TO STUFF YOUR FACE STUPID - (slang; eat so much)👉 Although I maintain a steady diet throughout the year and watch my portion sizes, when it comes to Christmas Day, I let myself go and stuff my face stupid to the point of bursting,

🎄 MERRY CHRISTMAS + VOCAB 🌟 from Paul Newson

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