do-wonders
Chunk: do wonders
Meaning & Usage
Do wonders means to have a highly beneficial, positive, or almost magical effect on someone or something. It is used to express how a specific action, treatment, or change greatly improved a situation.
🧲 Common Collocates
- Health & Well-being: do wonders for your skin, do wonders for your health, do wonders for your stress.
- Psychology & Performance: do wonders for your confidence, do wonders for the team's morale.
- Common Structure: do wonders for (someone/something).
💬 Contextual Examples
- Getting eight hours of sleep every night will do wonders for your energy levels.
- Winning that award did wonders for her self-confidence.
- This new moisturizer has done wonders for my dry skin.
🎴 Interactive Web Practice
Practice 1: Taking a week off work will ______ wonders for your mental health.
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do Practice 2: The new manager's leadership style has done ______ for team morale.
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wonders Practice 3: A simple apology could do wonders ______ repairing your relationship with him.
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for 🔗 Knowledge Base Connections
- 🔑 Parent Keyword: do
- ⚖️ Synonym Chunk: work-miracles