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This is a common way while speaking to add emphasis to the following I, in this case to the fact that the speaker actually does something ("I keep it"). I would not use it in writing (except for reall …

I don’t think I’ve ever heard “zoom in someone” (nor can I find similar examples online), though it sounds idiomatic enough to me. I would interpret it the same as you, though with a bit of nuance. To …

I've never heard it used with "in the room" but yes, English speakers do throw ideas out there: to produce something such as ideas or questions in large quantities: Members of the team threw out idea …

One definition for jacket, according to Collins: the skin of a potato, etc. Here are some examples: Edward, the waiter, bruising the leathery jacket of the potato dexterously in his napkin, tumbles …

Looking at COCA, where I searched for * * BE the charm (and also without the definite article), there is some variation on the expression. However, I was not able to find examples with "times", as in …

Seems like a recycling processing facility. According to the EPA page The U.S. Recycling System: The materials are transported by the collector to a processing facility, such as a materials recovery …

Likely this refers to a “spread” gesture (put down two fingers and move them apart), the opposite of pinching (put down two fingers and move them together). See this picture: Because spreading is t …

No, that’s not quite the right meaning. It’s the same as “drive over to the store” which asks someone to head over to the store via a car. In your sentence it’s just that your destination is the game …

This is tricky. Within the context, "hold up" really only makes sense if it means "hold the 'up' control", which could be pressing a button that's labeled with an up arrow or tilting a joystick upward …