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📚 Jump on the bandwagon, phrase. ❓ Definition: Join others in doing or supporting something fashionable or likely to be successful. ❗️ Examples: 1. Scientists and doctors alike have jumped on the bandwagon. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Imp, noun. 🔉 /ɪmp/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A small, mischievous devil or sprite. ❗️ Examples: 1. You say, ‘I've never seen any imps, sprites or goblins in this whole neighborhood!’ 2. On Thursday night, we will all answer the door to find assorted little devils, imps and ghosts thrusting forward a bag half filled with processed sugar to the cry of ‘Trick or treat’. 3. I looked at the tracks and saw that little goblins, imps, fairies, and sprites had been in my house. 4. When she smiled and curtsied, she reminded me of a sprite-ish imp. 5. But then I began to feel rather like a character in one of those moralistic cartoons - a man who has a mischievous imp on one shoulder and a self-righteous angel on the other. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Straightforward, adjective. 🔉 /streɪtˈfɔːwəd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of a person) honest and frank. ❗️ Examples: 1. A straightforward young man. 2. There is a nice sense of menace developing in it, and I like how none of the characters are straightforward. 3. Men are intensely straightforward and logical beings, and they find this confusing. 4. They are pretty straightforward with me, they know I can handle whatever it takes. 5. Kenneth was trying to hint, but Jessica was more straightforward than the rest of them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Big Bang Theory - The Celebration Experimentation S09E17 💬 — Have to say, you... you do look good in that suit. — Oh. Thank you. — Maybe later I'll, uh... get to see you in your birthday suit. — But this is my birthday suit.

📚 In one's birthday suit, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Naked. ❗️ Examples: 1. I wanna walk around in my birthday suit. 2. I told her that despite it being cooler than usual… I'm still sleeping in my birthday suit. 3. Women looked away and parents shielded their children's eyes as a foreigner with a receding hairline pranced on the New Delhi railway platform in his birthday suit. 4. And a foxy new foreign exchange student strolls around school in her birthday suit. 5. I had to strip off and stand shivering in my birthday suit in calf-high water while she helped me wash. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ransack, verb. 🔉 /ˈransak/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Go through (a place) stealing things and causing damage. ❗️ Examples: 1. Burglars ransacked her home. 2. The defence claimed her aunt was viciously beaten by a burglar who ransacked the house. 3. The thieves ransacked the living room but only stole a small amount of jewellery. 4. Then he bound her hands and ransacked the house, stealing what is believed to be a few hundred pounds. 5. Immediately asking for money, he forces them into their mansion and ransacks the place. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic