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📚 Fight one's corner, phrase. ❓ Definition: Defend one's position or interests. ❗️ Examples: 1. We need someone in the cabinet to fight our corner. 2. The company argues that the fact the shareholders are getting anything at all - something some creditors fiercely opposed at the time - was only because the company fought their corner. 3. The same ferocity with which a young, disadvantaged Motherwell side have fought their corner for much of the league campaign was the game's most compelling feature. 4. I fought my corner to the very last, though, and as we waited at the check-out I gave it a final shot. 5. But Mr Jones fought his corner and delivered a prepared, three-minute speech pressing his argument that public services needed to be reformed and firms had to deal with the increasing demands of competition. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015) - S03E04 Kimmy Goes to College 💬 Hippity, hoppity. Hippity, hoppity. Hippity, hoppity.

📚 Hippity-hoppity, verb. 🔉 /ˌhɪpɪtɪˈhɒpɪti/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: To walk, jump, skip, etc., with an uneven or hopping step or gait; = hippity hop . Chiefly with adverbial complement. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Sort out the men from the boys, phrase. ❓ Definition: Show or prove who is the best at a particular activity. ❗️ Examples: 1. The mountains apparently sort out the men from the boys. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Proverb, noun. 🔉 /ˈprɒvəːb/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A short, well-known pithy saying, stating a general truth or piece of advice. ❗️ Examples: 1. Riddles, proverbs, and sayings that describe proper behavior for both young and old Kenyans are still common. 2. Beware of proverbs: they are a snare and a delusion. 3. To quote a Kannada proverb it is like water off a buffalo's back. 4. It's tough to choose a single epitaph for a man who invoked so many epigrams and proverbs. 5. It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness, as a rough translation of a Chinese proverb goes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Used to express indifference to an insult or abuse. ❗️ Examples: 1. If anyone ever tells you that little rhyme ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me,’ well tell them they are full of it. 2. We say things like ‘actions speak louder than words’, or ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me’. 3. But the child's nursery rhyme is true: sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me. 4. As that old saying goes, sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. 5. Remember the old saying, sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Nickelodeon, noun. 🔉 /ˌnɪkəˈləʊdɪən/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (North American • informal, dated): A jukebox, originally one operated by the insertion of a nickel coin. ❗️ Examples: 1. She devotes loving attention to her orchestra, and especially to the coin-operated nickelodeon, the earliest version of a juke box. 2. An equivalent system is the punched-hole stack of connected cards used in a pianola, or the rotating slotted-metal disk in a nickelodeon, where the music is being played in response to the arrangement of the holes. 3. This sounds like I'm describing the days of crystal-set radios and hand-cranked nickelodeons, I know. 4. Songs well up from the subliminal nickelodeon in my head. 5. Well, it's based on this Tijuana nickelodeon machine. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Abide, verb. 🔉 /əˈbʌɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (abide by • no object): Accept or act in accordance with (a rule, decision, or recommendation) ❗️ Examples: 1. I said I would abide by their decision. 2. The serious collector of funny names accepts only those of real people, and abides by certain rules of the game, just as do those who fish for trout. 3. The PA said that it had always abided by the decisions of the court. 4. There was always the arguing, but in the end, the men had made a decision and all had abided by it. 5. If that is if that is a Government decision, we will always abide by the Government decision. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Easy does it, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to advise someone to approach a task carefully and slowly. ❗️ Examples: 1. With father's wine in the back I mustn't drive too fast, so easy does it. 2. Easy, easy does it, not too much, just a little bit more. 3. So easy does it with the imagery from now on, I promise. 4. Whether your sending out a quick ‘hello’ or ‘meet us here later’, it's easy does it all the way. 5. Carter shushed her, ‘Hey, easy does it there, Laura.’ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Supergiant, noun. 🔉 /ˈsuːpəˌdʒʌɪənt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Astronomy): A very large star that is even brighter than a giant, often despite being relatively cool. ❗️ Examples: 1. It was suggested that the red supergiant orbited a companion star that had shredded its outer layers just before the explosion. 2. This new heat supply causes the outer layers of the star to expand and cool, and the star becomes a red giant, or a red supergiant if it is very massive. 3. In fact, it has become the coolest supergiant star ever found and all because of a single observation made by a dedicated amateur astronomer in Australia. 4. The discovery confirms the accepted theory that type II supernovas are produced when elderly, bloated stars known as red supergiants run out of nuclear fuel and collapse. 5. This is a blue supergiant star with luminosity 1,300 times that of our own Sun. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Negligence, noun. 🔉 /ˈnɛɡlɪdʒ(ə)ns/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Failure to take proper care over something. ❗️ Examples: 1. His injury was due to the negligence of his employers. 2. Any casualty due to their negligence must be put up for a PIL and proper compensation demanded. 3. We cannot just say it was not negligence without a proper investigation. 4. Death due to negligence occurred in one per cent of this group. 5. The bus fell into the river due to negligence of the driver. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Rest on one's laurels, phrase. ❓ Definition: Be so satisfied with what one has already done or achieved that one makes no further effort. ❗️ Examples: 1. With TV sports coverage becoming increasingly competitive, the BBC should beware of resting on its laurels. 2. He has experienced more adventure than most of us enjoy in a lifetime but he is not resting on his laurels and is already planning further adventures. 3. He is not resting on his laurels and has already begun working for further improvement. 4. We cannot rest on our laurels after the efforts of the weekend. 5. But I've rested on my laurels and never put effort into anything. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bai, noun. 🔉 /bʌɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Indian • often as name): A polite form of address for a woman. ❗️ Examples: 1. I had hoped to compose for Lata bai for a long time. 2. Sold at an open auction by the panchayat in a town of Madhya Pradesh a few years ago, Devaki bai had nothing but bad memories of the past. 3. I went to meet Bhanwri bai and she narrated the whole story to me. 4. Jhalkari Bai's resemblance to the legendary queen Laxmi Bai of Jhansi earned her a place in history books. 5. Rani Laxmi Bai has been given a place amongst the greatest women in the history of the world and is an illustrious figure in Indian history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 IKR, abbreviation. ❓ Definition (informal): I know, right? (used to express agreement or empathy) ❗️ Examples: 1. IKR. I was excited for this too. 2. IKR? It's so not fair. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Suits (2011) - S06E07 💬 And his execution date is set in stone.

📚 Be set in stone, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to emphasize that something is fixed and unchangeable. ❗️ Examples: 1. This pricing scheme is not set in stone and will likely change when the service has a full launch. 2. Anything can change — nothing is written in stone. 3. Your training goals are not written in stone; changes should be made as necessary to work toward a common goal. 4. However, an RFL spokesman said ten teams per division was a minimum, not a fixed figure, while the new format was not yet set in stone. 5. While many thought that the current proposed standard was written in stone might have to change their minds and wait until the squabbling is over. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Drink-driving, noun. 🔉 /ˌdrɪŋkˈdrʌɪvɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (British • mass noun): The offence of driving a vehicle with an excess of alcohol in the blood. ❗️ Examples: 1. He recently served a four-month sentence for drink-driving. 2. French police found that Paul was over the legal limit for drink-driving at the time of the crash. 3. At the time of the chase, he was on bail for drink-driving and driving while banned. 4. He has been released on bail, pending analysis of a blood sample, for drink-driving. 5. They will contact the police immediately if someone fails to stop or are suspected of committing a crime such as drink-driving. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic