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📚 Famished, adjective. 🔉 /ˈfamɪʃt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal): Extremely hungry. ❗️ Examples: 1. I'm famished — is there anything to eat? 2. The evacuees were famished, having had no food for 12 hours. 3. She had to admit she was quite hungry, famished even. 4. Ashton while we do this go into the kitchen and eat something, you look famished. 5. We were running a little late and I was famished, so we broke a rule and had a light lunch in the coffee shop. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 All in all, phrase. ❓ Definition: On the whole. ❗️ Examples: 1. All in all it's been a good year. 2. They wreak havoc on our nervous systems and, all in all, make for generally unsavoury experiences. 3. But all in all, I would much rather have been running on the straight. 4. So all in all, they are asking you to close your eyes and believe. 5. It's an extremely odd little movie, all in all, and it's a little tough to understand the high expectations. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Son of Zorn (2016) - S01E05 💬 Complimentary fried hay.

📚 Complimentary, adjective. 🔉 /kɒmplɪˈmɛnt(ə)ri/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Given or supplied free of charge. ❗️ Examples: 1. A complimentary bottle of wine. 2. You will get a complimentary bottle of California wine and your service charge is waived in the Traveler. 3. At most, I could get a complimentary bottle of wine, but inspiration came free, he said. 4. Each sponsor will be proved with two complimentary tickets for the show, valued at €10 each. 5. The hotel had no notification of our complimentary tickets. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A means to an end, phrase. ❓ Definition: A thing that is not valued or important in itself but is useful in achieving an aim. ❗️ Examples: 1. Higher education was seen primarily as a means to an end. 2. We view our technology as a means to an end, and the end is always to deliver business value. 3. However, it must be used as a means to an end and not the end itself. 4. ‘I don't think much of gaming,’ says Morgan, ‘but it was a means to an end.’ 5. So advertising is only a means to an end - if an alternative method existed to increase the reputation of the product, it would also serve the seller's purpose. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Retrograde, adjective. 🔉 /ˈrɛtrəɡreɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Directed or moving backwards. ❗️ Examples: 1. A retrograde flow. 2. They argue that the style is retrograde and that they reflect neither recent Malian contemporary art nor a Malian aesthetic. 3. Maybe it's old-fashioned, retrograde, romantic, but I would tend to draw a distinction between an author's decision to create a novel and a studio's decision to option it for adaptation. 4. Then turn the nuts on the suspending rods, so as to compress the springs just enough to give the platen a quick retrograde motion; observing, at the same time, to get the surface of the platen parallel with the surface of the bed. 5. In some patients the atrioventricular node allows retrograde conduction of ventricular impulses to the atria. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Dog-end, noun. ❓ Definition: The last and least pleasing part of something. ❗️ Examples: 1. The dog-end of a hard day. 2. The cartoonists portray the dog-end days of December as Old Man Time, complete with scythe, calling the year to its doom. 3. Budget 2004 was one the government could have done without: an obligatory address in the dog-end of a parliament. 4. It's December at the dog-end of the last century and Liam slouches on a sofa in a Santa Monica hotel, curling his bottom lip and affecting disinterest. 5. I relaxed into the dog-end of the afternoon to enjoy the loch's beauty, vaguely aware of increasingly frantic efforts from the other end of the boat. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Simpsons (1989) - S07E21 Comedy 💬 I'm edgy. I got ants in my pants.

📚 Have ants in one's pants, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Be fidgety or restless. ❗️ Examples: 1. What's the matter with you, always fidgeting — you got ants in your pants? 2. Maybe it's just God trying to tell me to keep still and stop acting like I have ants in my pants, to just be calm and happy that all is well. 3. He appeared to have ants in his pants, refusing to stand still for a minute. 4. I have so much energy that the little kids I baby-sit told me it looks like I have ants in my pants. 5. I tossed and turned, and finally Shirley said something like I had ants in my pants, something like that, anyway, and decided to walk the house to try and fall asleep. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Oneiromancy, noun. 🔉 /ə(ʊ)ˈnʌɪrəmansi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The interpretation of dreams in order to foretell the future. ❗️ Examples: 1. One in every five believes in oneiromancy (dream divination), and one in every four takes astrology seriously. 2. You know, I've heard about oneiromancy, which is divination by interpreting dreams, kind of hard to get accurate - 3. This was a recognised art in ancient times and was called ‘oneiromancy’. 4. In Mortal Coils, an interaction of oneiromancy and mediumism was embodied in multiple projections among slowly twisting ropes, as if something were dimly viewed while transpiring underwater or in a netherworld. 5. How about general broadcast oneiromancy, like the popular bedtime suggestion ‘Sweet Dreams’? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Two for the Money (2005) 💬 Now, talk to me about Monday night, because everyone, I mean everyone, is gonna double down after the hole you put 'em in.

📚 Double down, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition (US): Strengthen one's commitment to a particular strategy or course of action, typically one that is potentially risky. ❗️ Examples: 1. He decided to double down and escalate the war. 2. The third quarter of the year saw central banks doubling down on the quantitative easing approach. 3. We are doubling down on diplomacy in the surrounding region. 4. He wants to double down on health care policies that will only work for the healthy and the wealthy. 5. Research shows that people with strong feelings of self-efficacy not only don't quit when problems arise, they double down and try harder. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Mighty, adjective. 🔉 /ˈmʌɪti/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Possessing great and impressive power or strength, especially because of size. ❗️ Examples: 1. Three mighty industrial countries. 2. Mighty beasts. 3. This mighty power will continue to press for county councillors to respect the professional judgement of their highway engineers and consultants. 4. This nation, once a mighty world power, is being systematically stripped of all its wealth and influence, and no-one bats an eyelid. 5. A glance at the current spate of hotel marketing deals makes it clear that tykes are wielding some mighty power. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Rush (2013) 💬 And there I was thinking you were about to wax lyrical about the romance of flight.

📚 Wax lyrical, phrase. ❓ Definition: Talk in a highly enthusiastic and effusive way. ❗️ Examples: 1. He waxed lyrical about his splendid son-in-law. 2. It is approaching midnight in a cafe on the outskirts of Moscow and a group of enthusiasts are waxing lyrical on the subject of their favourite car, the Lada. 3. In these pages last week, our art critic Iain Gale waxed lyrical - and certainly much more lyrically than I can ever wax - about the richness of the Demarco collection. 4. I mean, is it strictly necessary to emerge from the shower, grab a towel and commence a sawing action under your crotch while simultaneously waxing lyrical about Fairtrade bananas? 5. Dick Hyman is not one for waxing lyrical, but get him on the subject of his boyhood hero Bix Beiderbecke and the quiet American giant of jazz piano suddenly has plenty to say. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Equipollent, adjective. ❓ Definition (archaic): Equal or equivalent in power, effect, or significance. ❗️ Examples: 1. Bellavitis then defines the ‘equipollent sum of line segments’ and obtains an ‘equipollent calculus’ which is essentially a vector space. 2. Given the plane, he called two line segments equipollent if they are parallel, of equal lengths, and equally directed. 3. But the evidence against doing so is at least equipollent: Bayle claims, repeatedly and unequivocally, to be a believer. 4. An equipollent system is the forces and moments that will replace the original set. 5. We shall consider an equipollent vector field with a given vector. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Show round, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition (show someone round, show round someone): Point out interesting features in a place or building to someone. ❗️ Examples: 1. He showed us round and took us to the museum. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Last Action Hero (1993) 💬 It's behind the eight ball, you moron.