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📚 Behind the eight ball, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): At a disadvantage. ❗️ Examples: 1. Don't let cash-flow crises put you behind the eight ball. 2. In that respect, any free independent publication will be starting behind the eight ball, with no subsidies, let alone a historical tradition or audience. 3. I know I am really behind the eight ball on this one. 4. It is clear that students from poorer families start behind the eight ball and are not given enough extra assistance. 5. We certainly don't want to fall behind the eight ball on that. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Point out, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition (point something out, point out something): Direct someone's gaze or attention towards, especially by extending one's finger. ❗️ Examples: 1. I pointed out a conical heap of stones. 2. He only survived because he was swept into a ditch and a man spotted him and pointed out a route to safety. 3. One would be hard pressed to point out a single fat man among these thousands. 4. As they drove, she played tour guide and pointed out spots of interest in Dover. 5. He pointed out the seat and I made my way towards it, my bag swinging in my hands. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Eight Men Out (1988) 💬 A patriot of the first order. A family man...

📚 Of the first order, phrase. ❓ Definition: Excellent or considerable of its kind. ❗️ Examples: 1. It is a media event of the first order. 2. However, the overall campaign was a disaster of the first order. 3. It was a disaster of the first order, but Daun was still wary of the ever-aggressive Frederick, with reason. 4. Sarris calls the film ‘a masterpiece of the first order.’ 5. His achievement, though easily taken for granted, was the work of an analytical mind of the first order, and he deserves much more honor than he has so far received. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Plainly, adverb. 🔉 /ˈpleɪnli/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Able to be perceived easily. ❗️ Examples: 1. A light was plainly visible. 2. She could plainly hear footsteps behind her. 3. A sinister yet plainly demarcated force of evil is ever-present in his films. 4. That same shock was now plainly visible in Mallory's eyes. 5. In that darkness, any little star showed as plainly as a sun. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Around the corner, phrase. ❓ Definition: Very near. ❗️ Examples: 1. There's a chemist around the corner. 2. The commander was claiming that peace was just around the corner. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Mycorrhiza, noun. 🔉 /ˌmʌɪkə(ʊ)ˈrʌɪzə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Botany): A fungus which grows in association with the roots of a plant in a symbiotic or mildly pathogenic relationship. ❗️ Examples: 1. In addition, most vascular plants could not grow without the symbiotic fungi, or mycorrhizae, that inhabit their roots and supply essential nutrients. 2. A special type of beneficial root fungi, called mycorrhizae, actually grow into plant roots, feeding off plant sap but also providing water and nutrients to the plant. 3. These data thus support the authors' suggestion that mycorrhizae are important in enabling plant roots to exploit nutrient patches that might otherwise be out of reach. 4. The specialized roots which the plants grow and the fungus which inhabits them are together known as mycorrhizae, or ‘fungal roots’. 5. For the past two years Dave has been working on a system of growing the mycorrhizae on a host grass plant in small beds of compost. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Enact, verb. 🔉 /ɪˈnakt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Put into practice (an idea or suggestion) ❗️ Examples: 1. The pressure group's aim was to see the proposals enacted. 2. The French Revolution was an attempt to enact his ideas. 3. Because real people formulate and enact political ideas, it is often easy to locate the supposed evil of a given idea in its human agent. 4. The National Security Adviser joined the President at the ranch to discuss enacting recommendations that could be implemented immediately by executive order. 5. He later challenged him to commit to enacting the recommendations of the report during his term as president. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Tomorrow is another day, phrase. ❓ Definition: Said after a bad experience to express one's belief that the future will be better. ❗️ Examples: 1. There's always hope because tomorrow is another day. 2. Who knows, tomorrow is another day and you never know what is going to come in the door. 3. Take each day as it comes and at the end of the day, if things still aren't done, remember that tomorrow is another day. 4. This is just a phase, it will pass, now get some rest, tomorrow is another day! 5. Duncan is obviously disappointed, but tomorrow is another day for getting it right. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Radiant, adjective. 🔉 /ˈreɪdɪənt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Sending out light; shining or glowing brightly. ❗️ Examples: 1. A bird with radiant green and red plumage. 2. The bright light was radiant with the morning rays of red, orange, pink, and gold, reflecting brilliantly on the glasslike water. 3. Karya finally awoke to a weak light, nothing like the radiant shine in her now lost home. 4. The contrast is brought across through imaginative use of light and radiant colours. 5. The sun came out from behind a cloud and the entire world shone with warm and radiant delight. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bring about, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition (bring something about, bring about something): Cause something to happen. ❗️ Examples: 1. She brought about a revolution in psychoanalysis. 2. Well, he got involved with the actual methods of bringing this revolution about. 3. The important consideration is how those changes are implemented, how they are brought about and made effective. 4. What results have been brought about by this decision-making framework? 5. Sometimes these punishments are deserved but often they are brought about by unfortunate circumstances. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 The villain of the piece, phrase. ❓ Definition (British): The person or thing responsible for all of the trouble or harm in a particular situation. ❗️ Examples: 1. TV tends to be cast as the villain of the piece. 2. Holdsworth was the villain of the piece when he missed an open goal. 3. He thinks she's trying to make him out to be the villain of the piece. 4. The locked-up wife is transformed into the villain of the piece. 5. Jones, the villain of the piece to Americans, was an Australian. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Valley, noun. 🔉 /ˈvali/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A low area of land between hills or mountains, typically with a river or stream flowing through it. ❗️ Examples: 1. The Thames Valley. 2. The valley floor. 3. It has such beautiful farmland, mountains, valleys, and rivers that one-fifth of the country is designated as national parkland. 4. Mountains, valleys, and rivers provide memorable scenery for tourists. 5. The steep hills and valleys also offer superb rivers for white-water rafting. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Fight or flight, phrase. ❓ Definition: The instinctive physiological response to a threatening situation, which readies one either to resist forcibly or to run away. ❗️ Examples: 1. I'm sure you've heard of fight or flight in a stressful situation. 2. Humans, like all animals, have an inborn stress alarm system that initiates a fight or flight response to stressful situations. 3. It's true, when you feel that your life might be in danger your natural instinct is fight or flight. 4. In that situation, an animal has two choices - fight or flight. 5. This is when those who haven't punched a ticket feel fight or flight in their bellies. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ban, verb. 🔉 /ban/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Officially or legally prohibit (something) ❗️ Examples: 1. Parking is banned around the harbour in summer. 2. Cars were banned from the park all day in a bid to keep traffic disruption to a minimum. 3. York tourism boats can continue to ply their trade, but rowers are banned from the river. 4. We therefore, demand that the internet be permanently banned from American homes. 5. As a result of this, the islanders are banned from fishing in their own waters. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 - S01E35 Haredevil Hare 💬 One man's meat is another man's poison, I always say.

📚 One man's meat is another man's poison, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Things liked or enjoyed by one person may be distasteful to another. ❗️ Examples: 1. These very different concepts require very different musical interpretations, and one man's meat is another man's poison. 2. It is not so much that one man's meat is another man's poison as it is that one man's poison is another man's poison. 3. It cuts both ways and one man's meat is another man's poison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Calamity, noun. 🔉 /kəˈlamɪti/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: An event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster. ❗️ Examples: 1. Emergency measures may be necessary in order to avert a calamity. 2. The journey had led to calamity and ruin. 3. Nearly every calamity and malady known to humankind has a saint to look after it. 4. Plan for stress, say the experts, just like you plan ahead for any calamity you want to avoid. 5. There were those indeed who believed this calamity marked the end of the world. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic