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📚 Bounce an idea off, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Share an idea with (someone) in order to refine it. ❗️ Examples: 1. He thrives on bouncing ideas off other people. 2. If someone needs to bounce an idea off of someone, another person is able offer honest insight and feedback. 3. This guy also gave me his card and told me to call him if I wanted to bounce an idea off him. 4. It's for people who need that extra ear, are going it alone, or simply need to bounce an idea off a smart group of people. 5. If you have questions or just want to bounce an idea off us, please give us a call. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Batman Begins (2005) 💬 He learned things, and he will testify in exchange for early parole.

📚 Parole, noun. 🔉 /pəˈrəʊl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The temporary or permanent release of a prisoner before the expiry of a sentence, on the promise of good behaviour. ❗️ Examples: 1. He committed a burglary while on parole. 2. If this is not bad enough, a large percentage of women sentenced to prison on parole violations have not committed any new crimes, but rather were returned for not passing their urine tests. 3. Even in such cases, however, the task of the Parole Board is the same as in any other case: to assess the risk that the particular prisoner if released on parole, will offend again. 4. Over the years, Billie has gained insight into the reasons why prisoners released on parole so often fail and end up back in prison. 5. The result was that the applicant's aggregate sentence is nine years and four months, and the applicant's minimum sentence on parole is seven years and four months. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Show of hands, phrase. ❓ Definition: A vote carried out among a group by the raising of hands, with numbers typically being estimated rather than counted. ❗️ Examples: 1. A show of hands suggested he has little support. 2. A union motion calling for the policy to be scrapped was clearly carried on a show of hands. 3. After a while, they switched to voting by a show of hands. 4. Each meeting ended with a vote by a show of hands. 5. To cheers in the hall it was carried on a show of hands. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Nincompoop, noun. 🔉 /ˈnɪŋkəmpuːp/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A foolish or stupid person. ❗️ Examples: 1. And, as a reader recently suggested, it would allow movie watchers to gang up on the nincompoops who insist on chatting away on their cell phones during the show - if their cell phones are equipped with recorders. 2. The best it can do is take people's minds off it by producing wow-provoking new initiatives and making National look like a bunch of nincompoops. 3. Reading such works, I am inclined to throw the egotistical nincompoops out the window - as this is frequently impossible, I content myself with throwing the relevant books across the room. 4. Costume rental shops report brisk business in trying to keep up with the insatiable demand of name-dropping nincompoops looking for funky fashions and gaudy gowns to wear for the event. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Handcuff, noun. 🔉 /ˈhan(d)kʌf/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (handcuffs): A pair of lockable linked metal rings for securing a prisoner's wrists. ❗️ Examples: 1. He waved a pair of handcuffs under his prisoner's nose, forcing him to notice the razor sharp inner edges. 2. It's not until they are carrying me away, not until I can feel the cold metal of the handcuffs biting into my wrists, that it sinks in I just shot Santa Claus. 3. I suddenly felt cold metal handcuffs slap on my wrists. 4. But Makowe barked an order to the policewoman and, in an instant, a pair of handcuffs clicked shut around Julian's wrists. 5. He also made reference to injuries to his wrists which he stated were caused by the application of handcuffs. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Run out of steam, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Lose impetus or enthusiasm. ❗️ Examples: 1. A rebellion that had run out of steam. 2. Sandy Neilson's production, enthusiastically performed by the resident company, strikes an appropriate, rollicking tone but gradually runs out of steam. 3. The two very sexy stars provide enough chemistry in this stylized thriller but the movie runs out of steam halfway through. 4. I'd like watch as each argument just runs out of steam, leaving just the prejudice and chauvinism for all to see. 5. It is laid back, ambling on its jolly way, and just when it should be gathering momentum it runs out of steam. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Hypnopompic, adjective. 🔉 /ˌhɪpnə(ʊ)ˈpɒmpɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Psychology): Relating to the state immediately preceding waking up. ❗️ Examples: 1. Also the state in-between sleeping and waking is NOT the hypnagogic state but the hypnopompic state. 2. The level I am talking about is also hypnagogic & hypnopompic, because sleep brings on the same feeling of hypnosis. 3. Sleep paralysis occurs in the hypnagogic state or the hypnopompic state. 4. The most likely explanation for alien abductions is sleep paralysis and hypnopompic (on awakening) hallucinations. 5. There's a raw, hypnopompic quality to the spot: it has the sweaty, blurry feel of a nightmare. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bandwagon, noun. 🔉 /ˈbandwaɡən/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Used in reference to an activity, cause, etc. that is currently fashionable or popular and attracting increasing support. ❗️ Examples: 1. The environmental bandwagon is feeling mighty crowded. 2. Concerns over the risk posed by this emerging technology threaten to derail the bandwagon. 3. Apart from the integrated oil outfits, lots of other businesses are now climbing on board the environmental bandwagon. 4. FOXY BROWN is the latest member of the hip hop contingent to jump on the fashion bandwagon. 5. One thing Clinic could never be accused of is copying anyone's sound or jumping aboard the latest fashionable bandwagon. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 The end justifies the means, phrase. ❓ Definition: Wrong or unfair methods may be used if the overall goal is good. ❗️ Examples: 1. We excuse our greed by claiming that the end justifies the means. 2. I understand that for them the end justifies the means, but I can't help worrying about where society will eventually draw the line. 3. A career cop who followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, he believes the end justifies the means. 4. But I still cannot believe in the idea that the end justifies the means. 5. When it comes to winning arguments, they seem to think that the end justifies the means and that truth is an irrelevance. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Gone Baby Gone (2007) 💬 But the kid's room, in the back, was spotless.

📚 Spotless, adjective. 🔉 /ˈspɒtləs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Absolutely clean or pure; immaculate. ❗️ Examples: 1. A spotless white apron. 2. The rooms are spotless, the couples immaculately dressed. 3. All the while, they keep their designer clothes clean and spotless. 4. He lives with Shane, his nine-year-old daughter, who is so clean and spotless, you wonder who does the ironing. 5. He hadn't bargained for the amount of effort it would take to keep the house absolutely spotless at all times. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 The mother of all ——, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): An extreme example or very large specimen of a specified thing. ❗️ Examples: 1. I got stuck in the mother of all traffic jams. 2. Perhaps, the cricket coaches and psychologists should speak to them about how to motivate the team to win the mother of all cricketing contests. 3. I look around to see, watching me, two glass bead eyes stitched onto the mother of all big handbags. 4. Next, the restaurant lays out the mother of all meals, a Royal Thai degustation feast. 5. They are the mother of all prawns and fetch handsome prices for those who net them from the wild. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Enact, verb. 🔉 /ɪˈnakt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Make (a bill or other proposal) law. ❗️ Examples: 1. Legislation was enacted to attract international companies. 2. Remember, there has been no significant piece of reformist legislation enacted into law for nearly 30 years. 3. Rather, Parliament was enacting legislation in which a number of classes of persons have significant interests. 4. In the United States, several states have already enacted genetic privacy laws. 5. The statute was enacted pursuant to Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Batman (1989) Thriller 💬 you can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs.

📚 One can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): One cannot accomplish something without adverse effects elsewhere. ❗️ Examples: 1. Just as surely as you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, you can't build a fairer society without challenging wealth and power. 2. However, as Lenin said, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. 3. Robespierre was dead right, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, however I have noticed that politicians can never improve the world without killing a fair amount of the inhabitants which is what Robespierre had just done. 4. He used to say ‘I put my money on Stalin,’ and dismissed Stalin's mass murder with the quip, ‘you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.’ 5. Those arguing that this is just how modern warfare is waged, and that ‘you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs ’, should note that it is only the US that behaves like this. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Scintilla, noun. 🔉 /sɪnˈtɪlə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (in singular): A tiny trace or spark of a specified quality or feeling. ❗️ Examples: 1. A scintilla of doubt. 2. My understanding from his interview was that he did show a scintilla of self-doubt, which is very helpful for the commission, because after all, they need to make recommendations. 3. Apart from squandering the resources of a prodigiously gifted cast, the film's greatest shortcoming must be its inability to generate the merest scintilla of dramatic tension around its central narrative thread. 4. If he and his handlers had a scintilla of good judgment, they would give up the fight and embrace her as a worthy member of the Western canon - which she is, despite what they say. 5. Well, Larry, but it seems to be a scintilla of hope. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic