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📚 Earring, noun. 🔉 /ˈɪərɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A piece of jewellery worn on the lobe or edge of the ear. ❗️ Examples: 1. Her wedding ring and plain gold earrings are her only jewellery, plus a few red beads and tight bangles on one wrist. 2. In the painting I am wearing a turquoise sari and some gold and ruby earrings with a necklace and a few bangles. 3. She was carrying a small black bag and wearing large silver hoop earrings and a rope bracelet. 4. Alicia returned her attentions to the mirror and slipped her favourite pearl drop earrings into her lobes. 5. He put the cloak back on me, and as I pulled the hood up, the edge caught my earring, and tugged it away. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A tough nut to crack, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): A difficult problem or an opponent that is hard to beat. ❗️ Examples: 1. He should prove a tough nut to crack over tomorrow's extended three miles. 2. Japan has proved a tough nut for Microsoft's console division to crack. 3. Nine-year-olds are tough nuts to crack, as Peter Loraine, head of marketing at S Club Juniors' label Polydor, points out. 4. Now they, like the rest of Europe, are tough nuts to crack. 5. Upgrading a module that combines PHP with SQL is a tougher nut to crack, and it seems as though the XOOPS people have done an admirable job. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Macédoine, noun. 🔉 /ˈmasɪdwɑːn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A mixture of vegetables or fruit cut into small pieces. ❗️ Examples: 1. Seared sea bass fillet with a macédoine of turnips and carrots. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Proxy war, noun. ❓ Definition: A war instigated by a major power which does not itself become involved. ❗️ Examples: 1. The end of the Cold War brought an end to many of the proxy wars through which the two sides struggled to exert their influence. 2. People are supposed to ‘liberate’ themselves, not rely on some external force to come to their land and fight a proxy war for them. 3. Thus, as noted, David Aaronovitch describes the assault on Nicaragua as part of ‘the proxy war fought between the two superpowers for power and influence’. 4. Rollback was the American end of the proxy war fought between the two superpowers for power and influence in the developing world. 5. The proxy war in Kashmir between India and Pakistan also demonstrates that irregulars can fight limited wars for limited purposes, especially when the threat of nuclear war or conventional escalation is high. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A shoulder to cry on, phrase. ❓ Definition: Someone who listens sympathetically to someone's problems. ❗️ Examples: 1. He was a fatherly shoulder to cry on when the going was tough. 2. I mean, where's the harm in a guy wanting a drinking buddy, a shoulder to cry on and a sympathetic ear? 3. Both of them said if I ever needed anything - a shoulder to cry on, an ear to listen - to call them. 4. They offer us a shoulder to cry on and place a comforting arm around our shoulders to lighten the burden of sorrow and misfortune. 5. Mrs O'Toole is a shoulder to cry on for her customers and has experience in talking about the most sensitive subjects. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Amethyst, noun. 🔉 /ˈaməθɪst/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A precious stone consisting of a violet or purple variety of quartz. ❗️ Examples: 1. A delicate necklace of amethysts and pearls. 2. Amethyst earrings. 3. Quartz is colourless when pure but minute amounts of impurities or lattice imperfections give rise to varieties such as amethyst, cairngorm, rose quartz, and smoky quartz. 4. In the same case are several amethysts (the purple variety of quartz) of an amazingly rich violet color. 5. A fine-colored amethyst, the purple variety of quartz, is also mined here. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Plainly, adverb. 🔉 /ˈpleɪnli/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: In a direct and honest way without concealment or deception. ❗️ Examples: 1. To speak plainly, I suffer from a lack of confidence. 2. I will ask you plainly: are you a spy? 3. As he told his tale, he spoke as plainly as he could. 4. To put it plainly, the young grandmaster made the opening look like it loses by force! 5. Make sure that the conditions for using this insurance are plainly stated in the house rules. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 When one's ship comes in, phrase. ❓ Definition: When one's fortune is made. ❗️ Examples: 1. The right honourable gentleman opposite is a very naughty man, and he will laugh on the other side of his face when my ship comes in. 2. She's the kind of real life gal who'll buy you a beer, let you cry on her shoulder and be the first one to give you a high-five when your ship comes in. 3. Uptown girl, you know I can't afford to buy her pearls, but maybe someday when my ship comes in, she'll understand what kind of guy I am. 4. But my worst fear - echoing my elder daughter's prediction that ‘Dad, when your ship comes in you'll be at the airport!’ 5. I remember hearing my parents talk about how much better life would be when their ship came in, but I never knew whether or not they really expected it to happen. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ukraine, proper noun. 🔉 /juːˈkreɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A country in eastern Europe, to the north of the Black Sea; population 44,800,000 (estimated 2015); official language, Ukrainian; capital, Kiev. ❗️ Examples: 1. On January 21, 1990, over 300,000 Ukrainians organised a human chain for Ukrainian independence between Kyiv and Lviv, in memory of the 1919 unification of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic. Citizens came out to the streets and highways, forming live chains by holding hands in support of unity. 2. In August 1991, a faction among the Communist leaders of the Soviet Union attempted a coup to remove Mikhail Gorbachev and to restore the Communist party's power. After it failed, on 24 August 1991 the Ukrainian parliament adopted the Act of Independence. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Cry for the moon, phrase. ❓ Definition: Ask for what is unattainable or impossible. ❗️ Examples: 1. There must be no more self-pity, no more time wasted on crying for the moon. 2. If she cried for the moon, he'd borrow every ladder in the parish and lash 'em together to get up. 3. When my brother was a baby, he cried for the moon and would not be comforted. 4. When the baby cries for the moon, you do not give him what he wants. 5. I haven't cried for the moon, and have been sensible in my demands; but there has nevertheless been this sense of boredom with everything, with my family and with my work. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Fructify, verb. 🔉 /ˈfrʌktɪfʌɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object • formal): Make (something) fruitful or productive. ❗️ Examples: 1. They were sacrificed in order that their blood might fructify the crops. 2. The students are at the helm of activities right from obtaining permission to utilise ‘poromboke’ land in the villages and raising funds from philanthropists to fructify asset creation. 3. Thence it fructified the economy of China's centres of silk and tea production in the lower Yangzi provinces. 4. I decided to fructify this one for the sole reason that it didn't require another person to do it. 5. The districts at the extremities of the country are Nephthys, and Anubis accordingly is the son of the Nile, which by its inundation has fructified a distant part of the country. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Big Bang Theory (2007) - S12E01 The Conjugal Configuration 💬 Okay, now I'm testy.

📚 Testy, adjective. 🔉 /ˈtɛsti/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Easily irritated; impatient and somewhat bad-tempered. ❗️ Examples: 1. His testy, disapproving father. 2. She could see him growing quite testy beneath that polished urbanity. 3. He seems impatient with you, almost testy to the point of animosity. 4. Years later, the sacking still makes the normally placid Burt uncharacteristically testy, but he doesn't dwell on it. 5. The minute he is questioned, he becomes testy and defensive. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Sit on the fence, phrase. ❓ Definition: Avoid making a decision or choice. ❗️ Examples: 1. But he's going to make change and he's going to bring a lot of confidence to a lot of people who are sitting on the fence with the same decision. 2. You should make a decision; you cannot sit on the fence. 3. If that brings to mind a lot of dithering and sitting on the fence, you couldn't be more wrong. 4. As someone who has deferred the choice thus far (rather than actively making a decision), I know I could be accused of sitting on the fence. 5. They want someone to make all their choices for them, so they just sit on the fence and wait to be told what to do. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Aliquot, noun. 🔉 /ˈalɪkwɒt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A portion of a larger whole, especially a sample taken for chemical analysis or other treatment. ❗️ Examples: 1. An aliquot was examined daily for the appearance of cholesterol monohydrate crystals. 2. The pellets were resuspended and two aliquots withdrawn for analysis. 3. Sample aliquots were frozen and stored for later analyses. 4. After mixing and centrifugation, aliquots of the acetic acid phase were injected onto a Chromatographic system for quantitation of catecholamines. 5. Sample digestion for Hg analysis was conducted separately, using 5 g aliquots of homogenized samples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Crimea, proper noun. 🔉 /krʌɪˈmiːə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (usually the Crimea): A peninsula of Ukraine lying between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. It was the scene of the Crimean War in the 1850s. The majority of the population is Russian. ❗️ Examples: 1. In 1783, Crimea was annexed by the Russian Empire as the result of the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774). 2. In 1954, the Soviet Union transferred Crimea to the Ukrainian SFSR from the Russian SFSR. 3. Russia formally annexed Crimea on 18 March 2014, incorporating the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol as the 84th and 85th federal subjects of Russia. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Loki (2021) - S01E02 The Variant 💬 I'd never stab anyone in the back.

📚 Stab someone in the back, phrase. ❓ Definition: Betray someone. ❗️ Examples: 1. It was very competitive, with everyone stabbing everyone else in the back. 2. There are some people whom I regarded as friends, but they stabbed me in the back; there are those that I injured by mistake, but they were actually good people in retrospect. 3. The district council has stabbed us in the back. 4. Given the opportunity, the powerful will exploit the weak, and the person you love might betray you, stabbing you in the back. 5. Amanda and Chris had been the only two people who hadn't stabbed her in the back and betrayed her trust. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic