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🎬 Blood Diamond (2006) 💬 We must remember that these stones... comprise only a small percentage of the legitimate diamond industry... whose trade is crucial to the economies of many emerging nations.

📚 Spread the word, phrase. ❓ Definition: Share the information or news. ❗️ Examples: 1. He spread the word about the charity's work. 2. He has got some big names to help spread the word. 3. We're proud to spread the word about how museum membership strengthens the vibrant cultural fabric of the Twin Cities. 4. It is very nice to know that he is doing good for the Sikh community by spreading the word of god. 5. I joined so I could spread the word on tons of books that I know would have larger audiences, if only readers knew about them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Little House: The Last Farewell (1984) 💬 All right, spread the word in town.

📚 Zhuzh, verb. ❓ Definition (usually zhuzh something up • informal • with object): Make something more stylish, lively, or attractive. ❗️ Examples: 1. The bag is a cool but economical way to zhuzh up many an outfit. 2. He relies almost always on putting the men in question into a suit, and zhooshing up their hair. 3. In 1815 the Prince had employed John Nash, architect of Regent's Park, to zhoosh up his rather plain and classical farmhouse by the sea. 4. He swept into the group's headquarters, a team of hair stylists in tow, his objective to ‘zhoosh up’ the women's looks, he said. 5. That's why pancetta, if you can get it, is a better choice; otherwise remember that unsmoked bacon is generally less salty than smoked. For pudding: ice-cream slightly zhuzhed-up. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Dead Poets Society (1989) 💬 It describes how Mr Keating both in and out of the classroom encouraged Neil Perry to follow his obsession with acting... when he knew all along it was against the explicit orders... of Neil's parents.

📚 Explicit, adjective. 🔉 /ɪkˈsplɪsɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt. ❗️ Examples: 1. The arrangement had not been made explicit. 2. To ensure consistency, several definitions were made explicit before data entry began. 3. The methodologies employed are not only made explicit, but discussed in some detail, albeit at times anecdotally. 4. At least one has even made explicit reference to the use of nuclear bombs, albeit as a retaliatory measure. 5. A narrative is implied, but never made explicit. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Not a bit of it, phrase. ❓ Definition (British): Not at all. ❗️ Examples: 1. Am I being unduly cynical? Not a bit of it. 2. After the torrential rain on Saturday, we had thought the event might be a bit of a wash-out, but not a bit of it. 3. It sounds like a recipe for gross self-indulgence, but not a bit of it: ‘I've actually lost nearly a stone and a half since coming here.’ 4. When the Express closed, and then later the ill - fated Scottish Daily News, you'd have thought the bar would close but not a bit of it. 5. You would think after 20 years he would be jaded, but not a bit of it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Stir up, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition (stir something up, stir up something): Cause or provoke trouble or bad feeling. ❗️ Examples: 1. He accused me of trying to stir up trouble. 2. The rumours had stirred up his anger. 3. We both laughed nervously and he told me that he had heard that some Asian youths in Leeds had been stirring things up by deliberately leaving rucksacks on buses. 4. A brewery is stirring up a touch of controversy in the Yorkshire Dales - with an advertising campaign declaring that ‘drinking is folly’. 5. "They have been stirring up chaos in Hong Kong and at the same time they want to change the mainland's political system. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Foreigner (2017) 💬 They're trying to divide us, put the Brits back on the streets again, stir up the troubles all over again.

📚 Put the bite on, phrase. ❓ Definition (North American, Australian, New Zealand • informal): Borrow or extort money from. ❗️ Examples: 1. A deadbeat diner tried to put the bite on a restaurant. 2. Damn, I thought, putting the bite on me for food money. 3. I'm no elitist and I'm all for genuine homeless people getting a better deal all round, but it beggared belief to see him shopping with the people he was putting the bite on just minutes before. 4. It is scandalous is that while Catholic schools across the country have missed out on anywhere between $560 million and $2-3 billion over the past four years, they have put the bite on parents to make up some of the difference. 5. Meanwhile, the governor - through a special economic development fund overseen by his office - also has been putting the bite on a host of companies and other special interests to contribute to his pet cause. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Listless, adjective. 🔉 /ˈlɪs(t)ləs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of a person or their manner) lacking energy or enthusiasm. ❗️ Examples: 1. Bouts of listless depression. 2. On Sunday, they were listless throughout and the two goal winning margin is a flattering one from their perspective. 3. I was listless, too sick and weak to say much of anything to defend myself. 4. She was listless, helpless, but not suicidal, and used cocaine sporadically. 5. After seemingly endless weeks of constant commotion, they appear listless and lethargic. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Nothing succeeds like success, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Success leads to opportunities for further and greater successes. ❗️ Examples: 1. At the end of the day, nothing succeeds like success. 2. But in America, nothing succeeds like success. 3. In mitigation, this run of bad results was closely tied to a string of away fixtures that would test any team but it once again proved that if nothing succeeds like success then failure facilitates a firing. 4. You know that saying, nothing succeeds like success? 5. Well, its an old saying and a true one: nothing succeeds like success. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Legerdemain, noun. 🔉 /ˌlɛdʒədɪˈmeɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Skilful use of one's hands when performing conjuring tricks. ❗️ Examples: 1. There were fine nuggets of legerdemain, courtesy of the illusionist Paul Kieve. 2. Much to the satisfaction of legitimate entertainers, the book also expresses respect for the art of legerdemain, which it discusses using that very term. 3. Readers are invited to imagine how Copperfield will pull off this magic coup, but we reckon it will involve a couple of balls, a cup and plenty of legerdemain. 4. A classic piece of management legerdemain. 5. What was the point of this sophisticated legerdemain with Ray's aliases? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Misnomer, noun. 🔉 /mɪsˈnəʊmə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A wrong or inaccurate use of a name or term. ❗️ Examples: 1. To call this ‘neighbourhood policing’ would be a misnomer. 2. The term ‘student work’ seems a misnomer here, given the clarity and maturity of her production. 3. The mistake is in a way only a misnomer, but terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion, and so it is here. 4. Unfortunately, this infamous misnomer was only the first of a series of mistakes made by the first foreigner to set eyes on the place: Hiram Bingham. 5. In the post-modern context, however, it would be a misnomer to use family in this sense. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Trainspotting (1996) 💬 What a total fucking misnomer.

🎬 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) 💬 If ever there was someone who earned a happy ending, it was... Me! Bravo! "You answer to the name of Ernest.

📚 Answer to the name of, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Be called. ❗️ Examples: 1. A missing gent answering to the name of Bloom. 2. The owner's children were distraught, as they had travelled as far as Wexford in search of their pet that answers to the name of Prince. 3. He answers to the name of Sam and was last seen on Sunday, September 22 in the Borris Road area. 4. The parrot, which is still missing, has red tail feathers and a blue plastic ring on his foot and answers to the name of Monty. 5. He is grey with a white nose and paws and was wearing a white collar, he answers to the name of Socks. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic