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📚 Alienate, verb. 🔉 /ˈeɪlɪəneɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Make (someone) become unsympathetic or hostile. ❗️ Examples: 1. The association does not wish to alienate its members. 2. The experience will drive him away from his deaf parents and alienate him from an unsympathetic hearing world. 3. Orchin's difficulty was that to make the association more attractive to members he risked alienating the patrons who subsidized its activities. 4. I choose to be loyal to my values and to alienate my team members. 5. It is typical of Keegan not to wish to alienate people who are hoping to arrange an ecologically sound disposal of their mortal remains upon their own flowerbeds. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bring something to bear, phrase. ❓ Definition: Exert influence or pressure so as to achieve a particular result. ❗️ Examples: 1. They brought pressure to bear on him to resign. 2. She had reservations about how much influence she could bring to bear. 3. And who, at this distance, can tell what pressures were brought to bear on ordinary citizens to make them conform. 4. NASA finally relented, but only after much pressure was brought to bear. 5. Another way that pressure can be brought to bear on offending nations is through economic sanctions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ceilidh, noun. 🔉 /ˈkeɪli/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A social event with Scottish or Irish folk music and singing, traditional dancing, and storytelling. ❗️ Examples: 1. Yet Highland culture continues to flourish through the Gaelic language, piping, ceilidhs (informal gatherings with traditional music, dancing and poetry) and a full schedule of Highland games. 2. They will be supported by Sarah Northcott and Matt Smith before the evening is rounded of with a traditional Scottish ceilidh led by Edinburgh-based Da Hooley. 3. Comedy, story-telling, poetry, ceilidhs, workshops and Morris-dancing are on the programme, along with T'ai Chi, crafts, kids' events and even a Sunday morning walk. 4. Now let's make it bigger still, with organised dances, ceilidhs and parties around different, marked parts of the city for 24 hours - all within walking distance of the centre. 5. The dances are not energetic in the sense that a barn dance or a ceilidh is. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Amazing Grace (2006) 💬 Clarkson sat in a coach to Birmingham and overheard someone claim that I'd secretly married a slave woman.

📚 Overhear, verb. 🔉 /əʊvəˈhɪə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Hear (someone or something) without meaning to or without the knowledge of the speaker. ❗️ Examples: 1. I couldn't help overhearing your conversation. 2. Children will hear conversations and overhear information on radio, TV and from the playground network. 3. The researchers will also note every time they hear or overhear the words being used in conversation. 4. We ended our snack (better described as lunch) with a large pot of Chinese tea, overhearing snatches of conversation from a neighbouring table. 5. Do you really want to overhear his cooing conversations with another girl? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 🎥 Stardust Memories (1980) 💬 I have a thing about Nazis.

📚 Have a thing about, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Have a strong liking for or dislike of. ❗️ Examples: 1. She had a thing about men who wore glasses. 2. I've always had a thing about mirrors — I can't have one near my bed. 3. I have a thing about sumptuously comfortable beds. 4. And, perhaps as a result, I've always had a thing about not eating too many sweets, although this never seemed to extend to alcohol. 5. And he had a thing about not looking directly at her. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Fracture (2007) 💬 Now, he just provoked my witness with an outrageous allegation.

📚 Allegation, noun. 🔉 /alɪˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A claim or assertion that someone has done something illegal or wrong, typically one made without proof. ❗️ Examples: 1. He made allegations of corruption against the administration. 2. Allegations that the army was operating a shoot-to-kill policy. 3. The burden of proof in an allegation of undue influence rests upon the person who claims to have been wronged. 4. He said in the case of the association some people had been making allegations without proof. 5. Any allegation for nuisance is often met with a counter allegation which must also be investigated. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A penny for your thoughts, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to ask someone what they are thinking about. ❗️ Examples: 1. I haven't heard anyone say that for years - a penny for your thoughts. 2. Next time someone offers you a penny for your thoughts… sell! 3. So, a penny for your thoughts here: what criteria, if any, should be applied in selecting names? 4. When did the phrase "a penny for your thoughts" originate? 5. It's in this book that we find the earliest known citation of the line, "A penny for your thoughts." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Pion, noun. 🔉 /ˈpʌɪɒn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Also called «pi-meson». ❗️ Examples: 1. The proton and the neutron are baryons; the electron, the muon, and the neutrino are leptons; whilst the pions are mesons. 2. Kaons and pions are examples of particles known as mesons, which contain a quark and an antiquark. 3. He worked primarily on the interaction of pions with protons. 4. In turn, these decay into other subatomic particles, like kaons and pions. 5. A neutral pion consists of a down quark and a down antiquark. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Girls Trip (2017) 💬 All allegations of infidelity are false.

📚 Infidelity, noun. 🔉 /ɪnfɪˈdɛlɪti/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The action or state of being unfaithful to a spouse or other sexual partner. ❗️ Examples: 1. Her infidelity continued after her marriage. 2. I ought not to have tolerated his infidelities. 3. Sure, there are drugs and infidelities and deviant sexuality, but that's the exception for this otherwise decent lot. 4. Affairs, infidelities, sexual peccadilloes fall generally outside the purview of inquisitive political eyes; at any rate, they do not make for fodder for a dirty election campaign. 5. My lovely partner, Patrick, suffered the knowledge of my infidelities and witnessed my mental, physical, and spiritual decay. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Two of a kind, phrase. ❓ Definition: The same or very similar. ❗️ Examples: 1. She and her sister were two of a kind. 2. I myself had doubts at first until I went further in and found clothes that are two of a kind. 3. You're two of a kind - genetically designed to get into trouble - and all we bystanders can do is pick up the pieces and try to stick them back together again afterward. 4. Lizzie, can't you tell, we're two of a kind. 5. When I opened my eyes there she was - April from work, with her face up against mine telling me how we were two of a kind, and how we needed to do something about that, her and me. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Bitter Moon (1992) 💬 I'd always found infidelity... the most titillating aspect of any relationship.

📚 Titillating, adjective. 🔉 /ˈtɪtɪleɪtɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Arousing mild sexual excitement or interest; salacious. ❗️ Examples: 1. She let slip titillating details about her clients. 2. Then came a lot of titillating tabloid speculation. 3. Sure, crass commercialism has pushed the mainstream media into an obsession with titillating stories about celebrities. 4. Yet there is more here than just titillating visuals. 5. By the time that same child is 18 years old, approximately 40,000 sexually titillating scenes will have been viewed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Cold feet, phrase. ❓ Definition: Loss of nerve or confidence. ❗️ Examples: 1. After arranging to meet I got cold feet and phoned her saying I was busy. 2. The Rochdale cabaret singer feared his Norwegian bride had got cold feet and decided to return to her homeland without him. 3. The central government has developed cold feet on the promised legislation to regulate fee and admissions in professional colleges. 4. Apparently, one - or possibly more - of the investors may have gotten cold feet. 5. They believed the hype about the cost and got cold feet. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994) 💬 Listen, I've got a foolproof plan.