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📚 Foolproof, adjective. 🔉 /ˈfuːlpruːf/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Incapable of going wrong or being misused. ❗️ Examples: 1. A foolproof security system. 2. Bee-eaters have worked out a foolproof security system for the nest. 3. True, democracy and the rule of law provide no foolproof security guarantee. 4. Come up with a foolproof security system and stop other men like you from stealing priceless works of art. 5. Now, no one wants the president assassinated, but the reality is no security is foolproof. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 In tune, phrase. ❓ Definition: In agreement or harmony. ❗️ Examples: 1. Retailers are becoming more in tune with what the consumers want. 2. The urban radio stations talking about ‘peace in the streets ‘are out of tune with reality.’ 3. Martin Dunne: ‘Central policy makers are totally out of tune with the views of the people around the country.’ 4. It just seemed to us that the politicians - all of them, in all the different parties - are out of tune with how ordinary people feel about this. 5. We have laws in place which are clearly out of tune with the views of the majority of the population. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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🎬 Heavenly Creatures (1994) 💬 I'm saving them for a rainy day. -
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📚 Rainy day, noun. 🔉 /ˌreɪnɪ ˈdeɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (figurative): A possible future time of hardship or relative poverty. Frequently in "for (also against) a rainy day". ❗️ Examples: 1. She had saved some money for a rainy day. 2. For the first time in history, the government has saved excess oil earnings for the next rainy day. 3. I've kept some money in the bank for a rainy day. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Be party to, phrase. ❓ Definition: Be involved in. ❗️ Examples: 1. He was party to some very shady deals. 2. That is not an example that my party and other parties want to be party to at all. 3. Yes because they were party to what has turned out to be open, active aggression against a third country that in no way was a threat to them and of course their reasons for going in have proved to be absolutely baseless. 4. Mother Teresa once recounted an incident she was party to in London. 5. One wonders, too, if he was a party to, participant indeed in, the villainies of Thomas J. Wise? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Io, proper noun. 🔉 /ˈʌɪəʊ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Greek Mythology): A priestess of Hera who was loved by Zeus. Trying to protect her from the jealousy of Hera, Zeus turned Io into a heifer. Hera sent a gadfly to torture the heifer, which then fled across the world and finally reached Egypt, where Zeus turned her back into human form. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic 
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🎬 Scent of a Woman (1992) 💬 When the wife gets restless, the wife gets racy. -
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📚 Racy, adjective. 🔉 /ˈreɪsi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Lively, entertaining, and typically sexually titillating. ❗️ Examples: 1. The novel was considered rather racy at the time. 2. As for the film being racy, raunchy or titillating, there's utterly nothing groundbreaking here. 3. The film is probably most notable for its attempts to entertain adults with racy jokes and visuals. 4. Entertainment Weekly wrote about racy Y / A novels in this week's issue. 5. Readers looking for a racy, entertaining romp full of plot twists, scandal and exposed secrets will not be disappointed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Don't mention it, phrase. ❓ Definition: A polite expression used to indicate that thanks or an apology are not necessary. ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘Thanks very much.’ ‘Don't mention it, dear boy.’ 2. Man, don't mention it; what are friends for? 3. No, don't mention it; I'm sorry I knocked you over. 4. ‘Please don't mention it,’ Vicki snapped slightly. 5. ‘Please don't mention it again,’ she said plainly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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🎬 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 💬 The horses are restless... and the men are quiet. -
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📚 Restless, adjective. 🔉 /ˈrɛs(t)ləs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Unable to rest or relax as a result of anxiety or boredom. ❗️ Examples: 1. The audience grew restless and inattentive. 2. The animals were restless, disturbed by the smell of fire permeating the building. 3. There is a restless feel about this group, but I let the first forty minutes continue as planned. 4. In an age of restless channel surfing, you couldn't ask for anything better than this. 5. She felt restless just sitting there and tried to think of something to do. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 A trouble shared is a trouble halved, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Talking to someone else about one's problems helps to alleviate them. ❗️ Examples: 1. The saying, ‘a trouble shared is a trouble halved’ is just as true when it comes to your physical health as it is in relation to your emotional health. 2. They say a trouble shared is a trouble halved, but when holiday anxiety strikes, I suffer in silence. 3. Build a social support network of friends and family - remember a trouble shared is a trouble halved. 4. On the basis that a trouble shared is a trouble halved, I will share some of my troubles with you. 5. They say a trouble shared is a trouble halved and it's true. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Junoesque, adjective. 🔉 /ˌdʒuːnəʊˈɛsk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of a woman) imposingly tall and shapely. ❗️ Examples: 1. A handsome Junoesque woman. 2. She was rather Junoesque, with her soft brown curls, pulled back in a loose knot on the back of her head, and her pretty face; she was probably only a few years older than Mother, but seemed more aged, as if she had seen more in her life. 3. But unlike the latter's compliant filles, Golub's Junoesque women project a potency exceeding even that of the Spaniard's priapic Minotaur. 4. Of course, her Junoesque figure was exploited in the films and made much of in the media. 5. ‘La, I do beg pardon,’ A Junoesque young woman in a white, filmy, low-cut dress hesitated in the doorway. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic
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🎬 Scent of a Woman (1992) 💬 Uhoh, we got a moron here, is that it? -
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📚 Moron, noun. 🔉 /ˈmɔːrɒn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal): A stupid person. ❗️ Examples: 1. We can't let these thoughtless morons get away with mindless vandalism every weekend. 2. Stupid moron, the chances of me falling for anyone at this party were one in twenty million. 3. I bet that those on the receiving end of such behaviour don't mind whether the villains are dubbed cretins or morons. 4. Adam's a damn fool, a moron for not realising what he could be throwing away. 5. Speaking of idiots, Tom proves he is a moron with his comments on antidepressants. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Out of context, phrase. ❓ Definition: Without the surrounding words or circumstances and so not fully understandable. ❗️ Examples: 1. The article portrayed her as domineering by dropping quotes from her out of context. 2. He twists words, quotes people out of context and stretches the truth to suit his purpose. 3. The embarrassment was such that Gilchrist found himself explaining that his words had been taken out of context. 4. She says her words were taken out of context, but soon submits her resignation. 5. He said that his words were taken out of context and he was sorry if he had offended anyone. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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🎬 The Ghost Writer (2010) 💬 Look, I'm his ghostwriter. I'm not an investigative reporter.