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📚 Ghostwriter, noun. 🔉 /ˈɡəʊs(t)ˌrʌɪtə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author. ❗️ Examples: 1. He said one reason to be more lenient is that everyone assumes that most words uttered by politicians or published under their names were actually written by speechwriters or ghostwriters. 2. Journal articles are no longer published anonymously, and ghostwriters demand that their contributions be acknowledged. 3. Keeping in mind that people trust experts, you can have a ghostwriter write your web content and you present it under your name. 4. He wanted to stay the course with his main character and write it himself without a ghostwriter or co-author. 5. Estimates suggest that almost half of all articles published in journals are by ghostwriters. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Turn a blind eye, phrase. ❓ Definition: Pretend not to notice. ❗️ Examples: 1. Please, don't turn a blind eye to what is happening. 2. We cannot continue to turn a blind eye or ear and pretend that all is well when many people are hurting and yearning for help. 3. In many ways, I think he's given the Saudis a pass and he's turned a blind eye to them. 4. It is a problem people are prepared to turn a blind eye to it because people rarely notice these sites as they are covered over. 5. Please, don't turn a blind eye or passively ignore what is happening. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Napkin, noun. 🔉 /ˈnapkɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (also table napkin) a square piece of cloth or paper used at a meal to wipe the fingers or lips and to protect garments. ❗️ Examples: 1. She unfolded her napkin and put it on her lap. 2. In the last year or so a number of people have pointed out this truly disgusting trend, that an increasing number of men are using their table napkin to blow their nose. 3. It belongs in the position of a table napkin, beside a plate. 4. She was fiddling with her table napkin nervously. 5. Mike got out a pen from his pocket and drew four columns on a table napkin. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 If you can't beat them, join them, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): If you are unable to outdo rivals in some endeavour, you might as well cooperate with them and thereby possibly gain an advantage. ❗️ Examples: 1. Steve took the view that if you can't beat them, join them. 2. You're saying if you can't beat them, join them. 3. But they have increasingly taken the view that if you can't beat them, join them, and begun offering similar, competitive services. 4. The only solution as far as I can see it is if you can't beat them, join them. 5. Like everyone says, if you can't beat them, join them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bowdlerize, verb. 🔉 /ˈbaʊdlərʌɪz/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Remove material that is considered improper or offensive from (a text or account), especially with the result that the text becomes weaker or less effective. ❗️ Examples: 1. Every edition of his letters and diaries has been bowdlerized. 2. Other books were bowdlerized, including Boccaccio's Decameron and Castiglione's The Courtier. 3. In 1979, he discovered that ‘some cubby-hole editors’ had bowdlerized his book in 98 places. 4. Mistress Quickly's lines were severely bowdlerized in the 19th century. 5. The first intimations of serious trouble came from Trieste, where the censors savagely bowdlerised Stiffelio 1850. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Ricochet (1991) 💬 Days of glory behind them, some people feel the towers have become an eyesore, a dangerous jumble of rusting steel and broken glass.

📚 Eyesore, noun. 🔉 /ˈʌɪsɔː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A thing that is very ugly, especially a building. ❗️ Examples: 1. The office crumbled into an eyesore. 2. At a time when Ireland is so wealthy, the excuses for building those eyesores are gone. 3. In most cases, the rules are in place to ensure everyone can appreciate their homes and surroundings without the detrimental impact of unlawful buildings, developments or eyesores. 4. With many of the old eyesores now disappearing from sight more effort will be called for to really get the town looking its best for the spring, summer and autumn. 5. BBC News has been asking its readers to nominate Britain's worst buildings, the eyesores that they would like to see demolished. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Look on the bright side, phrase. ❓ Definition: Be optimistic or cheerful in spite of difficulties. ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘I expect I shall manage,’ she said, determined to look on the bright side. 2. He was always the one who looked on the bright side, the optimistic one. 3. With so many good things happening, it is so difficult not to look on the bright side, isn't it? 4. At first, anti-dam activists looked on the bright side. 5. The move might seem like nothing more than a disruption, but the director is looking on the bright side. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 First Snow (2006) 💬 You will benefit from a windfall.

📚 Windfall, noun. 🔉 /ˈwɪn(d)fɔːl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A large amount of money that is won or received unexpectedly. ❗️ Examples: 1. Members are to get an average £520 cash windfall for voting ‘yes’ to the merger. 2. In so doing, they will reap windfall profits from a property redevelopment scheme. 3. A struggling cricket club has been given a new lease of life following an unexpected cash windfall. 4. Striding ahead of the rest has landed a Lancaster theatre with a huge cash windfall. 5. One thing for certain: this unexpected financial windfall will most definitely not be a handicap to the club. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 None other than, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to emphasize the surprising identity of a person or thing. ❗️ Examples: 1. Her first customer was none other than Henry du Pont. 2. The first victims of his surprise visit were none other than presspersons themselves. 3. And it was none other than Rossellini who advised him to turn professional. 4. This church is supposed to have been founded by none other than Charlemagne. 5. She's played by none other than Kitty Bruce, daughter of standup legend Lenny Bruce. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Pluvial, adjective. 🔉 /ˈpluːvɪəl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Geology): Relating to or characterized by rainfall. ❗️ Examples: 1. The alternation of pluvial and arid periods in the Quaternary. 2. Left by a passing glacier, the boulders acted as umbrellas to the softer rock beneath, protecting it from pluvial erosion. 3. Evidence of pluvial lakes have been used in the reconstruction of palaeoclimates, using shoreline evidence and analysis of lake sediments to link lake levels to climate. 4. That is, if the pluvial conditions are such that a rainbow is produced, then that rainbow will look very different from the norm. 5. I must have a pluvial character because this sort of weather is my favourite. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 O Lucky Man! (1973) 💬 Unanimous decision, I'm afraid.

📚 Unanimous, adjective. 🔉 /juːˈnanɪməs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): (of two or more people) fully in agreement. ❗️ Examples: 1. The doctors were unanimous in their diagnoses. 2. The councillors were unanimous in their agreement that new hospital facilities were long overdue in the town. 3. The judges were also unanimous in their concern that most of the sites made visitors work too hard. 4. Councillors gave their unanimous support to the bill, although some were concerned the wording was not tight enough. 5. Yet all three were unanimous in admitting that the game was lost in two crucial areas: at the breakdown and in the line-out. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Bruce Almighty (2003) 💬 They're seeing if l can think on my feet, you know, like, l might have to do in a live news anchor situation.

📚 Think on one's feet, phrase. ❓ Definition: React to events decisively, effectively, and without prior thought. ❗️ Examples: 1. I am sort of thinking on my feet here as I react to the information from my two correspondents and from other sources. 2. How the candidates think on their feet and react to the audience can be a telling sign as to how they will act once they are in office. 3. I can see Dallas not knowing what to do, but the other three are veterans and talk about not thinking on your feet or reacting to circumstances. 4. She was improvising and having to think on her feet. 5. He thought on his feet, a very bright individual as far as prisoners go. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) 💬 I'm trying to change 100 years of entrenched dogma.

📚 Entrench, verb. ❓ Definition (with object): Establish (an attitude, habit, or belief) so firmly that change is very difficult or unlikely. ❗️ Examples: 1. Ageism is entrenched in our society. 2. Much of this reaction was informed by the firmly entrenched cultural beliefs associated with these creatures. 3. Unhealthy habits are entrenched in the lives of British children by the time they are 11 years old, world medical experts will be told this month. 4. Given the absence of an enabling set-up, biases are firmly entrenched within the institutional framework as policies. 5. He is one of the rare authors who can change minds on a subject where opinions are firmly entrenched. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic