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🎬 Prince of the City (1981) 💬 Needless to say, we're very proud of Detective Ciello's work.

📚 Needless to say, phrase. ❓ Definition: Of course. ❗️ Examples: 1. Needless to say, he didn't believe me. 2. We were in a joint family then and needless to say, it was good fun. 3. And, needless to say, shortly after he began to believe me, he went away. 4. So needless to say, there were a lot of jokes about spies and so on. 5. So, needless to say, I am intimately familiar with the incident and what took place. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Great Muppet Caper (1981) 💬 It is rather breathtaking, isn't it?

📚 Breathtaking, adjective. 🔉 /ˈbrɛθteɪkɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Astonishing or awe-inspiring in quality, so as to take one's breath away. ❗️ Examples: 1. The scene was one of breathtaking beauty. 2. The setting is a breathtaking reminder of the wondrous beauty of our province. 3. As a photographer, I am, of course, touched by the breathtaking beauty of our wildlife. 4. Start at the top end of town for the sheer breathtaking spectacle, if nothing else. 5. What did those people know about the breathtaking beauty of nature and her wares? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Once I Was a Beehive (2015) 💬 So she decided to bite the bullet and bring her brooding angst along with her.

📚 Bite the bullet, phrase. ❓ Definition: Decide to do something difficult or unpleasant that one has been putting off or hesitating over. ❗️ Examples: 1. Decisions have to be taken and as director you have got to bite the bullet. 2. But now I have decided to bite the bullet and give it a go. 3. I decided to bite the bullet and spend the money to rebuild her engine. 4. We decided to bite the bullet, and implement the scheme in order to raise standards, for the sake of Merton's children. 5. With a new wife and a baby on the way, Chris decided to bite the bullet and flew over to Canada two weeks ago, enlisting the help of the local paper. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Big Fish (2003) 💬 You must've taken a shortcut. Why, yes, I did. It almost killed me.

📚 Shortcut, noun. 🔉 /ˈʃɔːtkʌt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: An alternative route that is shorter than the one usually taken. ❗️ Examples: 1. They were taking a shortcut to town. 2. We're always looking for the quick route, the short cut, the way to avoid the traffic. 3. Ignoring it as was my custom, I turned off the main road, and took the short cut through the woods. 4. We took a short cut through the woods behind the elementary school at the edge of our neighborhood, and emerged at the side of the highway. 5. I was heading south so I decided to take a short cut through the woods and that is when you found me here, fighting off those two brigands. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 The world, the flesh, and the devil, phrase. ❓ Definition: All forms of temptation to sin. ❗️ Examples: 1. Rossetti struggled with these words in her desire to overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil. 2. A rich understanding of the roles of God, the world, the flesh, and the devil in suffering will aid counselors in determining the best responses to their clients' pain. 3. The daily, hourly conflict with the world, the flesh, and the devil, shall at length be at an end: the enemy shall be bound; the warfare shall be over; the wicked shall at last cease from troubling; the weary shall at length be at rest. 4. In other words, the world, the flesh, and the devil are formidable obstacles to responding to the light and grace that God gives. 5. Epicurus' dubious reputation reflected the Christian tendency to regard earthly pleasures as the evil lures of the world, the flesh, and the devil. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Victor Crowley (2017) 💬 The publisher had my ghost writer embellish some parts, alright?

📚 Embellish, verb. 🔉 /ɪmˈbɛlɪʃ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Make (a statement or story) more interesting by adding extra details that are often untrue. ❗️ Examples: 1. Followers often embellish stories about their heroes. 2. And if people don't get the point, then I will simply repeat my windows story, now embellished by light switches, until they do. 3. Over the centuries, after countless retellings, the story has been slightly embellished. 4. The stress deepened her dependence on alcohol, and her amateurish efforts to market her story led her to embellish the details of her espionage. 5. My hope is that by making this public here, he will perhaps be dissuaded from continuing to embellish this story with false statements. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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

📚 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

📚 Bill, noun. 🔉 /bɪl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A draft of a proposed law presented to parliament for discussion. ❗️ Examples: 1. A debate over the civil rights bill. 2. Within a few weeks a draft bill was presented to parliament; it had two clauses later to become sections 1 and 2 of the Act of 1916. 3. Last week, a private members' bill was presented to Parliament calling for a ban on masts near classrooms and homes. 4. The government has presented around 30 bills to the parliament, which it wants to pass rapidly during final two weeks of August. 5. I guess we can tell that we are at the dog-end when the best the Government can do is present to Parliament bills of this nature for consideration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @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

📚 Belligerent, adjective. 🔉 /bəˈlɪdʒ(ə)r(ə)nt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Engaged in a war or conflict, as recognized by international law. ❗️ Examples: 1. A conference of socialists from all belligerent countries. 2. It is based upon the customary international laws of belligerent occupation, including the Hague Regulations. 3. It is widely recognized that access by belligerent groups to the gains from drug production and trafficking contributes to the intensity and prolongation of military conflict. 4. Take also the case of lawful belligerent reprisals (for example, the use of prohibited weapons). 5. Even between belligerent states, such treaties will not necessarily be suspended; a fortiori, if the conflict is not international, treaty rules will in general continue to apply. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 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

📚 Exaggerated, adjective. 🔉 /ɪɡˈzadʒəreɪtɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Regarded or represented as larger, better, or worse than in reality. ❗️ Examples: 1. An exaggerated account of his adventures. 2. Comic book characters are drawn with exaggerated features so you will remember them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic