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📚 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

📚 Instigate, verb. 🔉 /ˈɪnstɪɡeɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Bring about or initiate (an action or event) ❗️ Examples: 1. They instigated a reign of terror. 2. I will be instigating legal proceedings. 3. Here the audience obtains a glimpse of the power bloc which oversaw and instigated the events. 4. Over the years she has instigated various events in the Court and the town itself. 5. Does the development team have the power and flexibility to instigate catastrophic events in the game? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 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

📚 Englished, adjective. 🔉 /ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Made English in character or form; translated into English. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Kim's Convenience (2016) - Service S01E08 💬 Many hands make light work. Let's find the card, hmm?

📚 Many hands make light work, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): A task is soon accomplished if several people help. ❗️ Examples: 1. To quote the old saying, many hands make light work. 2. Just when you are thinking too many cooks spoil the broth, suddenly someone will remind you that many hands make light work. 3. Putting the Lantern Parade together is a huge job and many hands make light work. 4. But as many hands make light work, meals on wheels convenor Margaret Clark says she is always interested in hearing from people who can help getting the food to the clients. 5. The campaign was launched last Thursday night in the Seven Oaks Hotel but like all events, many hands make light work so the more people who can help make the event a success the better. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Incite, verb. 🔉 /ɪnˈsʌɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Encourage or stir up (violent or unlawful behaviour) ❗️ Examples: 1. They conspired to incite riots. 2. The Public Order Act of 1986 made it a criminal offence to incite racial hatred - but its provisions do not extend to sexual orientation. 3. I am aware that Britain has legislation which makes it a criminal offence to incite racial hatred. 4. Many priests refused to collaborate with the authorities, and some incited disobedience. 5. Generally, it is perfectly obvious what kind of language or imagery incites racial hatred. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Jam tomorrow, phrase. ❓ Definition (British): A pleasant thing which is often promised but rarely materializes. ❗️ Examples: 1. A promise of jam tomorrow wasn't enough to satisfy them. 2. Policy holders want cash today, not the promise of jam tomorrow, and if people don't appreciate that then they are out of touch. 3. He should realise that promises of jam tomorrow are not helping shopkeepers in his area to swallow difficulties forced on them by the loss of parking spaces. 4. Unfortunately, in the case of human and civil rights, promises of jam tomorrow are simply not good enough. 5. We have been promised jam tomorrow but we have never got it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Pickle, noun. 🔉 /ˈpɪk(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (North American • count noun): A pickled cucumber. ❗️ Examples: 1. In the making of fresh-pack pickles, cucumbers are acidified quickly with vinegar. 2. By July, she'd already had time to make a batch of the pickles using cucumbers from her garden. 3. They plant and harvest onions, zucchini, pickles, cabbage, lettuce and apples, produce that gets shipped all over the country. 4. The barrel will turn the sweet cucumber into a pickle. 5. Bacon, luncheon meats, potato chips, and pickles are examples of salty foods. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Black Rainbow (1989) 💬 I can't tread water any longer.

📚 Tread water, phrase. ❓ Definition: Fail to make progress. ❗️ Examples: 1. Men who are treading water in their careers. 2. So when you see the elites floating away in their yachts while you're barely treading water, before you get angry, take a moment to feel their pain. 3. Brando trod water a lot, so I might go for Mitchum. 4. With a 10th win in 11 league games assured, the Old Trafford aristocrats trod water slightly after the interval. 5. He treads water for a few more minutes and sputters out a handful of other fun winter facts. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Hatred, noun. 🔉 /ˈheɪtrɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Intense dislike; hate. ❗️ Examples: 1. Racial hatred. 2. His murderous hatred of his brother. 3. They must make it clear that religious hatred will not be tolerated and they must be seen to take a stand. 4. It set an end to a terrible century of war and hatred between France and Germany. 5. I read them and am hurt by the injustice and often outright hatred of some of the posters. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Bad Samaritan (2018) 💬 He drags us halfway around the world for a construction job, that goes belly up after two weeks.

📚 Go belly up, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Go bankrupt. ❗️ Examples: 1. The company was about to go belly up. 2. Let me switch gears, because we only have a short time left, to talk about this Enron, this energy company that just went belly up, went bankrupt, causing a lot of pain for workers, their investors. 3. If they went belly up, bankrupt, shut down, and can't take their cruise ships out of port you would be there holding your bags quite literally and an expensive but useless ticket for your cruise. 4. After Nadia got the sack from her employers who went belly up as Americans call bankruptcy, she applied to ‘zillions’ of tech firms all over America. 5. However, it is doubtful whether the bank could practice this expansion for too long since it runs the risk of not being able to clear its checks and thus go belly up. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Influential, adjective. 🔉 /ˌɪnflʊˈɛnʃ(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Having great influence on someone or something. ❗️ Examples: 1. Her work is influential in feminist psychology. 2. A quarter of a century on, the clergyman remains a powerful and influential figure even in death. 3. So, what do you think is the most important and influential car ever to be sold in Britain? 4. So a handful of votes will determine the direction of the world's most powerful and influential country. 5. National actors play important and influential roles at all stages of the EU policy process. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 On the back foot, phrase. ❓ Definition (British): Outmanoeuvred by a competitor or opponent; at a disadvantage. ❗️ Examples: 1. Messi's early goal put Milan on the back foot. 2. The government found itself on the back foot as peaceful demonstrations continued. 3. By the early summer of 1918, the German submarines were clearly on the back foot. 4. The Irish government appeared to be put on the back foot. 5. The polls may not show much change but the government gives all the appearances of being on the back foot. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Syzygy, noun. 🔉 /ˈsɪzɪdʒi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Astronomy): A conjunction or opposition, especially of the moon with the sun. ❗️ Examples: 1. The planets were aligned in syzygy. 2. The Moon may be said to be in syzygy when it is at either of these points. 3. In case you didn't know, Earth, the Moon, and the Sun are in syzygy every time they line up in space. 4. Once more, I was looking at a three-dimensional picture of the solar system during the syzygy, but this was much further along in time. 5. Maximum gravitation force occurs when a syzygy and perigee occur on the same day as perihelion. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic