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📚 Passage, noun. 🔉 /ˈpasɪdʒ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A narrow way allowing access between buildings or to different rooms within a building; a passageway. ❗️ Examples: 1. The larger bedroom was at the end of the passage. 2. The house is old and creaky, stairs to half-floors leading from narrow rooms and confusing passages as if designed by M.C. Escher. 3. Excavations revealed a massive timber gate about halfway along the passage allowing access to be controlled. 4. As one walks through the different rooms, passages and interstices of the gallery, there is a tremendous but transient concatenation of sound. 5. Within the narrow passages candles were placed along the walls, dimly lighting up the blood red stone. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Let the cat out of the bag, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Reveal a secret carelessly or by mistake. ❗️ Examples: 1. Now that Viola had let the cat out of the bag, she had no option but to confess. 2. Gavin Anderson apologises to those in the know for letting the cat out of the bag about this secret haven. 3. So let the cat out of the bag: admit that what you're really up to is a satire on the state of arts funding. 4. The rather inappropriately named Defence Minister let the cat out of the bag by admitting that there isn't really a threat after all. 5. Two such academics were so upset by the broadcast they injudiciously let the cat out of the bag completely. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Reinforcement, noun. 🔉 /riːɪnˈfɔːsm(ə)nt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The process of encouraging or establishing a belief or pattern of behaviour. ❗️ Examples: 1. Positive feedback leads to reinforcement. 2. Teachers are often unaware that they encourage inappropriate behavior through reinforcement. 3. It is essential to teach and model desired behaviours, and the benefits of positive reinforcement are well established. 4. All owners will be told how to correct the dog's behaviour and how reinforcement of good behaviour will pay more dividends than punishment. 5. However, some will need continued encouragement and positive reinforcement from parents and teachers for this good start not to become swamped by schoolyard attitudes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Take something with a pinch of salt, phrase. ❓ Definition: Regard something as exaggerated; believe only part of something. ❗️ Examples: 1. I take anything he says with a large pinch of salt. 2. An AIB spokesman rejected the claim it was ripping off customers and said it took the report with a pinch of salt as it did not believe true like-for-like comparisons were made. 3. The next time someone says one bullet is vastly superior to another in regards to wind deflection, take their advice with a grain of salt and check for yourself. 4. Many personnel believe that no matter what they have to say, it will be taken with a grain of salt. 5. Since I had no recourse to take this route, I took the stories with a pinch of salt and never checked them out. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Logan Lucky (2017) 💬 You Logans must be as simple-minded as people say.

📚 Simple-minded, adjective. ❓ Definition: Having or showing very little intelligence or judgement. ❗️ Examples: 1. Simple-minded theories. 2. He is a simple-minded minion. 3. Because they work on simple-minded theories and are totally oblivious of facts. 4. But these non-newsworthy-factoids have spawned appallingly simple-minded reflections. 5. No amount of simple-minded faith will change that. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Take root, phrase. ❓ Definition: Become fixed or established. ❗️ Examples: 1. The idea had taken root in my mind. 2. Spatial sequences merging across the shifting levels prevent fixed identities from taking root anywhere. 3. Because he had little to say about social need and there was no legislative provision for subsidising loss-making services, the idea took root that the issue had simply been ignored. 4. Nevertheless, the idea took root in their minds. 5. I quickly stomped on that idea before it fully took root. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Veil, noun. 🔉 /veɪl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A piece of fine material worn by women to protect or conceal the face. ❗️ Examples: 1. A white bridal veil. 2. The simple veil headpiece works great with elaborate bridal gowns since the veil does not detract from the overall look. 3. Women wear long dresses with embroidered bodices and side panels, and tall hats with long white veils. 4. Black party hats with veils made of black pantyhose or some other translucent material can also be made. 5. For a dinner of state, like tonight, the dancers were covered in light, flowing material with veils, only their faces showing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Downton Abbey (2010) - S01E04 💬 I'm a lost soul to you.

📚 Lost soul, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): A person who seems unable to cope with everyday life. ❗️ Examples: 1. A few lost souls wander aimlessly down to the front and stare up at the stage. 2. The nice thing is that everyone left at 12, so I have the entire building to myself - and have locked my office door in case some lost soul wanders by looking for help I can't give. 3. He is an emotionless, lost soul wandering the streets and helping out strangers while looking for a clean razor and dry cleaner for his dirty overcoat! 4. While not locked in his office, he wanders the corridors like a lost soul. 5. One such lost soul turned up at my office door earlier today. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Surrender, verb. 🔉 /səˈrɛndə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Stop resisting to an enemy or opponent and submit to their authority. ❗️ Examples: 1. Over 140 rebels surrendered to the authorities. 2. The policy, while savage, often meant the next towns along the way would surrender rather than resist. 3. Two days later, on May 2, 1945, all enemy forces in Italy surrendered unconditionally. 4. Noriega eventually surrendered voluntarily to U.S. authorities. 5. Enemy soldiers can also surrender and go home as civilians as soon as the war is over. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 See the back of, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Be rid of (an unwanted person or thing) ❗️ Examples: 1. We were always glad to see the back of her. 2. This New Year's Eve I was alone, glad to see the back of 2004 and preparing to move forward in the coming year. 3. I won't be sorry to see the back of all these roadworks so we can all go about our daily business. 4. They will be glad to see the back of him in Edinburgh. 5. By the sounds of it, they're glad to see the back of him. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Tenacious, adjective. 🔉 /tɪˈneɪʃəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Tending to keep a firm hold of something; clinging or adhering closely. ❗️ Examples: 1. A tenacious grip. 2. They brushed at tenacious bits of clinging greenery. 3. I think that Africa will always hold a tenacious grip on me, and I do feel sad to be leaving my friends. 4. Popular culture has a tenacious grip on most kids, parents, and even us teachers. 5. All the fish of these jungle rivers demonstrate a desperately tenacious grip on life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Underneath, preposition. 🔉 /ʌndəˈniːθ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Situated directly below (something else) ❗️ Examples: 1. Our bedroom is right underneath theirs. 2. Four names written underneath each other. 3. She was no longer hiding underneath her black hair and had showed her true colors during the auditions. 4. A girl wearing thick sunglasses with her hair tucked underneath a black hat pushed her way through the crowd. 5. He fetched a garbage bag from underneath the sink and, without entering the bedroom, handed it to her. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Back to the drawing board, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to indicate that an idea, scheme, or proposal has been unsuccessful and that a new one must be devised. ❗️ Examples: 1. The government must go back to the drawing board and review the whole issue of youth training. 2. The developers must now go back to the drawing board in relation to this second phase of their project. 3. The regulations must be sent back to the drawing board and revised to conform to the real world. 4. York Council expects to send developers back to the drawing board over their proposals for the city's Barbican Centre. 5. They have also decided to go back to the drawing board on the idea for bus priority in Shipton Road between Loweswater Road and Rawcliffe Lane. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Peri, noun. 🔉 /ˈpɪəri/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (in Persian mythology) a mythical superhuman being, originally represented as evil but subsequently as a good or graceful genie or fairy. ❗️ Examples: 1. Her androgynous form traverses his art as Desdemona and Jason, Leda and Apollo, St Sebastian and Delilah, a dead poet and a peri, Helen of Troy and Ganymede, Jacob's angel and a Eumenide on the track of Orestes. 2. The angels, or peris, on the floorspread, very distinctive in style, are unusual motifs to find on an embroidery. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Conceal, verb. 🔉 /kənˈsiːl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Prevent (something) from being known; keep secret. ❗️ Examples: 1. They were at great pains to conceal that information from the public. 2. The problem for me is how unfreedom is hidden, concealed in precisely what is presented to us as new freedoms. 3. The knowledge of this has always been there, but it's been half hidden, concealed for its own good. 4. Humankind's deceptive nature is probably the one thing we cannot hide or conceal. 5. She said he concealed his darker side behind a veneer of respectability in order to hide his true character from adoring fans. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 For Love or Money (1993) 💬 When it rains, it pours.