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📚 It never rains but it pours, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Misfortunes or difficult situations tend to follow each other in rapid succession or to arrive all at the same time. ❗️ Examples: 1. I never had an injury before in my life, but it's true what they say about injuries, it never rains but it pours. 2. When this fact is added to the rule of thumb that it never rains but it pours and the received wisdom that bad news comes in threes, the omens point to a particularly uncomfortable trip when Edinburgh travel to Toulouse next weekend. 3. Farmers need little convincing at present of the truth of the saying that it never rains but it pours. 4. In terms of troubles, however, it would appear that in shintyland it never rains but it pours. 5. That was when Anderson was to learn that in Scotland it never rains but it pours. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Dreadfully, adverb. 🔉 /ˈdrɛdfəli/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (British • often as submodifier): Extremely. ❗️ Examples: 1. You're dreadfully thin. 2. I'm dreadfully sorry! 3. I am really, truly, extremely, dreadfully, horribly sorry! 4. His behaviour was terrible and I am dreadfully sorry that you were exposed to it. 5. I feel dreadfully sorry for her and I know Michael will be really upset about it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Peep Show (2003) - S04E03 Gym 💬 Faint heart never won fair maid.

📚 Faint heart never won fair lady, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Timidity will prevent you from achieving your objective. ❗️ Examples: 1. Yes, awkward; yes, risky - but faint heart never won fair lady and all that. 2. "Faint heart never won fair lady," win the advice of a friend to Mr. Child, the son of a brewer, who sought the hand of the lady. 3. ‘Well, faint heart ne'er won fair maiden, or so the sayin’ goes Rennalt, ‘you had better make this one a good one‘. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Retcon, noun. 🔉 /ˈrɛtkɒn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (in a film, television series, or other fictional work) a piece of new information that imposes a different interpretation on previously described events, typically used to facilitate a dramatic plot shift or account for an inconsistency. ❗️ Examples: 1. We're given a retcon for Wilf's absence from Donna's wedding in ‘The Runaway Bride’: he had Spanish Flu. 2. Should we assume gendered pronouns conform to modern definitions of gender, or is this a social 'retcon' of the language? 3. That film's jaw-dropping ending would get its own retcon in the sixth film. 4. Next, let's see them come up with a creative retcon for that ludicrous "people being used as batteries" backstory. 5. Although the wikipedia entry gives fleshed details, most of those are a retcon from the Warcraft 3 universe. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Mudroom, noun. 🔉 /ˈmʌdruːm/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (North American): A small room or entryway where footwear and outer clothes can be removed before entering a house. ❗️ Examples: 1. Shoes don't come into the house — they are removed and stashed away in the mudroom. 2. The old kitchen was transformed into a mudroom. 3. More storage, often in the form of a back-door mudroom, is a must. 4. They stood in the aptly named mudroom just off of the great kitchen trying to remove the grime. 5. A mudroom, which features a playroom above, separates the family space from the garage. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Dad's Army (2016) 💬 Yes, they've been dragging their feet a bit lately.

📚 Drag one's feet, phrase. ❓ Definition: Be deliberately slow or reluctant to act. ❗️ Examples: 1. The government has dragged its heels over permanent legislation. 2. This rather seems to bear out his surmise… that they are deliberately dragging their heels. 3. However, they are issued under a voluntary code and the organisation said there had been thousands of cases where firms had dragged their heels, or simply refused to issue codes. 4. Nothing was too little trouble for me and I dragged my heels reluctantly, putting off necessary chores until the last possible moment and even deferring some for another day. 5. I fail to see why the association are dragging their heels on this. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Skyrocket, verb. 🔉 /ˈskʌɪrɒkɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal • no object): (of a price, rate, or amount) increase very steeply or rapidly. ❗️ Examples: 1. The cost of the welfare system has skyrocketed. 2. Grind and roast those beans, and the value skyrockets more than 10 times, to $18 a kilo. 3. The entertainment level just skyrockets on that second viewing. 4. As tuition skyrockets, financial aid has become as elusive as that needle in the proverbial haystack. 5. Homer's popularity skyrockets when he is chosen as the leader of a secret organization. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): You shouldn't criticize others when you have similar faults of your own. ❗️ Examples: 1. So people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, eh? 2. The shadow environment secretary said: ‘It's all very well criticising the failure of America to sign up to Kyoto, but people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. 3. Yes, it's an extremely derogatory term, and not one I would use myself, unless I'm angry of course, and even then I would feel uneasy (people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones). 4. One common test of abstraction is to explain what this means: ‘people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.’ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Pandiculation, noun. 🔉 /ˌpandɪkjʊˈleɪʃn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Medicine • rare): The act of stretching (extending the limbs and neck), as a manifestation of weariness, a sign of disease, etc. In later use also: yawning (rare). ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Acquiesce, verb. 🔉 /ˌakwɪˈɛs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Accept something reluctantly but without protest. ❗️ Examples: 1. Sara acquiesced in his decision. 2. The police reluctantly acquiesced to the proposals given no alternatives were offered. 3. However, to understand is not to acquiesce in or accept these developments. 4. Then folding the map away, he instructed her to start driving again and Andrea reluctantly acquiesced. 5. And so we yielded, acquiesced to that, and we hope that it's going to be done as soon as possible. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Every now and then, phrase. ❓ Definition: From time to time; occasionally. ❗️ Examples: 1. I used to see him every now and then. 2. Only the occasional deadpan one liner leaks out every now and again. 3. Perhaps it's healthy to have a kick in the teeth like that every now and then. 4. The Chief Minister encouraged a little spoken of question that comes up every now and then. 5. The muse may crave a spot of deprivation and misery every now and then to spark the old imagination, but there are limits. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Inquisitive, adjective. 🔉 /ɪnˈkwɪzɪtɪv/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Having or showing an interest in learning things; curious. ❗️ Examples: 1. His poems reveal an intensely inquisitive mind. 2. This is one scientific journey that should interest those with an inquisitive mind. 3. I felt a calm but inquisitive interest in every thing. 4. I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. 5. While computer games ignited his interest in computers, his inquisitive mind made him pick up the nuances of computers in no time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Curiosity killed the cat, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Being inquisitive about other people's affairs may get you into trouble. ❗️ Examples: 1. Defending, he said: ‘This is a case where curiosity killed the cat.’ 2. Stuffed as we were, however, curiosity killed the cat - and it very nearly took us with it as we recklessly agreed to share a devilled chocolate brownie with vanilla ice cream. 3. I won't reveal any more of the plot than that, but if there's a moral to this story, it's that old truism that says that curiosity killed the cat. 4. Didn't your mother ever tell you curiosity killed the cat? 5. That's awfully mean of you to tease me like that - curiosity killed the cat, you know. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Disinclined, adjective. 🔉 /dɪsɪnˈklʌɪnd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (predicative, with infinitive): Unwilling; reluctant. ❗️ Examples: 1. The rural community was disinclined to abandon the old ways. 2. Audiences today are not only disinclined to listen to new music, they're reluctant to listen to anything unfamiliar. 3. The majority party is a closely-knit organization nationwide and is less popular among youths who are generally disinclined to go to the poll. 4. For the rest, the hand emerges abruptly from the kiosk without greeting or acknowledgement, and one is then disinclined to be pleasant in return. 5. All parties and institutions are affected by a climate of cynicism and mistrust in which society is disinclined to believe whatever it is told by authorities and experts. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005) - S09E07 The Gang Gets Quarantined 💬 Oh, I'm-I'm sick as a dog already.

📚 As sick as a dog, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Extremely ill. ❗️ Examples: 1. You were as sick as a dog when you ate those shrimps. 2. I have been sick as a dog - still have the bronchitis going, but the worst part is an unbelievably sore throat - so bad that I literally cannot swallow, talk, etc. 3. What amazed me was he was sick as a dog, but if a school was coming the next day, he'd put on his suit and get out there. 4. I've spent the last week trying to do as little as possible, because I've been sick as a dog. 5. At times, when I was lying on my hospital bed being pumped full of chemotherapy drugs that made me as sick as a dog and caused my hair to fall out, I used to close my eyes and dream I was somewhere else. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic