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📚 Chicanery, noun. 🔉 /ʃɪˈkeɪn(ə)ri/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The use of deception or subterfuge to achieve one's purpose. ❗️ Examples: 1. Storylines packed with political chicanery. 2. Set aside the usual circus ring tricks of political chicanery. 3. The managers hope that, through chicanery and fraud, they could save the dollar from sudden death. 4. Lies, fraud, chicanery and self indulgence are endemic in society today - or am I being presumptuous? 5. But all these examples are nothing more than political chicanery. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic 
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📚 Intervene, verb. 🔉 /ɪntəˈviːn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Take part in something so as to prevent or alter a result or course of events. ❗️ Examples: 1. He acted outside his authority when he intervened in the dispute. 2. Their forces intervened to halt the attack. 3. US forces intervened in the mid-1960s to prop up the stooge government of South Vietnam, against the North. 4. For example, in 1845, as in 1806-07, British forces intervened in the River Plate. 5. A watershed was reached when NATO forces intervened in Kosovo in 1999. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Under the weather, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Slightly unwell or in low spirits. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was sufficiently under the weather to have to pull out of the championship. 2. He's been under the weather since he's been on his own. 3. I feel sick, have a painful headache and feel a bit under the weather, but I know that if I push myself and get out of bed I will feel better. 4. And every time I go for a stroll by the river when I'm feeling a bit under the weather, I come back home wondering why I felt so poorly in the first place. 5. So I'm more than a bit under the weather at present. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Dough, noun. 🔉 /dəʊ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A thick, malleable mixture of flour and liquid, used for baking into bread or pastry. ❗️ Examples: 1. Add water to the flour and mix to a manageable dough. 2. It is this technique that allows pastry doughs to rise and pie crusts to flake. 3. The oven can cook thinner doughs but not thicker ones. 4. Pour a little rose water in to fruit salads, use it to flavour thick syrups or add it to pastry and biscuit doughs, or whipped cream. 5. One outcome: lower-quality flour, resulting in doughs that were unable to withstand the rigorous mixing that's part of making bread. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic 
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📚 What goes around comes around, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): The consequences of one's actions will have to be dealt with eventually. ❗️ Examples: 1. And it's a powerful belief, offering both hope to the oppressed - suffering cannot last forever - and a warning to the oppressor - take care, what goes around comes around. 2. Watford were on the receiving end of some decisions tonight as we were on Saturday, so what goes around comes around. 3. But although I strive daily to do the right thing - believing firmly in the karmic law that what goes around comes around - I've never, ever aspired to returning to earth as the Dalai Lama. 4. I have no idea what makes someone go to those lengths, but I believe what goes around comes around and she has got what she deserved. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Savoury, adjective. 🔉 /ˈseɪv(ə)ri/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of food) belonging to the category that is salty or spicy rather than sweet. ❗️ Examples: 1. Fresh pineapple is useful in savoury as well as in sweet dishes. 2. Leanne imagined thin, crispy crust smothered in sweet yet savory tomato sauce, warm cheese, pepperoni, and succulent mushrooms. 3. Maple syrup is no longer relegated to its standard role of sweetening pancakes and waffles; this versatile ingredient adds flavor to both sweet and savory dishes alike. 4. In general, most of the salt we consume is not added during cooking or at the table, but comes from processed foods such as bread, cheese, savoury snacks, breakfast cereals and ready-meals. 5. Nutmeg is as popular a spice for savoury dishes as sweet, lending a mellow flavour to rice puddings, sausages and mash, baked custards and fruit cake. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic 
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📚 Where there's a will there's a way, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Determination will overcome any obstacle. ❗️ Examples: 1. I know it will be difficult but where there's a will there's a way. 2. There would be a problem playing all those games but where there's a will there's a way. 3. As they say, where there's a will there's a way, and if anything can be read into Sunday's game, and its scintillating finish, the will is certainly strong in Galway and Kerry. 4. The problem for the fixtures board might be finding an alternative but where there's a will there's a way. 5. It seems to me that in politics, as in life, where there's a will there's a way. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Cope, verb. 🔉 /kəʊp/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): (of a person) deal effectively with something difficult. ❗️ Examples: 1. His ability to cope with stress. 2. It all got too much for me and I couldn't cope. 3. All I can say about it is nice people are easy to deal with and unpleasant people are much more difficult to cope with. 4. Urban and rural dwellers have adopted creative survival strategies, that have helped them cope with difficult times. 5. In a police interview the 39-year-old unemployed man, who is not being identified for legal reasons, admitted he found it difficult to cope with the children. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 The best thing since sliced bread, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Used to emphasize one's enthusiasm about a new idea, person, or thing. ❗️ Examples: 1. They think that she is the greatest thing since sliced bread. 2. She finally locates the Assistant Wine Whatever-His-Title-Is, and he of the broad-smile-on-a-wide-face recommends the wine as if it were the next best thing since sliced bread. 3. Some people are a little confused by this latest trend, wondering what all the fuss is about and why it's becoming the next best thing since sliced bread. 4. While some analysts think it's the next best thing since sliced bread, it has the feeling of WAP redux. 5. That's not to say there isn't a market there, rather that we haven't been convinced it's quite the next best thing since sliced bread. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Paraesthesia, noun. 🔉 /ˌparɪsˈθiːzɪə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Medicine • mass noun): An abnormal sensation, typically tingling or pricking (‘pins and needles’), caused chiefly by pressure on or damage to peripheral nerves. ❗️ Examples: 1. Patients complain of painful paraesthesiae in the hands. 2. Side effects include paraesthesia. 3. Neurapraxia of the brachial plexus or cervical nerve roots, often called a stinger or burner, causes pain and paresthesia in a single upper extremity, usually radiating from the neck into the shoulder, arm, or hand. 4. Patients with arthritis of the tarsal tunnel may complain of a burning sensation, pain, and paresthesias over the distribution of the posterior tibial nerve and its branches that worsen with weight bearing. 5. In patients with carpal tunnel syndrome, pain and paresthesias may radiate to the forearm, elbow, and shoulder. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic
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📚 Wry, adjective. 🔉 /rʌɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Using or expressing dry, especially mocking, humour. ❗️ Examples: 1. A wry smile. 2. Wry comments. 3. She gave a wry smile at the comment on breakfast. 4. Director Peter Evans highlights the play's wry humour and latent evil with a low-key, ironic spin. 5. Levy's wry sort of humour and the ironic use of an English woman's perspective to describe the problems confronted by the immigrants is both clever and sensitive. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Take a back seat, phrase. ❓ Definition: Take or be given a less important position or role. ❗️ Examples: 1. In future he would take a back seat in politics. 2. Yet the majority of the book emphasizes dinosaur osteology, systematics, and the fossil record; paleobiology takes a back seat to this important foundation. 3. But she piled on the pounds after the birth of her son, George, nine months ago and singing took a back seat as her confidence dwindled. 4. The role of the citizen is taking a back seat to decisions being made about our communities and the environment. 5. Was love more important than wealth or did romance take a back seat to social climbing? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Whistle-blower, noun. ❓ Definition: A person who informs on a person or organization regarded as engaging in an unlawful or immoral activity. ❗️ Examples: 1. Nurses also may not report other nurses for fear of being perceived as snitches or labeled as whistle-blowers. 2. They're trying to put in measures to help whistle-blowers point out wrongdoing at the United Nations without losing their job. 3. Meet the new target for whistle-blowers and conspiracy theorists: big business. 4. He indicated his information came from FDA whistle-blowers. 5. Tayside Police admit the whistle-blower's inside knowledge shows he has to be a high-ranking officer - at least an inspector and probably a superintendent. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Make ends meet, phrase. ❓ Definition: Earn just enough money to live on. ❗️ Examples: 1. They were finding it hard to make ends meet. 2. Some want to make enough money to make ends meet; others want money for extras or just a way to stay busy. 3. Liz and Nick were always out to work but they barely had enough money to make ends meet. 4. This will lead to loss of trade to the shopkeepers who are all having a hard enough time to make ends meet as it is. 5. By doing some casual work, like designing computer software, he has managed to make both ends meet and has enough left over to invest in his bicycle journeys. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Waybill, noun. 🔉 /ˈweɪbɪl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A list of passengers or goods being carried on a vehicle. ❗️ Examples: 1. An air waybill. 2. A sea waybill. 3. It quickly and accurately transforms the data on their cargo air waybills into a stream of financial and strategic information. 4. A big man in a cowboy hat, his fist full of invoices and waybills, had climbed down from the tractor and was walking over to the warehouse door. 5. A similar direction was printed clearly on the waybills that accompanied the shipment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Above and beyond, phrase. ❓ Definition: In excess of the expectations or demands of. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was always there to help us out in difficult times, above and beyond the call of duty. 2. And just ahead are our weekly tribute to a member of our Armed services who served above and beyond the call of duty. 3. She has been my campaign manager for three elections, and has served above and beyond the call of duty. 4. She said she appreciated their passion and their concern even above and beyond the official job. 5. No words can do justice to their efficiency, thoroughness, and all-around human compassion above and beyond the call of duty. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic