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📚 Natter, verb. 🔉 /ˈnatə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal • no object): Talk casually, especially on unimportant matters; chat. ❗️ Examples: 1. They nattered away for hours. 2. Around her, they chattered, nattered, muttered… and laughed. 3. Iain's dad and I work together, so no doubt we will be nattering about England's progress at every opportunity. 4. And the two young ladies kept on nattering on about hair fashion all the time pretending not to see an old man standing close by. 5. There were seats full of teenagers nattering about boys, homework and clothes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Retail therapy, noun. ❓ Definition (humorous • mass noun): The practice of shopping in order to make oneself feel more cheerful. ❗️ Examples: 1. Stop for a reviving cafe au lait or a glass of wine before setting off for more retail therapy. 2. Today James Carleton guides us through that most untested of psychological self-help techniques - retail therapy. 3. We stood up, heading off into the busy town for some traditional retail therapy. 4. The town itself offers a multitude of upmarket shopping malls to explore retail therapy Malaysian style, alongside plenty of ethnic Chinese, Malay and Indian restaurants to try out local delicacies. 5. Now come on, slap some make up on and let's go do some retail therapy! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Solar Opposites (2020) - S01E01 The Matter Transfer Array 💬 ‐ Retail therapy, baby.

📚 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

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

📚 Roller coaster, noun. ❓ Definition: A fairground attraction that consists of a light railway track which has many tight turns and steep slopes on which people ride in small, fast open carriages. ❗️ Examples: 1. A roller-coaster ride. 2. Jimmy and I liked fast rides like the roller coaster. 3. It felt like when you're riding a really fast roller coaster, only a hundred times worse. 4. But we rode a roller coaster in Toronto with her on the fairgrounds after the show. 5. My heart gave a little flutter and my stomach dropped like I was going down a steep hill on a roller coaster, or over train tracks in the car. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @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

📚 Beguile, verb. 🔉 /bɪˈɡʌɪl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Charm or enchant (someone), often in a deceptive way. ❗️ Examples: 1. He beguiled the voters with his good looks. 2. If Hart hadn't swept our dear girl Stella off her feet, I might have to try and beguile her with my charm. 3. Her smile beguiled Paul, and for a very brief second he forgot what he was supposed to do. 4. It kept calling him… beguiling him… spellbinding him! 5. His regulars were bright friends with beguiling personalities and good stories, not stars with a movie to push. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Lamb, noun. 🔉 /lam/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A young sheep. ❗️ Examples: 1. More than 90% of the sheep were marked as lambs, and all rams were individually identifiable. 2. We are told that dogs are presently loose in the fields at night, and are a danger to the sheep and their young lambs. 3. A farmer has lost all his sheep, 300 lambs among them, shot by young men from Her Majesty's Armed Forces, whose sergeant had been reduced to hidden tears. 4. They are often seen soaring in search of carrion, but their diet also includes young goats and lambs. 5. Rumen's only source of income is from selling lambs and sheep. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @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

📚 Amorphous, adjective. 🔉 /əˈmɔːfəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Without a clearly defined shape or form. ❗️ Examples: 1. An amorphous, characterless conurbation. 2. Amorphous blue forms and straight black lines. 3. Stretched along the umbrella's base, a large, pale gray, amorphous shape could be a shadow, a sack or a lifeless body. 4. Elsewhere, amorphous biological shapes remind you of transplant organs on life-support machines, or the literal ‘test-tube’ babies. 5. Her third work, a video performance, depicts him performing as an old man, whittling an amorphous shape. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Mutton, noun. 🔉 /ˈmʌt(ə)n/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The flesh of fully grown sheep used as food. ❗️ Examples: 1. A leg of mutton. 2. Beef, mutton, pork and venison were common meats, and communities close to the coast could expect to widen their diets with fish and shellfish. 3. The dinner would consist of roast beef, roast mutton, roast pork, and vegetables, plum puddings, Christmas cake, and tea, and would be served to about 1,200 poor people. 4. The document reveals that the bishop's menu would have included a range of meats, from mutton and beef to veal, geese, rabbit, duck and lamb. 5. Meat pies, joints of mutton, and other hearty foods are most likely to be served. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @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

📚 Syncope, noun. 🔉 /ˈsɪŋkəpi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun • Medicine): Temporary loss of consciousness caused by a fall in blood pressure. ❗️ Examples: 1. Decreased cerebral perfusion may cause impaired consciousness and syncope. 2. Patients usually have no symptoms, but if the pause is prolonged, they may have light-headedness, palpitations, syncope, and falls. 3. In patients without focal neurologic symptoms and signs, syncope from cerebrovascular disease is extremely rare. 4. Cardiac arrhythmias or syncope clearly associated with a fall should be treated with antiarrhythmics or a pacemaker in consultation with a cardiologist. 5. Chest radiographs were available for 364 of 401 patients who presented with syncope or hypotension. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Flesh, noun. 🔉 /flɛʃ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The soft substance consisting of muscle and fat that is found between the skin and bones of a human or an animal. ❗️ Examples: 1. She grabbed Anna's arm, her fingers sinking into the flesh. 2. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - I might even be said to possess a mind. 3. He reached out and grabbed his wife's shoulder here, pushing his fingers into the soft crevice of flesh over bone. 4. Jim felt the pulsing of the sun as its heat, magnified by the window it was pouring through, met with soft flesh and willing muscle. 5. The two went down in a clash of flesh and muscle and bone, the two ripping at each other for every opening possible. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @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