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📚 Restrain, verb. 🔉 /rɪˈstreɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Prevent (someone or something) from doing something; keep under control or within limits. ❗️ Examples: 1. The need to restrain public expenditure. 2. He had to be restrained from walking out. 3. Younger children may strike their older siblings, while older siblings are restrained from hitting back. 4. They say the state banks were restrained from inflating to excess by the regular requirement that they pay their balances to the federal branch offices in hard money. 5. Headcount freezes mean they are restrained from filling existing vacancies or creating new ones. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Another Stakeout (1993) 💬 You'll be on it round the clock.

📚 Round the clock, phrase. ❓ Definition: All day and all night. ❗️ Examples: 1. I've got a team working round the clock. 2. Round-the-clock surveillance. 3. Meanwhile Glasgow City Council has pledged that staff will continue to work around the clock to ease road and footpath problems. 4. We fought around the clock and continued to support the Marines as they cleared houses. 5. The second day, we could have legitimately reported flights were taking off round the clock day and night. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Malinger, verb. 🔉 /məˈlɪŋɡə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Pretend to be ill in order to escape duty or work. ❗️ Examples: 1. People who had psychosomatic complaints were probably malingering. 2. Earlier this year a poll found that 40% of small businesses thought employees were malingering when they took sick leave. 3. There's a fine line between what's classed as malingering and what is accepted as genuine illness. 4. Another woman, with early symptoms of Bubonic plague, was told she was malingering. 5. Is Miss Mason suffering from Chronic Pain Disorder or is she malingering…? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Notorious, adjective. 🔉 /nə(ʊ)ˈtɔːrɪəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Famous or well known, typically for some bad quality or deed. ❗️ Examples: 1. Los Angeles is notorious for its smog. 2. He was a notorious drinker and womanizer. 3. The list is endless, but here are a few of the more notorious celebrations of recent times. 4. In the process he became the most celebrated, or at least most notorious, journalist of his era. 5. For Dylan is not only the most renowned protest singer of his era but also its most notorious renegade. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 My way or the highway, phrase. ❓ Definition (North American • informal): Said to assert the view that there is no alternative (apart from leaving) but to accept the speaker's opinions or policies. ❗️ Examples: 1. They know no way but the way of the autocrat — it's my way or the highway. 2. It's always the ultimatum, my way or the highway. 3. ‘Listen bud,’ she said as she leaned towards him, one arm on the table as she did so, ‘It's my way or the highway.’ 4. One former international summed up his approach to getting his plans through: ‘With Jim, it's always been my way or the highway.’ 5. When he first moved into coaching, I did fear for him because, in some ways, he could be old school and rather intolerant - my way or the highway. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Enchanted, adjective. 🔉 /ɪnˈtʃɑːntɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Placed under a spell; bewitched. ❗️ Examples: 1. An enchanted garden. 2. A righteous emperor defeated the evil demon with the help of an enchanted sword. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Non-Stop (2014) 💬 Flying is not my cup of tea.

📚 Not one's cup of tea, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Not what one likes or is interested in. ❗️ Examples: 1. Cats were not her cup of tea. 2. If sitting and listening is not your cup of tea, sightseeing in a drift boat makes for an interesting alternative. 3. And if running, dodging and shooting was not your cup of tea, there were car and motorcycle rallies, with dirt tracks and the grand prix. 4. If this is not your cup of tea or if you only have a few items for sale then, of course, they will take your items to their auction rooms, where they will be sold on your behalf. 5. Free verse can be wonderful - but it's just not our cup of tea. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Steppe, noun. 🔉 /stɛp/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (often steppes): A large area of flat unforested grassland in south-eastern Europe or Siberia. ❗️ Examples: 1. By the mid-sixteenth century Crimea, the southern Russian steppes, the Kazakh steppes, and western Siberia had come under Islamic law. 2. With these they are able to dramatise plains, prairies, steppes and meadows. 3. From the borders of Europe to the frozen steppes of Siberia and the Pacific coastline of Vladivostok, Russia is still geographically a powerful presence despite having shed its Soviet-era neighbours. 4. The Pope, who aides say is losing sleep over the possibility of war, celebrated a Mass that began with a stiff wind blowing in from Siberia over the flat steppes and ended in sunshine. 5. The arctic meadows, tundras, and steppes contained the herbaceous plants, leaves, and sprigs of shrubs and low shrubs needed for the mammoth to feed on and survive in glacial Siberia. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Abate, verb. 🔉 /əˈbeɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): (of something unpleasant or severe) become less intense or widespread. ❗️ Examples: 1. The storm suddenly abated. 2. November to April is the wet season but heavy tropical storms can abate as suddenly as they arrive. 3. The spring saw the quick end of major combat abroad, while the threat of a widespread SARS epidemic abated. 4. The challenges of rising health care costs and Medicare premiums will not suddenly abate. 5. The increase in September over the previous year was a dramatic 61.5% and there is no sign of this trend abating. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Unforgiven (1992) 💬 And we were young and full of beans.

📚 Full of beans, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Lively; in high spirits. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was laughing and shouting and generally full of beans. 2. Chirpy, smiley, full of beans - these are just some of the words which do not describe first-time quarter-finalist David Gray. 3. When I last spoke to her yesterday she was full of beans, very cheerful and chirpy, so I deduce from that that all was going well. 4. They were lovely kids: bright, intelligent and full of beans. 5. Driver Murugan is there at the appointed time. I have risen early again, but today I'm neither bright nor full of beans, unlike yesterday. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Handed-down, adjective. ❓ Definition: Passed on to a later generation or age. ❗️ Examples: 1. Handed-down family recipes. 2. Without handed-down prejudices, children will behave in a spirit of complete even-handedness. 3. He was without personal vanity, surprising the Heythrop hunt by turning out in a yellow cardigan and his colleagues by wearing handed-down clothes and his son's shoes. 4. As for beauty, granny had to depend on handed-down tips and recipes made from easily obtainable ingredients. 5. The Hebrews must certainly have encountered them, and learned the handed-down traditions of early Mesopotamia, the myths and tales. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Finding Neverland (2004) 💬 Opening night, doctors, lawyers, businessmen and their wives, all dressed to the nines.

📚 To the nines, phrase. ❓ Definition: To a great or elaborate extent. ❗️ Examples: 1. The women were dressed to the nines. 2. Apart from the willingness of the staff to dress up to the nines, preferably in drag, the secret of the unfailing success of this bash is an alcoholic punch whose recipe, if it isn't already, really ought to be classified information. 3. Horse racing is always an excuse to dress up to the nines and no more so than on Ladies Day - on Thursday - when women enter their own particular race: to be the best-dressed female at Knavesmire. 4. I can be dressed up to the nines in a slinky frock, fabulous hair and make-up, and 6 inch stilettos, but I actually feel embarrassed at having to clutch hold of a handbag, or have it slung over my shoulder. 5. If you like dressing up to the nines, expect to pay a fortune for a drink, and enjoy fancy-sounding grub, then you'll feel quite at home in the Living Room, York's new million-pound bar. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Solitude, noun. 🔉 /ˈsɒlɪtjuːd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The state or situation of being alone. ❗️ Examples: 1. She savoured her few hours of freedom and solitude. 2. It tells us that God is, in a sense, a community of persons, not a solitary living in solitude, alone and distant. 3. As increasing numbers of people choose to live or work alone, solitude is often celebrated in 2001. 4. As someone whose self reposes on a great slab of solitude, such a situation would drive me nuts. 5. A lyrical, a scholarly, a fastidious mind might have used seclusion and solitude to perfect its powers. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 As plain as the nose on someone's face, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Very obvious. ❗️ Examples: 1. I knew what he was up to — it was as plain as the nose on his face. 2. He explained why he chose him: ‘That was a decision I felt had to be made as plain as the nose on my face - and that's fairly apparent.’ 3. What's the point of saying something that is as plain as the nose on your face? 4. After eliminating the impossibilities, the master of deduction explained, he had been left with one simple irrevocable conclusion, as plain as the nose on one's face. 5. After the verdict was handed down, the press were talking to the jurors, interviewing the jury, and the one juror said Michael's innocence was as plain as the nose on his face. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic