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📚 Get the picture, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Understand a situation. ❗️ Examples: 1. Any trouble your father might have we can hide — d'you get the picture? 2. To be honest, I believe it was more difficult to get the picture than to catch the carp. 3. I realize that sounds completely revolting, but I think you get the picture. 4. Scott didn't seem to get the picture, his brain still working on understanding what Jesse had just told him. 5. This includes, buses, trains, lifts, public buildings, pubs, restaurants; I think you have probably got the picture. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Irritant, noun. 🔉 /ˈɪrɪt(ə)nt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A thing that is continually annoying or distracting. ❗️ Examples: 1. In 1966 Vietnam was becoming an irritant to the government. 2. Still, these are mostly minor irritants that can easily be dismissed as necessary game requirements. 3. Another constant irritant for the judge was poor media reporting. 4. What should be a service to the community is seen as a major irritant. 5. - But Greenpeace had become a bigger irritant for the French than it had realised. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 How I Met Your Mother (2005) - S01E22 💬 It's gonna rain cats and dogs, folks.

📚 Rain cats and dogs, phrase. ❓ Definition: Rain very hard. ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘It'll be raining cats and dogs in a minute ‘she muttered to herself.’ 2. The first barricaded suspect situation I attended was, as I recall, on a dark and stormy night, in fact it was raining cats and dogs. 3. It was raining cats and dogs, and my bike had died on me. 4. No kind of threats, cajoling or convincing can get a line-man to scamper up an electric post or poke at a blown fuse when it is raining cats and dogs. 5. It had been raining cats and dogs from morning and they must have known before hand that the wet weather posed a danger of shock or slipping on stage. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 World view, noun. ❓ Definition: A particular philosophy of life or conception of the world. ❗️ Examples: 1. A Christian world view revolves around the battle of good and evil. 2. Apart from being completely unscientific and unsupported this whole line betrays a world view of utter despair. 3. This type is in quest for a comprehensive view, the world picture, the big answers to the big questions. 4. Labour have been severely punished for the social and economic policies that lie at the very core of their world view. 5. No, I'm watching the mind at work, moving fluidly between ideas before weaving them into a cohesive world view. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A dog's breakfast, phrase. ❓ Definition (British • informal): A poor piece of work; a mess. ❗️ Examples: 1. We made a real dog's breakfast of it. 2. All in all it is a dog's dinner, literally, with local residents living with the mess and hazard. 3. In design terms it's a dog's breakfast, a grey, smudgy mess that seems to stagger off ancient presses each week. 4. It all adds up to a dog's breakfast of departmental rivalry, layer upon layer of confused delivery and strategic confusion. 5. Speaking after the council agreed to hold the ballot, he said: ‘The wording on the ballot papers is a dog's dinner.’ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Precocity, noun. 🔉 /prɪˈkɒsɪti/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: This definition is derivative of «precocious». ❗️ Examples: 1. Three years later the boy's intellectual precocity was noticed, and a group of local businessmen clubbed together to send the youth to North America to study. 2. Olson suggests that precocity might correlate with ability to visualize, which leads into a considerable discussion of people who learn mathematics verbally as contrasted with those who learn it visually. 3. His intellectual precocity, and his dedication to work, which remained compulsive from boyhood onwards, are characteristic. 4. She, like her brother, studied composition with Zelter and revealed comparable precocity and ability. 5. How many minds have there been of such capacity and precocity? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Envy, verb. 🔉 /ˈɛnvi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Desire to have a quality, possession, or other desirable thing belonging to (someone else) ❗️ Examples: 1. He envied people who did not have to work at the weekends. 2. I envy Jane her happiness. 3. She imagined her home even lovelier than it was now, and she imagined everyone admiring her, envying her, wishing they, too, had such a gift. 4. You must mark out your territory as an artist, so that others learn to envy you and aspire to what you are doing. 5. Borges' characters can similarly be said to envy women their desire that they cannot understand and do not dare explore. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 On a roll, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Experiencing a prolonged spell of success or good luck. ❗️ Examples: 1. The organization is on a roll. 2. With his last few albums, he has been on a roll, consistently producing jazz of the very highest standard. 3. New Zealand film is apparently on a roll according to our media. 4. All the smaller underground clubs are on a roll and the commercialised side of dance music is starting to wane. 5. Sinatra had been on a roll since his breakthrough part in From Here To Eternity. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Jamboree, noun. 🔉 /ˌdʒambəˈriː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A large celebration or party, typically a lavish and boisterous one. ❗️ Examples: 1. The film industry's annual jamboree in Cannes. 2. The party is planning a year-long jamboree to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Scotland's national poet - and boost Scottish tourism at the same time. 3. The diversity of Texas is apparent every month through its colorful festivals, jamborees, cook-offs and celebrations. 4. The symbol of regional pride will be hoisted in the city at 7.05 am as thousands of Yorkshire-lovers take part in a countywide jamboree to celebrate the region's qualities. 5. This year's event featured all the old reliable favourites, including a dog show, showjumping contests, demonstrations and the various agricultural aspects that have become part and parcel of the annual jamboree. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Harness, noun. 🔉 /ˈhɑːnəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A set of straps and fittings by which a horse or other draught animal is fastened to a cart, plough, etc. and is controlled by its driver. ❗️ Examples: 1. He was diminutive, and how he managed to lift the heavy harness on the draught horses for ploughing was more than I could understand. 2. Iron components of the chariot were found in a good state of preservation, including the two wheel rims and hub - hoops, the yoke fittings, harness and horse bits. 3. I went about my usual morning routine, feeding Angel Wing and the pull horses, and putting on the harnesses for the carts. 4. Nash was pleased to see that Fric had padded and rigged the horse's harnesses for silence, as well as shoeing their hoofs with leather covers to muffle their trot. 5. However, small items such as brooches and horse harnesses made out of recycled bronze in native styles have occasionally been found at forts. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 The coast is clear, phrase. ❓ Definition: There is no danger of being observed or caught. ❗️ Examples: 1. The streetcleaners kept stopping off for a smoke when the coast was clear. 2. She then looks up and down the street, as if she's making sure the coast is clear, and then she just takes off. 3. And then, if the coast is clear, we can safely follow. 4. Our characters were supposed to look around to make sure the coast is clear, then jump in the truck and race off. 5. They all start running off and, thinking the coast is clear, I get out of my car. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Junk food, noun. ❓ Definition (mass noun): Pre-prepared or packaged food that has low nutritional value. ❗️ Examples: 1. I was eating too much junk food. 2. When I was a child I wasn't allowed to eat so much junk food from fast food outlets that I became overweight and ill. 3. That means an annual exposure to thousands of commercials for junk food and fast food. 4. Not only are our kids overfed on junk food and fast food, they are fast becoming victims of the techno age. 5. She may be eating a lot of junk food because the junk food comforts her without judging her. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Get laid, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Have sex. ❗️ Examples: 1. He was keeping himself busy with his life's work - trying and failing to get laid. 2. He had a Playboy duvet cover and still got laid! 3. I don't go out to get laid - I go out to have fun. 4. What does one's opinion on politics have to do with getting laid? 5. It's like they all just went on the show to get laid more than usual. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Straightforward, adjective. 🔉 /streɪtˈfɔːwəd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of a person) honest and frank. ❗️ Examples: 1. A straightforward young man. 2. There is a nice sense of menace developing in it, and I like how none of the characters are straightforward. 3. Men are intensely straightforward and logical beings, and they find this confusing. 4. They are pretty straightforward with me, they know I can handle whatever it takes. 5. Kenneth was trying to hint, but Jessica was more straightforward than the rest of them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Every dog has its day, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Everyone will have good luck or success at some point in their lives. ❗️ Examples: 1. There comes a time to stop, every dog has its day, and I think I have had mine. 2. In parallel with his ascendancy to the top of the NFL tree went his present team, their unlikely transformation from zeroes to heroes last season illustrating that every dog has its day. 3. It's not nice to keep losing but every dog has its day. 4. I'm aware that, very, very occasionally a performance is given which astonishes us all, but every dog has his day, and England's problem is having too few of these. 5. However, no sooner had I written this than I get to find out every dog has his day, right? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Hung-over, adjective. ❓ Definition: Suffering from a hangover after drinking alcohol. ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘You look distinctly hung-over.’ 2. I was so tired that I slept through everything, and woke up late in the afternoon, refreshed, if not a little hung-over. 3. You are constantly jet-lagged, knackered or hung-over. 4. Nine years ago, whilst hung-over, I fell in the shower. 5. Are you sitting by yourself, eating corn chips, hung-over, depressed about your imminent breakdown, or the news? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 In person, phrase. ❓ Definition: With the personal presence or action of the individual specified. ❗️ Examples: 1. He had to pick up his welfare cheque in person. 2. Otherwise people can go there in person and pay a visit to the kids since the center is not that far. 3. His thesis is undoubtedly better presented in person rather than in the context of a dry academic paper. 4. The cyclists who objected to the scheme presented their views in person to the inquiry. 5. There's also an added bonus for people, like myself, who're extremely shy in person. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic