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📚 Frankly, adverb. 🔉 /ˈfraŋkli/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: In an open, honest, and direct manner. ❗️ Examples: 1. She talks very frankly about herself. 2. It is time that the parish council told council tax payers what is going on - openly and frankly. 3. I can tell you quite frankly that the stuff from our childhoods is not to be blamed on us. 4. As an Independent councillor he will be able to express frankly what Walcot people say they need. 5. Last night, in an interview to accompany the new portrait, the prince spoke frankly about both issues. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Eminem – Berzerk 💬 Say fuck it before we kick the bucket.

📚 Kick the bucket, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Die. ❗️ Examples: 1. When the old girl finally kicked the bucket there was no mention of yours truly in the will. 2. He wanted to do his own thing and he wanted to do it now - not down the track when his father finally kicked the bucket. 3. But in spite of the fact, when he kicks the bucket and departs his mortal coil, it is going to be one of the biggest funerals in the Bahamas. 4. Even though the British Empire had long since kicked the bucket, the expats could still be found pretty much anywhere the Brits had a former colony. 5. When rich Americans kick the bucket, they invariably will a good sum to their alma maters, pet charities or research institutions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ambassador, noun. 🔉 /amˈbasədə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: An accredited diplomat sent by a state as its permanent representative in a foreign country. ❗️ Examples: 1. The French ambassador to Portugal. 2. He also indicated that various foreign ambassadors and high commissioners had expressed similar sentiments. 3. Benjamin Franklin was the US ambassador to absolutist France after the American Revolution. 4. It was conducted by a diplomat who had served as an ambassador to three African countries. 5. Neither letter refers to the resignation of the Eritrean ambassador to Sweden. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 In the flesh, phrase. ❓ Definition: In person or (of a thing) in its actual state. ❗️ Examples: 1. They decided that they should meet Alexander in the flesh. 2. Reminds me though, I once had a lunch with a blind colleague whom I'd spoken to on the phone a lot but not met in the flesh before. 3. Not only does he not want journalists to meet people in the flesh, he will actively discourage them from doing any such thing. 4. At any rate, it turns out that I have recently met another blogger, in the flesh. 5. The Fan Faire was a rare opportunity for them to meet in the flesh. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Straightforward, adjective. 🔉 /streɪtˈfɔːwəd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Uncomplicated and easy to do or understand. ❗️ Examples: 1. In a straightforward case no fees will be charged. 2. They would have felt easier with a straightforward repayment loan, where each month the debt reduced. 3. Life was easy, straightforward, and if he wanted something done, he just did it. 4. Knowing when to stop is not an easy or straightforward matter in ethnography. 5. Dispassionate analysis of American politics is neither easy nor straightforward. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Take it or leave it, phrase. ❓ Definition (usually in imperative): Said to express that the offer one has made is not negotiable and that one is indifferent to another's reaction to it. ❗️ Examples: 1. That's the deal — take it or leave it. 2. This looks like an opening gambit rather than a take it or leave it offer. 3. We have already been told that the moving of the market and interchange are not negotiable and that, in effect, we can either take it or leave it. 4. Would they tell them to take it or leave it, this is what we offer? 5. He offered the cash and said take it or leave it and the bank eventually came back and said it would accept the cash. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Irritable, adjective. 🔉 /ˈɪrɪtəb(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Having or showing a tendency to be easily annoyed. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was tired and irritable. 2. She seemed irritable, and annoyed with my every move. 3. The wait would grate so terribly on my nerves that I could easily be irritable for days afterwards, but that particular drive was different. 4. Will asked, starting to get annoyed, the pain in his head making him more irritable. 5. And these US marines smoking more than usual under the stress of battle conditions are becoming increasingly irritable. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Give or take —, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): To within a specified amount. ❗️ Examples: 1. Three hundred and fifty years ago, give or take a few. 2. They found that the mass extinction occurred 46,400 years ago, give or take 3,000 years. 3. He departed this vale two decades or so ago, give or take a few years. 4. Although no one knows for certain, most authorities agree that the pug originated in China around 2,500 years ago, give or take a few centuries. 5. Eight hours ago - give or take a couple minutes - his aunt had flown to California to visit an old roommate from her college years. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Magic of Belle Isle (2012) 💬 Two, bamboozle: to deceive or get the better of somebody by trickery.

📚 Bamboozle, verb. 🔉 /bamˈbuːz(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal • with object): Cheat or fool. ❗️ Examples: 1. He bamboozled Canada's largest banks in a massive counterfeit scam. 2. Courtesy is a luxury that real reporters often have to sacrifice in the line of duty, especially when bamboozled by double talk. 3. It can't be easy to find rich suckers who can be bamboozled into buying this. 4. Documents rarely set out to trick historians, but they can bamboozle the unwary at every turn. 5. Inconspicuously dressed in a kilt, sporran, dagger, and ‘black mask of Osiris’, Crowley crept down the suburban road from Olympia and bamboozled his way into the sacred vaults. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) 💬 Into this estate, these two come now to be joined If any man present can show cause... why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him speak now or forever after hold his peace.

📚 Show cause, phrase. ❓ Definition (Law): Produce satisfactory grounds for application of (or exemption from) a procedure or penalty. ❗️ Examples: 1. A notice to show cause why there should not be a committal to prison. 2. Show-cause notice. 3. In January 1994 the auditor published his provisional findings and the notices to show cause why the ten persons should not be surcharged. 4. On 3 June 1999 the Board wrote to Mr and Mrs Mann requiring them to show cause within 14 days why their legal aid certificates should not be revoked. 5. The draft order nisi that has been filed specifies five grounds on which the respondents are to be called on to show cause. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Hauteur, noun. 🔉 /əʊˈtəː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Proud haughtiness of manner. ❗️ Examples: 1. She swept into the room with formidable hauteur. 2. His natural coolness and aristocratic hauteur. 3. Gone was the better-than-thou hauteur and proud carriage synonymous to Adrienne Clarke. 4. However, with the addition of an arcade of brand-name boutiques, the Raffles' former aristocratic hauteur seems to have been traded for a sort of self-conscious post-yuppie consumerism. 5. Despite his much vaunted lack of emotional attachment to the trappings of title, the marquis has been cited as conducting his business with a distinctly aristocratic hauteur. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Simpsons (1989) - S14E05 Comedy 💬 Bart, watch your potty mouth.

📚 Potty mouth, noun. ❓ Definition: A person who tends to use bad language. ❗️ Examples: 1. Angry viewers who assumed I was an out-of-control potty mouth. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Wild Child (2008) 💬 You so don't need to play hard to get. I'm totally into you.