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📚 Play hard to get, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Deliberately adopt an aloof or uninterested attitude, typically in order to make oneself more attractive or interesting. ❗️ Examples: 1. They are playing hard to get with the media, and are keeping us all interested. 2. Sometimes when dates played hard to get, it made the chase more interesting and the inevitable surrender more satisfying. 3. ‘He tried to talk to me for a while after we met, but I was playing hard to get,’ she said with a slight smile. 4. In this love affair, like many others, playing hard to get can only make for a better relationship. 5. After months of being cautious and playing hard to get, I'm going to bravely risk rejection this time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Deglutition, noun. 🔉 /ˌdiːɡluːˈtɪʃ(ə)n/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (technical • mass noun): The action or process of swallowing. ❗️ Examples: 1. The muscles involved in deglutition. 2. Oesophageal pressure peaks induced by a single deglutition. 3. The process of deglutition begins with the bolus formation in the oral cavity. 4. These are inhibitory reflexes, excited by deglutition, by gastric distension, and by intestinal dilatation. 5. Organic abnormalities of deglutition may be related to initiation of the swallowing reflex in the oropharynx or to propulsion of the food bolus through the esophagus. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Memento (2000) 💬 You can't just waltz in here dressed like that and ask for a beer.

📚 Waltz, verb. 🔉 /wɔːl(t)s/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object • with adverbial of direction): Act casually, confidently, or inconsiderately. ❗️ Examples: 1. You can't waltz in here and bark orders at me. 2. From a male point of view I can understand they feel they've been killing themselves all these years, and why should women waltz in and get top jobs without the same sacrifice. 3. While that is a time-filler for many students, it's returned a sense of positive control to my life as I lurk for comment spammers who waltz in and mark up their unwanted remarks. 4. Well, if the right has indeed ‘stolen’ freedom as their buzzword, perhaps we might ask who left the door wide open and allowed them to waltz in and take it away from under our noses? 5. They would waltz in and out of my life at intervals and so I theorized that I got ‘used’ to not having any constant friends around. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Like hell, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Very much (used for emphasis) ❗️ Examples: 1. My head hurts like hell. 2. All I know is that my mouth hurts like hell and I've about as much chance of getting in to see my dentist this week as I have getting into a size 10 dress. 3. I didn't really think about it much as I grew up, unless I bashed my hand against something then the tiny scar hurt like hell. 4. Either way, it hurts like hell on my right side when I breathe in. 5. It really is a magnificent bruise and I have no doubt it hurts like hell. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Sling Blade (1996) 💬 One thing he had was... this beautiful, young bride, Sarah.

📚 Bride, noun. 🔉 /brʌɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A woman on her wedding day or just before and after the event. ❗️ Examples: 1. The bride and groom left early last night. 2. How do I prevent the all too familiar pre-wedding bloating experienced by so many brides on their wedding day? 3. Now there's a girl who knows how to dress for an event without stealing the bride's thunder. 4. The chair is for the bride to sit and the groom to remove the bride's garter from her leg. 5. Traditional Japanese brides wear three wedding robes - a white kimono, a coloured kimono, and a white dress and veil. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 P.S. I Love You (2007) 💬 You can still be a bridesmaid with Sharon.

📚 Bridesmaid, noun. 🔉 /ˈbrʌɪdzmeɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A girl or woman, usually one of several, who accompanies a bride on her wedding day. ❗️ Examples: 1. Her sister asked her to be chief bridesmaid. 2. The bride would be accompanied by several bridesmaids and the groom had one male, the best man, at his side. 3. It is common for couples to have their own children present at their weddings, often as bridesmaids or pageboys. 4. The bridesmaids and flower girl each had a single white lily fixed in their hair, to match the bride's bouquet. 5. Savannah's more of a junior bridesmaid and flower girl combined. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Constant work without rest or relaxation is harmful to one's personal life and well-being. ❗️ Examples: 1. In addition to firm information, we have a little game because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 2. All work and no play is stressful. 3. Being in shape doesn't have to be all work and no play. 4. It won't be all work and no play at the show. 5. Though you agree that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, the industrious and methodical part of you will do justice to your work. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Momentous, adjective. 🔉 /mə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Of great importance or significance, especially in having a bearing on future events. ❗️ Examples: 1. A period of momentous changes in East–West relations. 2. A momentous decision. 3. The prospect of a single currency may present this country with one of the most momentous decisions in its history. 4. It was just after I sat my finals at art college in 1962 that a series of momentous events occurred. 5. After the momentous events of 1953 the men from the expedition shared a rare friendship. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 P.S. I Love You (2007) 💬 Well, you were supposed to be my maid of honor, but of course I didn't hear from you.

📚 Maid of honour, noun. ❓ Definition (North American): A principal bridesmaid. ❗️ Examples: 1. Bridal shower preparations are given by the maid of honour and bridesmaids. 2. The bride's dress will probably be finished with a faux fur shrug and the bridesmaids and maids of honor will adorn lots of silver and gold! 3. There were guests, a maid of honor, a best man, and even a wedding singer. 4. Shortly after the engagement, a maid of honor and a best man are chosen. 5. The judge looked at the best man and the maid of honor and they each placed a ring on his open book. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 As if there was no tomorrow, phrase. ❓ Definition: With no regard for the future consequences. ❗️ Examples: 1. I ate as if there was no tomorrow. 2. He gnawed and bit and scratched as if there was no tomorrow! 3. The banks are still lending as if there was no tomorrow. 4. She and Dan would swim and swim as if there was no tomorrow. 5. Before I could say anything, he was kissing me as if there was no tomorrow. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Help (2011) 💬 I'm sorry. This is the first time I've hired a maid.

📚 Maid, noun. 🔉 /meɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A female domestic servant. ❗️ Examples: 1. Mary eventually managed to find a job as a maid. 2. An army of servants - maids, footmen, cooks and gardeners - made the luxurious lifestyle of the family possible. 3. Every room had maids and servants and butlers all cleaning and decorating his home. 4. Most female migrants to the first world find employment as maids or domestics. 5. When single women began to settle in the United States, they went into domestic work as maids, cooks, and housekeepers. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Hang loose, phrase. ❓ Definition (North American • informal • often as imperative): Be relaxed; refrain from taking anything too seriously. ❗️ Examples: 1. Hang loose, baby! 2. Still, if you go in not expecting very much, and relax and just hang loose, you will find a lot to smile about. 3. He likes to joke around and is tremendous about creating a positive atmosphere so the guys can stay loose. 4. The key I believe is to stay loose and just write whatever pops into your head. 5. ‘Just chill out and hang loose,’ she said knowingly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Last Action Hero (1993) 💬 She's going to die a young maid. I know it.