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📚 Maid, noun. 🔉 /meɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (archaic): An unmarried girl or young woman. ❗️ Examples: 1. Was this just Andrew's manner - no, but he certainly didn't flirt with the other maids and pretty girls he passed on the streets. 2. A young justice, the Governer of the town, saw the young maid and fell in love with her. 3. The young fifteen-year-old elven maid paraded from her father's cart to the Market streets. 4. Where Kiaria was a quiet and reserved elven maid, Eva was a loud and borderline obnoxious human woman. 5. On the eve of St Valentine, a number of young folk - maids and bachelors - would assemble together, and inscribe upon little billets the names of an equal number of maids and bachelors of their acquaintance, throw the whole into a receptacle of some sort, and then draw them lottery-wise - care, of course, being taken that each should draw one of the opposite sex. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Fight one's corner, phrase. ❓ Definition: Defend one's position or interests. ❗️ Examples: 1. We need someone in the cabinet to fight our corner. 2. The company argues that the fact the shareholders are getting anything at all - something some creditors fiercely opposed at the time - was only because the company fought their corner. 3. The same ferocity with which a young, disadvantaged Motherwell side have fought their corner for much of the league campaign was the game's most compelling feature. 4. I fought my corner to the very last, though, and as we waited at the check-out I gave it a final shot. 5. But Mr Jones fought his corner and delivered a prepared, three-minute speech pressing his argument that public services needed to be reformed and firms had to deal with the increasing demands of competition. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Faint, adjective. 🔉 /feɪnt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Lacking conviction or enthusiasm; feeble. ❗️ Examples: 1. She sent him a faint answering smile. 2. The acquisition of Edmark was greeted with faint enthusiasm when it was first announced. 3. Hundreds of mourners gather daily, shedding torrents of tears and managing a few faint smiles as they remember their loved ones. 4. They received the faint answer of ‘yes’ and their fears were assuaged; if only for a moment. 5. Ask about the income from playing the instrument, he will give you a faint smile as reply. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Sort out the men from the boys, phrase. ❓ Definition: Show or prove who is the best at a particular activity. ❗️ Examples: 1. The mountains apparently sort out the men from the boys. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Algorithm, noun. 🔉 /ˈalɡərɪð(ə)m/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer. ❗️ Examples: 1. A basic algorithm for division. 2. Another arithmetical result presented by Brahmagupta is his algorithm for computing square roots. 3. This first step is here reduced to a simple algorithm suitable for computer use. 4. Mathematicians can use similar algorithms to generate fractals and other forms. 5. Having established the nature of equilibria, Smale began to think algorithms for their computation. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Handmaid's Tale (2017) - S01E03 Late 💬 I have stewed apples for dessert.

📚 Stewed, adjective. 🔉 /stjuːd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of food) cooked slowly in liquid in a closed dish or pan. ❗️ Examples: 1. Stewed apple. 2. For dessert, many dishes include fried or stewed bananas. 3. Standard dishes such as stewed beef and home-style bean curd are frequently requested here. 4. This was served with a dish of stewed potatoes and turnips - a great complement to the flavorful meat, which was rosy and tender in places, wonderfully crispy and smoky in others. 5. Around each of the larger dishes were collections of stewed vegetables. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Used to express indifference to an insult or abuse. ❗️ Examples: 1. If anyone ever tells you that little rhyme ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me,’ well tell them they are full of it. 2. We say things like ‘actions speak louder than words’, or ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me’. 3. But the child's nursery rhyme is true: sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me. 4. As that old saying goes, sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. 5. Remember the old saying, sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Hot in Cleveland (2010) - S01E07 It's Not That Complicated 💬 Screwed, stewed, and tattooed.

📚 Stewed, adjective. 🔉 /stjuːd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal): Drunk. ❗️ Examples: 1. We got stewed at their party. 2. The man was half-stewed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Easy does it, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to advise someone to approach a task carefully and slowly. ❗️ Examples: 1. With father's wine in the back I mustn't drive too fast, so easy does it. 2. Easy, easy does it, not too much, just a little bit more. 3. So easy does it with the imagery from now on, I promise. 4. Whether your sending out a quick ‘hello’ or ‘meet us here later’, it's easy does it all the way. 5. Carter shushed her, ‘Hey, easy does it there, Laura.’ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Worldly, adjective. 🔉 /ˈwəːldli/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of a person) experienced and sophisticated. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was much more worldly than Nora and dismissed the slur. 2. Younger people will ask you important and earnest questions only an experienced and worldly man of age can answer. 3. She uses particular features to portray herself as a sophisticated, worldly woman. 4. Australians love America, but any worldly person knows you do not threaten Aussies. 5. Selfless work done with full heart and perfection is the best way for the worldly person to realize his inner Self. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Rest on one's laurels, phrase. ❓ Definition: Be so satisfied with what one has already done or achieved that one makes no further effort. ❗️ Examples: 1. With TV sports coverage becoming increasingly competitive, the BBC should beware of resting on its laurels. 2. He has experienced more adventure than most of us enjoy in a lifetime but he is not resting on his laurels and is already planning further adventures. 3. He is not resting on his laurels and has already begun working for further improvement. 4. We cannot rest on our laurels after the efforts of the weekend. 5. But I've rested on my laurels and never put effort into anything. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Freshman, noun. 🔉 /ˈfrɛʃmən/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A first-year student at university. ❗️ Examples: 1. We invited the freshmen. 2. Why are most of the victims physically weak such as university freshmen or sophomores or female students? 3. She is currently enrolled at California State University Fullerton as a freshman in the Honors Program. 4. When Arizona State University's freshmen begin to navigate college life this fall, about 35 of them will get extra support from their parents. 5. The teaching of science subjects to secondary school students and college and university freshmen is often regarded as a difficult task. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Suits (2011) - S06E07 💬 And his execution date is set in stone.

📚 Be set in stone, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to emphasize that something is fixed and unchangeable. ❗️ Examples: 1. This pricing scheme is not set in stone and will likely change when the service has a full launch. 2. Anything can change — nothing is written in stone. 3. Your training goals are not written in stone; changes should be made as necessary to work toward a common goal. 4. However, an RFL spokesman said ten teams per division was a minimum, not a fixed figure, while the new format was not yet set in stone. 5. While many thought that the current proposed standard was written in stone might have to change their minds and wait until the squabbling is over. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Mehndi, noun. 🔉 /ˈmɛndi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun • Indian): The art or practice of applying temporary henna tattoos, especially as part of a bride or groom's preparations for a wedding. ❗️ Examples: 1. Only a few Western brides have adopted mehndi as a wedding tradition, but many women use it as a fashion statement and a means of personal expression. 2. Earlier, Lakshmi Kirti, a cosmetologist and aroma therapist, conducted a demonstration on the preparation and use of mehndi. 3. You don't need to be a trained artist to apply mehndi. 4. Whether yoga or mehndi, each comes with a long tradition and sometimes with the baggage of expectation. 5. She helped popularize mehndi, as well as threading (a technique for removing eyebrow hair), through her work with models, actresses and singers. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic