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📚 Interfere, verb. 🔉 /ɪntəˈfɪə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Intervene in a situation without invitation or necessity. ❗️ Examples: 1. You promised not to interfere. 2. She tried not to interfere in her children's lives. 3. But she'd promised herself she'd never interfere in a situation like that - and she didn't. 4. We've interfered in their lives, their economies and everything, and now because it suits, we say that we cannot interfere in their internal affairs. 5. The relevant people should not make a fuss and should not interfere in business deals for political reasons. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Evil Under the Sun (1982) 💬 This case has been hanging fire for four months.

📚 Hang fire, phrase. ❓ Definition: Delay or be delayed in taking action or progressing. ❗️ Examples: 1. A near agreement was hanging fire because of the concerns of some provinces. 2. Two years ago the District Auditor had warned the council that they must get rid of surplus places, but they had hung fire, because of good schools like Newland, and the upheaval caused to children and staff. 3. I think everyone is hanging fire to see what happens. 4. She said: ‘People have been hanging fire from the outset of the disease to see what happens and because of the outbreak here it's not picking up.’ 5. The international airport project has been hanging fire for the last 10 years, caught in a maze of controversies, suspicions, hurdles and delays. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Decalcomania, noun. 🔉 /dɪˌkalkə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The process of transferring designs from prepared paper on to glass or porcelain. ❗️ Examples: 1. His range of effects is unusually eloquent; there is something of the monoprint to them, as well as elements of the Surrealist techniques of decalcomania and frottage. 2. In each, Krahenbuhl runs a dazzling gamut of painterly techniques: glazing, impasto, scumbling, decalcomania, fluid linear strokes and so on. 3. There are obvious associations to be made with Ernst's and Tanguy's wet-paint technique, decalcomania. 4. Ernst also later practised decalcomania, a process developed by Oscar Dominguez around 1936, which involved rubbing paint arbitrarily between two sheets of paper. 5. Other imaginative techniques of which he was a leading exponent were frottage (which he invented in 1925) and decalcomania. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Drastically, adverb. 🔉 /ˈdrastɪkli/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: In a way that is likely to have a strong or far-reaching effect. ❗️ Examples: 1. Now her fortunes have changed drastically. 2. Management layers will be drastically reduced. 3. The number of films being made - particularly entertainment films - dropped drastically. 4. At the same time, the traditional industries of fishing and lobstering declined drastically as marine wildlife disappeared from the harbor. 5. By the end of 1999 its economy had shrunk by 7 per cent and the unemployment ratio had increased drastically. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Monster (2003) 💬 Because after my daddy killed himself, we were out on the streets.

📚 On the streets, phrase. ❓ Definition: Homeless. ❗️ Examples: 1. The number of people who are out on the streets is lower than twelve months ago. 2. I have seen our lost generation of young people, in hostels for the homeless or out on the streets. 3. A homeless woman is back on the streets again after being evicted from a telephone box. 4. The number of people sleeping rough on the streets of Bedford has risen in the last year. 5. It's real hard not to feel sorry for people who have no homes and sleep on the streets. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Vermilion, noun. 🔉 /vəˈmɪljən/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A brilliant red colour. ❗️ Examples: 1. A lateral stripe of vermilion. 2. Vermilion streaks of sunset. 3. The sun was tediously ebbing into the horizon, staining the otherwise violet sky with brilliant streaks of orange and vermilion. 4. Among the plants that have lovely vermillion hues to go with this season are the dwarf coral tree and the African flame tree. 5. Rich hues of madder red, vermilion, saffron, and black are used in myriad combinations of stripes and checks. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Axe Cop (2013) - S01E07 💬 Why don't you go home and catch some Zs?

📚 Catch some Zs, phrase. ❓ Definition (North American • informal): Get some sleep. ❗️ Examples: 1. I'll go back to the hotel and catch some Zs. 2. I was catching a few Zs on the lower bunk in our call room. 3. Why is it whenever I try to catch some Zs all I can hear is you two squawking? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Dull, adjective. 🔉 /dʌl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Lacking interest or excitement. ❗️ Examples: 1. Your diet doesn't have to be dull and boring. 2. The next day was as boring, mundane, unexciting, humdrum, dull, tedious, uneventful and monotonous as usual. 3. That would add greater interest to an otherwise dull sport, and would mean a large pool of volunteers willing to sweep up the pitch at the final whistle. 4. It was a rare moment of excitement in an otherwise dull match. 5. So no excuses for last minute gifts that are bland, boring and dull. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Simpsons (1989) - S15E10 💬 Now let's see if lightning strikes twice.

📚 Lightning never strikes twice in the same place, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): An unusual situation or event is unlikely to happen again in exactly the same circumstances or to the same person. ❗️ Examples: 1. Thinking that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, one year after the incident administrators decided to place the figure back on his pedestal. 2. It is said that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. 3. It is a myth that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. 4. There's an old saw that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, but in the case of my wife, Annette, and me, it did. 5. If not, one could usually reconstruct the correct data from the printed record and the two tapes; without a printed record (sometimes the printer did not work), you punched a third tape and created the data tape for the next session on the principle that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Sopranos (1999) - S01E04 Drama 💬 I knew you'd chicken out.

📚 Chicken, verb. 🔉 /ˈtʃɪkɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (chicken out • informal • no object): Withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve. ❗️ Examples: 1. The referee chickened out of giving a penalty. 2. But every time I almost get up the nerve to go and speak to her, I chicken out. 3. Maybe you'll intend to come clean but chicken out. 4. She said, ‘We need to raise a better generation that won't chicken out.’ 5. If the corporate talking heads don't chicken out, this could be fun. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Quite a —, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to indicate that the specified person or thing is perceived as particularly notable, remarkable, or impressive. ❗️ Examples: 1. Quite a party, isn't it? 2. Quite the little horsewoman, aren't you? 3. There was quite the little gong show to prep for the party. 4. He is quite the ladies' man, always chasing the girls. 5. Sure, it wasn't quite the indulgences of our 20's. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Hostile, adjective. 🔉 /ˈhɒstʌɪl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Showing or feeling opposition or dislike; unfriendly. ❗️ Examples: 1. A hostile audience. 2. He wrote a ferociously hostile attack. 3. But it was clear last night that the proposals would face hostile opposition from some health professionals and parents' groups. 4. On the other hand, it meant that some of his ideas provoked hostile opposition, while others were greeted with incomprehension or indifference. 5. And they have recognised that the movement must be built in the face of hostile opposition from a Labour government. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Money talks, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Wealth gives power and influence to those who possess it. ❗️ Examples: 1. I twisted Billy's statement to demonstrate that money talks, and therefore gives its bearer power that others lack. 2. I know money talks but at the end of the day it is always going to be the player's choice as to where he plays his rugby. 3. The state of the union is that money talks and public policy is sold to the highest bidder. 4. Meritocracy was not totally absent in this story - if anything, it shows that money talks, but it doesn't necessarily call the shots. 5. Petitions and letters are nice, but money talks. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic