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📚 The shape of things to come, phrase. ❓ Definition: The way the future is likely to develop. ❗️ Examples: 1. Unlike Agee, then, who was drawn to elegy, Martínez is drawn to prophecy: he sees the provinces as the future, the towns of Cherán and Warren as the shape of things to come. 2. Albeit clever, imaginative, notably fertile, this squeaky-voiced, scurrying little ladies' man, the prophet of the shape of things to come, fell short, in every sense, of his predecessor's measure. 3. Every day, a creation takes place as new uses, new mistakes, new copy is generated, each creating a new meaning for the shape of things to come. 4. For those of you living off-campus already, enjoy a stroll down memory lane; for the residents, beware of the shape of things to come. 5. He predicted no end to the poetic image, for the central aim of poetry is to insinuate the shape of things to come, and that is a perpetual process. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Hiya, exclamation. 🔉 /ˈhʌɪjə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: An informal greeting. ❗️ Examples: 1. Oh hiya, I don't think I'll be able to make it in for the week. 2. And if you already know what I'm talking about, why not drop by and say hiya to our friends at Barbelith. 3. Author's Note: Well, hiya, how are all of you doing? 4. We get results - hiya to our readership at the Beeb! 5. With Debbie wandering round the isles, I raced back home, sprinted inside, said hiya to the dogs, got my wallet and raced back to the supermarket. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Oil the wheels, phrase. ❓ Definition: Help something go smoothly. ❗️ Examples: 1. Sales promotions oil the wheels of commerce. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Evade, verb. 🔉 /ɪˈveɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Escape or avoid (someone or something), especially by guile or trickery. ❗️ Examples: 1. Friends helped him to evade capture for a time. 2. Many of them, including suspected murderers and rapists, continue to evade police capture for months or even years. 3. Both are cunning predators that can evade any attempts of capture or extinction. 4. Poetry cannot escape ideology nor can evade the class struggle since the latter indirectly or more directly inform the poet's political and artistic consciousness. 5. Several lines of evidence suggest that twig anoles rely more on stealth than speed to capture prey and evade predators. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 All of a sudden, phrase. ❓ Definition: Suddenly. ❗️ Examples: 1. I feel really tired all of a sudden. 2. All of a sudden, he's being asked to dinner by leading writers and noblemen. 3. All of a sudden, the normal drone of the training room was shattered by peals of laughter! 4. All of a sudden, you're face to face with a black, hairy spider the size of a beach ball. 5. All of a sudden, the sky cleared, became blue and a perfect rainbow arched over me with one end in the sand. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Splinter, noun. 🔉 /ˈsplɪntə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A small, thin, sharp piece of wood, glass, or similar material broken off from a larger piece. ❗️ Examples: 1. A splinter of ice. 2. Their room was filled with glass shards and wood splinters. 3. She looked down at her hands, bloody from the myriad of wood splinters and glass shards that had imbedded themselves in her skin. 4. The splinter from the broken glass hit Evelyn's right shin, leaving a two-inch gash. 5. The flying vehicle of ours crashed through the roadblock, sending splinters and pieces of wood whistling all over the place. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 In the groove, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Performing confidently or consistently well. ❗️ Examples: 1. The team are not really in the groove tonight. 2. It might take me a couple of races to get back into the groove. 3. A musician himself, he first discusses the experiences had by musicians who are in the groove, who are performing at their peak as it all comes together. 4. While he started out shaky, as he's done in his previous performances, he got into the groove quickly and stuck with it through the end of the song. 5. He has resorted to that long putter to get his performances back into the groove. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Succotash, noun. 🔉 /ˈsʌkətaʃ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): An American dish of maize and lima beans boiled together. ❗️ Examples: 1. The sweet quality of this meat is best for salads, succotash, chowders or steamed preparations to accompany summer fare. 2. Stemming from the Native American dish m'i sicquotach, plain old down-home succotash keeps the siblings as close as they can be. 3. But in order to try it you may have to stop wolfing the smothered pork chops and grits the person on your left is drooling over, or the curried goat with superb succotash that has made the friend on your right fall suddenly silent. 4. Spoonbread, crab cakes, corn pone (corn bread), corn pudding, greens, and succotash - cooked over an open pit or fireplace - became common items in a black cook's repertoire in the late 1700s and the 1800s. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Undisputed (2002) 💬 I had to let the peeps in here know who's the boss.

📚 Peeps, plural noun. 🔉 /piːps/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal): People (often used to refer to a person's friends or associates) ❗️ Examples: 1. Thanks for the feedback, peeps! 2. She's back home with her peeps in Milwaukee. 3. Luckily, Jenna's peeps were not what I had assumed them to be. 4. I'd like to hear from Miami, Brazil or West Coast peeps on this. 5. Hi peeps … this is a new story I posted up. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 In the heat of the moment, phrase. ❓ Definition: While temporarily angry, excited, or engrossed, and without stopping for thought. ❗️ Examples: 1. Things said in the heat of the moment. 2. Sadly at this moment all that was found in the heat of the moment, was two angry faces, two rapidly beating hearts and one truth. 3. That had been all too short, and the ones the night before that had been frenzied, excited ones caught in the heat of the moment. 4. ‘I think there's nothing more dangerous than adopting legislation in the heat of the moment,’ he says. 5. One thing is certain, rugby will always be a very tough game, in which injuries can be expected, and in most cases there is very little a referee can do to prevent many of them in the heat of the moment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Nutty, adjective. 🔉 /ˈnʌti/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal): Mad; crazy. ❗️ Examples: 1. He came up with a few nutty proposals. 2. There is no tangible search for solutions and little real, positive innovation or creativity; merely the recycling of outdated ideas, baseless gossip and nutty proposals. 3. I have no doubt that the advice you have received from economists and tax experts has told you why your proposal is nutty. 4. I would have to do this nutty, wild, exhausting sort of dance where I would flail my arms and legs out with so much gusto I would eventually lose some of the bottled up energy. 5. His nutty enthusiasm for the game of golf hasn't diminished one stroke in his even-par 72 years. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 All in all, phrase. ❓ Definition: On the whole. ❗️ Examples: 1. All in all it's been a good year. 2. They wreak havoc on our nervous systems and, all in all, make for generally unsavoury experiences. 3. But all in all, I would much rather have been running on the straight. 4. So all in all, they are asking you to close your eyes and believe. 5. It's an extremely odd little movie, all in all, and it's a little tough to understand the high expectations. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Daydream, noun. 🔉 /ˈdeɪdriːm/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A series of pleasant thoughts that distract one's attention from the present. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was lost in a daydream. 2. Em scanned the schoolyard with drooped eyelids in a pleasant daydream trying to find a liable distraction. 3. Reluctantly stirring from her very pleasant daydreams, Hope looked upwards and found Frank Metcalfe smiling down at her. 4. The booming of that door seemed to have woken me from a pleasant daydream, abruptly bringing cold reality back into sharp focus. 5. My daydream distracted me and I jumped when I noticed Red plop down in front of me. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A means to an end, phrase. ❓ Definition: A thing that is not valued or important in itself but is useful in achieving an aim. ❗️ Examples: 1. Higher education was seen primarily as a means to an end. 2. We view our technology as a means to an end, and the end is always to deliver business value. 3. However, it must be used as a means to an end and not the end itself. 4. ‘I don't think much of gaming,’ says Morgan, ‘but it was a means to an end.’ 5. So advertising is only a means to an end - if an alternative method existed to increase the reputation of the product, it would also serve the seller's purpose. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) 💬 Sorry to eavesdrop, but, you know, there's a much easier way to guarantee getting someone home.

📚 Eavesdrop, verb. 🔉 /ˈiːvzdrɒp/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Secretly listen to a conversation. ❗️ Examples: 1. My father eavesdropped on my phone calls. 2. Trying to look like I was having fun jumping up and down, I secretly eavesdrop on their conversation. 3. I wanted to listen to you live, as though I was eavesdropping on your conversation. 4. Sent to his room by Aunt Lou, Joe eavesdrops on the conversation. 5. He watches a woman chase a runaway dog and eavesdrops on conversations even more banal than his prose. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic