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🎬 The Simpsons (1989) - S07E21 Comedy 💬 I'm edgy. I got ants in my pants.

📚 Have ants in one's pants, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Be fidgety or restless. ❗️ Examples: 1. What's the matter with you, always fidgeting — you got ants in your pants? 2. Maybe it's just God trying to tell me to keep still and stop acting like I have ants in my pants, to just be calm and happy that all is well. 3. He appeared to have ants in his pants, refusing to stand still for a minute. 4. I have so much energy that the little kids I baby-sit told me it looks like I have ants in my pants. 5. I tossed and turned, and finally Shirley said something like I had ants in my pants, something like that, anyway, and decided to walk the house to try and fall asleep. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Olfaction, noun. 🔉 /ɒlˈfakʃ(ə)n/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (technical • mass noun): The action or capacity of smelling; the sense of smell. ❗️ Examples: 1. As an immunologist and neurobiologist, Mombaerts has decisively contributed to the basic mechanistic understanding of olfaction (sense of smell). 2. Humans detect chemical substances in the environment through 2 sensory channels: olfaction and the chemical sense. 3. The nurse shark relies on its sense of olfaction, touch and electrical reception. 4. This discovery suggests that this particular odorant receptor gene plays an integral role in olfaction, or sense of smell, and these results point the way to potential new methods for controlling the behavior of insects. 5. It has established prestigious five year fellowships for outstanding laboratory investigators, particularly in hearing and olfaction. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Retain, verb. 🔉 /rɪˈteɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Absorb and continue to hold (a substance) ❗️ Examples: 1. Limestone is known to retain water. 2. Containers that have soils high in organic matter retain soil moisture longer than other growing media. 3. In the burning process most carbon, nitrogen and sulphur are lost in gaseous form, whereas phosphorus, potassium and calcium are retained in the ash. 4. The job was one that must be done every fall when the crops are in - removing the long strips of black plastic mulch that warms the soil, retains moisture, and stifles the weeds. 5. The more water a place retains throughout the year, the more complex an ecosystem it can support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Men in Black: International (2019) 💬 I have nothing. I have no dog, no cat, definitely no chill.

📚 Have no chill, phrase. ❓ Definition (US • informal): Be tense, agitated, or upset. ❗️ Examples: 1. If you get mad they'll think that you have no chill. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Dolma, noun. 🔉 /ˈdɒlmə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A dish consisting of ingredients such as meat and spiced rice wrapped in vine or cabbage leaves, popular in the Balkans, the Caucasus, and the eastern Mediterranean. ❗️ Examples: 1. To start I ordered the Greek dolmades (vine leaves) stuffed with rice, lamb, pork, mint and dill and served with lemon juice for €9. 2. To me, they're preferable to Greek dolmades (rice and grape leaf rolls). 3. There's also a host of other traditional Greek dishes, like dolmades (grape leaves wrapped around rice), gyros (a type of donair) and spanikopita. 4. We loaded our plates with hummus and pita, deliciously lemony dolmas, pickled golden beets, a mess of roasted vegetables, and buttery corn pudding. 5. And of course, there are even more meat dishes, such as chicken with mushrooms (in a fried shell), boiled lamb, stuffed meat with sauce, and Turkish dolmas. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Fortify, verb. 🔉 /ˈfɔːtɪfʌɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Increase the nutritional value of (food) by adding vitamins or minerals. ❗️ Examples: 1. Most commercial brands of almond milk are fortified with vitamins A, D, B2, B12, calcium, and zinc. 2. Because many American foods are fortified with vitamin A, deficiency is very rare in individuals who do not have certain chronic intestinal illnesses. 3. The body more readily absorbs folic acid from vitamin supplements and fortified foods than folate from food. 4. Margarine is fortified with added vitamins A and D to bring their levels up to those naturally present in butter. 5. Manufacturers should lower the amount of vitamin A in multivitamin tablets and fortified foods, such as cereals, says Michaelsson. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Rush (2013) 💬 And there I was thinking you were about to wax lyrical about the romance of flight.

📚 Wax lyrical, phrase. ❓ Definition: Talk in a highly enthusiastic and effusive way. ❗️ Examples: 1. He waxed lyrical about his splendid son-in-law. 2. It is approaching midnight in a cafe on the outskirts of Moscow and a group of enthusiasts are waxing lyrical on the subject of their favourite car, the Lada. 3. In these pages last week, our art critic Iain Gale waxed lyrical - and certainly much more lyrically than I can ever wax - about the richness of the Demarco collection. 4. I mean, is it strictly necessary to emerge from the shower, grab a towel and commence a sawing action under your crotch while simultaneously waxing lyrical about Fairtrade bananas? 5. Dick Hyman is not one for waxing lyrical, but get him on the subject of his boyhood hero Bix Beiderbecke and the quiet American giant of jazz piano suddenly has plenty to say. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Prince of the City (1981) 💬 If you take the oath and you lie to protect Gus Levy or any of the partners, anybody, anybody, they'll indict you.

📚 Indict, verb. 🔉 /ɪnˈdʌɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (North American • with object): Formally accuse of or charge with a crime. ❗️ Examples: 1. His former manager was indicted for fraud. 2. And a grand jury or the state attorney makes the decision as to whether or not to formally indict you with the charges. 3. This one a Texas grand jury indicting him on a charge of money laundering, also in connection with this case. 4. That means not only making sure there is strong evidence against the defendant before indicting him, but also making sure that he receives a fair trial. 5. Moving on very swiftly, in relation to two charges, you were indicted to stand trial at the Central Criminal Court? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Last Action Hero (1993) 💬 It's behind the eight ball, you moron.

📚 Behind the eight ball, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): At a disadvantage. ❗️ Examples: 1. Don't let cash-flow crises put you behind the eight ball. 2. In that respect, any free independent publication will be starting behind the eight ball, with no subsidies, let alone a historical tradition or audience. 3. I know I am really behind the eight ball on this one. 4. It is clear that students from poorer families start behind the eight ball and are not given enough extra assistance. 5. We certainly don't want to fall behind the eight ball on that. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Aforementioned, adjective. 🔉 /əfɔːˈmɛnʃənd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Denoting a thing or person previously mentioned. ❗️ Examples: 1. Songs from the aforementioned album. 2. All of the aforementioned public representatives present addressed the meeting. 3. Apart from the aforementioned health benefits, it has given his work an integrity that it did not need previously. 4. Smoking is already banned in most of the places that people have to use, such as the aforementioned public transport. 5. The aforementioned rules may only be altered by the holder of the agreement. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Eight Men Out (1988) 💬 A patriot of the first order. A family man...

📚 Of the first order, phrase. ❓ Definition: Excellent or considerable of its kind. ❗️ Examples: 1. It is a media event of the first order. 2. However, the overall campaign was a disaster of the first order. 3. It was a disaster of the first order, but Daun was still wary of the ever-aggressive Frederick, with reason. 4. Sarris calls the film ‘a masterpiece of the first order.’ 5. His achievement, though easily taken for granted, was the work of an analytical mind of the first order, and he deserves much more honor than he has so far received. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Petrichor, noun. 🔉 /ˈpɛtrʌɪkɔː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather. ❗️ Examples: 1. Other than the petrichor emanating from the rapidly drying grass, there was not a trace of evidence that it had rained at all. 2. One can almost smell the petrichor. 3. It's been raining for several days this week but our noses can't smell the petrichor because our showers are falling on saturated ground, ice filled pools, and grey piles of our most recent snowstorm's remnants. 4. I am wondering if they will get the time and the open space to experience the petrichor in the air. 5. The musty, barky smell of fresh rain fallen on the dry earth is petrichor. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic