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📚 Mankind, noun. ❓ Definition (mass noun): Human beings considered collectively; the human race. ❗️ Examples: 1. Research for the benefit of all mankind. 2. Arms races have dogged mankind from the dawn of history, and history seems bound to repeat itself. 3. It is often acknowledged that the history of mankind is written by its victors. 4. Had he been listened to, the history of mankind might have been different. 5. Proof that history depends on mankind rather than a merely symbolic event was in evidence in two nations. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Around the corner, phrase. ❓ Definition: Very near. ❗️ Examples: 1. There's a chemist around the corner. 2. The commander was claiming that peace was just around the corner. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Deed, noun. 🔉 /diːd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (literary): An action that is performed intentionally or consciously. ❗️ Examples: 1. Doing good deeds. 2. Her kind nature was ever to the fore and she performed many good deeds in her own quiet manner. 3. The Executive has made a virtue of preaching the need for reform without accompanying those words with deeds. 4. But some, who saw what took place, said: From where does this child spring, since his every word is an accomplished deed? 5. She also called on the congregation not to establish a political party but instead to perform good deeds to serve the society. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Tomorrow is another day, phrase. ❓ Definition: Said after a bad experience to express one's belief that the future will be better. ❗️ Examples: 1. There's always hope because tomorrow is another day. 2. Who knows, tomorrow is another day and you never know what is going to come in the door. 3. Take each day as it comes and at the end of the day, if things still aren't done, remember that tomorrow is another day. 4. This is just a phase, it will pass, now get some rest, tomorrow is another day! 5. Duncan is obviously disappointed, but tomorrow is another day for getting it right. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Shillelagh, noun. ❓ Definition: A thick stick of blackthorn or oak used in Ireland, typically as a weapon. ❗️ Examples: 1. Our whacking shillelaghs came over their heads, 2. Ballybunion, for instance, has 36 holes in the dunes, but 18 of them are great and 18 are such that you couldn't persuade me to play them even with a shillelagh. 3. You're as likely to get mugged and beaten in Ireland as anywhere else in Western Europe, and rest assured, you won't be beaten with a magical shillelagh. 4. I couldn't get a shillelagh, so I used a cane with knots in it instead. 5. Metaphorically, with the traditional whiskey under his belt and a shillelagh under his arm, he sets the tone of the play and from there it never looks back. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Life-threatening, adjective. 🔉 /ˈlʌɪfˌθrɛt(ə)nɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (especially of an illness or injury) potentially fatal. ❗️ Examples: 1. Cancer is not the only life-threatening condition. 2. And it's not just those suffering from life-threatening illness who are offered such help. 3. The basic fact may nowhere be as true as when we are tested by a life-threatening illness. 4. The man was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries - a deep wound to his side had punctured a lung. 5. They have been asked to keep an eye out for symptoms of the potentially life-threatening disease in their children. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 The villain of the piece, phrase. ❓ Definition (British): The person or thing responsible for all of the trouble or harm in a particular situation. ❗️ Examples: 1. TV tends to be cast as the villain of the piece. 2. Holdsworth was the villain of the piece when he missed an open goal. 3. He thinks she's trying to make him out to be the villain of the piece. 4. The locked-up wife is transformed into the villain of the piece. 5. Jones, the villain of the piece to Americans, was an Australian. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Arrivederci, exclamation. ❓ Definition: Goodbye until we meet again. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Worldwide, adjective. 🔉 /ˈwəːl(d)wʌɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Extending or reaching throughout the world. ❗️ Examples: 1. Worldwide sales of television rights. 2. This event will reach a worldwide audience as the team set out to put Ireland on the map. 3. They are starting to be used as weapons and will soon have worldwide reach. 4. His unique talent has earned him a worldwide reputation as the world's most popular phantom. 5. It may go some way to repair the damage to the worldwide reputation of Irish banks. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Fight or flight, phrase. ❓ Definition: The instinctive physiological response to a threatening situation, which readies one either to resist forcibly or to run away. ❗️ Examples: 1. I'm sure you've heard of fight or flight in a stressful situation. 2. Humans, like all animals, have an inborn stress alarm system that initiates a fight or flight response to stressful situations. 3. It's true, when you feel that your life might be in danger your natural instinct is fight or flight. 4. In that situation, an animal has two choices - fight or flight. 5. This is when those who haven't punched a ticket feel fight or flight in their bellies. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 - S01E35 Haredevil Hare 💬 One man's meat is another man's poison, I always say.

📚 One man's meat is another man's poison, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Things liked or enjoyed by one person may be distasteful to another. ❗️ Examples: 1. These very different concepts require very different musical interpretations, and one man's meat is another man's poison. 2. It is not so much that one man's meat is another man's poison as it is that one man's poison is another man's poison. 3. It cuts both ways and one man's meat is another man's poison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Adjustment Bureau (2011) 💬 We give you opportunities other people would kill for and you squander them with impulse.

📚 Squander, verb. 🔉 /ˈskwɒndə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Allow (an opportunity) to pass or be lost. ❗️ Examples: 1. The team squandered several good scoring chances. 2. During his time as governor, the enemies were student protesters who, Reagan argued, were squandering the opportunities hard-working taxpayers so kindly provided. 3. Mr Yeo warned the whole event was in danger of becoming bogged down in costly bureaucracy, and that the Government was in danger of squandering a valuable opportunity to promote Britain. 4. Last night, he said it had betrayed millions of people by squandering its opportunity to become a major political party. 5. Yet, they squandered these opportunities by not working hard enough. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ignorance is bliss, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): If one is unaware of an unpleasant fact or situation one cannot be troubled by it. ❗️ Examples: 1. I don't want to hear about them: ignorance is bliss in this case. 2. Where pop music is concerned, ignorance is bliss. 3. Ignorance is bliss and Reece slept well and happy that night. 4. Ignorance is bliss to the general public when it comes to such sensitive and important institutions as the economy. 5. Unless you believe ignorance is bliss, the discovery of the truth of any situation is a good thing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Perennial, adjective. 🔉 /pəˈrɛnɪəl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time; enduring or continually recurring. ❗️ Examples: 1. His perennial distrust of the media. 2. Perennial manifestations of urban crisis. 3. Over the years, various stage productions have added their own theatrical styles to the show, ensuring it remains a perennial favourite of theatre-goers around the world. 4. A perennial favourite among modern readers are the bestsellers on subjects such as cookery, home improvement, self-help and personality development. 5. On Tuesday night, they grappled with a perennial favourite - whether to put the community's interest above their own. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Nutritional, adjective. 🔉 /njuːˈtrɪʃ(ə)n(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Relating to the process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth. ❗️ Examples: 1. Genetic engineering can alter the nutritional value of food. 2. Nutritional deficiencies in the diet. 3. Iron deficiency is the most serious nutritional deficiency worldwide. 4. Sound nutritional advice is based on good food analysis. 5. The old hay probably doesn't have much nutritional quality left in it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Make someone's blood boil, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Infuriate someone. ❗️ Examples: 1. It made her blood boil every time he came near. 2. It was those thoughts that made her blood boil with anger and frustration. 3. Experience what makes the Inspector tick, and what makes his blood boil. 4. I am increasingly sensitive to injustice, which makes my blood boil, and these paintings were born from the anger provoked by this horror. 5. All her words make my blood boil with jealousy and anger as she speaks the taboo. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic