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📚 Run out of steam, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Lose impetus or enthusiasm. ❗️ Examples: 1. A rebellion that had run out of steam. 2. Sandy Neilson's production, enthusiastically performed by the resident company, strikes an appropriate, rollicking tone but gradually runs out of steam. 3. The two very sexy stars provide enough chemistry in this stylized thriller but the movie runs out of steam halfway through. 4. I'd like watch as each argument just runs out of steam, leaving just the prejudice and chauvinism for all to see. 5. It is laid back, ambling on its jolly way, and just when it should be gathering momentum it runs out of steam. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Apprentice, noun. 🔉 /əˈprɛntɪs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed period at low wages. ❗️ Examples: 1. An apprentice electrician. 2. It doesn't matter how much money we give employers to take on apprentices in tradition trades - in gas fitting, in tiling, in welding and carpentry. 3. It is often asserted that by keeping wages low for apprentices, employers will automatically take more on. 4. This language has an old-fashioned ring, and was designed for a minor becoming an apprentice in a skilled trade. 5. They also sought to limit the number of apprentices entering their trades, because of the inevitable consequence of depressing wage rates; this has remained a feature of some craft unions to this day. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 The end justifies the means, phrase. ❓ Definition: Wrong or unfair methods may be used if the overall goal is good. ❗️ Examples: 1. We excuse our greed by claiming that the end justifies the means. 2. I understand that for them the end justifies the means, but I can't help worrying about where society will eventually draw the line. 3. A career cop who followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, he believes the end justifies the means. 4. But I still cannot believe in the idea that the end justifies the means. 5. When it comes to winning arguments, they seem to think that the end justifies the means and that truth is an irrelevance. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Transfusion, noun. 🔉 /ˌtransˈfjuːʒ(ə)n/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: An act of transferring donated blood, blood products, or other fluid into the circulatory system of a person or animal. ❗️ Examples: 1. Major bleeding necessitating transfusions. 2. Transfusion is necessary in some circumstances. 3. Before death, the organ donor received several transfusions of blood products. 4. She was treated with intravenous folinic acid and antibiotics and was given transfusions of blood products. 5. Whenever possible, transfusions of all blood products should be limited. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 The mother of all ——, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): An extreme example or very large specimen of a specified thing. ❗️ Examples: 1. I got stuck in the mother of all traffic jams. 2. Perhaps, the cricket coaches and psychologists should speak to them about how to motivate the team to win the mother of all cricketing contests. 3. I look around to see, watching me, two glass bead eyes stitched onto the mother of all big handbags. 4. Next, the restaurant lays out the mother of all meals, a Royal Thai degustation feast. 5. They are the mother of all prawns and fetch handsome prices for those who net them from the wild. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ensorcell, verb. 🔉 /ɪnˈsɔːs(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (archaic • with object): Enchant; fascinate. ❗️ Examples: 1. He was a child when the power of a mythic image first ensorcelled him. 2. Though the 56-year-old first took to ensorcelling many decades ago, it was only after self-publishing the first of his five books on magic, that he decided to delve into the mysteries of retail. 3. But this time I was completely ensorcelled. 4. A wereson is one who is ensorcelled - who has within him another being, hidden, watchful and looking out. 5. So once again they manage to juxtapose the puissant music with the borderline puerile ideas, ensorcelling you before dropping you with an abrupt thud. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Take up, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition (take something up, take up something): Pursue a matter later or further. ❗️ Examples: 1. He'll have to take it up with the bishop. 2. If the matter is not resolved locally, the associations could take it up with Garda Headquarters. 3. You will be starting a bit earlier today, if that is a problem, take it up with Master Shay. 4. This is a matter for us to consider and we will take it up with the principals concerned. 5. If you wish to change legislation, why don't you take it up with the relevant authority? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Batman (1989) Thriller 💬 you can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs.

📚 One can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): One cannot accomplish something without adverse effects elsewhere. ❗️ Examples: 1. Just as surely as you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, you can't build a fairer society without challenging wealth and power. 2. However, as Lenin said, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. 3. Robespierre was dead right, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, however I have noticed that politicians can never improve the world without killing a fair amount of the inhabitants which is what Robespierre had just done. 4. He used to say ‘I put my money on Stalin,’ and dismissed Stalin's mass murder with the quip, ‘you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.’ 5. Those arguing that this is just how modern warfare is waged, and that ‘you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs ’, should note that it is only the US that behaves like this. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Banana, adjective. 🔉 /bəˈnɑːnə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (bananas • informal): Insane or extremely silly. ❗️ Examples: 1. I've spent two months in a studio — I must be bananas. 2. Roy's customers think the council has gone bananas. 3. She went bananas when I said I was going to leave the job. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A tough nut to crack, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): A difficult problem or an opponent that is hard to beat. ❗️ Examples: 1. He should prove a tough nut to crack over tomorrow's extended three miles. 2. Japan has proved a tough nut for Microsoft's console division to crack. 3. Nine-year-olds are tough nuts to crack, as Peter Loraine, head of marketing at S Club Juniors' label Polydor, points out. 4. Now they, like the rest of Europe, are tough nuts to crack. 5. Upgrading a module that combines PHP with SQL is a tougher nut to crack, and it seems as though the XOOPS people have done an admirable job. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Facilitate, verb. 🔉 /fəˈsɪlɪteɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Make (an action or process) easy or easier. ❗️ Examples: 1. Schools were located in the same campus to facilitate the sharing of resources. 2. So, this move has to be seen as a first step towards facilitating the process of computerisation. 3. Moreover, online pharmacies can bolster patient compliance rates by facilitating the refill process. 4. The data bank allows states to find out if a licence to practise has been revoked by another state and thus facilitates the licensing process. 5. The consent process is facilitated by face to face interviews with a trained nurse. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A shoulder to cry on, phrase. ❓ Definition: Someone who listens sympathetically to someone's problems. ❗️ Examples: 1. He was a fatherly shoulder to cry on when the going was tough. 2. I mean, where's the harm in a guy wanting a drinking buddy, a shoulder to cry on and a sympathetic ear? 3. Both of them said if I ever needed anything - a shoulder to cry on, an ear to listen - to call them. 4. They offer us a shoulder to cry on and place a comforting arm around our shoulders to lighten the burden of sorrow and misfortune. 5. Mrs O'Toole is a shoulder to cry on for her customers and has experience in talking about the most sensitive subjects. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Red-handed, adjective. ❓ Definition: Used to indicate that a person has been discovered in or just after the act of doing something wrong or illegal. ❗️ Examples: 1. I caught him red-handed, stealing a wallet. 2. He spends all of his waking hours hatching schemes to catch the thief red-handed. 3. Armed robbers were caught red-handed yesterday as they were about to carry out a raid on a security van. 4. Of course, the police caught the burglars red-handed. 5. It seems a rare occasion to catch a thief red-handed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 When one's ship comes in, phrase. ❓ Definition: When one's fortune is made. ❗️ Examples: 1. The right honourable gentleman opposite is a very naughty man, and he will laugh on the other side of his face when my ship comes in. 2. She's the kind of real life gal who'll buy you a beer, let you cry on her shoulder and be the first one to give you a high-five when your ship comes in. 3. Uptown girl, you know I can't afford to buy her pearls, but maybe someday when my ship comes in, she'll understand what kind of guy I am. 4. But my worst fear - echoing my elder daughter's prediction that ‘Dad, when your ship comes in you'll be at the airport!’ 5. I remember hearing my parents talk about how much better life would be when their ship came in, but I never knew whether or not they really expected it to happen. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Pharyngeal, adjective. 🔉 /fəˈrɪn(d)ʒɪəl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Relating to the pharynx. ❗️ Examples: 1. The hypoglossal and glossopharyngeal nerves innervate pharyngeal dilator muscles. 2. The levator veli palatini muscle, which elevates the soft palate, is innervated by a pharyngeal branch of the vagus nerve. 3. Its fibers pass dorsally from an extensive anterior attachment to insert on the pharyngeal raphe, the pharyngeal tubercle of the occipital bone. 4. The muscular walls of the pharynx constitute three overlapping sheets of striated muscle, the pharyngeal constrictors. 5. Combined stimulation of the hypoglossus branch and pharyngeal branch of the vagus nerve produced significant interactions between pressure and stimulation in the caudal oropharynx. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) 💬 Retreat! Retreat!

📚 Retreat, verb. 🔉 /rɪˈtriːt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): (of an army) withdraw from enemy forces as a result of their superior power or after a defeat. ❗️ Examples: 1. The French retreated in disarray. 2. I just received word that the enemy forces are retreating. 3. The First Shock Army was retreating along a narrow corridor between two series of hills. 4. When daylight arrived, scouting parties would work their way up over the hill in order to determine exactly how far the Army had retreated. 5. The French army retreated towards the River Marne and it was here that both German and French armies fought out the first major battle on the Western Front. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic