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📚 Cry for the moon, phrase. ❓ Definition: Ask for what is unattainable or impossible. ❗️ Examples: 1. There must be no more self-pity, no more time wasted on crying for the moon. 2. If she cried for the moon, he'd borrow every ladder in the parish and lash 'em together to get up. 3. When my brother was a baby, he cried for the moon and would not be comforted. 4. When the baby cries for the moon, you do not give him what he wants. 5. I haven't cried for the moon, and have been sensible in my demands; but there has nevertheless been this sense of boredom with everything, with my family and with my work. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Umpteenth, ordinal number. 🔉 /ˌʌm(p)ˈtiːnθ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal): Used to emphasize that something has happened on many other occasions. ❗️ Examples: 1. She checked her watch for the umpteenth time. 2. Totti swung his umpteenth corner into Scotland's box. 3. Pity John Williams writing his umpteenth Star Wars score. 4. Microsoft's latest offering is the umpteenth overhaul of MSN, which has been bleeding money for eight years. 5. Everything you need to know about him is neatly encapsulated in the photographs that cover the sleeve of his umpteenth album. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Scooby Doo, Where Are You! (1969) - S01E14 Go Away Ghost Ship 💬 Retreat!

📚 Retreat, verb. 🔉 /rɪˈtriːt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Move back or withdraw. ❗️ Examples: 1. It becomes so hot that the lizards retreat into the shade. 2. The ice retreated during warmer periods called interglacials. 3. The crowd of people gasped and retreated a few steps from me, like I was a wild animal whom they thought to be dead, only to come back to life. 4. There's no pausing, save for retreating to a safer area. 5. If the water line rises far, it means a tidal wave will come and people must retreat to high ground, he said. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Sit on the fence, phrase. ❓ Definition: Avoid making a decision or choice. ❗️ Examples: 1. But he's going to make change and he's going to bring a lot of confidence to a lot of people who are sitting on the fence with the same decision. 2. You should make a decision; you cannot sit on the fence. 3. If that brings to mind a lot of dithering and sitting on the fence, you couldn't be more wrong. 4. As someone who has deferred the choice thus far (rather than actively making a decision), I know I could be accused of sitting on the fence. 5. They want someone to make all their choices for them, so they just sit on the fence and wait to be told what to do. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run 💬 That would be philosophically untenable.

📚 Untenable, adjective. 🔉 /ʌnˈtɛnəb(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (especially of a position or view) not able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection. ❗️ Examples: 1. This argument is clearly untenable. 2. His position is untenable one unless he means us to make a bonfire not just of Dilthey but Nietzsche and Heidegger too. 3. But now they have gone out on such precarious limbs their positions are clearly untenable. 4. This is an untenable position to take and is fantasy politics. 5. Another common theme is the debunking of the fringe pseudosciences or other untenable positions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Loki (2021) - S01E02 The Variant 💬 I'd never stab anyone in the back.

📚 Stab someone in the back, phrase. ❓ Definition: Betray someone. ❗️ Examples: 1. It was very competitive, with everyone stabbing everyone else in the back. 2. There are some people whom I regarded as friends, but they stabbed me in the back; there are those that I injured by mistake, but they were actually good people in retrospect. 3. The district council has stabbed us in the back. 4. Given the opportunity, the powerful will exploit the weak, and the person you love might betray you, stabbing you in the back. 5. Amanda and Chris had been the only two people who hadn't stabbed her in the back and betrayed her trust. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bad-mouth, verb. ❓ Definition (informal • with object): Criticize (someone) behind their back. ❗️ Examples: 1. No one wants to hire an individual who bad-mouths a prior employer. 2. As if I had enough to fill my plate, now I have to worry about my ex-best friend bad-mouthing me behind my back. 3. We don't have to be character assassins, we don't have to issue screeds, we don't have to be bad-mouthing other people, but we do have to use logic and reason and persuasion and show why our positions really make more sense for America. 4. We were willing to let it go, but they are bad-mouthing him. 5. But after class, he sometimes came up to me in the hallway and started bad-mouthing those students who had challenged him. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Once and for all, phrase. ❓ Definition: Now and for the last time; finally. ❗️ Examples: 1. It is better to strengthen your determination and stop smoking once for all rather than slowing it down. 2. I'd appreciate any information which serves to conclude this dispute once and for all. 3. Several months earlier he had still been despairing over the work and no doubt wondering whether another seizure would leave him speechless once for all. 4. This is one issue that residents and pedestrians would like to see completed once and for all. 5. If there had ever been any doubters, they were silenced once and for all. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Introspection, noun. 🔉 /ɪntrə(ʊ)ˈspɛkʃ(ə)n/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The examination or observation of one's own mental and emotional processes. ❗️ Examples: 1. Quiet introspection can be extremely valuable. 2. Establish a comfort zone with the child before you ask for quiet observation or introspection. 3. From the internal viewpoint of introspection, mental reality is composed of sensations and images. 4. The problem is that men tend to heal in private, through introspection and quiet thinking. 5. There are passages of quiet contemplation and introspection that belie any sense of terror. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 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

📚 Crave, verb. 🔉 /kreɪv/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Feel a powerful desire for (something) ❗️ Examples: 1. If only she had shown her daughter the love she craved. 2. Will craved for family life. 3. Kendall loves it, craves it and can put up with almost anything if there's a chance she's going to experience it. 4. Sixty per cent of those polled said they regularly craved certain foods and drinks. 5. Of course, there are people out there who like spam, who love and crave it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Flatten the curve, phrase. ❓ Definition: Prevent a rate or quantity from greatly intensifying or increasing within a short time. ❗️ Examples: 1. Taking actions to slow the spread of this virus will flatten the curve and protect the vulnerable. 2. Excessive falls in bond yields will flatten the curve and erode pension funds. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Fruitful, adjective. 🔉 /ˈfruːtfl/ 🇬🇧 /ˈfruːtfl/ 🇺🇸 ❓ Definition: Producing many useful results. ❗️ Examples: 1. A fruitful collaboration/discussion. 2. A fruitful source of information. 3. Official manuals can be a potentially fruitful source of information. 4. The research has proved extremely fruitful. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Forbid, verb. 🔉 /fəˈbɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Order (someone) not to do something. ❗️ Examples: 1. I was forbidden from seeing him again. 2. My doctor has forbidden me to eat sugar. 3. He is forbidden from participating in future role plays and he was disciplined for being ‘inappropriate’. 4. We are still forbidden from coming anywhere near the house after 6. 5. But that doesn't mean I'm forbidden from ever telling any more stories with any of those characters in ever again, or I hope it doesn't. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Money is the root of all evil, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Avarice gives rise to selfish or wicked actions. ❗️ Examples: 1. Perhaps he should reflect on Timothy's words, ‘For the love of money is the root of all evil.’ 2. Many people say that money is the root of all evil. 3. They're also taught at the same time, money is the root of all evil. 4. If money is the root of all evil, I'd like to be bad. 5. Now he's talking about the old adage that money is the root of all evil. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic