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📚 Scarper, verb. 🔉 /ˈskɑːpə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (British • informal • no object): Run away. ❗️ Examples: 1. They left the stuff where it was and scarpered. 2. When the baby did arrive, the father scarpered for good. 3. By grief he does not mean what grief father caused him by scarpering, but the grief Davis might cause turning up. 4. When he warned her that he had called the police she soon scarpered. 5. The rat, who, arguably, has been the cause of near tragedy, scarpers. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 On the shelf, phrase. ❓ Definition (British • informal, dated): Past an age when one might expect to have the opportunity to marry (typically used of a woman) ❗️ Examples: 1. I'm all depressed about being left on the shelf cos I'm turning 27 on Sunday. 2. And under no circumstances would I fear being past it or left on the shelf. 3. A woman has few options but to find a husband and provider in Georgian England and Bennet is determined that her girls will not be left on the shelf. 4. And she had decided to try to make the best of being left on the shelf. 5. Beginning to think you are going to be left on the shelf forever and end up as an elderly spinster dying alone and being eaten by your own cats? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Convicted, adjective. 🔉 /kənˈvɪktɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Having been declared guilty of a criminal offence by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge. ❗️ Examples: 1. A convicted murderer. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bring something to bear, phrase. ❓ Definition: Exert influence or pressure so as to achieve a particular result. ❗️ Examples: 1. They brought pressure to bear on him to resign. 2. She had reservations about how much influence she could bring to bear. 3. And who, at this distance, can tell what pressures were brought to bear on ordinary citizens to make them conform. 4. NASA finally relented, but only after much pressure was brought to bear. 5. Another way that pressure can be brought to bear on offending nations is through economic sanctions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Osculate, verb. 🔉 /ˈɒskjʊleɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object • Mathematics): (of a curve or surface) touch (another curve or surface) so as to have a common tangent at the point of contact. ❗️ Examples: 1. The plots have been drawn using osculating orbital elements. 2. If seven points on a twisted cubic be joined, two and two, by twenty-one lines, then any seven planes that contain these 21 lines will osculate a second cubic curve. 3. Should the students be asked to sketch the osculating circle to a given curve at a given point, and then notice that as the point of contact changes, the radius of the circle is inversely proportional to the measure of curvature? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Discard, verb. 🔉 /dɪˈskɑːd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Get rid of (someone or something) as no longer useful or desirable. ❗️ Examples: 1. Hilary bundled up the clothes she had discarded. 2. If this week's insights aren't useful, discard them. 3. The next time you go out shopping, you can discard the plastic carry bag and arm yourself with a jute bag instead. 4. Leave overnight to drip through, then remove the jelly bag, discard the contents and leave to soak in cold water while you finish the jelly. 5. Only a minority of people will discard bags full with rubbish in the Lane, but that minority is still numerically big enough to cause environmental havoc. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 🎥 Stardust Memories (1980) 💬 I have a thing about Nazis.

📚 Have a thing about, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Have a strong liking for or dislike of. ❗️ Examples: 1. She had a thing about men who wore glasses. 2. I've always had a thing about mirrors — I can't have one near my bed. 3. I have a thing about sumptuously comfortable beds. 4. And, perhaps as a result, I've always had a thing about not eating too many sweets, although this never seemed to extend to alcohol. 5. And he had a thing about not looking directly at her. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Terraqueous, adjective. 🔉 /tɛˈreɪkwɪəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Consisting or formed of land and water. ❗️ Examples: 1. The preservation of this terraqueous globe. 2. No, to perambulate this terraqueous globe is too small a range; were it permitted, he should at least make the tour of the whole system of the sun. 3. In the terraqueous ecotones of the Basu river 148 species of algae, belonging to 5 divisions, were found. 4. The picture is the incontrovertible evidence that we live on a terraqueous globe. 5. "The art comprises a series of narrative landscapes inspired by the terraqueous reaches of the continent -- where separate realms of earth, sea and sky converge," Fraser writes on her website. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 DUI, abbreviation. 🔉 /diːjuːˈʌɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (US): Driving under the influence (of drugs or alcohol). ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A penny for your thoughts, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to ask someone what they are thinking about. ❗️ Examples: 1. I haven't heard anyone say that for years - a penny for your thoughts. 2. Next time someone offers you a penny for your thoughts… sell! 3. So, a penny for your thoughts here: what criteria, if any, should be applied in selecting names? 4. When did the phrase "a penny for your thoughts" originate? 5. It's in this book that we find the earliest known citation of the line, "A penny for your thoughts." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Knifepoint, noun. 🔉 /ˈnʌɪfpɔɪnt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Used in reference to the use of a knife to threaten someone. ❗️ Examples: 1. He was mugged at knifepoint. 2. A total of 14,980 knifepoint robberies were recorded by police. 3. A landlord who was tied up and threatened at knifepoint while balaclava-clad raiders ransacked his Brentwood pub has told of his horrific ordeal. 4. A female motorist was threatened at knifepoint during a terrifying car-jacking in Bradford. 5. Moments later he was threatened at knifepoint by the man who spoke with a heavy Irish accent. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Two of a kind, phrase. ❓ Definition: The same or very similar. ❗️ Examples: 1. She and her sister were two of a kind. 2. I myself had doubts at first until I went further in and found clothes that are two of a kind. 3. You're two of a kind - genetically designed to get into trouble - and all we bystanders can do is pick up the pieces and try to stick them back together again afterward. 4. Lizzie, can't you tell, we're two of a kind. 5. When I opened my eyes there she was - April from work, with her face up against mine telling me how we were two of a kind, and how we needed to do something about that, her and me. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ultimately, adverb. 🔉 /ˈʌltɪmətli/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: At the most basic level. ❗️ Examples: 1. Ultimately he has only himself to blame. 2. This level of training is ultimately about intellectually learning less but refining yourself more. 3. Sea level and climate are ultimately linked, and their effects cannot always be separated. 4. It works on many different levels and ultimately it is goofy fun and that's classic Disney. 5. It is change at the societal level that will ultimately determine what our culture will be. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Cold feet, phrase. ❓ Definition: Loss of nerve or confidence. ❗️ Examples: 1. After arranging to meet I got cold feet and phoned her saying I was busy. 2. The Rochdale cabaret singer feared his Norwegian bride had got cold feet and decided to return to her homeland without him. 3. The central government has developed cold feet on the promised legislation to regulate fee and admissions in professional colleges. 4. Apparently, one - or possibly more - of the investors may have gotten cold feet. 5. They believed the hype about the cost and got cold feet. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Forgery, noun. 🔉 /ˈfɔːdʒ(ə)ri/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun • count noun): A forged document, signature, banknote, or work of art. ❗️ Examples: 1. The notes must be forgeries. 2. As part of the new searches, immigration officers will pore over documents, looking for forgeries of British and other national passports. 3. Which suggests that, to Pein's mind, it is actually impossible to prove that the documents are forgeries. 4. U.N. officials determined the documents were forgeries before the war. 5. Slightly off topic, kudos to all my fellow bloggers who helped expose the guard document forgeries. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 In tune, phrase. ❓ Definition: In agreement or harmony. ❗️ Examples: 1. Retailers are becoming more in tune with what the consumers want. 2. The urban radio stations talking about ‘peace in the streets ‘are out of tune with reality.’ 3. Martin Dunne: ‘Central policy makers are totally out of tune with the views of the people around the country.’ 4. It just seemed to us that the politicians - all of them, in all the different parties - are out of tune with how ordinary people feel about this. 5. We have laws in place which are clearly out of tune with the views of the majority of the population. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Evection, noun. 🔉 /ɪˈvɛkʃn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Astronomy • mass noun): Regular variation in the eccentricity of the moon's orbit around the earth, caused mainly by the sun's attraction. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic