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📚 Bodyguard, noun. 🔉 /ˈbɒdɪɡɑːd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A person or group of people employed to escort and protect an important or famous person. ❗️ Examples: 1. Already, she is in need of bodyguards to protect her from the all-too-real threat of stalkers. 2. Assigned to the code talkers are bodyguards, sent to protect them during the fighting. 3. The ambassador travels with a close protection team of armed bodyguards. 4. Imran Khaliq, 24, used to work as a bodyguard, security guard and nightclub doorman. 5. Campaigning then was a bit tougher than it is now, so tough in fact that George Albert employed a bodyguard. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Jam tomorrow, phrase. ❓ Definition (British): A pleasant thing which is often promised but rarely materializes. ❗️ Examples: 1. A promise of jam tomorrow wasn't enough to satisfy them. 2. Policy holders want cash today, not the promise of jam tomorrow, and if people don't appreciate that then they are out of touch. 3. He should realise that promises of jam tomorrow are not helping shopkeepers in his area to swallow difficulties forced on them by the loss of parking spaces. 4. Unfortunately, in the case of human and civil rights, promises of jam tomorrow are simply not good enough. 5. We have been promised jam tomorrow but we have never got it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Junkie, noun. 🔉 /ˈdʒʌŋki/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal): A drug addict. ❗️ Examples: 1. I thought my destiny was to be a heroin addict, a junkie for the rest of my life; I couldn't stop myself and I didn't know a way out. 2. For the past eight years, Moira's been on methadone, a drug most imagine only junkies use to get off heroin. 3. Only two respondents in this sample were currently relapsing addicts / junkies. 4. Whether you are a junky or a functional addict, heroin runs your life. 5. Teenage drug users in Alice Springs take offence to being called addicts, junkies, criminals and so on. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 On the back foot, phrase. ❓ Definition (British): Outmanoeuvred by a competitor or opponent; at a disadvantage. ❗️ Examples: 1. Messi's early goal put Milan on the back foot. 2. The government found itself on the back foot as peaceful demonstrations continued. 3. By the early summer of 1918, the German submarines were clearly on the back foot. 4. The Irish government appeared to be put on the back foot. 5. The polls may not show much change but the government gives all the appearances of being on the back foot. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Prejudice, noun. 🔉 /ˈprɛdʒʊdɪs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. ❗️ Examples: 1. English prejudice against foreigners. 2. Deep-rooted class prejudices. 3. Some prejudices (preconceived opinions of an individual based on opinions about the many) have names such as racism, sexism, or ageism. 4. Preconceived notions are prejudices about what is supposed to happen during the ritual, or the way in which the ritual must be done. 5. As a straight woman with my own prejudices and preconceptions, I fall somewhere in between. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Jump on the bandwagon, phrase. ❓ Definition: Join others in doing or supporting something fashionable or likely to be successful. ❗️ Examples: 1. Scientists and doctors alike have jumped on the bandwagon. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Corsair, noun. 🔉 /kɔːˈsɛː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (archaic): A pirate. ❗️ Examples: 1. Reputations spread through any community, and the pirates and corsairs knew who they wanted to work with, as well as who they did NOT want to work with… 2. The old look out towers had to be manned against corsairs but they also earned their keep as observation points for the lucrative and highly organized hunts for the great shoals of tuna fish. 3. Cutthroats, corsairs, and hot-shot pilots we got coming out of our ears. 4. European maritime powers paid the tribute demanded by the rulers of the privateering states of North Africa (Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Morocco) to prevent attacks on their shipping by corsairs. 5. From beneath his cloak, their follower drew a rusting corsair sabre and menaced the horse with it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Mugger, noun. 🔉 /ˈmʌɡə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A person who attacks and robs another in a public place. ❗️ Examples: 1. The mugger snatched my purse and ran away. 2. They are burglars, dealers, vandals, thugs, muggers, arsonists, a menace to society. 3. A gang of muggers attacked a man 6ft 8in tall and stole his mobile phone as he walked home after a night out in Trowbridge. 4. A passing couple saw the attack and chased the mugger, but he managed to get away. 5. He was one of the muggers that was attacking that woman. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Big Bang Theory - The Celebration Experimentation S09E17 💬 — Have to say, you... you do look good in that suit. — Oh. Thank you. — Maybe later I'll, uh... get to see you in your birthday suit. — But this is my birthday suit.

📚 In one's birthday suit, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Naked. ❗️ Examples: 1. I wanna walk around in my birthday suit. 2. I told her that despite it being cooler than usual… I'm still sleeping in my birthday suit. 3. Women looked away and parents shielded their children's eyes as a foreigner with a receding hairline pranced on the New Delhi railway platform in his birthday suit. 4. And a foxy new foreign exchange student strolls around school in her birthday suit. 5. I had to strip off and stand shivering in my birthday suit in calf-high water while she helped me wash. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ersatz, adjective. 🔉 /ˈəːsats/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of a product) made or used as a substitute, typically an inferior one, for something else. ❗️ Examples: 1. Ersatz coffee. 2. The object the drive excessively fixates upon, meanwhile, is in no sense an ersatz or secondary substitute for an impossible, unattainable object; for the drive, there is no ‘thing-in-itself’. 3. It is a sort of ersatz substitute for the hope of heaven. 4. So, instead of entering the dark, airless fug that was Swansea's top coffee shop, I grabbed a take-out burger and ersatz coffee from a burger joint and sat outside to listen to the songs. 5. See they never had any coffee in Europe, it was what they call ersatz coffee, and this was made out of kind of charred acorns and they'd grind it up and that was their so-called coffee. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Great Mouse Detective (1986) 💬 Item one...

📚 Item, noun. 🔉 /ˈʌɪtəm/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: An individual article or unit, especially one that is part of a list, collection, or set. ❗️ Examples: 1. The items on the agenda. 2. An item of clothing. 3. Anyone wishing to donate saleable items to the auction can contact any of the following members to arrange collection. 4. Rate the following items on a scale of 1 to 5. 5. Hannah paced through the busy crowds towards a small shop that sold every item of clothing under the sun. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Predestination (2014) 💬 Hospital records, orphanage records, medical records... Been there, done that.

📚 Been there, done that, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Used to express past experience of or overfamiliarity with something. ❗️ Examples: 1. I've been there, done that, got the video and the T-shirt. 2. It sometimes just feels like I've been there, done that! 3. I've been there, done that - it's for the younger players. 4. Yes, when it comes to writing 50,000 word novels in a month, I've been there, done that, bought the t-shirt. 5. I can quite confidently say that I've been there, done that, and come back. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Doughty, adjective. 🔉 /ˈdaʊti/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (archaic, humorous): Brave and persistent. ❗️ Examples: 1. His doughty spirit kept him going. 2. Then along came a doughty and persistent conservationist who fought to save the city's history: just what the doctor ordered. 3. This way, the organization could live up to its self-professed image: the doughty defenders of brave iconoclasts bucking the establishment. 4. London metropolitan types also think I possess a kind of doughty flinty independent spirit which they wish they had so they too could flee the bars of Charlotte Street and the watering holes of Soho. 5. In Britain, the doughty, campaigning spirit of Greenham Common and Faslane has yet to be heard. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic