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🎬 Mallrats (1995) 💬 Out of fifty entries only two have smiley faces with lashes.

📚 Entry, noun. 🔉 /ˈɛntri/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: An item written or printed in a diary, list, account book, or reference book. ❗️ Examples: 1. The entries in the cash book. 2. Students may write a newspaper account for the local paper describing their adventures, or they could write a diary entry in the voice of a person from that time period. 3. He was in difficulty because there was no transaction, there were only book entries and accounts made after liquidation. 4. Reading my diary entries written before you died, I see a picture of a self-absorbed adolescent. 5. The diary entries give the book a personal touch and show the generals' emotional reactions to key events. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Take for granted, phrase. ❓ Definition: Fail to properly appreciate (someone or something), especially as a result of overfamiliarity. ❗️ Examples: 1. The comforts that people take for granted. 2. The right to own land and other property is taken for granted in many countries. 3. Everything ran smoothly for the next two months, but I guess I took things for granted. 4. I know I took you for granted, expecting you always to be around when that's not possible. 5. The problem with being an All-Star is that good performances are taken for granted and people expect more. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Take up, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition: Accept an offer or challenge. ❗️ Examples: 1. Most residents took up the offer of refurbished equipment. 2. So many couples took the city up on its surprise offer that, by late afternoon, overwhelmed officials told new applicants to return yesterday. 3. Nine or 10 of the lads, myself included, took the manager up on his kind offer. 4. I took the train up in the morning, spent three hours or so doing the usual rounds of presentation and schmoozing, and then I thought I would take my host up on her offer to see the sights. 5. I believe it is harder, in this culture at this time, to write well about characters who do good, and so I believe that is a challenge thrown down before a writer, and I try to take that challenge up in my own way. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 My Dinner with Andre (1981) 💬 So the party just comes to a halt and breaks up.

📚 Grind to a halt, phrase. ❓ Definition: Gradually slow down or lose momentum and then stop altogether. ❗️ Examples: 1. In summer traffic all but grinds to a halt. 2. The surge of modernism finally seemed to grind to a halt. 3. It was roughly at this time I noticed that whenever I spoke emotionally, my speech came slower and slower until grinding to a halt. 4. Meanwhile, traffic ground to a halt on many major routes due to speed restrictions and fallen trees, police said. 5. By the time they drove two more blocks, traffic had ground to a halt. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Immerse, verb. 🔉 /ɪˈməːs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Dip or submerge in a liquid. ❗️ Examples: 1. immerse the paper in water for twenty minutes. 2. The food to be poached must be fully immersed in the liquid and not allowed to boil otherwise it can toughen the most delicate protein. 3. The first one involved usage of liquid paraffin for immersing nerves while dissecting and recording from them. 4. In our experiments, however, both tip and sample are completely immersed in liquids. 5. Add artichoke hearts and weigh down so that they are fully immersed in cooking liquid. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Second to none, phrase. ❓ Definition: The best, worst, fastest, etc. ❗️ Examples: 1. The group has a reputation that is second to none in the building industry. 2. The food was quite wonderful, the atmosphere perfect and the welcome second to none. 3. This is a country that's proven second to none when it comes to putting curling on the TV airwaves. 4. He worked harder than anyone and his course management was second to none. 5. The character design is second to none, and they've really taken advantage of the machine's strengths. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Daring, adjective. 🔉 /ˈdɛːrɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of a person or action) adventurous or audaciously bold. ❗️ Examples: 1. A daring crime. 2. With the lantern, she looked just like a character from one of those old black and white films, like the daring heroine bold enough to uncover ghastly secrets hidden deep within the woods. 3. Cheng is a bold and daring man, working at whatever it takes to give his boy a chance to succeed in life. 4. So who was this daring woman, who ranks alongside the likes of glamorous adventurers such as Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham? 5. He had fallen for her rebellious daring personality the moment they met. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

In the flesh and In a flash what's the difference what do you think?

🎬 Evil Under the Sun (1982) 💬 Can you make it back to the hotel? In a flash. This thing's no problem.

📚 In a flash, phrase. ❓ Definition: Very quickly; immediately. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was out of the back door in a flash. 2. I closed the door quickly and like a flash I was at the table filling my bag with the money once again. 3. They will sit on your rear bumper until they get a little bit of a straight road and then they are past you like a flash. 4. He was on to it like a flash, racing into the penalty area. 5. The cold was fierce and I was gone like a flash to get my woolies from the car before I got a dose of hypothermia. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Bridge of Spies (2015) 💬 They don't acknowledge Abel as a Soviet citizen, and we don't acknowledge East Germany as a sovereign country. We haven't recognized East Berlin since it was annexed by the Soviets in '45.

📚 Annex, verb. 🔉 /əˈnɛks/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Add (territory) to one's own territory by appropriation. ❗️ Examples: 1. The left bank of the Rhine was annexed by France in 1797. 2. King Moshoeshoe I was left with a mountainous, infertile kingdom when most of his arable land was annexed to the Orange Free State in the 1860s. 3. The lands were annexed to the City of London on January 1st 1993. 4. This procedure was deemed to have been an ‘Act of Free Choice’ in accordance with the United Nations requirements and Indonesia formally annexed the territory in August. 5. The Western Sahara conflict broke out in 1975 when Morocco annexed the territory after Spain withdrew from what was then a Spanish colony. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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