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📚 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

📚 Tyro, noun. 🔉 /ˈtʌɪrəʊ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A beginner or novice. ❗️ Examples: 1. I would, and do, recommend this as the best book for the tyro, the student, the general reader, and even, in a revisionary context, for the expert. 2. The general run of London restaurants may be gastronomically indifferent, decoratively indistinguishable, staffed by sneering tyros and apprentice boors but there's no gainsaying the energy and optimistic bounce of the PR trade. 3. After months Jack was no longer a tyro, he was Tyro. 4. Averaging 43.58 runs per game for the county, Joyce, now 24, has benefited from emigration in a manner which has pointers for Scotland's band of young tyros in their first campaign of regular encounters with full-time opposition. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Pull out, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition: (of a bus or train) leave with its passengers. ❗️ Examples: 1. The train pulled out of the station at 2.05. 2. Corinne and I managed to choose a carriage with a bunch of Geordie blokes who started drinking as soon as the train pulled out of the station, at about half ten in the morning. 3. When every man was in possession of two bottles of Tiger beer, the train pulled out of Nagpur Station to continue the five-day journey. 4. The doors closed and the train pulled out of the station. 5. As the train pulled out of Winchester, he staggered to his feet and zig-zagged down the carriage to the toilet. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 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

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

📚 Pull up, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition: (of a vehicle) come to a halt. ❗️ Examples: 1. He pulled up outside the cottage. 2. If I remember correctly, it was the sound of the ice-cream van pulling up outside my house. 3. She was gobsmacked when the limo pulled up outside her home in Tattershall, Toothill. 4. When a police vehicle pulls up youngsters hide in the bushes. 5. Then I heard cars, and I turned to see a caravan of vehicles pulling up behind mine. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @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

📚 Derogatory, adjective. 🔉 /dɪˈrɒɡət(ə)ri/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Showing a critical or disrespectful attitude. ❗️ Examples: 1. She tells me I'm fat and is always making derogatory remarks. 2. The people who made the derogatory remarks were a group whose tongues may have been loosened by drink. 3. I was disappointed that he had to resort to derogatory and intolerant remarks to try to be funny. 4. People have lost their jobs over derogatory remarks made in blogs, but can you be sued for libel or defamation? 5. A nightclub boss has been suspended following an allegation over a racially derogatory remark. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Community (2009) - S03E22 Introduction To Finality 💬 Hey! Don't use "gay" as a derogatory term.

📚 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

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

📚 Sternutation, noun. 🔉 /ˌstəːnjʊˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (formal • mass noun): The action of sneezing. ❗️ Examples: 1. According to mythology, the first sign of life Prometheus's artificial man gave was by sternutation. 2. Being unable to contain her excitement at the prospect of being walked, the dog suffers fits of sternutation whenever she sees her leash. 3. And all three forget their sectional differences in a delightful concert of sternutation. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Grasp, verb. 🔉 /ɡrɑːsp/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Seize and hold firmly. ❗️ Examples: 1. She grasped the bottle. 2. Edward grasped her by the wrist. 3. Her eyes pleaded with him, her hand still firmly grasping his. 4. Still firmly grasping Ethan by the arm, Giles propelled him to Melissa's side. 5. John grasped Rob firmly by the wrist and moved toward the door. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Be in the know, phrase. ❓ Definition: Be aware of something known only to a few people. ❗️ Examples: 1. He had a tip from a friend in the know: the horse was a cert. 2. In today's information-based society, there are few things more infuriating than not being in the know. 3. Well, I used to pride myself as being in the know but I have heard nothing about this idea. 4. Essentially, one needs to be in the know to make the most of Berlin's nightlife. 5. But you have to be in the know to have access to the best-kept secret in showbiz. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Fall out, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition: (of the hair, teeth, etc.) become detached and drop out. ❗️ Examples: 1. The chemotherapy made my hair fall out. 2. They seemed to be no better off than their subjects, with hair and teeth falling out and sores like burns on bare faces and hands. 3. And my hair is falling out, I have sores in my mouth, my teeth ache - my whole body aches! 4. He said that his strong character was tested at the upper school when his hair completely fell out, a condition which is believed to be hereditary in the family. 5. But Val said her lowest point was when her hair fell out. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Every man has his price, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Everyone is open to bribery if the inducement offered is large enough. ❗️ Examples: 1. Last week he was appointed Senior manager there and it just goes to show that every man has his price. 2. I'm sure they have discovered it by now but aren't telling, but every man has his price. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Indecorous, adjective. 🔉 /ɪnˈdɛk(ə)rəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Not in keeping with good taste and propriety; improper. ❗️ Examples: 1. A pub crawl with sundry indecorous adventures. 2. ‘By venting such indecorous spleen, some might consider that I am indulging in the ‘politics of envy’, as it is called. 3. First, an indecorous alphabet, which I have no idea about, other than it features descriptions of words that don't normally get written about (spicy chicken pasta, raisins, lard, creme egg). 4. But some of the writers the regime is now grooming to take power look a lot like insurgents themselves: indecorous, sometimes indecent, not snobby about pop culture. 5. Wild horses, however, would not persuade me to recount the precise sequence of events that led up to this happy, if somewhat indecorous, conclusion. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Rucksack, noun. 🔉 /ˈrʌksak/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A bag with shoulder straps which allow it to be carried on someone's back, typically made of a strong, waterproof material and widely used by hikers. ❗️ Examples: 1. In addition, no bags, rucksacks & backpacks larger than eight inches square will be allowed beyond the ticketing and security checkpoints or into the grounds of the Belfry. 2. He was carrying a small rucksack and a small green carrier bag. 3. He was wearing a green jacket and dark coloured waterproof trousers and had been carrying a grey rucksack. 4. On the other side, the backpackers, tanned and fit, casually shoulder their rucksacks and adjust their sunglasses. 5. Once all the cash has been collected, it will also be used to purchase necessary items such as rucksacks to carry the equipment, training manuals and oxygen cylinders. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic