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📚 Burn out, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition: Cease to function as a result of excessive heat or friction. ❗️ Examples: 1. The clutch had burned out. 2. The first successful light bulbs marketed by Edison in the 1880s produced so much heat that they burnt out very rapidly. 3. Measures like this ensure the chip will not burn out as it heats up from use. 4. Three days later he got a second SMS saying that she had got as far as Parys but her clutch had burnt out and could he let her have R800 more for the repairs. 5. That was early in the race and normally when a clutch slips it will burn out, but that wasn't the case because he was able to finish and restart OK. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @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

📚 Gallantly, adverb. 🔉 /ˈɡal(ə)ntli/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: In a brave or heroic manner. ❗️ Examples: 1. These young soldiers fought gallantly for their nation. 2. The semifinalists fought back gallantly to beat the opposition 3-2. 3. Despite the odds, they gallantly fought their way out of the trap. 4. The garrison fought gallantly, almost to the last man. 5. We have gallantly crossed swords with Barbary pirates along the shores of Tripoli. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Peninsula, noun. 🔉 /pɪˈnɪnsjʊlə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water. ❗️ Examples: 1. Peninsula is usually a part of the land, bounded to three sides by the sea, and the fourth connected to either the mainland or the island. 2. The island's 3,700 acres of tropical rainforest are a biological reserve that also includes five surrounding peninsulas on the Panama mainland. 3. In mid-winter, the warm water around the Southwest peninsula seems to give them most lightning. 4. Just before we descend to the car park, I look out at the bay and a long peninsula of land pointing towards the East. 5. For the same reasons sanctuaries were sited at the tip of capes or peninsulas or on an island close to the mainland. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @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

📚 Paramount, adjective. 🔉 /ˈparəmaʊnt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: More important than anything else; supreme. ❗️ Examples: 1. The interests of the child are of paramount importance. 2. Free trade is a principle which recognizes the paramount importance of individual action. 3. Victory is paramount and anything that gets in the way is deemed the enemy that must be destroyed at all costs. 4. I didn't do anything about it; her happiness was still of paramount importance in my mind. 5. Public hearings on important matters are paramount to monitoring government. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Let sleeping dogs lie, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Avoid interfering in a situation that is currently causing no problems but may well do so as a result of such interference. ❗️ Examples: 1. And God also seems to have the highest expectations of us, not settling for second-best or letting sleeping dogs lie. 2. So the Labor party is merely going along with the masses by letting sleeping dogs lie. 3. Somebody sent me an email that said this was all the fault of the U.S. because ‘we should have let sleeping dogs lie.’ 4. But then maybe it's best to let sleeping dogs lie. 5. I'll let sleeping dogs lie for a bit on that front. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Majesty, noun. 🔉 /ˈmadʒɪsti/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Impressive beauty, scale, or stateliness. ❗️ Examples: 1. The majesty of Ben Nevis. 2. At a universal level both the Sun and Leo are associated with royalty, majesty, stateliness, dignity, and authority. 3. His majesty and beauty spoke to me in ways that no priest had ever been able to, and I was breathless from his presence. 4. But with their beauty and their majesty they remind us of who and where we are in this world. 5. It feels like the best available foil to the stately majesty of Test matches. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Show-me, adjective. 🔉 /ˈʃəʊmiː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Also with capital initial(s). Designating or relating to the State of Missouri or its inhabitants. Especially in "Show-Me State": (a nickname for) Missouri. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Let the cat out of the bag, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Reveal a secret carelessly or by mistake. ❗️ Examples: 1. Now that Viola had let the cat out of the bag, she had no option but to confess. 2. Gavin Anderson apologises to those in the know for letting the cat out of the bag about this secret haven. 3. So let the cat out of the bag: admit that what you're really up to is a satire on the state of arts funding. 4. The rather inappropriately named Defence Minister let the cat out of the bag by admitting that there isn't really a threat after all. 5. Two such academics were so upset by the broadcast they injudiciously let the cat out of the bag completely. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Squint, verb. 🔉 /skwɪnt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Look at someone or something with one or both eyes partly closed in an attempt to see more clearly or as a reaction to strong light. ❗️ Examples: 1. The bright sun made them squint. 2. I heard a humming and the dozen fluorescent lights started to flicker on and I blinked, squinting at the bright light. 3. Shading my eyes from the glare of the sun, I squinted to see more clearly. 4. Though smiling, he was squinting hard in the strong light and looked distinctly uncomfortable. 5. Buddy squinted in an attempt to see clearly who she was talking with. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Take something with a pinch of salt, phrase. ❓ Definition: Regard something as exaggerated; believe only part of something. ❗️ Examples: 1. I take anything he says with a large pinch of salt. 2. An AIB spokesman rejected the claim it was ripping off customers and said it took the report with a pinch of salt as it did not believe true like-for-like comparisons were made. 3. The next time someone says one bullet is vastly superior to another in regards to wind deflection, take their advice with a grain of salt and check for yourself. 4. Many personnel believe that no matter what they have to say, it will be taken with a grain of salt. 5. Since I had no recourse to take this route, I took the stories with a pinch of salt and never checked them out. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ember, noun. 🔉 /ˈɛmbə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (usually embers): A small piece of burning or glowing coal or wood in a dying fire. ❗️ Examples: 1. The dying embers in the grate. 2. The flickering embers of nationalism. 3. Hunter returned to his place by Missy's side in front of the glowing embers of the dying fire laid in the black iron stove. 4. A piece of wood dropped on the dying embers in the fire soon burst into flame. 5. The dying embers of the fire flickered and he squinted to get a feel of his surroundings. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Take root, phrase. ❓ Definition: Become fixed or established. ❗️ Examples: 1. The idea had taken root in my mind. 2. Spatial sequences merging across the shifting levels prevent fixed identities from taking root anywhere. 3. Because he had little to say about social need and there was no legislative provision for subsidising loss-making services, the idea took root that the issue had simply been ignored. 4. Nevertheless, the idea took root in their minds. 5. I quickly stomped on that idea before it fully took root. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Swain, noun. 🔉 /sweɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (literary): A young lover or suitor. ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘You sound like a lovesick swain,’ she told him, and walked to the window. 2. Many a desperate swain would have risked life for the privilege of pressing his lips to the mysterious hand. 3. Old and blind, Juliette gave her a lock of Chateaubriand's hair when her eighty-year-old swain died. 4. In Lycidas, the poet / swain in the poem, together with the author, anticipate ‘Pastures new’ on the morrow. 5. We all loved Queen Aouda and her handsome and dashing swain, the hero of the piece, Phileas Fogg. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Confide, verb. 🔉 /kənˈfʌɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (reporting verb • confide in • no object): Trust (someone) enough to tell them of a secret or private matter. ❗️ Examples: 1. He confided in friends that he and his wife planned to separate. 2. I kinda wish she'd just confide in me, since I ended up trusting her enough to confide in her. 3. Not only will people not trust you, confide in you or believe you - they might ditch you. 4. I would urge her to seek help and confide in somebody she trusts. 5. Explain to your so-called bud that you confide in her because you trust her. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Downton Abbey (2010) - S01E04 💬 I'm a lost soul to you.

📚 Lost soul, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): A person who seems unable to cope with everyday life. ❗️ Examples: 1. A few lost souls wander aimlessly down to the front and stare up at the stage. 2. The nice thing is that everyone left at 12, so I have the entire building to myself - and have locked my office door in case some lost soul wanders by looking for help I can't give. 3. He is an emotionless, lost soul wandering the streets and helping out strangers while looking for a clean razor and dry cleaner for his dirty overcoat! 4. While not locked in his office, he wanders the corridors like a lost soul. 5. One such lost soul turned up at my office door earlier today. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic