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📚 Leftover, noun. 🔉 /ˈlɛftəʊvə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (usually leftovers): Something, especially food, remaining after the rest has been used. ❗️ Examples: 1. Everyone wanted seconds, so there were no leftovers. 2. He's just a leftover from another age. 3. This salad also makes great leftovers and will keep fresh in your fridge for up to seven days! 4. Tonight I made him a baked potato to go with the leftovers and he gobbled it all up. 5. There once was a time when a Monday lunch was Sunday's leftovers or a cheap sandwich. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 See the back of, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Be rid of (an unwanted person or thing) ❗️ Examples: 1. We were always glad to see the back of her. 2. This New Year's Eve I was alone, glad to see the back of 2004 and preparing to move forward in the coming year. 3. I won't be sorry to see the back of all these roadworks so we can all go about our daily business. 4. They will be glad to see the back of him in Edinburgh. 5. By the sounds of it, they're glad to see the back of him. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Fauna, noun. 🔉 /ˈfɔːnə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The animals of a particular region, habitat, or geological period. ❗️ Examples: 1. The flora and fauna of Siberia. 2. The local Mesozoic rocks and their faunas. 3. The sheer variety of marine flora and fauna is enough to floor visitors. 4. Even different species of flora and fauna find a place of reverence. 5. They both shared a keen interest in the flora and fauna of the region. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Fuse, noun. 🔉 /fjuːz/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A device in a bomb that controls the timing of the explosion. ❗️ Examples: 1. For instance, their Tellermine was fitted with screw sockets on the side and underneath to take various types of anti-lifting device, and anti-handling fuzes were issued. 2. The fuze is a self-powered, microprocessor controlled device and contains a radio frequency radar. 3. What he doesn't know, of course is that he is the bomb, complete with remotely controlled fuse hidden somewhere in the car. 4. A conventional bomb has a casing containing explosives, a detonation or ignition system, and an initiation device or fuse. 5. When the fuse is triggered, a conventional explosion causes the second subcritical mass to be propelled at a high velocity into the first subcritical mass. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Back to the drawing board, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to indicate that an idea, scheme, or proposal has been unsuccessful and that a new one must be devised. ❗️ Examples: 1. The government must go back to the drawing board and review the whole issue of youth training. 2. The developers must now go back to the drawing board in relation to this second phase of their project. 3. The regulations must be sent back to the drawing board and revised to conform to the real world. 4. York Council expects to send developers back to the drawing board over their proposals for the city's Barbican Centre. 5. They have also decided to go back to the drawing board on the idea for bus priority in Shipton Road between Loweswater Road and Rawcliffe Lane. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Andante, adverb. 🔉 /anˈdanteɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Music): (especially as a direction) at a moderately slow tempo. ❗️ Examples: 1. The Rose Adagio was played andante. 2. Presenter Jack O'Brien kept proceedings at a nice pace - andante you might say - while feeding us morsels of intriguing information. 3. I glided out of the house andante in 3-4 time, nearly floating, dreamlike, toward my destination. 4. He didn't know what a waltz was, or what it meant to play allegro instead of andante. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Disarm, verb. 🔉 /dɪsˈɑːm/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Remove the fuse from (a bomb), making it safe. ❗️ Examples: 1. Police yesterday disarmed a parcel bomb. 2. As an article in the New York Times reports, the crucial point is that the Israelis are able to disarm their human bombs because they have prior intelligence. 3. An American soldier was killed when he tried to disarm a roadside bomb that had been attached to a telephone pole. 4. On the letter bomb front, army bomb disposal experts were called on to disarm a letter bomb sent to an unnamed agricultural business and a farm. 5. He disarms bombs for a living, and at night goes home to his LP collection and his beautiful girlfriend. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 For Love or Money (1993) 💬 When it rains, it pours.

📚 It never rains but it pours, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Misfortunes or difficult situations tend to follow each other in rapid succession or to arrive all at the same time. ❗️ Examples: 1. I never had an injury before in my life, but it's true what they say about injuries, it never rains but it pours. 2. When this fact is added to the rule of thumb that it never rains but it pours and the received wisdom that bad news comes in threes, the omens point to a particularly uncomfortable trip when Edinburgh travel to Toulouse next weekend. 3. Farmers need little convincing at present of the truth of the saying that it never rains but it pours. 4. In terms of troubles, however, it would appear that in shintyland it never rains but it pours. 5. That was when Anderson was to learn that in Scotland it never rains but it pours. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Big Bang Theory (2007) - S07E23 The Gorilla Dissolution 💬 Oh, I'll make English breakfast tea.

📚 English breakfast tea, noun. ❓ Definition: A type of blended black tea with a robust, full-bodied flavour, suitable for drinking at breakfast but typically served throughout the day. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Peep Show (2003) - S04E03 Gym 💬 Faint heart never won fair maid.

📚 Faint heart never won fair lady, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Timidity will prevent you from achieving your objective. ❗️ Examples: 1. Yes, awkward; yes, risky - but faint heart never won fair lady and all that. 2. "Faint heart never won fair lady," win the advice of a friend to Mr. Child, the son of a brewer, who sought the hand of the lady. 3. ‘Well, faint heart ne'er won fair maiden, or so the sayin’ goes Rennalt, ‘you had better make this one a good one‘. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Devonshire tea, noun. ❓ Definition (Australian, New Zealand): A meal of scones with jam and cream, served with tea or coffee. ❗️ Examples: 1. There are guided tours of the house and garden, and Devonshire teas. 2. Admission is $20 a head, which includes Devonshire tea. 3. At tea shops that made Devonshire tea, I would have scones piled with cream. 4. In New Zealand, if you order a Devonshire Tea, you will be served scones with butter, jam, and cream and a pot of tea. 5. Another exciting day, another collection of random events that plopped themselves down on this date in history and demanded a Devonshire Tea. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Dad's Army (2016) 💬 Yes, they've been dragging their feet a bit lately.

📚 Drag one's feet, phrase. ❓ Definition: Be deliberately slow or reluctant to act. ❗️ Examples: 1. The government has dragged its heels over permanent legislation. 2. This rather seems to bear out his surmise… that they are deliberately dragging their heels. 3. However, they are issued under a voluntary code and the organisation said there had been thousands of cases where firms had dragged their heels, or simply refused to issue codes. 4. Nothing was too little trouble for me and I dragged my heels reluctantly, putting off necessary chores until the last possible moment and even deferring some for another day. 5. I fail to see why the association are dragging their heels on this. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Cognoscenti, plural noun. ❓ Definition: People who are especially well informed about a particular subject. ❗️ Examples: 1. It's worth taking a tip from the fashion cognoscenti. 2. The fashion cognoscenti and music lovers were out in force last night for two great parties. 3. His fledgling fashion cognoscenti have accessorised the theme with, among other things, suspenders and pink, fluffy rabbit ears. 4. It's only a matter of time before the fashion cognoscenti are once more clamouring for this particular brand of undeniable elegance. 5. This winning combination, plus a willingness to play fast and loose with her image, has made her the darling of the fashion cognoscenti. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Clotted cream, noun. ❓ Definition (British • mass noun): Thick cream obtained by heating milk slowly and then allowing it to cool while the cream content rises to the top in coagulated lumps. ❗️ Examples: 1. They serve clotted cream teas. 2. Other milk products are butter, dried curds, and clotted cream. 3. Spoon the warm jam over the slices of malt bread and add a dollop of thick, yellow clotted cream at the side of the plate. 4. Top with a spoonful of clotted cream and serve immediately. 5. Serve with clotted cream, ice-cream or, if you are watching your weight, a blob of crème fraîche. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic