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📚 People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): You shouldn't criticize others when you have similar faults of your own. ❗️ Examples: 1. So people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, eh? 2. The shadow environment secretary said: ‘It's all very well criticising the failure of America to sign up to Kyoto, but people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. 3. Yes, it's an extremely derogatory term, and not one I would use myself, unless I'm angry of course, and even then I would feel uneasy (people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones). 4. One common test of abstraction is to explain what this means: ‘people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.’ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Scone, noun. 🔉 /skɒn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A small unsweetened or lightly sweetened cake made from flour, fat, and milk and sometimes having added fruit. ❗️ Examples: 1. But what I also found tantilisingly awaiting me behind the counter was a stack of freshly baked Russian tea cakes and lemon scones, both of which I purchased and consumed in startling quantities. 2. These are accompanied by all manner of sandwiches, scones and cakes piled onto tiered stands. 3. Diane made some scones and there was fruit and such. 4. The Caribou orange-currant scone is a scone without integrity. 5. No gentle reader, the raisin scone was the scone of the gods. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic 
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📚 Every now and then, phrase. ❓ Definition: From time to time; occasionally. ❗️ Examples: 1. I used to see him every now and then. 2. Only the occasional deadpan one liner leaks out every now and again. 3. Perhaps it's healthy to have a kick in the teeth like that every now and then. 4. The Chief Minister encouraged a little spoken of question that comes up every now and then. 5. The muse may crave a spot of deprivation and misery every now and then to spark the old imagination, but there are limits. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Muon, noun. 🔉 /ˈmjuːɒn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Physics): An unstable subatomic particle of the same class as an electron (a lepton), but with a mass around 200 times greater. Muons make up much of the cosmic radiation reaching the earth's surface. ❗️ Examples: 1. The proton and the neutron are baryons; the electron, the muon, and the neutrino are leptons; whilst the pions are mesons. 2. These objects also produce high-energy massive particles such as electrons, muons, protons and anti-protons. 3. Comsic rays are very high energy particles which strike the Earth's atmosphere and produce spectacular showers of billions of electrons, muons, and other particles. 4. The number of times that an antimuon emits a positron in the same direction as its polarization was found to be equal to the number of times that a muon emits an electron in the opposite direction. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic 
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📚 Likewise, adverb. 🔉 /ˈlʌɪkwʌɪz/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Used to introduce a point similar or related to one just made. ❗️ Examples: 1. The banks advise against sending cash. Likewise, sending British cheques may cause problems. 2. Club sides have to keep introducing young players from time to time and likewise, the national team also has to blood new talent. 3. Then the foxes, introduced in an attempt to eradicate the likewise imported rabbit menace, completed the devastation. 4. By lunchtime, she could introduce herself in Polish, and the children could do likewise in German. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Curiosity killed the cat, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Being inquisitive about other people's affairs may get you into trouble. ❗️ Examples: 1. Defending, he said: ‘This is a case where curiosity killed the cat.’ 2. Stuffed as we were, however, curiosity killed the cat - and it very nearly took us with it as we recklessly agreed to share a devilled chocolate brownie with vanilla ice cream. 3. I won't reveal any more of the plot than that, but if there's a moral to this story, it's that old truism that says that curiosity killed the cat. 4. Didn't your mother ever tell you curiosity killed the cat? 5. That's awfully mean of you to tease me like that - curiosity killed the cat, you know. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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🎬 The Sure Thing (1985) 💬 Your incessant complaining isn't doing us any good. -
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📚 Incessant, adjective. 🔉 /ɪnˈsɛs(ə)nt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of something regarded as unpleasant) continuing without pause or interruption. ❗️ Examples: 1. The incessant beat of the music. 2. The ordeal was far from over with incessant rain beating down mercilessly upon the operation. 3. The bad condition of city roads is because of the almost incessant rain, often heavy, ever since June. 4. These sounds are fused with the latest Hindi film music, but the incessant drum beating never stops. 5. Also, they were not prepared enough for the incessant rains that lashed the city the past few days. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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🎬 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005) - S09E07 The Gang Gets Quarantined 💬 Oh, I'm-I'm sick as a dog already. -
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📚 As sick as a dog, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Extremely ill. ❗️ Examples: 1. You were as sick as a dog when you ate those shrimps. 2. I have been sick as a dog - still have the bronchitis going, but the worst part is an unbelievably sore throat - so bad that I literally cannot swallow, talk, etc. 3. What amazed me was he was sick as a dog, but if a school was coming the next day, he'd put on his suit and get out there. 4. I've spent the last week trying to do as little as possible, because I've been sick as a dog. 5. At times, when I was lying on my hospital bed being pumped full of chemotherapy drugs that made me as sick as a dog and caused my hair to fall out, I used to close my eyes and dream I was somewhere else. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Ship off, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition (ship someone off, ship off someone): Send someone away because they are unwanted or troublesome. ❗️ Examples: 1. Eliza is shipped off to boarding school in London. 2. When his father dies, he is shipped off to Copenhagen to seek his fortune. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Under the weather, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Slightly unwell or in low spirits. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was sufficiently under the weather to have to pull out of the championship. 2. He's been under the weather since he's been on his own. 3. I feel sick, have a painful headache and feel a bit under the weather, but I know that if I push myself and get out of bed I will feel better. 4. And every time I go for a stroll by the river when I'm feeling a bit under the weather, I come back home wondering why I felt so poorly in the first place. 5. So I'm more than a bit under the weather at present. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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🎬 Ice Blues (2008) 💬 You really gave that guy quite a wallop. -
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📚 Wallop, noun. 🔉 /ˈwɒləp/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal): A heavy blow or punch. ❗️ Examples: 1. I gave it a wallop with my boot. 2. I must go down to the basement at once with my trusty two-by-four and administer a few more bracing wallops. 3. With that Allardyce stands up and wallops Mark and Lard, leaving them flying into the crowd. 4. It appears that she got a hefty wallop from something heavy, which has pushed her sideways several inches over the edge of her plinth. 5. He's not the biggest guard in the league, but his punch packs quite a wallop. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 What goes around comes around, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): The consequences of one's actions will have to be dealt with eventually. ❗️ Examples: 1. And it's a powerful belief, offering both hope to the oppressed - suffering cannot last forever - and a warning to the oppressor - take care, what goes around comes around. 2. Watford were on the receiving end of some decisions tonight as we were on Saturday, so what goes around comes around. 3. But although I strive daily to do the right thing - believing firmly in the karmic law that what goes around comes around - I've never, ever aspired to returning to earth as the Dalai Lama. 4. I have no idea what makes someone go to those lengths, but I believe what goes around comes around and she has got what she deserved. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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🎬 The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) 💬 There's really no point in doing anything in life, because it's all over in the blink of an eye..