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📚 In the blink of an eye, locución. ❓ Definition: Very quickly. ❗️ Examples: 1. Software that would do lots of boring calculations in the blink of an eye. 2. Richard was a little shocked to see her go from shy and demure to forthright and direct in the blink of an eye. 3. Dinner went by reasonably quickly, and in the blink of an eye, they were fast asleep, except for one. 4. He looks like a picture, frozen in time, one instant that happened in the blink of an eye, unnoticed and uncared for by the rest of the universe. 5. The ball began to grow and then, suddenly, in the blink of an eye, it disappeared. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Where there's a will there's a way, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Determination will overcome any obstacle. ❗️ Examples: 1. I know it will be difficult but where there's a will there's a way. 2. There would be a problem playing all those games but where there's a will there's a way. 3. As they say, where there's a will there's a way, and if anything can be read into Sunday's game, and its scintillating finish, the will is certainly strong in Galway and Kerry. 4. The problem for the fixtures board might be finding an alternative but where there's a will there's a way. 5. It seems to me that in politics, as in life, where there's a will there's a way. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Valentine's Day (2010) 💬 She's loco. I don't know what she's talking about.

📚 Loco, adjective. 🔉 /ˈləʊkəʊ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal): Crazy. ❗️ Examples: 1. Along with five equally loco Norwegians and a parrot, he survives on fish that literally hurl themselves on deck, meets up with a few sharks, and endures a beaching in Tahiti. 2. If true, this would not only be one of the most loco funding stories, but it gives more credence to the idea of a poker bubble, in which everyone and their mother is either playing poker or launching some kind of poker venture. 3. On the couch one evening, our loco analysand is seized by an uncontrollable passion for the ancient medico. 4. A haywire fembot goes loco at a square-dance; another gets post-coital mammary enlargement via remote control. 5. It proves that too much sun makes you loco - but in the nicest way. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 The best thing since sliced bread, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Used to emphasize one's enthusiasm about a new idea, person, or thing. ❗️ Examples: 1. They think that she is the greatest thing since sliced bread. 2. She finally locates the Assistant Wine Whatever-His-Title-Is, and he of the broad-smile-on-a-wide-face recommends the wine as if it were the next best thing since sliced bread. 3. Some people are a little confused by this latest trend, wondering what all the fuss is about and why it's becoming the next best thing since sliced bread. 4. While some analysts think it's the next best thing since sliced bread, it has the feeling of WAP redux. 5. That's not to say there isn't a market there, rather that we haven't been convinced it's quite the next best thing since sliced bread. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Overcast, adjective. 🔉 /ˈəʊvəkɑːst/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of the sky or weather) marked by a covering of grey cloud; dull. ❗️ Examples: 1. A chilly, overcast day. 2. They ran in silence with their unresolved arguments hanging over them like the grey, dreary overcast sky. 3. In spite of the overcast skies and chilly weather, the Scots came through on top, beating the Cobbers 4-0. 4. Conditions were in contrast to the recent good Irish weather; overcast skies, cool temperatures and a slight headwind, which suited the Irish. 5. And a somewhat overcast sky has dulled the ocean's blues. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Take a back seat, phrase. ❓ Definition: Take or be given a less important position or role. ❗️ Examples: 1. In future he would take a back seat in politics. 2. Yet the majority of the book emphasizes dinosaur osteology, systematics, and the fossil record; paleobiology takes a back seat to this important foundation. 3. But she piled on the pounds after the birth of her son, George, nine months ago and singing took a back seat as her confidence dwindled. 4. The role of the citizen is taking a back seat to decisions being made about our communities and the environment. 5. Was love more important than wealth or did romance take a back seat to social climbing? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Vajra, noun. 🔉 /ˈvʌdʒrə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (in Buddhism and Hinduism) a thunderbolt or mythical weapon, especially one wielded by the god Indra. ❗️ Examples: 1. The spokes of a peaceful Vajra meet at the tip whereas those of a wrathful vajra are slightly splayed at the end. 2. The vajra symbolizes eternal truth. 3. Paired with the vajra, the bell represents wisdom, and as wisdom and method are an undivided unity, so the vajra and bell are never parted or employed separately. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 We Bare Bears (2015) – S01E09 💬 Whoa! Legal tender!

📚 Legal tender, noun. ❓ Definition (mass noun): Coins or banknotes that must be accepted if offered in payment of a debt. ❗️ Examples: 1. Its bank notes, which functioned much like today's paper currency, acted as legal tender in payment of U.S. debts. 2. From January 1, only the new bills and coins are legal tender. 3. Euro notes and coins become legal tender in 12 countries and ‘dual circulation’ begins. 4. Making the notes legal tender for all debts would solve that problem. 5. In 1811, paper banknotes became legal tender in Britain. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Make ends meet, phrase. ❓ Definition: Earn just enough money to live on. ❗️ Examples: 1. They were finding it hard to make ends meet. 2. Some want to make enough money to make ends meet; others want money for extras or just a way to stay busy. 3. Liz and Nick were always out to work but they barely had enough money to make ends meet. 4. This will lead to loss of trade to the shopkeepers who are all having a hard enough time to make ends meet as it is. 5. By doing some casual work, like designing computer software, he has managed to make both ends meet and has enough left over to invest in his bicycle journeys. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Diphthongize, verb. ❓ Definition (with object): Change (a vowel) into a diphthong. ❗️ Examples: 1. The short vowel was not lengthened or diphthongized. 2. But at normal conversational speed its ghastly sequence of four diphthongized long vowels (in the nicely symmetrical but un-IPA Trager-Smith transcription, / ay ey iy ey /) sounds something like ah-ee-yay-ee-yee-yay-ee. 3. Stealth has a long, tense, diphthongized high vowel [i], whereas stealth has a short, lax, mid-vowel. 4. In particular, the vowel of the last syllable was a pretty good IPA [e], not diphthongized like the vowel in English babe but also not laxed and shortened like the vowel in English bed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) 💬 The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities... some consider to be unnatural.

📚 Pathway, noun. 🔉 /ˈpɑːθweɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A way of achieving a specified result; a course of action. ❗️ Examples: 1. Research has indisputably been part of the pathway to progress. 2. We know productivity is the pathway to profits. 3. They embrace and create change not as a means of survival but as a pathway to growth. 4. Before advertising limited its possibilities, television, like radio before it, was envisioned as an electronic pathway to moral enlightenment. 5. Given the series of court decisions stating that women did not qualify as attorneys under existing law, the only pathway to change was legislation. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Above and beyond, phrase. ❓ Definition: In excess of the expectations or demands of. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was always there to help us out in difficult times, above and beyond the call of duty. 2. And just ahead are our weekly tribute to a member of our Armed services who served above and beyond the call of duty. 3. She has been my campaign manager for three elections, and has served above and beyond the call of duty. 4. She said she appreciated their passion and their concern even above and beyond the official job. 5. No words can do justice to their efficiency, thoroughness, and all-around human compassion above and beyond the call of duty. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Varmint, noun. 🔉 /ˈvɑːmɪnt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (North American • informal, dialect): A troublesome wild animal. ❗️ Examples: 1. The long punishing jaws of a borzoi can snatch up small and not-so-small varmints both wild or domestic with lightning speed. 2. The biggest pests on the farm are the varmints - voles, gophers, wild turkey and quail. 3. It might have come in handy if we ever spotted the Eastern Screech-Owl that disturbed our already suspect outdoor slumber, but the voluble varmint was well-hidden. 4. A great deal of space is devoted to hunting small game, varmints and big game in the US and Africa. 5. It has taken a ton of small game and varmints with the kind of repeatable efficiency that a .22 rifleman would be happy to claim. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Take up, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition (take something up, take up something): Become interested or engaged in a pursuit. ❗️ Examples: 1. She took up tennis at the age of 11. 2. Watching opera on television and attending live opera performances got her interested in taking it up as a career. 3. Mostly good weather favoured the event for the three weeks when outdoor pursuits could be taken up. 4. Mr Frost contacted Counsel and Care after reading about its national campaign to encourage older people to continue their artistic pursuits, or take them up for the first time. 5. She told me last week she once did kick-boxing and was interested in taking it up again when she moves to Sheffield! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Slippery slope, phrase. ❓ Definition: A course of action likely to lead to something bad or disastrous. ❗️ Examples: 1. He is on the slippery slope towards a life of crime. 2. This leads them down a slippery slope until, at the end of the play, they ‘tear each other's throats out’. 3. Not me, evidently: and so my first step was taken on that slippery slope leading down to a kind of gentle madness. 4. Critics say the law would be a slippery slope leading to anti-abortion laws in Canada. 5. In the very least, it is part of the slippery slope that has led to dislocation, desperation and even despair. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic