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🎬 Another Stakeout (1993) 💬 You'll be on it round the clock.

📚 Round the clock, phrase. ❓ Definition: All day and all night. ❗️ Examples: 1. I've got a team working round the clock. 2. Round-the-clock surveillance. 3. Meanwhile Glasgow City Council has pledged that staff will continue to work around the clock to ease road and footpath problems. 4. We fought around the clock and continued to support the Marines as they cleared houses. 5. The second day, we could have legitimately reported flights were taking off round the clock day and night. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Sinistrorse, adjective. 🔉 /ˈsɪnɪstrɔːs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Zoology • rare): Designating spiral mollusc shells that coil to the left (anticlockwise), and molluscs having such shells; = "sinistral". ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Dispel, verb. 🔉 /dɪˈspɛl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Make (a doubt, feeling, or belief) disappear. ❗️ Examples: 1. The brightness of the day did nothing to dispel Elaine's dejection. 2. Actually listening to the record does little to dispel these feelings of disappointment. 3. Such words dispelled any doubts, despair or lingering suspicions. 4. Perhaps it is actually a canny psychological technique for dispelling any last minute doubts. 5. Many analysts thought Standard was paying too high a premium for control of the bank in January, but these doubts could be dispelled by a positive update on its integration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 My way or the highway, phrase. ❓ Definition (North American • informal): Said to assert the view that there is no alternative (apart from leaving) but to accept the speaker's opinions or policies. ❗️ Examples: 1. They know no way but the way of the autocrat — it's my way or the highway. 2. It's always the ultimatum, my way or the highway. 3. ‘Listen bud,’ she said as she leaned towards him, one arm on the table as she did so, ‘It's my way or the highway.’ 4. One former international summed up his approach to getting his plans through: ‘With Jim, it's always been my way or the highway.’ 5. When he first moved into coaching, I did fear for him because, in some ways, he could be old school and rather intolerant - my way or the highway. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Iatrogenic, adjective. 🔉 /ʌɪˌatrə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Relating to illness caused by medical examination or treatment. ❗️ Examples: 1. Drugs may cause side effects which can lead to iatrogenic disease. 2. This means significant cost savings in medications and possible iatrogenic side effects. 3. Blood tests can induce iatrogenic anaemia in patients, are time consuming for staff, and are costly. 4. By encouraging better adherence, our pharmacists may have precipitated iatrogenic illness that previously had been avoided. 5. The authors attribute this incongruity to the higher rate of iatrogenic preterm deliveries in the untreated group. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Likelihood, noun. 🔉 /ˈlʌɪklɪhʊd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The state or fact of something's being likely; probability. ❗️ Examples: 1. Young people who can see no likelihood of finding employment. 2. Situations where there is a likelihood of violence. 3. The likelihood is that the pelts of the rabid foxes have been sold to furriers. 4. There is thus far less likelihood of stalemates or draws forming in the game. 5. There is also no likelihood that anything said or done would have induced any other confession. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Non-Stop (2014) 💬 Flying is not my cup of tea.

📚 Not one's cup of tea, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Not what one likes or is interested in. ❗️ Examples: 1. Cats were not her cup of tea. 2. If sitting and listening is not your cup of tea, sightseeing in a drift boat makes for an interesting alternative. 3. And if running, dodging and shooting was not your cup of tea, there were car and motorcycle rallies, with dirt tracks and the grand prix. 4. If this is not your cup of tea or if you only have a few items for sale then, of course, they will take your items to their auction rooms, where they will be sold on your behalf. 5. Free verse can be wonderful - but it's just not our cup of tea. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Yé-yé, adjective. 🔉 /ˈjeɪjeɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Of, relating to, or characteristic of a type of popular music and fashion typical of 1960s youth culture, especially in France. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Spare, adjective. 🔉 /spɛː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Not currently in use or occupied. ❗️ Examples: 1. A spare seat. 2. Keren occupied only one leaving his spare seats free. 3. Open crates and various strange pieces of equipment seemed to occupy every spare bit of space. 4. It's the only spare seat in the whole classroom. 5. She turned up the heater, turned all vents on the stranger and reached behind her seat for a spare jacket. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Unforgiven (1992) 💬 And we were young and full of beans.

📚 Full of beans, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Lively; in high spirits. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was laughing and shouting and generally full of beans. 2. Chirpy, smiley, full of beans - these are just some of the words which do not describe first-time quarter-finalist David Gray. 3. When I last spoke to her yesterday she was full of beans, very cheerful and chirpy, so I deduce from that that all was going well. 4. They were lovely kids: bright, intelligent and full of beans. 5. Driver Murugan is there at the appointed time. I have risen early again, but today I'm neither bright nor full of beans, unlike yesterday. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Veracious, adjective. 🔉 /vəˈreɪʃəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (formal): Speaking or representing the truth. ❗️ Examples: 1. A veracious account. 2. America's veracious demand is a particularly important factor in these growing global-scale problems. 3. I am completely convinced that not everyone is capable of presenting Don Juan on the stage as the veracious lover type of figure. 4. It is disheartening for a veracious researcher to debunk this Caspian megalomania. 5. I was all alone until I met Aya, a young, veracious girl, when I was eight. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers (2021) - S01E01 Game On 💬 – Yeah. I have so much water. – Sunscreen, sunscreen.

📚 Sunscreen, noun. 🔉 /ˈsʌnskriːn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A cream or lotion rubbed on to the skin to protect it from the sun. ❗️ Examples: 1. She brings along plenty of sunscreen. 2. Use high-factor sunscreens. 3. They buy bottled water if they fear that their drinking water is polluted, and they apply sunscreen to protect their skin from UV radiation. 4. He, along with several other employees, collected beef jerky, gum, shaving cream, shampoo, deodorant, bug spray, sunscreen, DVDs and CDs. 5. Only 54 percent wear some sort of sunscreen during the summer, and 84 percent believe protection is necessary only if they intend to be outside ‘for a long period of time.’ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Finding Neverland (2004) 💬 Opening night, doctors, lawyers, businessmen and their wives, all dressed to the nines.

📚 To the nines, phrase. ❓ Definition: To a great or elaborate extent. ❗️ Examples: 1. The women were dressed to the nines. 2. Apart from the willingness of the staff to dress up to the nines, preferably in drag, the secret of the unfailing success of this bash is an alcoholic punch whose recipe, if it isn't already, really ought to be classified information. 3. Horse racing is always an excuse to dress up to the nines and no more so than on Ladies Day - on Thursday - when women enter their own particular race: to be the best-dressed female at Knavesmire. 4. I can be dressed up to the nines in a slinky frock, fabulous hair and make-up, and 6 inch stilettos, but I actually feel embarrassed at having to clutch hold of a handbag, or have it slung over my shoulder. 5. If you like dressing up to the nines, expect to pay a fortune for a drink, and enjoy fancy-sounding grub, then you'll feel quite at home in the Living Room, York's new million-pound bar. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic