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📚 Rattle, verb. 🔉 /ˈrat(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal • with object): Make (someone) nervous, worried, or irritated. ❗️ Examples: 1. She turned quickly, rattled by his presence. 2. Jack's presence rattled Wilson, reminding him of Henry as a little boy showing Jack how to work the old cash register. 3. The sight of Anna, not the slightest bit ruffled, rattled him severely. 4. He looked at the capable assistant with sincere eyes knowing that this would rattle him into some flustered explanation of his whereabouts. 5. This is the language of seriously rattled people. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Get rid of, phrase. ❓ Definition: Take action so as to be free of (a troublesome or unwanted person or thing) ❗️ Examples: 1. We have been campaigning to get rid of the car tax for 20 years. 2. Perhaps you should dig it up, getting rid of all the roots, and try something else as a windbreak. 3. Having a shave and getting rid of unwanted body hair in the heat or sauna is also supposed to be relaxing for the nerves and skin. 4. Can you advise on the best way of getting rid of the smell? 5. I've been trying to get rid of the smoke smell too. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Rattle around, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition (also rattle around something): Be in or occupy an unnecessarily large room or building. ❗️ Examples: 1. The house was too big — we just rattled around in it. 2. There were about ten guests rattling around the huge hotel. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 So long, phrase. 🔉 /ˌsəʊ ˈlɒŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal): Goodbye till we meet again. ❗️ Examples: 1. When she walked out on the Sugababes as they hit the big time, it looked like so long, Siobhan. 2. I just want it to be done with, but I don't want to deal with any of the moving or saying so long stuff. 3. ‘So long!’, Catharine waved goodbye to Audrey as the door closed. 4. So long, Mother. Be expecting a postcard or two in the mail, if you're lucky. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Flokati, noun. 🔉 /flɒˈkɑːti/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A Greek woven woollen rug with a thick loose pile. ❗️ Examples: 1. So roll out the flokati, pop your cork, crack open the ritz and come join the wild boys! 2. However, just as I was preparing to roll up the flokati I decided to give the ignition one more go and, amazingly, it worked. 3. The women of the village, having access to the wool, would weave Flokati rugs to be sold at bazaars during the winter. 4. Flokatis are a traditional Greek art, but they're as contemporary as today. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Arrogant, adjective. 🔉 /ˈarəɡ(ə)nt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or abilities. ❗️ Examples: 1. He's arrogant and opinionated. 2. A typically arrogant assumption. 3. They look a little deeper into the matter without being pompous, arrogant or patronising. 4. Tip in Iceland and you will be seen as arrogant and patronising - and you might get hot soup in your lap. 5. Friends of Hendrie say that some people consider him to be arrogant and superior. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Get the picture, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Understand a situation. ❗️ Examples: 1. Any trouble your father might have we can hide — d'you get the picture? 2. To be honest, I believe it was more difficult to get the picture than to catch the carp. 3. I realize that sounds completely revolting, but I think you get the picture. 4. Scott didn't seem to get the picture, his brain still working on understanding what Jesse had just told him. 5. This includes, buses, trains, lifts, public buildings, pubs, restaurants; I think you have probably got the picture. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ogham, noun. 🔉 /ˈɒɡəm/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): An ancient British and Irish alphabet, consisting of twenty characters formed by parallel strokes on either side of or across a continuous line. ❗️ Examples: 1. The combination of a rockcut ‘basin’, two separate carved footprints, the incised outline of a boar or pig, and an inscription in the Irish linear script, known as ogham, cannot be paralleled anywhere in Britain or Ireland. 2. One is inscribed in Latin and also in ogham. 3. He initiated the modern study of ogam with an essay on the Mount Callan Stone in 1785. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 A Few Good Men (1992) 💬 Please the court, is this dialogue relevant to anything... Defense didn't have the opportunity to depose this witness.

📚 Depose, verb. 🔉 /dɪˈpəʊz/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object • Law): Testify to or give (evidence) under oath, typically in a written statement. ❗️ Examples: 1. Every affidavit shall state which of the facts deposed to are within the deponent's knowledge. 2. The documents which you have deposed to in the witness box and referred to are strictly in answer to the subpoena but in respect of which you claim privilege. 3. A person in the legal secretariat to the Law Officers deposed to the contrary. 4. He deposed to the fact that the two are ‘a genuine and committed couple’. 5. He deposed to the fact that he was afraid of the wife and afraid of her family. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 How I Met Your Mother (2005) - S01E22 💬 It's gonna rain cats and dogs, folks.

📚 Rain cats and dogs, phrase. ❓ Definition: Rain very hard. ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘It'll be raining cats and dogs in a minute ‘she muttered to herself.’ 2. The first barricaded suspect situation I attended was, as I recall, on a dark and stormy night, in fact it was raining cats and dogs. 3. It was raining cats and dogs, and my bike had died on me. 4. No kind of threats, cajoling or convincing can get a line-man to scamper up an electric post or poke at a blown fuse when it is raining cats and dogs. 5. It had been raining cats and dogs from morning and they must have known before hand that the wet weather posed a danger of shock or slipping on stage. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Phantasmagoric, adjective. 🔉 /ˌfantazməˈɡɒrɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: This definition is derivative of «phantasmagoria». ❗️ Examples: 1. These scenes of retrieval of the past are presented as Jones's dreams or hallucinations, half-light phantasmagoric visions. 2. It's an unreal, phantasmagoric place, Ford's America: an unashamedly sublime, romantic, sinister spectacle. 3. Once Banks arrives in Shanghai, however, the story enters a more phantasmagoric world, and nightmarish and unreal events seem to occur. 4. Yet the realist vision shifts to the phantasmagoric, as spectator and spectacle undergo carnivalesque reversals and interpenetration, in their darkest and most violent manifestations. 5. It possessed a phantasmagoric nightmarish atmosphere, as you might have anticipated from a ballet inspired by Goya's gritty, bitter 18th century etchings Los Caprichos. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Likeable, adjective. 🔉 /ˈlʌɪkəb(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (especially of a person) pleasant, friendly, and easy to like. ❗️ Examples: 1. A very likeable young woman. 2. Often times I have noted that it is very popular and likeable people that die young. 3. A friendly and likeable fellow, Ritchie has all the people skills needed to keep the show on the road. 4. His theology is fairly sound, and he is a very pleasant and likeable person. 5. A friendly, likeable man with a rare sense of humour, he had a story for every hour of the day and every day of the week. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A dog's breakfast, phrase. ❓ Definition (British • informal): A poor piece of work; a mess. ❗️ Examples: 1. We made a real dog's breakfast of it. 2. All in all it is a dog's dinner, literally, with local residents living with the mess and hazard. 3. In design terms it's a dog's breakfast, a grey, smudgy mess that seems to stagger off ancient presses each week. 4. It all adds up to a dog's breakfast of departmental rivalry, layer upon layer of confused delivery and strategic confusion. 5. Speaking after the council agreed to hold the ballot, he said: ‘The wording on the ballot papers is a dog's dinner.’ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Archetypal, adjective. 🔉 /ˌɑːkɪˈtʌɪp(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Very typical of a certain kind of person or thing. ❗️ Examples: 1. The archetypal country doctor. 2. Tango Siempre can do passion, drama, melancholy beauty and sentimentality, and their approach is more like that of a classical ensemble than an archetypal world-music outfit. 3. Newer ones, like the one in Watchet, are built of bricks and mortar but the archetypal model is the ubiquitous wooden structure. 4. Dotted with tiny fishing villages, it is the archetypal Caribbean paradise, with glistening white beaches that go on forever and emerald green waters where local fishermen haul in the most exotic array of fish. 5. Bunyan's archetypal characters are dramatically illustrated through fifty masterful watercolor portraits by Barry Moser. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Grateful, adjective. 🔉 /ˈɡreɪtfʊl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Feeling or showing an appreciation for something done or received. ❗️ Examples: 1. I'm grateful to you for all your help. 2. She gave him a grateful smile. 3. I know some of you have made heroic efforts to get here, and we are very grateful and appreciative of that. 4. To be offered a treat such as freshly baked shortbread is sure to raise a grateful smile. 5. She is also very appreciative of what you do for her and is grateful for my interest. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 On a roll, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Experiencing a prolonged spell of success or good luck. ❗️ Examples: 1. The organization is on a roll. 2. With his last few albums, he has been on a roll, consistently producing jazz of the very highest standard. 3. New Zealand film is apparently on a roll according to our media. 4. All the smaller underground clubs are on a roll and the commercialised side of dance music is starting to wane. 5. Sinatra had been on a roll since his breakthrough part in From Here To Eternity. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic