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🎬 Two Much (1996) [00:55:19] 💬 No. It's both simple and heartfelt.

📚 Heartfelt, adjective. 🔉 /ˈhɑːtfɛlt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of a feeling or its expression) deeply and strongly felt; sincere. ❗️ Examples: 1. Our heartfelt thanks. 2. To her family and friends, we offer our deepest and heartfelt sympathy on the loss of their loved one. 3. To his heartbroken family and friends, we offer our deepest and heartfelt sympathy. 4. He's trying to do away with the cynical sneer and make a genuine film with heartfelt emotion. 5. But then he looked up at her with a heartfelt expression, and proceeded to beg. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 In the flesh, phrase. ❓ Definition: In person or (of a thing) in its actual state. ❗️ Examples: 1. They decided that they should meet Alexander in the flesh. 2. Reminds me though, I once had a lunch with a blind colleague whom I'd spoken to on the phone a lot but not met in the flesh before. 3. Not only does he not want journalists to meet people in the flesh, he will actively discourage them from doing any such thing. 4. At any rate, it turns out that I have recently met another blogger, in the flesh. 5. The Fan Faire was a rare opportunity for them to meet in the flesh. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Heliotropic, adjective. 🔉 /ˌhiːlɪə(ʊ)ˈtrɒpɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: This definition is derivative of «heliotropism». ❗️ Examples: 1. Using a similar idea in the moral realm, Augustine says that we naturally seek the good and try to turn towards it, as a heliotropic flower seeks the sun. 2. Like a heliotropic plant, she turned towards warmth and light, which unfortunately were the blinding flashes of cameras. 3. For fourteen years, off and on, I have spent the spring on the south coast of Cornwall, in the heliotropic village of St Mawes. 4. The decision to include sunflower petals reflects the artist's faith, for the heliotropic nature of this plant made it an emblem of devotion. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Case, noun. 🔉 /keɪs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Grammar): Any of the forms of a noun, adjective, or pronoun that express the semantic relation of the word to other words in the sentence. ❗️ Examples: 1. The accusative case. 2. They had at least as many noun cases to contend with as Latin speakers did, as well. 3. Only relatively recently did grammarians begin a debate over noun cases in English. 4. Do common cases become conventionalized as new senses for the words involved? 5. Let us start by explaining all of the seven Croatian grammatical cases. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Take it or leave it, phrase. ❓ Definition (usually in imperative): Said to express that the offer one has made is not negotiable and that one is indifferent to another's reaction to it. ❗️ Examples: 1. That's the deal — take it or leave it. 2. This looks like an opening gambit rather than a take it or leave it offer. 3. We have already been told that the moving of the market and interchange are not negotiable and that, in effect, we can either take it or leave it. 4. Would they tell them to take it or leave it, this is what we offer? 5. He offered the cash and said take it or leave it and the bank eventually came back and said it would accept the cash. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Approximate, adjective. 🔉 /əˈprɒksɪmət/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Close to the actual, but not completely accurate or exact. ❗️ Examples: 1. The approximate time of death. 2. Some Nordic countries even offer subsidized childcare services and compensation that is approximate to the actual loss of earnings. 3. You can also adjust three bars, like a graphic equaliser, controlling how recently the page was updated, how popular the site is and whether it is an exact or approximate word match. 4. He has collected nearly 30,000 entries and provided exact, equivalent or approximate words in Urdu. 5. The location they display for Metro stations bears only an approximate resemblance to the actual location of the station itself. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Custody, noun. 🔉 /ˈkʌstədi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun • Law): Responsibility for the care, maintenance, and upbringing of a child or children. ❗️ Examples: 1. He was trying to get custody of their child. 2. In a divorce, fathers control custody of sons over the age of two and daughters over the age of seven. 3. Both the applicant and the respondent were seeking sole custody of the children. 4. In Burns, the mother had full custody of two children and the parents shared custody of a third child. 5. The court then has a difficult task in determining which parent should have custody of Michael. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Give or take —, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): To within a specified amount. ❗️ Examples: 1. Three hundred and fifty years ago, give or take a few. 2. They found that the mass extinction occurred 46,400 years ago, give or take 3,000 years. 3. He departed this vale two decades or so ago, give or take a few years. 4. Although no one knows for certain, most authorities agree that the pug originated in China around 2,500 years ago, give or take a few centuries. 5. Eight hours ago - give or take a couple minutes - his aunt had flown to California to visit an old roommate from her college years. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Keiretsu, noun. 🔉 /keɪˈrɛtsuː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (in Japan) a conglomeration of businesses linked together by cross-shareholdings to form a robust corporate structure. ❗️ Examples: 1. He said Singapore banks should avoid the problem now posed by Japan's keiretsu system, which links a group of companies with a main bank. 2. Once bitter rivals, they were effectively forced together as the unwinding of Japan's keiretsu led to increased rivalry at home. 3. Until the mid-1990s about half of equities in Japan were held by banks, a legacy of the keiretsu cross-shareholding networks. 4. They're looking at a Japanese style of business, a keiretsu. 5. The weak control over lending was allowed because of the keiretsu tradition, which links companies with their banks via complex cross-shareholdings. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Tinsel, noun. 🔉 /ˈtɪns(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A form of decoration consisting of thin strips of shiny metal foil attached to a long piece of thread. ❗️ Examples: 1. A room bedecked with tinsel and fairy lights. 2. Another reader said hanging Christmas tinsel or aluminium foil strips in trees where fruit bats feed also works well. 3. There wasn't a single extra piece of tinsel, no baubles, no lights, no street entertainment at all. 4. In one striking image, a porch is shown elaborately decorated for Christmas with tinsel, stockings, ornaments and toys. 5. At that time, it was unthinkable that anyone would believe that it was anything but real, especially after a decoration of tinsel and an assortment of differently shaped and coloured baubles. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) 💬 Into this estate, these two come now to be joined If any man present can show cause... why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him speak now or forever after hold his peace.

📚 Show cause, phrase. ❓ Definition (Law): Produce satisfactory grounds for application of (or exemption from) a procedure or penalty. ❗️ Examples: 1. A notice to show cause why there should not be a committal to prison. 2. Show-cause notice. 3. In January 1994 the auditor published his provisional findings and the notices to show cause why the ten persons should not be surcharged. 4. On 3 June 1999 the Board wrote to Mr and Mrs Mann requiring them to show cause within 14 days why their legal aid certificates should not be revoked. 5. The draft order nisi that has been filed specifies five grounds on which the respondents are to be called on to show cause. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Laureate, noun. 🔉 /ˈlɒrɪət/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A person who is honoured with an award for outstanding creative or intellectual achievement. ❗️ Examples: 1. A Nobel laureate. 2. Even though Ireland can boast of two other poets who have been internationally honoured as Nobel laureates, the Monaghan man continues to occupy a special niche in our affections. 3. The 15,000 pound prize awarded to the laureate is not to be sneezed at but the chance of working with the London Symphony Orchestra for a year is to dream of. 4. To a considerable extent, a tight circle of New York intellectuals, Ivy League stars, Nobel laureates and Oxbridge luminaries replaced him and his cohort. 5. There are performances by the Kirov Ballet, a symposium of 25 Nobel laureates, concerts and the opportunity to visit outstanding museums and galleries. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Vice versa, adverb. 🔉 /ˌvʌɪs ˈvəːsə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: With the main items in the preceding statement the other way round. ❗️ Examples: 1. Cruise from Cairo to Aswan or vice versa. 2. Please view the italics as simply the opposite of the regular format, and vice versa. 3. You can only compose if you understand how to conduct and vice versa. 4. I wanted HIM to come running to ME, not vice versa. 5. Everett knew everything about her, and vice versa. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Wild Child (2008) 💬 You so don't need to play hard to get. I'm totally into you.

📚 Play hard to get, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Deliberately adopt an aloof or uninterested attitude, typically in order to make oneself more attractive or interesting. ❗️ Examples: 1. They are playing hard to get with the media, and are keeping us all interested. 2. Sometimes when dates played hard to get, it made the chase more interesting and the inevitable surrender more satisfying. 3. ‘He tried to talk to me for a while after we met, but I was playing hard to get,’ she said with a slight smile. 4. In this love affair, like many others, playing hard to get can only make for a better relationship. 5. After months of being cautious and playing hard to get, I'm going to bravely risk rejection this time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Abseil, verb. 🔉 /ˈabseɪl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (British • no object): Descend a rock face or other near-vertical surface by using a doubled rope coiled round the body and fixed at a higher point. ❗️ Examples: 1. Team members had to abseil down sheer cliffs to reach the couple. 2. Last year we got money to spend on playground games, but the bats were soon turned into weapons and the skipping ropes used for abseiling. 3. To get off the yacht required abseiling down a rope but I was too scared to make that small jump onto the rope. 4. Inspector Kench set up a rope system and abseiled down to rescue the frightened animal, which, to his horror, then tried to escape. 5. We fixed the ropes and abseiled down through the spray of the waterfalls, dropping directly into pools. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic