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📚 Let sleeping dogs lie, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Avoid interfering in a situation that is currently causing no problems but may well do so as a result of such interference. ❗️ Examples: 1. And God also seems to have the highest expectations of us, not settling for second-best or letting sleeping dogs lie. 2. So the Labor party is merely going along with the masses by letting sleeping dogs lie. 3. Somebody sent me an email that said this was all the fault of the U.S. because ‘we should have let sleeping dogs lie.’ 4. But then maybe it's best to let sleeping dogs lie. 5. I'll let sleeping dogs lie for a bit on that front. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Emoticon, noun. 🔉 /ɪˈməʊtɪkɒn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A representation of a facial expression such as a smile or frown, formed by various combinations of keyboard characters and used to convey the writer's feelings or intended tone. ❗️ Examples: 1. Flag your jokes with emoticons, such as a smiley face :-), to avoid misunderstandings. 2. It is important when you e-mail, that you use emoticons to relay the tone of your e-mail. 3. I thought the whole point of an emoticon was to convey an emotion or facial expression. 4. On my cell phone I can receive text messages, and I can choose to use emoticons (iconic characters and messages) on the Internet. 5. But it's hard to roll your eyes online, and I detest emoticons. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Plausible, adjective. 🔉 /ˈplɔːzɪb(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of an argument or statement) seeming reasonable or probable. ❗️ Examples: 1. A plausible explanation. 2. It seems plausible that one of two things may happen. 3. The chain comes to an end where neither your plausible responses nor mine change as the reasoning continues. 4. There is no plausible reason and explanation why the amount should be increased. 5. If they are representative, the only plausible answer is to consider their supposed ideology. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Let the cat out of the bag, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Reveal a secret carelessly or by mistake. ❗️ Examples: 1. Now that Viola had let the cat out of the bag, she had no option but to confess. 2. Gavin Anderson apologises to those in the know for letting the cat out of the bag about this secret haven. 3. So let the cat out of the bag: admit that what you're really up to is a satire on the state of arts funding. 4. The rather inappropriately named Defence Minister let the cat out of the bag by admitting that there isn't really a threat after all. 5. Two such academics were so upset by the broadcast they injudiciously let the cat out of the bag completely. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Carefree, adjective. 🔉 /ˈkɛːfriː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Free from anxiety or responsibility. ❗️ Examples: 1. We were young and carefree. 2. The carefree days of the holidays. 3. I'd watched the small children splash around in the sea, so carefree and free from responsibility. 4. The summer is generally associated with being a bright, happy and carefree time of year. 5. It was really nice, sunny weather and these songs remind me of a carefree, happy time in my life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Take something with a pinch of salt, phrase. ❓ Definition: Regard something as exaggerated; believe only part of something. ❗️ Examples: 1. I take anything he says with a large pinch of salt. 2. An AIB spokesman rejected the claim it was ripping off customers and said it took the report with a pinch of salt as it did not believe true like-for-like comparisons were made. 3. The next time someone says one bullet is vastly superior to another in regards to wind deflection, take their advice with a grain of salt and check for yourself. 4. Many personnel believe that no matter what they have to say, it will be taken with a grain of salt. 5. Since I had no recourse to take this route, I took the stories with a pinch of salt and never checked them out. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Blurred, adjective. 🔉 /bləːd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Unable to see or be seen clearly. ❗️ Examples: 1. Blurred vision. 2. The camera caught only two blurred images. 3. We certainly wouldn't be trying to emulate people with blurred vision. 4. The darkness was unworldly, he thought; objects blurred into each other, colors shifted to become unnatural. 5. Symptoms included nausea, vertigo, headaches and blurred vision. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Take root, phrase. ❓ Definition: Become fixed or established. ❗️ Examples: 1. The idea had taken root in my mind. 2. Spatial sequences merging across the shifting levels prevent fixed identities from taking root anywhere. 3. Because he had little to say about social need and there was no legislative provision for subsidising loss-making services, the idea took root that the issue had simply been ignored. 4. Nevertheless, the idea took root in their minds. 5. I quickly stomped on that idea before it fully took root. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Tiramisu, noun. 🔉 /ˌtɪrəmɪˈsuː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): An Italian dessert consisting of layers of sponge cake soaked in coffee and brandy or liqueur with powdered chocolate and mascarpone cheese. ❗️ Examples: 1. Caesar salad dressing, the Italian dessert tiramisu, homemade ice cream, chocolate mousse, eggnog, cookie dough, and frostings can contain raw eggs. 2. Other desserts include tiramisu and a bonbon liqueur, which looked as if it came from the Viennetta school of dessert design. 3. One such confection is the Venetian dessert tiramisu, meaning pick-me-up, which involves first creaming the mascarpone with yolks of egg and a little fresh cream, and then incorporating whipped whites of egg. 4. Beginning with appetizers of calamari and garlic bread and ending with a dessert of creamy tiramisu and vanilla ice cream. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Underdog, noun. 🔉 /ˈʌndədɒɡ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A competitor thought to have little chance of winning a fight or contest. ❗️ Examples: 1. We go into this game as the underdogs. 2. In his lifetime, he became a symbol of courage to a deprived country, the underdog in all his fights and still coming out on top. 3. We are all on the same side, underdogs fighting against social and environmental oppression. 4. The underdogs in any fight usually prepare body and mind meticulously before stepping into the ring. 5. My vote was giving the underdog a chance; it was a sympathy vote. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Downton Abbey (2010) - S01E04 💬 I'm a lost soul to you.

📚 Lost soul, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): A person who seems unable to cope with everyday life. ❗️ Examples: 1. A few lost souls wander aimlessly down to the front and stare up at the stage. 2. The nice thing is that everyone left at 12, so I have the entire building to myself - and have locked my office door in case some lost soul wanders by looking for help I can't give. 3. He is an emotionless, lost soul wandering the streets and helping out strangers while looking for a clean razor and dry cleaner for his dirty overcoat! 4. While not locked in his office, he wanders the corridors like a lost soul. 5. One such lost soul turned up at my office door earlier today. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Turbidity, noun. 🔉 /təːˈbɪdɪti/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The quality of being cloudy, opaque, or thick with suspended matter. ❗️ Examples: 1. The measurement of turbidity is a key test of water quality. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Curry, noun. 🔉 /ˈkʌri/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A dish of meat, vegetables, etc., cooked in an Indian-style sauce of hot-tasting spices and typically served with rice. ❗️ Examples: 1. We went out for a curry. 2. A beef curry. 3. I've been eating a lot of curry. 4. The foods served in the Balti pan are freshly cooked aromatically spiced curries. 5. Lunch consists of rice served with vegetable and meat curries and sauces such as sambol, a spicy mixture of grated coconut and chili, peppers, pickles, and chutneys. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 See the back of, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Be rid of (an unwanted person or thing) ❗️ Examples: 1. We were always glad to see the back of her. 2. This New Year's Eve I was alone, glad to see the back of 2004 and preparing to move forward in the coming year. 3. I won't be sorry to see the back of all these roadworks so we can all go about our daily business. 4. They will be glad to see the back of him in Edinburgh. 5. By the sounds of it, they're glad to see the back of him. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Stew, noun. 🔉 /stjuː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A dish of meat and vegetables cooked slowly in liquid in a closed dish or pan. ❗️ Examples: 1. Lamb stew. 2. Add to casseroles, stews, and sauces. 3. He lifted up the lid of the pot where lamb stew was simmering. 4. They cooked a thick stew for dinner and had mulled cider. 5. Meat stews are often cooked with fruits such as quince. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Back to the drawing board, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to indicate that an idea, scheme, or proposal has been unsuccessful and that a new one must be devised. ❗️ Examples: 1. The government must go back to the drawing board and review the whole issue of youth training. 2. The developers must now go back to the drawing board in relation to this second phase of their project. 3. The regulations must be sent back to the drawing board and revised to conform to the real world. 4. York Council expects to send developers back to the drawing board over their proposals for the city's Barbican Centre. 5. They have also decided to go back to the drawing board on the idea for bus priority in Shipton Road between Loweswater Road and Rawcliffe Lane. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Vitally, adverb. 🔉 /ˈvʌɪt(ə)li/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: In a way that is absolutely necessary or essential. ❗️ Examples: 1. They depend vitally on government subsidies. 2. The music plays a vitally important role. 3. He argued that the Bank's zero interest rate policy was precluding vitally required economic restructuring. 4. They are consulted on every issue that vitally affects the country. 5. What is so enjoyable about this is seeing him come into his own, and make a vitally valid contribution to music. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic