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📚 Submerge, verb. 🔉 /səbˈməːdʒ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Completely cover or obscure. ❗️ Examples: 1. The tensions submerged earlier in the campaign now came to the fore. 2. In the multipolar world that has ensued from the end of the Cold War, submerged tensions between the US and Europe have come out into the open. 3. A dear friend's wedding can stir up all kinds of submerged emotions — and, crucially, a sense that life is, indeed, moving forward, whether you're ready for it or not. 4. After not getting the pleasure he requires from his only love he turns to Banquo who up till now has kept his feelings submerged. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Evil Under the Sun (1982) 💬 This case has been hanging fire for four months.

📚 Hang fire, phrase. ❓ Definition: Delay or be delayed in taking action or progressing. ❗️ Examples: 1. A near agreement was hanging fire because of the concerns of some provinces. 2. Two years ago the District Auditor had warned the council that they must get rid of surplus places, but they had hung fire, because of good schools like Newland, and the upheaval caused to children and staff. 3. I think everyone is hanging fire to see what happens. 4. She said: ‘People have been hanging fire from the outset of the disease to see what happens and because of the outbreak here it's not picking up.’ 5. The international airport project has been hanging fire for the last 10 years, caught in a maze of controversies, suspicions, hurdles and delays. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Big Lebowski (1998) 💬 I don't want to be responsible for any delayed aftereffects.

📚 Delay, verb. 🔉 /dɪˈleɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Postpone or defer (an action) ❗️ Examples: 1. He may decide to delay the next cut in interest rates. 2. Most governors and legislatures would rather make budget cuts or delay some of their tax cuts for now. 3. Her ankle would take a while to heal so we decided to press, there was no point in delaying any longer than we had to. 4. The Faculty of the University recommended him for a chair of theoretical physics but the Department of Educational Affairs decided to delay confirming the post. 5. If he continues to delay paying the bill, he will have to take his seriously ill 1-year-old out of hospital. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Monster (2003) 💬 Because after my daddy killed himself, we were out on the streets.

📚 On the streets, phrase. ❓ Definition: Homeless. ❗️ Examples: 1. The number of people who are out on the streets is lower than twelve months ago. 2. I have seen our lost generation of young people, in hostels for the homeless or out on the streets. 3. A homeless woman is back on the streets again after being evicted from a telephone box. 4. The number of people sleeping rough on the streets of Bedford has risen in the last year. 5. It's real hard not to feel sorry for people who have no homes and sleep on the streets. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Circumambulate, verb. 🔉 /ˌsəːkəmˈambjʊleɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (formal • with object): Walk all the way round (something) ❗️ Examples: 1. They used to circumambulate the perimeter wall. 2. We walked barefoot and circumambulated the outer walls of the temple. 3. The temple is crowded with a number of people, most of them with prayer wheels in their hands, circumambulating the sanctum. 4. They will circumambulate the stadium once and then take the torches to the cauldron. 5. I looked forward to circumambulating Mount Kailash - a difficult 33-kilometer hike on foot. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Get along, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition: Have a harmonious or friendly relationship. ❗️ Examples: 1. They seem to get along pretty well. 2. He does not get along with his son. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Axe Cop (2013) - S01E07 💬 Why don't you go home and catch some Zs?

📚 Catch some Zs, phrase. ❓ Definition (North American • informal): Get some sleep. ❗️ Examples: 1. I'll go back to the hotel and catch some Zs. 2. I was catching a few Zs on the lower bunk in our call room. 3. Why is it whenever I try to catch some Zs all I can hear is you two squawking? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ganache, noun. 🔉 /ɡəˈnaʃ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A whipped filling of chocolate and cream, used in confectioneries such as cakes and truffles. ❗️ Examples: 1. Its gentle tang also complements sweets beautifully; use it instead of cream in dark chocolate ganache or whip it and spoon it over cake. 2. Hazelnut dacquoise, a milk chocolate thin with praline, and chocolate ganache. 3. I wanted a chocolate cake that would rise high enough to fill the cubic dessert containers prettily, and I wanted to glaze the servings with a dark chocolate ganache, to make them black and shiny. 4. Dusted with powdered sugar, it might well be the ultimate in comfort food, but the dark chocolate ganache lends a bit of sophistication. 5. After lunch I set to work putting the finishing touches on my birthday cake, unfortunately destroying my chocolate ganache in the process. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Star trail, noun. ❓ Definition: A streak on a long-exposure or composite photographic image formed by a star moving across the field of view as a result of the earth's rotation. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Simpsons (1989) - S15E10 💬 Now let's see if lightning strikes twice.

📚 Lightning never strikes twice in the same place, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): An unusual situation or event is unlikely to happen again in exactly the same circumstances or to the same person. ❗️ Examples: 1. Thinking that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, one year after the incident administrators decided to place the figure back on his pedestal. 2. It is said that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. 3. It is a myth that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. 4. There's an old saw that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, but in the case of my wife, Annette, and me, it did. 5. If not, one could usually reconstruct the correct data from the printed record and the two tapes; without a printed record (sometimes the printer did not work), you punched a third tape and created the data tape for the next session on the principle that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Borborygmus, noun. 🔉 /ˌbɔːbəˈrɪɡməs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (technical): A rumbling or gurgling noise made by the movement of fluid and gas in the intestines. ❗️ Examples: 1. The carcinoid syndrome is classically described as flushing, diarrhea, and abdominal cramps, but borborygmi, cyanosis, telangiectasis, pellagra like skin lesions, wheezing, dypsnea or palpitations may also occur. 2. Patients complain of colicky abdominal pain, borborygmi and vomiting. 3. Within 30 minutes to 2 hours after eating dairy products they experience such symptoms as gas pains, cramps, diarrhea, borborygmi (rumblings caused by the passage of gas through the intestines), or flatulence. 4. Dysfunction of the large intestine produces the symptoms of borborygmus and diarrhea; if the fluid is further exhausted, the symptoms will be constipation and so on. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ubuntu, noun. 🔉 /ʊˈbʊntʊ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (South African • mass noun): A quality that includes the essential human virtues; compassion and humanity. ❗️ Examples: 1. There is a need for understanding not vengeance, ubuntu not victimization. 2. Speaking during the Senior Citizens' Day at the weekend, hosted by Rhema Mthatha Christian Church, MaMbeki singled out ubuntu as one solution to the problems facing society. 3. I hope the summit will bring together a spirit of humanity - ubuntu - for sustainable development. 4. He referred to Africa's concept of ubuntu, equating compassion with it, and bringing smiles to many audience members' faces. 5. ‘This is a demonstration of ubuntu, a show of humanity to other people,’ says Mdlulwa. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Quite a —, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to indicate that the specified person or thing is perceived as particularly notable, remarkable, or impressive. ❗️ Examples: 1. Quite a party, isn't it? 2. Quite the little horsewoman, aren't you? 3. There was quite the little gong show to prep for the party. 4. He is quite the ladies' man, always chasing the girls. 5. Sure, it wasn't quite the indulgences of our 20's. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic