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🎬 Last Action Hero (1993) 💬 It's behind the eight ball, you moron.

📚 Behind the eight ball, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): At a disadvantage. ❗️ Examples: 1. Don't let cash-flow crises put you behind the eight ball. 2. In that respect, any free independent publication will be starting behind the eight ball, with no subsidies, let alone a historical tradition or audience. 3. I know I am really behind the eight ball on this one. 4. It is clear that students from poorer families start behind the eight ball and are not given enough extra assistance. 5. We certainly don't want to fall behind the eight ball on that. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Prerogative, noun. 🔉 /prɪˈrɒɡətɪv/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A right or privilege exclusive to a particular individual or class. ❗️ Examples: 1. In some countries, higher education is predominantly the prerogative of the rich. 2. The investment was heralded far and wide, and this Malaysian-based group was given privileges and prerogatives, including labour exemptions, apparently as part of the incentives for them to set up shop here. 3. Changing a future child's genetic makeup, and experimenting with the genetic legacy of humanity, fall outside any acceptable notion of individual rights or parental prerogatives. 4. The difference was that these middle-class Peruvians did not lose any prerogatives or privileges. 5. In India, the study of Sanskrit was denied to many segments of the Hindu population, as it was deemed to be a prerogative of only the privileged caste. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Flexible, adjective. 🔉 /ˈflɛksɪb(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Able to be easily modified to respond to altered circumstances. ❗️ Examples: 1. Small businesses which are dependent on flexible working hours. 2. The report argued that management practices should be more flexible to allow laboratories to be more responsive to market forces. 3. I think the notions of international comity are sufficiently flexible to allow a development in that direction. 4. The waitresses said another reason they are happy at Hooters is that their work schedules are very flexible. 5. The hospice's very flexible approach to providing care and support to the entire family is working well. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Eight Men Out (1988) 💬 A patriot of the first order. A family man...

📚 Of the first order, phrase. ❓ Definition: Excellent or considerable of its kind. ❗️ Examples: 1. It is a media event of the first order. 2. However, the overall campaign was a disaster of the first order. 3. It was a disaster of the first order, but Daun was still wary of the ever-aggressive Frederick, with reason. 4. Sarris calls the film ‘a masterpiece of the first order.’ 5. His achievement, though easily taken for granted, was the work of an analytical mind of the first order, and he deserves much more honor than he has so far received. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Fortuitous, adjective. 🔉 /fɔːˈtjuːɪtəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Happening by chance rather than intention. ❗️ Examples: 1. The similarity between the paintings may not be simply fortuitous. 2. The ball went into the goal by a fortuitous ricochet. 3. On a similar theme, red is a lucky or fortuitous colour so wedding banquets in Japan tend to have red food included. 4. Violence itself becomes a means of reassurance, a fortuitous opportunity through which the strength of re-enforced steel is tested. 5. In our analysis, we took advantage of these fortuitous differences by incorporating weather as a categorical factor. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Veep (2012) - S06E05 Chicklet 💬 He was charismatic, he was gregarious.

📚 Gregarious, adjective. 🔉 /ɡrɪˈɡɛːrɪəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of a person) fond of company; sociable. ❗️ Examples: 1. He was a popular and gregarious man. 2. Even though she was so gregarious and loved to chat, she also liked to listen. 3. He is naturally gregarious, and the work obviously suits him. 4. Being in the public eye doesn't necessarily mean you're gregarious. 5. He's gregarious and tactile, always ready with a cuddle and a chuckle. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Around the corner, phrase. ❓ Definition: Very near. ❗️ Examples: 1. There's a chemist around the corner. 2. The commander was claiming that peace was just around the corner. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Vanguard, noun. 🔉 /ˈvanɡɑːd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A group of people leading the way in new developments or ideas. ❗️ Examples: 1. The experimental spirit of the modernist vanguard. 2. It must regain its original role as the vanguard of the working class in its struggle for true emancipation. 3. Alpine is a small but rapidly growing town in the foothills near the edge of the Cleveland National Forest, a vanguard settlement of one of San Diego's many suburban tendrils. 4. They are the vanguard of a social revolution and will have a huge influence on the shape of society in the next two decades. 5. Student activists abandoned conservative blue collar politics and proclaimed themselves the vanguard of social change. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Friends (1994) - S08E20 The One With the Baby Shower 💬 Monica: What you're doing to me now is just plain spiteful! Mrs. Green: Spiteful?! Monica: That’s right! Maybe it’s time you took a good hard look at a mirror young lady…old lady…lady! Phoebe: (To Monica) Wrap it up, wrap it up, wrap it up…

📚 Wrap up, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition (also wrap it up • British • informal • in imperative): Be quiet; stop talking or making a noise. ❗️ Examples: 1. Just wrap up, the pair of you! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Tomorrow is another day, phrase. ❓ Definition: Said after a bad experience to express one's belief that the future will be better. ❗️ Examples: 1. There's always hope because tomorrow is another day. 2. Who knows, tomorrow is another day and you never know what is going to come in the door. 3. Take each day as it comes and at the end of the day, if things still aren't done, remember that tomorrow is another day. 4. This is just a phase, it will pass, now get some rest, tomorrow is another day! 5. Duncan is obviously disappointed, but tomorrow is another day for getting it right. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) 💬 ... malicious, cowardly... shittily written review and you shove it right the fuck up... your wrinkly... tight ass.

📚 Tight-arse, noun. ❓ Definition (informal): A person who spends as little money as possible; a miser. ❗️ Examples: 1. He's a notorious tight-arse and is always very hesitant about coughing up for anything. 2. When it comes to money, I’m a tight-ass who is at pains to avoid looking like one. 3. We wouldn't be able to get any free cider from him anyway. Why? Because he's a tight-arse. 4. Resenting not having any money is a waste of energy and will turn you into a tight-arse. 5. The survey found that 11% of people were "tight-arses" who spent an average £10 a year on gifts. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 The villain of the piece, phrase. ❓ Definition (British): The person or thing responsible for all of the trouble or harm in a particular situation. ❗️ Examples: 1. TV tends to be cast as the villain of the piece. 2. Holdsworth was the villain of the piece when he missed an open goal. 3. He thinks she's trying to make him out to be the villain of the piece. 4. The locked-up wife is transformed into the villain of the piece. 5. Jones, the villain of the piece to Americans, was an Australian. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Capoeira, noun. 🔉 /ˌkapʊˈeɪrə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A system of physical discipline and movement originating among Brazilian slaves, treated as a martial art and dance form. ❗️ Examples: 1. Joseph's - slow, formal, and pristinely beautiful - is based on the Brazilian martial arts form capoeira. 2. Washington incorporates a range of movement idioms - acrobatics, African dance, capoeira and social dancing - but always with an eye toward line, height and pinpoint accuracy. 3. It takes five minutes to absorb the sort of movement Elkins devises: a mix of modern dance, martial arts like aikido and capoeira, hip-hop, and maneuvers from contact improvisation. 4. He's also devoted to capoeira, a Brazilian martial art. 5. She even mixed in some capoeira, a martial art from Brazil. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic