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📚 Listless, adjective. 🔉 /ˈlɪs(t)ləs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of a person or their manner) lacking energy or enthusiasm. ❗️ Examples: 1. Bouts of listless depression. 2. On Sunday, they were listless throughout and the two goal winning margin is a flattering one from their perspective. 3. I was listless, too sick and weak to say much of anything to defend myself. 4. She was listless, helpless, but not suicidal, and used cocaine sporadically. 5. After seemingly endless weeks of constant commotion, they appear listless and lethargic. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Tired and emotional, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Used euphemistically to indicate that someone is drunk. ❗️ Examples: 1. Tired and emotional party people. 2. It has the added advantage that he tends to update it when leglessly tired and emotional, so value added humour is practically guaranteed. 3. A source told The Mirror, ‘They'd been at Studio 57 for an hour and a half and were both pretty tired and emotional when Charlotte wanted to move on.’ 4. Finally, somewhat tired and emotional, we ended up having a nightcap around 3am - some 12 hours after we started drinking - before retiring to bed. 5. Increasingly tired and emotional, Cochrane gave Wilson a demonstration of the art of the ‘Glasgow kiss’ - much to the amusement of all concerned. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Zooid, noun. ❓ Definition (Zoology): An animal arising from another by budding or division, especially each of the individuals which make up a colonial organism and typically have different forms and functions. ❗️ Examples: 1. The most integrated colonies behave like individual organisms, for the zooids making up the colony are all specialized for certain functions and connected to each other. 2. The individuals of the colony are called zooids and many zooids with individual siphonal openings cover the surface of the colony. 3. Even in the earliest stages of new growth, complete reversals in budding directions of zooids are evident. 4. These are marine bryozoans with tubular zooids with strongly calcified walls. 5. The feeding zooids use retractile tentacles, called the lophophore, to filter feed and have a U-shaped gut for digestion. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Trainspotting (1996) 💬 What a total fucking misnomer.

📚 Misnomer, noun. 🔉 /mɪsˈnəʊmə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A wrong or inaccurate use of a name or term. ❗️ Examples: 1. To call this ‘neighbourhood policing’ would be a misnomer. 2. The term ‘student work’ seems a misnomer here, given the clarity and maturity of her production. 3. The mistake is in a way only a misnomer, but terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion, and so it is here. 4. Unfortunately, this infamous misnomer was only the first of a series of mistakes made by the first foreigner to set eyes on the place: Hiram Bingham. 5. In the post-modern context, however, it would be a misnomer to use family in this sense. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A real live —, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Used to emphasize the existence or presence of something surprising or unusual. ❗️ Examples: 1. A real live detective had been at the factory. 2. I think there is a real live monkey living in my computer and he messes with my head by dealing me hands that cannot be won. 3. After three years I am actually taking a real live vacation where I pack a suitcase, get on a plane, and sleep in a hotel. 4. Have I ever shared with you my actual fear of real live trains? 5. He had the advantage of hearing some actual real live witnesses, I gather? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Churrasco, noun. 🔉 /tʃʊˈraskəʊ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A South American dish of steak barbecued over a wood or charcoal fire. ❗️ Examples: 1. An Argentine churrasco of peppered rib-eye steak with bacon. 2. As the dining public tries out new types of cuisine, whether it is Brazilian churrasco or Peruvian ceviche, they're likely to forego the usual Martini and inquire about traditional South American beverages. 3. Don't miss the Argentina-inspired churrasco of beef, a tender fillet served with a tangy chimichurri sauce (here made with basil instead of the usual parsley). 4. Their churrasco is fantastic, they have Brazilian beers and the music is great too. 5. His servants cooked up a delectable churrasco. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Solar Opposites (2020) - S01E01 The Matter Transfer Array 💬 ‐ Retail therapy, baby.

📚 Retail therapy, noun. ❓ Definition (humorous • mass noun): The practice of shopping in order to make oneself feel more cheerful. ❗️ Examples: 1. Stop for a reviving cafe au lait or a glass of wine before setting off for more retail therapy. 2. Today James Carleton guides us through that most untested of psychological self-help techniques - retail therapy. 3. We stood up, heading off into the busy town for some traditional retail therapy. 4. The town itself offers a multitude of upmarket shopping malls to explore retail therapy Malaysian style, alongside plenty of ethnic Chinese, Malay and Indian restaurants to try out local delicacies. 5. Now come on, slap some make up on and let's go do some retail therapy! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 No rest for the weary, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Used as a wry observation on the heavy workload or absence of relaxation that seem to characterize a person's situation. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Cygnet, noun. 🔉 /ˈsɪɡnɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A young swan. ❗️ Examples: 1. After hatching, parents led the cygnets to feeding grounds on lawns surrounding the lake or shallow water close to the shore. 2. Goslings graze with their parents out of the water whereas swans teach cygnets in the water to be aquatic feeders. 3. Congratulations and well done to the two English anglers who were fishing on Gills Pond recently and rescued a young cygnet that was in trouble. 4. The swans had three healthy cygnets that will leave the lake next year. 5. Six mute swans and cygnets and three foxes were found dead close to one another in Kilcoole some days ago. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Roller coaster, noun. ❓ Definition: A fairground attraction that consists of a light railway track which has many tight turns and steep slopes on which people ride in small, fast open carriages. ❗️ Examples: 1. A roller-coaster ride. 2. Jimmy and I liked fast rides like the roller coaster. 3. It felt like when you're riding a really fast roller coaster, only a hundred times worse. 4. But we rode a roller coaster in Toronto with her on the fairgrounds after the show. 5. My heart gave a little flutter and my stomach dropped like I was going down a steep hill on a roller coaster, or over train tracks in the car. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A watched pot never boils, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Time seems to drag endlessly when you're waiting for something to happen. ❗️ Examples: 1. Another way of putting it is: a watched pot never boils. 2. They say a watched pot never boils, so you might want to do something else at this point. 3. ‘Um, I hate to sound cliché, but I thought a watched pot never boils,’ Rachel said with interest. 4. While you're waiting (because a watched pot never boils, you know!) go outside and cut the culprits down to their crowns. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Hokum, noun. 🔉 /ˈhəʊkəm/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun • informal): Nonsense. ❗️ Examples: 1. They dismissed such corporate homilies as boardroom hokum. 2. That's bosh and hokum, and it does a disservice to the people. 3. It's surprising, then, how a couple of strangely touching notes toward the close redeem a work that boldly straddles the line between total hokum and the very stimulating. 4. There's too much of this kind of prima-donna diving going on in football already and to see a player of Kelly's outstanding calibre resort to that kind of hokum is as disappointing as it is pathetic. 5. Rarely a week goes by without similar flights of fantasy, the latest being some hokum about Prince William, the very mention of whose name is said to send sales of newspapers into the stratosphere. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Lamb, noun. 🔉 /lam/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A young sheep. ❗️ Examples: 1. More than 90% of the sheep were marked as lambs, and all rams were individually identifiable. 2. We are told that dogs are presently loose in the fields at night, and are a danger to the sheep and their young lambs. 3. A farmer has lost all his sheep, 300 lambs among them, shot by young men from Her Majesty's Armed Forces, whose sergeant had been reduced to hidden tears. 4. They are often seen soaring in search of carrion, but their diet also includes young goats and lambs. 5. Rumen's only source of income is from selling lambs and sheep. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Beggars can't be choosers, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): People with no other options must be content with what is offered. ❗️ Examples: 1. But my funds are getting down to the wire and so beggars can't be choosers… 2. I've had more glowing reviews, but beggars can't be choosers. 3. Sadly not a two-seater but beggars can't be choosers. 4. It was worth a lot more but beggars can't be choosers. 5. This is going to be a little messier than I like, but beggars can't be choosers. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Rathskeller, noun. 🔉 /ˈrɑːtsˌkɛlə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (US): A beer hall or restaurant in a basement. ❗️ Examples: 1. I was there prowling for pierogies last week, and that's how we ended up in a rathskeller of a place called the Polish Village Café. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Mutton, noun. 🔉 /ˈmʌt(ə)n/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The flesh of fully grown sheep used as food. ❗️ Examples: 1. A leg of mutton. 2. Beef, mutton, pork and venison were common meats, and communities close to the coast could expect to widen their diets with fish and shellfish. 3. The dinner would consist of roast beef, roast mutton, roast pork, and vegetables, plum puddings, Christmas cake, and tea, and would be served to about 1,200 poor people. 4. The document reveals that the bishop's menu would have included a range of meats, from mutton and beef to veal, geese, rabbit, duck and lamb. 5. Meat pies, joints of mutton, and other hearty foods are most likely to be served. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic