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🎬 For Love or Money (1993) 💬 When it rains, it pours.

📚 It never rains but it pours, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Misfortunes or difficult situations tend to follow each other in rapid succession or to arrive all at the same time. ❗️ Examples: 1. I never had an injury before in my life, but it's true what they say about injuries, it never rains but it pours. 2. When this fact is added to the rule of thumb that it never rains but it pours and the received wisdom that bad news comes in threes, the omens point to a particularly uncomfortable trip when Edinburgh travel to Toulouse next weekend. 3. Farmers need little convincing at present of the truth of the saying that it never rains but it pours. 4. In terms of troubles, however, it would appear that in shintyland it never rains but it pours. 5. That was when Anderson was to learn that in Scotland it never rains but it pours. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Rampart, noun. 🔉 /ˈrampɑːt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (usually ramparts): A defensive wall of a castle or walled city, having a broad top with a walkway and typically a stone parapet. ❗️ Examples: 1. A castle with ramparts and a moat. 2. Take the track to the left of the castle ramparts, rounding small sewage works on its left. 3. This narrow headland was defended as a cliff castle with three stone ramparts across its neck. 4. It nestles just off the town square of Durrow, surrounded by the old rampart of the castle walls. 5. In a siege, the ramparts of the castle were often bombarded by large projectiles from catapults. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Life of Pi (2012) 💬 Keep busy but avoid unnecessary exertion.

📚 Exertion, noun. 🔉 /ɪɡˈzəːʃn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Physical or mental effort. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was panting with the exertion. 2. A well-earned rest after their exertions. 3. The physical and mental exertions on Sunday may take its toll. 4. Signs of mental and physical fatigue after midweek exertions manifested themselves in some sluggish play from O'Neill's men early on. 5. Hence, the intellectual, mental, moral and physical exertions will be greater. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Peep Show (2003) - S04E03 Gym 💬 Faint heart never won fair maid.

📚 Faint heart never won fair lady, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Timidity will prevent you from achieving your objective. ❗️ Examples: 1. Yes, awkward; yes, risky - but faint heart never won fair lady and all that. 2. "Faint heart never won fair lady," win the advice of a friend to Mr. Child, the son of a brewer, who sought the hand of the lady. 3. ‘Well, faint heart ne'er won fair maiden, or so the sayin’ goes Rennalt, ‘you had better make this one a good one‘. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 What Planet Are You From? (2000) 💬 Just a mild sedative, help keep you calm while you recuperate.

📚 Recuperate, verb. 🔉 /rɪˈkuːpəreɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Recover from illness or exertion. ❗️ Examples: 1. She has been recuperating from a knee injury. 2. Christmas is a time to recuperate. 3. The course is a programme of exercise for people with physical disabilities and for those new to exercise, recuperating from illness or injury, or requiring a specially devised programme. 4. When I was recuperating from a long illness last year, doctors advised me against using public transport. 5. Ellis had been recuperating from a serious illness when the wedding assignment happened. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Dad's Army (2016) 💬 Yes, they've been dragging their feet a bit lately.

📚 Drag one's feet, phrase. ❓ Definition: Be deliberately slow or reluctant to act. ❗️ Examples: 1. The government has dragged its heels over permanent legislation. 2. This rather seems to bear out his surmise… that they are deliberately dragging their heels. 3. However, they are issued under a voluntary code and the organisation said there had been thousands of cases where firms had dragged their heels, or simply refused to issue codes. 4. Nothing was too little trouble for me and I dragged my heels reluctantly, putting off necessary chores until the last possible moment and even deferring some for another day. 5. I fail to see why the association are dragging their heels on this. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Stygian, adjective. 🔉 /ˈstɪdʒɪən/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Relating to the River Styx in Greek mythology. ❗️ Examples: 1. The Stygian crypt. 2. The gleaming steel catches the sunlight, casting a play of sparkling reflections and shadows into the Stygian, subterranean depths. 3. The darkness of their hearts is infinite, Stygian - black as an adder, or Hitler's mustachios. 4. Shall thou, unburied, view the Stygian waters and the Furies' strong river, and unbidden draw near the bank? 5. The star-nosed mole, operating in the Stygian darkness of its burrow, can detect the presence of a tasty tidbit, such as an insect larva or tiny worm. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Machete Kills (2013) 💬 Where am I? Recuperating in my sumptuous healing pool right now.

📚 Sumptuous, adjective. 🔉 /ˈsʌm(p)tjʊəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Splendid and expensive-looking. ❗️ Examples: 1. The banquet was a sumptuous, luxurious meal. 2. It is one of the most stunning buildings in the Clyde Valley and clearly belongs to a bygone age of sumptuous extravagance. 3. Deep yellow-green, this has a sumptuous perfumed nose of rich tropical fruits. 4. The set pieces with full orchestral backing are sumptuous, rich collages of light and colour. 5. In this respect, there is a proverb that if a person with a warm heart gives a glass of cold water, it is really a sumptuous meal. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): You shouldn't criticize others when you have similar faults of your own. ❗️ Examples: 1. So people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, eh? 2. The shadow environment secretary said: ‘It's all very well criticising the failure of America to sign up to Kyoto, but people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. 3. Yes, it's an extremely derogatory term, and not one I would use myself, unless I'm angry of course, and even then I would feel uneasy (people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones). 4. One common test of abstraction is to explain what this means: ‘people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.’ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Viral, adjective. 🔉 /ˈvʌɪr(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of an image, video, piece of information, etc.) circulated rapidly and widely from one internet user to another. ❗️ Examples: 1. A viral ad campaign. 2. The video went viral and was seen by millions. 3. The resulting viral spread of hype ensured that their debut album became the fastest selling record in British history. 4. In fact the email is not viral, but the product of an online marketing initiative run by the e-card company. 5. Weblogs are a viral medium of expression, spread by contact with webloggers. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Next of kin, noun. ❓ Definition (treated as singular or plural): A person's closest living relative or relatives. ❗️ Examples: 1. The police notified the next of kin. 2. The driver's name was being withheld until police could notify next of kin. 3. People worried about who would be notified as their next of kin in case of medical emergency are being urged to carry a new card to avoid confusion. 4. He said next of kin would be notified before the man's identity was released. 5. The British embassy in Manila said it could not confirm details until it had notified the next of kin. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic