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📚 The end justifies the means, phrase. ❓ Definition: Wrong or unfair methods may be used if the overall goal is good. ❗️ Examples: 1. We excuse our greed by claiming that the end justifies the means. 2. I understand that for them the end justifies the means, but I can't help worrying about where society will eventually draw the line. 3. A career cop who followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, he believes the end justifies the means. 4. But I still cannot believe in the idea that the end justifies the means. 5. When it comes to winning arguments, they seem to think that the end justifies the means and that truth is an irrelevance. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Syncope, noun. 🔉 /ˈsɪŋkəpi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun • Medicine): Temporary loss of consciousness caused by a fall in blood pressure. ❗️ Examples: 1. Decreased cerebral perfusion may cause impaired consciousness and syncope. 2. Patients usually have no symptoms, but if the pause is prolonged, they may have light-headedness, palpitations, syncope, and falls. 3. In patients without focal neurologic symptoms and signs, syncope from cerebrovascular disease is extremely rare. 4. Cardiac arrhythmias or syncope clearly associated with a fall should be treated with antiarrhythmics or a pacemaker in consultation with a cardiologist. 5. Chest radiographs were available for 364 of 401 patients who presented with syncope or hypotension. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Pull out, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition: (of a bus or train) leave with its passengers. ❗️ Examples: 1. The train pulled out of the station at 2.05. 2. Corinne and I managed to choose a carriage with a bunch of Geordie blokes who started drinking as soon as the train pulled out of the station, at about half ten in the morning. 3. When every man was in possession of two bottles of Tiger beer, the train pulled out of Nagpur Station to continue the five-day journey. 4. The doors closed and the train pulled out of the station. 5. As the train pulled out of Winchester, he staggered to his feet and zig-zagged down the carriage to the toilet. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 The mother of all ——, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): An extreme example or very large specimen of a specified thing. ❗️ Examples: 1. I got stuck in the mother of all traffic jams. 2. Perhaps, the cricket coaches and psychologists should speak to them about how to motivate the team to win the mother of all cricketing contests. 3. I look around to see, watching me, two glass bead eyes stitched onto the mother of all big handbags. 4. Next, the restaurant lays out the mother of all meals, a Royal Thai degustation feast. 5. They are the mother of all prawns and fetch handsome prices for those who net them from the wild. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Sinsyne, adverb. 🔉 /sɪnˈsʌɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Scottish, British • dialect): Since then; from or after that time. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Pull up, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition: (of a vehicle) come to a halt. ❗️ Examples: 1. He pulled up outside the cottage. 2. If I remember correctly, it was the sound of the ice-cream van pulling up outside my house. 3. She was gobsmacked when the limo pulled up outside her home in Tattershall, Toothill. 4. When a police vehicle pulls up youngsters hide in the bushes. 5. Then I heard cars, and I turned to see a caravan of vehicles pulling up behind mine. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 One can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): One cannot accomplish something without adverse effects elsewhere. ❗️ Examples: 1. Just as surely as you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, you can't build a fairer society without challenging wealth and power. 2. However, as Lenin said, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. 3. Robespierre was dead right, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, however I have noticed that politicians can never improve the world without killing a fair amount of the inhabitants which is what Robespierre had just done. 4. He used to say ‘I put my money on Stalin,’ and dismissed Stalin's mass murder with the quip, ‘you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.’ 5. Those arguing that this is just how modern warfare is waged, and that ‘you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs ’, should note that it is only the US that behaves like this. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Föhn, noun. 🔉 /fəːn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (often the föhn): A hot southerly wind on the northern slopes of the Alps. ❗️ Examples: 1. The Valais is sheltered by the alps and, like south east Switzerland, benefits particularly from the föhn. 2. As for the foehn of yesterday there was enough ascent to condense out the humidity content and to produce a very dry, warm Föhn-storm north of the Alps. 3. In addition, foehn winds, warm dry winds coming off the lee slopes of a mountain range, heated the basin. 4. Foehn events occurred with above-average frequency and high diversity. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Derogatory, adjective. 🔉 /dɪˈrɒɡət(ə)ri/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Showing a critical or disrespectful attitude. ❗️ Examples: 1. She tells me I'm fat and is always making derogatory remarks. 2. The people who made the derogatory remarks were a group whose tongues may have been loosened by drink. 3. I was disappointed that he had to resort to derogatory and intolerant remarks to try to be funny. 4. People have lost their jobs over derogatory remarks made in blogs, but can you be sued for libel or defamation? 5. A nightclub boss has been suspended following an allegation over a racially derogatory remark. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A tough nut to crack, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): A difficult problem or an opponent that is hard to beat. ❗️ Examples: 1. He should prove a tough nut to crack over tomorrow's extended three miles. 2. Japan has proved a tough nut for Microsoft's console division to crack. 3. Nine-year-olds are tough nuts to crack, as Peter Loraine, head of marketing at S Club Juniors' label Polydor, points out. 4. Now they, like the rest of Europe, are tough nuts to crack. 5. Upgrading a module that combines PHP with SQL is a tougher nut to crack, and it seems as though the XOOPS people have done an admirable job. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Descant, noun. ❓ Definition (Music): An independent treble melody sung or played above a basic melody. ❗️ Examples: 1. Jacques told me that everyone was in such awe when I sang it, no one would sing the descant while I was at college. 2. During the descant finale, however, instinct won out. 3. In some hymnals a descant is provided for the refrain. 4. The song is presented in three arrangements - in three parts with descant, in one part with a descant and in three parts without a descant and there is also a recording of the instrumental backing without singers. 5. A soaring girl soprano descant adds another heavenly layer to the already rich texture. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Grasp, verb. 🔉 /ɡrɑːsp/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Seize and hold firmly. ❗️ Examples: 1. She grasped the bottle. 2. Edward grasped her by the wrist. 3. Her eyes pleaded with him, her hand still firmly grasping his. 4. Still firmly grasping Ethan by the arm, Giles propelled him to Melissa's side. 5. John grasped Rob firmly by the wrist and moved toward the door. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A shoulder to cry on, phrase. ❓ Definition: Someone who listens sympathetically to someone's problems. ❗️ Examples: 1. He was a fatherly shoulder to cry on when the going was tough. 2. I mean, where's the harm in a guy wanting a drinking buddy, a shoulder to cry on and a sympathetic ear? 3. Both of them said if I ever needed anything - a shoulder to cry on, an ear to listen - to call them. 4. They offer us a shoulder to cry on and place a comforting arm around our shoulders to lighten the burden of sorrow and misfortune. 5. Mrs O'Toole is a shoulder to cry on for her customers and has experience in talking about the most sensitive subjects. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Kowtow, verb. 🔉 /kaʊˈtaʊ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Act in an excessively subservient manner. ❗️ Examples: 1. She didn't have to kowtow to a boss. 2. He didn't kowtow to anyone, said what he pleased, dressed as he pleased. 3. He is grateful for it, but he is not going to kowtow to anybody. 4. Must we forever kowtow to US imperialism and be treated like the illegitimate children of the global economy? 5. But at the same time, they're not going to kowtow to the defense either. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Fall out, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition: (of the hair, teeth, etc.) become detached and drop out. ❗️ Examples: 1. The chemotherapy made my hair fall out. 2. They seemed to be no better off than their subjects, with hair and teeth falling out and sores like burns on bare faces and hands. 3. And my hair is falling out, I have sores in my mouth, my teeth ache - my whole body aches! 4. He said that his strong character was tested at the upper school when his hair completely fell out, a condition which is believed to be hereditary in the family. 5. But Val said her lowest point was when her hair fell out. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 When one's ship comes in, phrase. ❓ Definition: When one's fortune is made. ❗️ Examples: 1. The right honourable gentleman opposite is a very naughty man, and he will laugh on the other side of his face when my ship comes in. 2. She's the kind of real life gal who'll buy you a beer, let you cry on her shoulder and be the first one to give you a high-five when your ship comes in. 3. Uptown girl, you know I can't afford to buy her pearls, but maybe someday when my ship comes in, she'll understand what kind of guy I am. 4. But my worst fear - echoing my elder daughter's prediction that ‘Dad, when your ship comes in you'll be at the airport!’ 5. I remember hearing my parents talk about how much better life would be when their ship came in, but I never knew whether or not they really expected it to happen. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic