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📚 In one's birthday suit, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Naked. ❗️ Examples: 1. I wanna walk around in my birthday suit. 2. I told her that despite it being cooler than usual… I'm still sleeping in my birthday suit. 3. Women looked away and parents shielded their children's eyes as a foreigner with a receding hairline pranced on the New Delhi railway platform in his birthday suit. 4. And a foxy new foreign exchange student strolls around school in her birthday suit. 5. I had to strip off and stand shivering in my birthday suit in calf-high water while she helped me wash. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Three Kings (1999) 💬 Spirits are high and the music is boisterous.

📚 Boisterous, adjective. 🔉 /ˈbɔɪst(ə)rəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Noisy, energetic, and cheerful. ❗️ Examples: 1. A group of boisterous lads. 2. He is a boisterous, loud, energetic man, completely at odds with the surroundings. 3. He was noisy and boisterous and Bowyer said he moved away from them because of his behaviour. 4. He was surrounded by noisy and boisterous children as he sat motionless on his throne. 5. In 1756 he transferred across the road to Pembroke College, having found his Peterhouse neighbours boisterous and noisy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Predestination (2014) 💬 Hospital records, orphanage records, medical records... Been there, done that.

📚 Been there, done that, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Used to express past experience of or overfamiliarity with something. ❗️ Examples: 1. I've been there, done that, got the video and the T-shirt. 2. It sometimes just feels like I've been there, done that! 3. I've been there, done that - it's for the younger players. 4. Yes, when it comes to writing 50,000 word novels in a month, I've been there, done that, bought the t-shirt. 5. I can quite confidently say that I've been there, done that, and come back. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Caoutchouc, noun. 🔉 /ˈkaʊtʃʊk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Natural rubber that has not been vulcanized. ❗️ Examples: 1. The inflation process is also well-illustrated, ‘The balloon is composed of silk, varnished with the liquid gum caoutchouc.’ 2. Caoutchouc, as it exudes from the trees, is a milk-like emulsion, wherein globules of caoutchouc proper are suspended in a gummy solution. 3. By adding a concentrated acid, the conversion of isoprene into caoutchouc artificiel, or artificial rubber, was speeded up a lot. 4. After the action is thought to be complete the article acted upon is to be washed with water so as to remove the whole of the acid solution, and it will be found that the surface of the caoutchouc will resemble that of soft cloth. 5. From a chemical point of view rubber is a carbohydrate consisting of high molecular weight chains of 1,4-polyisoprene residues in cis-configuration (caoutchouc). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Grooming, noun. 🔉 /ˈɡruːmɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The practice of brushing and cleaning the coat of a horse, dog, or other animal. ❗️ Examples: 1. Regular grooming is essential to the well-being of your dog. 2. Wash your pet outdoors or talk to your veterinarian about professional pet grooming. 3. Shih Tzu can require careful daily grooming. 4. Unless a camper or owns a horse or pony, it's hard for riders to learn proper grooming, tacking, feeding, and equine first aid. 5. Proper grooming helps develop a bond between owner and horse and should never be neglected or rushed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Take for granted, phrase. ❓ Definition: Fail to properly appreciate (someone or something), especially as a result of overfamiliarity. ❗️ Examples: 1. The comforts that people take for granted. 2. The right to own land and other property is taken for granted in many countries. 3. Everything ran smoothly for the next two months, but I guess I took things for granted. 4. I know I took you for granted, expecting you always to be around when that's not possible. 5. The problem with being an All-Star is that good performances are taken for granted and people expect more. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ultramafic, adjective. 🔉 /ˌʌltrəˈmafɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Geology): Relating to or denoting igneous rocks composed chiefly of mafic minerals. ❗️ Examples: 1. Variably serpentinized Devonian mafic and ultramafic intrusive rocks occur in the western and northern parts of the map area. 2. A major source of iron, called iron laterite, is a type of residual deposit generated by the intense weathering of iron-rich rocks such as mafic and ultramafic volcanic rocks. 3. The provenance of the feldspar-bearing Crocker Formation and younger sandstones indicates a granitic source character, which conflicts with the abundance of mafic and ultramafic basement rocks exposed throughout much of Sabah. 4. Both Wadi Sikait and Regal Ridge classify as Type I emerald deposits, where Be-bearing quartz or pegmatite veins from a granitic pluton intruded Cr- or V-bearing mafic or ultramafic rocks. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Whizz-kid, noun. 🔉 /ˈwɪzkɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal): A young person who is outstandingly skilful or successful at something. ❗️ Examples: 1. A computer whizz-kid. 2. Aspiring computer whizz-kids will get the chance to learn from the experts. 3. Here, a team of young computer science whizz-kids are putting the finishing touches to Alex. 4. Now they're musicians, computer whiz-kids and heads of corporations. 5. The program features interviews with businessmen as diverse as toilet-seat designers, magazine editors and computer whiz-kids. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 My Dinner with Andre (1981) 💬 So the party just comes to a halt and breaks up.

📚 Grind to a halt, phrase. ❓ Definition: Gradually slow down or lose momentum and then stop altogether. ❗️ Examples: 1. In summer traffic all but grinds to a halt. 2. The surge of modernism finally seemed to grind to a halt. 3. It was roughly at this time I noticed that whenever I spoke emotionally, my speech came slower and slower until grinding to a halt. 4. Meanwhile, traffic ground to a halt on many major routes due to speed restrictions and fallen trees, police said. 5. By the time they drove two more blocks, traffic had ground to a halt. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ab urbe condita, adverb. ❓ Definition: After or from the date of the foundation of Rome, traditionally reckoned as 753 b.c. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Outstanding, adjective. 🔉 /aʊtˈstandɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Exceptionally good. ❗️ Examples: 1. The team's outstanding performance. 2. Nepal is also, of course, a country of outstanding natural beauty. 3. I understood this land was an area of outstanding natural beauty. 4. The Lake District National Park is an area of outstanding natural beauty that is protected for the benefit of the nation as a whole. 5. There is an area of outstanding natural beauty right on the doorstep and it is blocked off because of the dangerous stepping stones. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Second to none, phrase. ❓ Definition: The best, worst, fastest, etc. ❗️ Examples: 1. The group has a reputation that is second to none in the building industry. 2. The food was quite wonderful, the atmosphere perfect and the welcome second to none. 3. This is a country that's proven second to none when it comes to putting curling on the TV airwaves. 4. He worked harder than anyone and his course management was second to none. 5. The character design is second to none, and they've really taken advantage of the machine's strengths. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Carouse, verb. 🔉 /kəˈraʊz/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Drink alcohol and enjoy oneself with others in a noisy, lively way. ❗️ Examples: 1. They danced and caroused until the drink ran out. 2. The Middleton Guardian was told that up to 60 vandals regularly invade the grounds and spend the whole night drinking and carousing, leaving a trail of dangerous debris in their wake. 3. He looked weary and about three years older - like he had just spent an entire night carousing through Detroit and drinking to his heart's content. 4. He is a respectable businessman now but when we were young we terrorised Glasgow's nightclubs, drinking, carousing and doing a lot else I can't mention. 5. There was the opportunity to continue drinking and carousing, but I'd had enough. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Espionage, noun. 🔉 /ˈɛspɪənɑːʒ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information. ❗️ Examples: 1. The camouflage and secrecy of espionage. 2. Balzac pumped him for information on organised crime and political espionage. 3. He denied his detention had anything to do with politics or espionage. 4. The run for the presidency is no joke, rife with political chicanery, espionage and blackmail. 5. Even if espionage had taken place at Los Alamos, they argued, it had not mattered. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Evil Under the Sun (1982) 💬 Can you make it back to the hotel? In a flash. This thing's no problem.