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📚 In a flash, phrase. ❓ Definition: Very quickly; immediately. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was out of the back door in a flash. 2. I closed the door quickly and like a flash I was at the table filling my bag with the money once again. 3. They will sit on your rear bumper until they get a little bit of a straight road and then they are past you like a flash. 4. He was on to it like a flash, racing into the penalty area. 5. The cold was fierce and I was gone like a flash to get my woolies from the car before I got a dose of hypothermia. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Harlequin, noun. 🔉 /ˈhɑːlɪkwɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (also Harlequin) a mute character in traditional pantomime, typically masked and dressed in a diamond-patterned costume. ❗️ Examples: 1. Canio's character, Pagliaccio, catches his wife with the young Harlequin, played by the troupe's junior member, Beppe. 2. He mimed adults sneaking stares at him from behind menus in restaurants, little kids brazenly trying to pull off his harlequin's mask, or drivers doing double-takes as they passed in cars. 3. With a photocopied handout of a leering harlequin she explained the different shapes and colors that worked best. 4. The harlequin threw the baton over the translucent material, diving underneath and emerging on the other side to catch the silver rod, to gasps of awe from the spectators. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Reversal, noun. 🔉 /rɪˈvəːs(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A change to an opposite direction, position, or course of action. ❗️ Examples: 1. A dramatic reversal in population decline in the Alps. 2. The reversal of tidal currents. 3. The data therefore chronicle a dramatic reversal in the direction of invasion. 4. Clearly, such a reversal of the current course would not be achievable overnight. 5. The mayor's comments marked a reversal of his previous position on the issue. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Be in the know, phrase. ❓ Definition: Be aware of something known only to a few people. ❗️ Examples: 1. He had a tip from a friend in the know: the horse was a cert. 2. In today's information-based society, there are few things more infuriating than not being in the know. 3. Well, I used to pride myself as being in the know but I have heard nothing about this idea. 4. Essentially, one needs to be in the know to make the most of Berlin's nightlife. 5. But you have to be in the know to have access to the best-kept secret in showbiz. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ineluctable, adjective. 🔉 /ˌɪnɪˈlʌktəb(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable. ❗️ Examples: 1. The ineluctable facts of history. 2. Welfare improvement due to comparative advantage is a mechanistic outcome; no ineluctable policy prescription can be drawn solely on its basis. 3. In fact, if one accepts the argument above, the ineluctable conclusion is that Section 4 might actually facilitate the mandatory death sentence. 4. Of course, white-collar boxers have to get used the ineluctable fact that even the best fighters take their share of punches. 5. That was an ineluctable fact with which, on the day, the reasonable hypothetical purchaser was faced. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Respondent, noun. 🔉 /rɪˈspɒnd(ə)nt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A person who replies to something, especially one supplying information for a questionnaire or responding to an advertisement. ❗️ Examples: 1. Most respondents to our questionnaire considered their practices to be in accordance with current medical guidelines. 2. Always be clear about how you want respondents to indicate their replies when answering closed questions. 3. The questionnaire invited respondents to comment on each of the 31 indicators. 4. At two years follow up we sent a postal questionnaire to those respondents who had been free of forearm pain at baseline. 5. The cover letter explained that there were no codes that could be used to link a completed questionnaire to a particular respondent. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Every man has his price, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Everyone is open to bribery if the inducement offered is large enough. ❗️ Examples: 1. Last week he was appointed Senior manager there and it just goes to show that every man has his price. 2. I'm sure they have discovered it by now but aren't telling, but every man has his price. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Paschal, adjective. 🔉 /ˈpask(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (formal): Relating to Easter. ❗️ Examples: 1. For the New Year a sucking pig roasted was a delicacy worth waiting for and for Easter the paschal baby lamb or goat roasted whole on a spit is universally loved. 2. In the paschal event and the Eucharist that makes it present throughout the centuries, there is a truly enormous ‘capacity’ that embraces all of history. 3. Marriage, like all sacraments, is paschal to the core and consequently it is as much about dying as it is about new life. 4. In other words, Mary Magdalene is the first to celebrate what Christians now call the paschal mystery. 5. Reflection on its meaning can more easily occur without reference to the demands of the baptismal life or the existential revolution to which the paschal mystery points. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 V for Vendetta (2005) 💬 Tonight I give you my most solemn vow... that justice will be swift... it will be righteous... and it will be without mercy.

📚 Solemn, adjective. 🔉 /ˈsɒləm/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Characterized by deep sincerity. ❗️ Examples: 1. He swore a solemn oath to keep faith. 2. And, beyond logistics, Carlton was a public servant, bound by a solemn sworn duty to uphold the law. 3. After marrying Romola he wounds her deepest feelings by betraying her father's solemn trust. 4. Her voice grew serious and I could tell her face was taking on the unfamiliarity of really being solemn and genuine about something. 5. Those entering a civil partnership will not do so lightly, and are making a solemn commitment of partnership and mutual support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Let sleeping dogs lie, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Avoid interfering in a situation that is currently causing no problems but may well do so as a result of such interference. ❗️ Examples: 1. And God also seems to have the highest expectations of us, not settling for second-best or letting sleeping dogs lie. 2. So the Labor party is merely going along with the masses by letting sleeping dogs lie. 3. Somebody sent me an email that said this was all the fault of the U.S. because ‘we should have let sleeping dogs lie.’ 4. But then maybe it's best to let sleeping dogs lie. 5. I'll let sleeping dogs lie for a bit on that front. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Indite, verb. 🔉 /ɪnˈdʌɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (archaic • with object): Write; compose. ❗️ Examples: 1. He indites the wondrous tale of Our Lord. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Braveheart (1995) 💬 An oath to a liar is no oath at all.

📚 Oath, noun. 🔉 /əʊθ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A solemn promise, often invoking a divine witness, regarding one's future action or behaviour. ❗️ Examples: 1. They took an oath of allegiance to the king. 2. From early days the taking of solemn religious oaths was regarded as an essential part of the political and social order. 3. For a few moments the couple find themselves in church or in the registry office watched by their closest family and friends, publicly swearing what amounts to a solemn oath of allegiance to each other. 4. Each individual undergoing treatment takes a solemn oath to change their behavior. 5. The Gods witness oaths, and will take note of how the oath-taker regards that oath. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Let the cat out of the bag, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Reveal a secret carelessly or by mistake. ❗️ Examples: 1. Now that Viola had let the cat out of the bag, she had no option but to confess. 2. Gavin Anderson apologises to those in the know for letting the cat out of the bag about this secret haven. 3. So let the cat out of the bag: admit that what you're really up to is a satire on the state of arts funding. 4. The rather inappropriately named Defence Minister let the cat out of the bag by admitting that there isn't really a threat after all. 5. Two such academics were so upset by the broadcast they injudiciously let the cat out of the bag completely. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Almsgiving, noun. 🔉 /ˈɑːmzɡɪvɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): (in historical or religious contexts) the practice of giving money or food to poor people. ❗️ Examples: 1. Benevolence in the form of almsgiving was encouraged. 2. He was in charge of the care of church property and almsgiving. 3. There are three traditional focuses for our Lenten observance and they are prayer, fasting and almsgiving. 4. One dimension of Lent that tends to get pushed to the side is the practice of almsgiving. 5. The widow Sofia pleased God with her prayers, fasting, and almsgiving. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 True Grit (2010) 💬 Look here, if you let me go, I will swear to it in an affidavit and once you are brought to justice it may go easier on you.

📚 Affidavit, noun. 🔉 /ˌafɪˈdeɪvɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Law): A written statement confirmed by oath or affirmation, for use as evidence in court. ❗️ Examples: 1. A former employee swore an affidavit relating to his claim for unfair dismissal. 2. Would you read onto the record the affidavits that contain the evidentiary material that is before us? 3. When carrying out the enquiry the Court acts upon affidavits rather than oral evidence. 4. Although late in delivering the affidavits of documents the affidavits have now been delivered. 5. Put another way, it is the content of his affidavit or statement which determines the assertion. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic