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📚 Curiosity killed the cat, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Being inquisitive about other people's affairs may get you into trouble. ❗️ Examples: 1. Defending, he said: ‘This is a case where curiosity killed the cat.’ 2. Stuffed as we were, however, curiosity killed the cat - and it very nearly took us with it as we recklessly agreed to share a devilled chocolate brownie with vanilla ice cream. 3. I won't reveal any more of the plot than that, but if there's a moral to this story, it's that old truism that says that curiosity killed the cat. 4. Didn't your mother ever tell you curiosity killed the cat? 5. That's awfully mean of you to tease me like that - curiosity killed the cat, you know. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 L.A. Confidential (1997) 💬 Our justice must be swift... .

📚 Swift, adjective. 🔉 /swɪft/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Happening quickly or promptly. ❗️ Examples: 1. A remarkably swift recovery. 2. Her eyes quickly made a swift sweep of the people in the room. 3. With his domestic problems and this illness, we all pray for a swift recovery. 4. If Myles is reading this, hope the op went well and wish a swift recovery, looking forward to getting you back on the golf course. 5. But following a swift Labour recovery, little has been heard of the pebbledash people. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005) - S09E07 The Gang Gets Quarantined 💬 Oh, I'm-I'm sick as a dog already.

📚 As sick as a dog, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Extremely ill. ❗️ Examples: 1. You were as sick as a dog when you ate those shrimps. 2. I have been sick as a dog - still have the bronchitis going, but the worst part is an unbelievably sore throat - so bad that I literally cannot swallow, talk, etc. 3. What amazed me was he was sick as a dog, but if a school was coming the next day, he'd put on his suit and get out there. 4. I've spent the last week trying to do as little as possible, because I've been sick as a dog. 5. At times, when I was lying on my hospital bed being pumped full of chemotherapy drugs that made me as sick as a dog and caused my hair to fall out, I used to close my eyes and dream I was somewhere else. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 💬 We will then crush the rebellion with one swift stroke.

📚 Rebellion, noun. 🔉 /rɪˈbɛljən/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: An act of armed resistance to an established government or leader. ❗️ Examples: 1. The authorities put down a rebellion by landless colonials. 2. The Bretons rose in rebellion against the King. 3. There was indeed a subjective factor: a national consciousness expressed in several armed rebellions in defence of the Fueros. 4. It was filled with murderous conquests, hate, rebellions, and revolutions. 5. For now, there hasn't been any report on any uprisings or rebellions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Under the weather, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Slightly unwell or in low spirits. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was sufficiently under the weather to have to pull out of the championship. 2. He's been under the weather since he's been on his own. 3. I feel sick, have a painful headache and feel a bit under the weather, but I know that if I push myself and get out of bed I will feel better. 4. And every time I go for a stroll by the river when I'm feeling a bit under the weather, I come back home wondering why I felt so poorly in the first place. 5. So I'm more than a bit under the weather at present. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) 💬 I didn't mean to do a mutiny.

📚 Mutiny, noun. 🔉 /ˈmjuːtɪni/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: An open rebellion against the proper authorities, especially by soldiers or sailors against their officers. ❗️ Examples: 1. A mutiny by those manning the weapons could trigger a global war. 2. The crew were on the verge of mutiny. 3. The Philippine government on Tuesday set up a commission to investigate a mutiny by junior military officers and enlisted personnel over the weekend. 4. Gulliver's own sailors declare a mutiny on his power and tie him up, conspiring against him, making him their prisoner. 5. The mutiny of the sailors at Kronstadt near Petrograd in March 1921 triggered a change in general policy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 What goes around comes around, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): The consequences of one's actions will have to be dealt with eventually. ❗️ Examples: 1. And it's a powerful belief, offering both hope to the oppressed - suffering cannot last forever - and a warning to the oppressor - take care, what goes around comes around. 2. Watford were on the receiving end of some decisions tonight as we were on Saturday, so what goes around comes around. 3. But although I strive daily to do the right thing - believing firmly in the karmic law that what goes around comes around - I've never, ever aspired to returning to earth as the Dalai Lama. 4. I have no idea what makes someone go to those lengths, but I believe what goes around comes around and she has got what she deserved. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Mr. Holmes (2015) 💬 My study is my sanctum sanctorum.

📚 Sanctum sanctorum, noun. 🔉 /saŋ(k)ˈtɔːrəm/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (humorous): A very private or highly secret place or area of activity. ❗️ Examples: 1. The sanctum sanctorums of foreign policy. 2. Equally striking was that he earned the warmest welcome from the audience, which in its front ranks was composed of Cabinet ministers and diplomats, with the general public to the rear, beyond the sanctum sanctorum of the VIP area. 3. Now for Cola companies to allow those lucky few winners to enter the game's arena during the course of a match violates one its sanctum sanctorum. 4. With the cameras of the world focused on it, St. Peter's has become the sancta sanctorum of the digital world. 5. The sancta sanctorum, guarded by three sad-looking security staffers, is the podium, where I count roughly one hundred seats. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Where there's a will there's a way, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Determination will overcome any obstacle. ❗️ Examples: 1. I know it will be difficult but where there's a will there's a way. 2. There would be a problem playing all those games but where there's a will there's a way. 3. As they say, where there's a will there's a way, and if anything can be read into Sunday's game, and its scintillating finish, the will is certainly strong in Galway and Kerry. 4. The problem for the fixtures board might be finding an alternative but where there's a will there's a way. 5. It seems to me that in politics, as in life, where there's a will there's a way. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Fuss, noun. 🔉 /fʌs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A display of unnecessary or excessive excitement, activity, or interest. ❗️ Examples: 1. I don't know what all the fuss is about. 2. ‘There is no room in my life for drugs, fights, divorce, adultery, sadism, unnecessary fuss and sex,’ he says now. 3. That was the whole dream - no excitement, no fuss, no great drama. 4. She appeared bored, and I knew she thought I was making a lot of unnecessary fuss. 5. A lot of unnecessary fuss is being created about the registration procedure required under the bill. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Condemn, verb. 🔉 /kənˈdɛm/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Express complete disapproval of; censure. ❗️ Examples: 1. Most leaders roundly condemned the attack. 2. The plan was condemned by campaigners. 3. Needless to say, Rampersad was roundly condemned and his plan is probably gathering dust somewhere in the archives. 4. Campaigners have condemned the Government's plans, with non-food pubs exempt from restrictions, as ‘half measures’. 5. All such diabolic, yet cowardly actions must be severely condemned, censured and deterred with steeled resolve and equally resolute counteraction. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Take a back seat, phrase. ❓ Definition: Take or be given a less important position or role. ❗️ Examples: 1. In future he would take a back seat in politics. 2. Yet the majority of the book emphasizes dinosaur osteology, systematics, and the fossil record; paleobiology takes a back seat to this important foundation. 3. But she piled on the pounds after the birth of her son, George, nine months ago and singing took a back seat as her confidence dwindled. 4. The role of the citizen is taking a back seat to decisions being made about our communities and the environment. 5. Was love more important than wealth or did romance take a back seat to social climbing? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) 💬 He spoke long and earnestly until the baboon began to pay attention.