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📚 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

📚 Subgum, noun. 🔉 /ˈsʌbɡʌm/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Cooking): In Chinese cuisine: a dish consisting of a mixture of vegetables, such as water chestnuts, broccoli, mushrooms, bean sprouts, etc., and sometimes also including meat or sea food. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Tempt, verb. 🔉 /tɛm(p)t/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Entice or try to entice (someone) to do something that they find attractive but know to be wrong or unwise. ❗️ Examples: 1. There'll always be someone tempted by the rich pickings of poaching. 2. Jobs which involve entertaining may tempt you to drink more than you intend. 3. Sometimes, he says, the bad spirits tempt him to do wrong. 4. Their main goal in life is to entice and tempt men. 5. She tempts him to drink and he loses his precious manuscript. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @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

📚 Subsequent, adjective. 🔉 /ˈsʌbsɪkw(ə)nt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Coming after something in time; following. ❗️ Examples: 1. The theory was developed subsequent to the earthquake of 1906. 2. Had they existed at any time subsequent to their split in 1983, they would have been big. 3. The theft of the items could have been subsequent to the murder and not the reason for it, for example. 4. Mr Milford's conviction has subsequent to the hearing been quashed and a retrial ordered. 5. This comes subsequent to Ganguly appointing two lawyers to handle his appeal. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @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

📚 Viscid, adjective. 🔉 /ˈvɪsɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Having a glutinous or sticky consistency. ❗️ Examples: 1. The viscid mucus lining of the intestine. 2. It is not difficult to imagine that once pleural fluid has turned into frank pus, which is viscid and sticky, that simply removing loculations will not necessarily lead to efficient drainage. 3. The development of sticky viscid silk is thought to be an important evolutionary innovation as that silk is more effective at snagging passing insects than the non-sticky variety. 4. Phlegm is motionless, viscid, sticky, heavy, inert, cold, soft, and white. 5. Finally, a variety of invertebrates secrete viscid secretions as part of a reported ‘duo-gland’ adhesion. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010) 💬 I am really sorry that your family got massacred.

📚 Massacre, verb. 🔉 /ˈmasəkə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Deliberately and brutally kill (many people) ❗️ Examples: 1. Thousands were brutally massacred by soldiers. 2. In retaliation to killings of northerners in the South, the military rulers massacred thousands of southerners and many were brutally tortured. 3. We would massacre their cities, killing woman and children, and they would do the same. 4. Then criminal responsibility would in fact be much clearer than it would be if soldiers had massacred civilians in violation of orders. 5. In the later stages of the campaign, we know the citizens of these villages were killed and massacred and buried in mass graves. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @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

📚 Esemplastic, adjective. 🔉 /ˌɛsɛmˈplastɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (rare): Moulding into one; unifying. ❗️ Examples: 1. Coleridge defines imagination as the esemplastic power. 2. There are other novelists who seem to be able to remake themselves drastically from one novel to the next, and can find any number of grooves for their ‘esemplastic’ (Coleridge's wonderful word) genius. 3. ‘Picturesque associationism and the ‘esemplastic’ romantic imagination here replace the empirical obsession of eighteenth-century travel writing’. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Earthquake, noun. 🔉 /ˈəːθkweɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A sudden violent shaking of the ground, typically causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action. ❗️ Examples: 1. When it came to measuring these big earthquakes, the Richter scale fell short. 2. Nine on the Richter scale indicates an earthquake of absolutely awesome destructive power. 3. This is one of the most destructive earthquakes of the twentieth century. 4. They are subject to periodic earthquakes and volcanic activity that can destabilize them. 5. Tsunamis are waves formed when huge masses of water are displaced by undersea volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Every now and then, phrase. ❓ Definition: From time to time; occasionally. ❗️ Examples: 1. I used to see him every now and then. 2. Only the occasional deadpan one liner leaks out every now and again. 3. Perhaps it's healthy to have a kick in the teeth like that every now and then. 4. The Chief Minister encouraged a little spoken of question that comes up every now and then. 5. The muse may crave a spot of deprivation and misery every now and then to spark the old imagination, but there are limits. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Hieroglyphic, noun. 🔉 /hʌɪrəˈɡlɪfɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (hieroglyphics): Writing consisting of hieroglyphs. ❗️ Examples: 1. Without the Rosetta Stone, it is likely that Egyptian hieroglyphics would still be a mystery. 2. But of course the great intellectual barrier that Champollion had to overcome was this long-held assumption that hieroglyphics were just picture writing. 3. Ancient Egyptians developed a pictographic and ideographic writing system known as hieroglyphics. 4. Some think that since the Egyptians were such a close, rigid society that they invented the form of writing called hieroglyphics, but that is simply not true. 5. This was well before the discoveries which were used to argue a universal Stone Age for humanity, and before the decipherment of ancient scripts such as hieroglyphics and cuneiform. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Legislation, noun. 🔉 /lɛdʒɪsˈleɪʃ(ə)n/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Laws, considered collectively. ❗️ Examples: 1. Housing legislation. 2. Those are the words that are used in sections of this type in a great deal of legislation. 3. This had made them exempt from certain legislation that does not apply to the Crown. 4. Many of these provisions may make sense if they are placed in ordinary legislation. 5. The legislation made the occupier liable and this was held to include the receiver. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 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