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📚 Make ends meet, phrase. ❓ Definition: Earn just enough money to live on. ❗️ Examples: 1. They were finding it hard to make ends meet. 2. Some want to make enough money to make ends meet; others want money for extras or just a way to stay busy. 3. Liz and Nick were always out to work but they barely had enough money to make ends meet. 4. This will lead to loss of trade to the shopkeepers who are all having a hard enough time to make ends meet as it is. 5. By doing some casual work, like designing computer software, he has managed to make both ends meet and has enough left over to invest in his bicycle journeys. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Negligence, noun. 🔉 /ˈnɛɡlɪdʒ(ə)ns/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Failure to take proper care over something. ❗️ Examples: 1. His injury was due to the negligence of his employers. 2. Any casualty due to their negligence must be put up for a PIL and proper compensation demanded. 3. We cannot just say it was not negligence without a proper investigation. 4. Death due to negligence occurred in one per cent of this group. 5. The bus fell into the river due to negligence of the driver. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Above and beyond, phrase. ❓ Definition: In excess of the expectations or demands of. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was always there to help us out in difficult times, above and beyond the call of duty. 2. And just ahead are our weekly tribute to a member of our Armed services who served above and beyond the call of duty. 3. She has been my campaign manager for three elections, and has served above and beyond the call of duty. 4. She said she appreciated their passion and their concern even above and beyond the official job. 5. No words can do justice to their efficiency, thoroughness, and all-around human compassion above and beyond the call of duty. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ballyhoo, noun. 🔉 /ˌbalɪˈhuː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal • mass noun): Extravagant publicity or fuss. ❗️ Examples: 1. After all the ballyhoo, the film was a flop. 2. The ballyhoo with which the film has been received has to be attributed, at least in part, to the impoverishment of field from which it springs. 3. There has been a lot of ballyhoo about all these developments, but it is worth noting that these deals will be worthless unless new legislation is passed to modernise the law on casinos. 4. With loud hurrahs from appropriate quarters and much general ballyhoo, my friend went along to that victory parade in London. 5. Admittedly, he owes his fame largely to the media ballyhoo, but he's fed and clothed by the readers who have bought his books. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 IKR, abbreviation. ❓ Definition (informal): I know, right? (used to express agreement or empathy) ❗️ Examples: 1. IKR. I was excited for this too. 2. IKR? It's so not fair. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Slippery slope, phrase. ❓ Definition: A course of action likely to lead to something bad or disastrous. ❗️ Examples: 1. He is on the slippery slope towards a life of crime. 2. This leads them down a slippery slope until, at the end of the play, they ‘tear each other's throats out’. 3. Not me, evidently: and so my first step was taken on that slippery slope leading down to a kind of gentle madness. 4. Critics say the law would be a slippery slope leading to anti-abortion laws in Canada. 5. In the very least, it is part of the slippery slope that has led to dislocation, desperation and even despair. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Rosolio, noun. 🔉 /rə(ʊ)ˈzəʊlɪəʊ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A sweet cordial made in Italy from alcohol, raisins, sugar, rose petals, cloves, and cinnamon. ❗️ Examples: 1. Rosolio liqueurs. 2. Originally the Italian cordial rosolio was prepared wholly from the juice of the plant. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Drink-driving, noun. 🔉 /ˌdrɪŋkˈdrʌɪvɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (British • mass noun): The offence of driving a vehicle with an excess of alcohol in the blood. ❗️ Examples: 1. He recently served a four-month sentence for drink-driving. 2. French police found that Paul was over the legal limit for drink-driving at the time of the crash. 3. At the time of the chase, he was on bail for drink-driving and driving while banned. 4. He has been released on bail, pending analysis of a blood sample, for drink-driving. 5. They will contact the police immediately if someone fails to stop or are suspected of committing a crime such as drink-driving. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Turn traitor, phrase. ❓ Definition: Betray a group or person. ❗️ Examples: 1. She'd had the gall to deny she had turned traitor. 2. But there were other, subtler ways of turning traitor, and he felt her coming absence, looming two afternoons a week, as proof of that. 3. One of the key prosecution witnesses at his trial was a trusted comrade who had turned traitor. 4. Others have turned traitor, switching allegiances from synthesisers to guitars. 5. Friends turn traitor and fellow countrymen become the enemy in a war-torn world where the old rules are worthless. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Apparatus, noun. 🔉 /ˌapəˈreɪtəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The technical equipment or machinery needed for a particular activity or purpose. ❗️ Examples: 1. Firemen wearing breathing apparatus. 2. There would also be more discussions on matters such as better emergency training and equipment, including breathing apparatus for rail staff and the strengthening of drivers' cabs. 3. They will be wearing breathing apparatus and protective equipment. 4. We were then shown all the various equipment, apparatus and tools aboard the engines, which have to be checked and cleaned daily. 5. Brigade policy is that all facial hair must be within the empty space of a face mask and must not interfere with the wearing of breathing apparatus by coming into contact with the rubber surround. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Overboard, adverb. 🔉 /ˈəʊvəbɔːd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: From a ship into the water. ❗️ Examples: 1. The severe storm washed a man overboard. 2. Three of these massive steel containers were lost overboard in the water of Man last November and only one has been recovered. 3. Aft of the galley is a head with an integral shower with sump to discharge shower water overboard. 4. The boat's French skipper was still missing last night and is believed to have been washed overboard on Friday. 5. He was seen tossing deckchairs into the water to give people who had already jumped overboard something to cling to. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Casino Royale (2006) 💬 Give our guests five minutes to leave... or throw them overboard.

📚 Trip the light fantastic, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Dance, in particular engage in ballroom dancing. ❗️ Examples: 1. They enjoyed a four-course dinner, charity auction and a dance band so they could trip the light fantastic. 2. They are great fans of this style of dancing and trip the light fantastic each Thursday night to keep in practice. 3. She tap-dances and trips the light fantastic in a couple of big-production numbers, wearing a Gloria Swanson-style wig and fabulous frocks. 4. In recent years, ‘6O's nights’ have become very popular, bringing out some not so young rockers for a nostalgic night of tripping the light fantastic. 5. Many who attended the festival in those years have still remained fans and those same drama fans, who were big on dancing, are more at ease in the seats at a play than tripping the light fantastic in earlier years. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Rufescent, adjective. 🔉 /ruːˈfɛsnt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mainly literary): Tinged with red. ❗️ Examples: 1. The plumage nearly lacks gray or rufescent tones, and the undertail coverts have much paler bases that contrast less with the tips. 2. The Panama Canal watershed boasts 560 bird species including the rufescent tiger heron and chestnut-mandibled toucan. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Longest Ride (2015) 💬 The work is circa 1963.

📚 Circa, preposition. 🔉 /ˈsəːkə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (often preceding a date) approximately. ❗️ Examples: 1. The church was built circa 1860. 2. The ancient church dates to circa 1000 AD and is the oldest standing building in the parish of Aghamore. 3. He discovered a settlement dating back to the early bronze age, circa 2000 BC, in Warburton. 4. Mountmellick courthouse was built circa 1840 and served the town for close on a century and a half. 5. For some reason we were discussing Coronation Street, and I quoted my favourite line, circa 1966. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 True Grit (2010) 💬 The particulars is that we bring Chaney down to the magistrate in San Saba, Texas, where they have a considerable reward on offer, which we split.

📚 On offer, phrase. ❓ Definition: Available. ❗️ Examples: 1. The number of permanent jobs on offer is relatively small. 2. In Britain it is a few hundred pounds and that can be quickly withdrawn if you don't accept one of the jobs on offer. 3. He and the other sporting figures will tell young people about the wealth of jobs on offer in sport. 4. The event organised by the Department of Tourism had the right mix of fare on offer. 5. Spot prizes will be on offer at the function and the organisers appeal for support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic