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📚 Philtrum, noun. 🔉 /ˈfɪltrəm/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Anatomy): The vertical groove between the base of the nose and the border of the upper lip. ❗️ Examples: 1. A 37-year-old woman presented for evaluation of a scar on her philtrum. 2. Nothing makes a man more adorable than a well-shaped philtrum. 3. Nevertheless, early correction may be indicated because the prolabium usually contains more than enough tissue to create a philtrum of normal size. 4. The philtrum, on the upper lip, is bounded by ridges that run from under each nostril marking the fusion of the premaxilla and the lateral maxillary processes. 5. A flat or smooth philtrum can present in persons with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Prestige (2006) 💬 They'll beg you and flatter you for the secret, but as soon as you give it up, you'll be nothing to them.

📚 Flatter, verb. 🔉 /ˈflatə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Lavish praise and compliments on (someone), often insincerely and with the aim of furthering one's own interests. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was flattering him in order to avoid doing what he wanted. 2. He does not flatter me with compliments, which I know cannot be genuine. 3. Yes, that possibility is something I wondered about when men flattered me with comments about being cute, sweet and sexy. 4. An assistant professor of creative writing at Columbia University told Time magazine that he flatters his students in order to guarantee favorable evaluations. 5. Remember, when you compliment the trainee you also flatter the person who trained them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Garden State (2004) 💬 lf there's some sort of retarded Oscar, you would win hands down, kick his ass.

📚 Hands down, phrase. ❓ Definition: Easily and decisively. ❗️ Examples: 1. Swindon won hands down. 2. The envious look on my fellow competitors' faces reflected my own view: I was going to win this race hands down. 3. I will say hands down they are the most wondrous thing in the world I have ever seen. 4. McCrann has exhibited how superior intellect will defeat sloganeering hands down. 5. Aliens is hands down one of the most quotable movies of all time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Nubilous, adjective. 🔉 /ˈnjuːbɪləs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (rare): Clouded in appearance; foggy, misty. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Miss Sloane (2016) 💬 – There's no better way to butter up a parent than to tell him how hot his kids are. – On it.

📚 Butter up, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition (informal • butter someone up, butter up someone): Flatter or praise someone as a means of gaining their help or support. ❗️ Examples: 1. Don't try and butter me up in order to get privileged information. 2. ‘Magic Valley's industrial dairies try to butter us up with sweet talk and promises,’ the ad begins, ‘but the reality is as different as milk and molasses.’ 3. His strategy now is to frustrate Dookeran, muzzle Yetming and see if Jack can be buttered up. 4. ‘See, he phones people just to say hello, but he's only buttering you up so he can ask you favours later,’ he continued. 5. And if so, buttering them up in preparation for what? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 From time to time, phrase. ❓ Definition: Occasionally. ❗️ Examples: 1. Although he is now fluent in Bulgarian, Matt still confuses the odd word from time to time. 2. Chances are you won't get one, but I understand that you feel the need - we all do from time to time. 3. Place on a high heat and bring to the boil, stirring from time to time. 4. Friday night was one of those pleasant surprises the Internet throws my way from time to time. 5. Pack little surprises from time to time like stickers, a novelty pen or a joke. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Mise en scène, noun. 🔉 /ˌmiːz ɒ̃ ˈsɛn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (usually in singular): The arrangement of the scenery, props, etc. on the stage of a theatrical production or on the set of a film. ❗️ Examples: 1. She thereby denies a voice to that whole body of writing and associated theory that draws attention to itself in the space between page-based writing and the flesh-and-blood actor in the mise en scène. 2. In a chamber play that foregrounds the intimate relationship between language and the mise en scène, such moments of silence are both pronounced and telling. 3. The central task of the mise en scène is to place people in some context. 4. In such a case, the music, the staging and the mise en scène had better be up to more than an evocation of an outmoded theatricality. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Whistleblower (2010) 💬 But I will assert over and over again, I run a Zero Tolerance program... for that type of activity.

📚 Assert, verb. 🔉 /əˈsəːt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (reporting verb): State a fact or belief confidently and forcefully. ❗️ Examples: 1. The company asserts that the cuts will not affect development. 2. He asserted his innocence. 3. These types of beliefs, he asserts, are closely connected to languages and texts. 4. Neither does he explicitly assert that our natural beliefs are true. 5. I would however assert that the belief in absolute truth requires an attempt to follow it as best as possible. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Another Stakeout (1993) 💬 You'll be on it round the clock.

📚 Round the clock, phrase. ❓ Definition: All day and all night. ❗️ Examples: 1. I've got a team working round the clock. 2. Round-the-clock surveillance. 3. Meanwhile Glasgow City Council has pledged that staff will continue to work around the clock to ease road and footpath problems. 4. We fought around the clock and continued to support the Marines as they cleared houses. 5. The second day, we could have legitimately reported flights were taking off round the clock day and night. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Waka, noun. 🔉 /ˈwɑːkə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (New Zealand): A traditional Maori canoe. ❗️ Examples: 1. The waka, the spiritual image for the march, left Stewart Island for Bluff with its cargo of stories. 2. When our wakas originally came to Aotearoa and landed, the first thing our menfolk did was to walk the land and claim it, by leaving stone markers. 3. The hapu decided they would build their own waka, a canoe big enough to carry at least a dozen fishermen to sea. 4. After paying homage, looking around the museum, and looking again at the magnificent waka and the many treasures and taonga in the museum, we would then trot off to the Auckland Zoo. 5. Every 2 years, countries from all around the world unite to determine who are the best waka ama paddlers in the world, and next year it is being held here. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 30 Rock (2006) - S06E18 💬 My heyday was also the '90s.

📚 Heyday, noun. 🔉 /ˈheɪdeɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (usually one's heyday): The period of a person's or thing's greatest success, popularity, activity, or vigour. ❗️ Examples: 1. The paper has lost millions of readers since its heyday in 1964. 2. In its heyday, only 30 years ago, just under 1,000 trawlers operated from the port. 3. Over three million people walked through its door every year in its heyday before the war. 4. You have to go back 10 years, to the heyday of Radio 1, to find a station with a bigger audience. 5. In Fangio's heyday in the early years of the championship, survival was as notable as performance. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 My way or the highway, phrase. ❓ Definition (North American • informal): Said to assert the view that there is no alternative (apart from leaving) but to accept the speaker's opinions or policies. ❗️ Examples: 1. They know no way but the way of the autocrat — it's my way or the highway. 2. It's always the ultimatum, my way or the highway. 3. ‘Listen bud,’ she said as she leaned towards him, one arm on the table as she did so, ‘It's my way or the highway.’ 4. One former international summed up his approach to getting his plans through: ‘With Jim, it's always been my way or the highway.’ 5. When he first moved into coaching, I did fear for him because, in some ways, he could be old school and rather intolerant - my way or the highway. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic