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📚 As plain as the nose on someone's face, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Very obvious. ❗️ Examples: 1. I knew what he was up to — it was as plain as the nose on his face. 2. He explained why he chose him: ‘That was a decision I felt had to be made as plain as the nose on my face - and that's fairly apparent.’ 3. What's the point of saying something that is as plain as the nose on your face? 4. After eliminating the impossibilities, the master of deduction explained, he had been left with one simple irrevocable conclusion, as plain as the nose on one's face. 5. After the verdict was handed down, the press were talking to the jurors, interviewing the jury, and the one juror said Michael's innocence was as plain as the nose on his face. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Son of Zorn (2016) - S01E05 💬 Complimentary fried hay.

📚 Complimentary, adjective. 🔉 /kɒmplɪˈmɛnt(ə)ri/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Given or supplied free of charge. ❗️ Examples: 1. A complimentary bottle of wine. 2. You will get a complimentary bottle of California wine and your service charge is waived in the Traveler. 3. At most, I could get a complimentary bottle of wine, but inspiration came free, he said. 4. Each sponsor will be proved with two complimentary tickets for the show, valued at €10 each. 5. The hotel had no notification of our complimentary tickets. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 From the bottom of one's heart, phrase. ❓ Definition: Very sincerely. ❗️ Examples: 1. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Quagmire, noun. 🔉 /ˈkwaɡmʌɪə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot. ❗️ Examples: 1. Torrential rain turned the building site into a quagmire. 2. In the 19th century, the area was a quagmire with a creek running through it. 3. The main landscape feature is endless peatbog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs and quagmires. 4. When we got there it was raining very hard and the patio area was a quagmire. 5. The ground was easy to dig - not so wet as to be a quagmire, but soft enough that the only problems were the odd stone, piece of wire and a couple of boulders. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Dog-end, noun. ❓ Definition: The last and least pleasing part of something. ❗️ Examples: 1. The dog-end of a hard day. 2. The cartoonists portray the dog-end days of December as Old Man Time, complete with scythe, calling the year to its doom. 3. Budget 2004 was one the government could have done without: an obligatory address in the dog-end of a parliament. 4. It's December at the dog-end of the last century and Liam slouches on a sofa in a Santa Monica hotel, curling his bottom lip and affecting disinterest. 5. I relaxed into the dog-end of the afternoon to enjoy the loch's beauty, vaguely aware of increasingly frantic efforts from the other end of the boat. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Things that go bump in the night, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal, humorous): Unexplained and frightening noises at night, regarded as being caused by ghosts. ❗️ Examples: 1. The fear of long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. 2. As a youngster I had a dreadful fear of ghost stories and things that go bump in the night. 3. Meanwhile, professional ghost-finders are set to launch a three-day festival in York dedicated to the things that go bump in the night. 4. You are thinking about things that go bump in the night and monsters under your bed and vampires peering at you through your window. 5. I have a fear of things that go bump in the night. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Transcendental, adjective. 🔉 /ˌtransɛnˈdɛnt(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Relating to a spiritual realm. ❗️ Examples: 1. The transcendental importance of each person's soul. 2. The spiritual in man may soar in the highest transcendental realms, but man's body is essentially that of an animal. 3. Hindus readily accept as reality transcendental realms of Gods and devas and higher modes of consciousness than that in which we commonly live. 4. Isaac's prayer is symbolic of the transcendental spiritual beauty of Judaism. 5. It does not constitute either a sect or a school of thought, but is rather a spiritual or transcendental practice, which persists despite criticism from orthodox theologians. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Two for the Money (2005) 💬 Now, talk to me about Monday night, because everyone, I mean everyone, is gonna double down after the hole you put 'em in.

📚 Double down, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition (US): Strengthen one's commitment to a particular strategy or course of action, typically one that is potentially risky. ❗️ Examples: 1. He decided to double down and escalate the war. 2. The third quarter of the year saw central banks doubling down on the quantitative easing approach. 3. We are doubling down on diplomacy in the surrounding region. 4. He wants to double down on health care policies that will only work for the healthy and the wealthy. 5. Research shows that people with strong feelings of self-efficacy not only don't quit when problems arise, they double down and try harder. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Barton Fink (1991) 💬 Though for my money, you can't beat Jack Oakie.

📚 For my money, phrase. ❓ Definition: In my opinion or judgement. ❗️ Examples: 1. For my money, they're one of the best bands around. 2. Now, for my money, Scott's pretty clearly about as guilty as sin. 3. The best thing about the site, for my money, is that I've managed to avoid having any photographic likeness of myself included anywhere on it. 4. ‘For my money, he is one of the best centre-halves in England,’ said Melrose. 5. His famous novel begins with a couple of paragraphs which, for my money, constitute the most mesmerising start of any novel ever written. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Duinewassel, noun. 🔉 /ˈduːniˌwasl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (historical): In the Scottish Highlands: a clansman of high rank, typically through having a familial connection to the chief; (more generally) a man of some status; a gentleman. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Mighty, adjective. 🔉 /ˈmʌɪti/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Possessing great and impressive power or strength, especially because of size. ❗️ Examples: 1. Three mighty industrial countries. 2. Mighty beasts. 3. This mighty power will continue to press for county councillors to respect the professional judgement of their highway engineers and consultants. 4. This nation, once a mighty world power, is being systematically stripped of all its wealth and influence, and no-one bats an eyelid. 5. A glance at the current spate of hotel marketing deals makes it clear that tykes are wielding some mighty power. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Soft touch, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): A person who readily gives or does something if asked. ❗️ Examples: 1. We've shown people we're not a soft touch and that we won't be pushed over by the criticism. 2. The bit that still gets to me is the look on her face as she approached me, as though she thought I was a soft touch and I was going to bow down at her feet and beg forgiveness. 3. The trouble with caring too much is becoming a soft touch. 4. I think you know very well that you ought to stop being such a soft touch. 5. They are no soft touch, as they proved again last night. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Reconnoitre, verb. 🔉 /ˌrɛkəˈnɔɪtə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Make a military observation of (a region) ❗️ Examples: 1. They reconnoitred the beach some weeks before the landing. 2. The raiders were reconnoitring for further attacks. 3. This results in wasted effort as infantry battalion scouts conduct time-consuming reconnaissance of areas and routes already reconnoitered by recce troops. 4. March 25th, 1945 saw members reconnoitering the beaches at the southwest tip of Tokashika Shima, a dangerous job as the landing beach was in a cove surrounded by easily defensible high ground. 5. Early in the war Allied planners realized the value of scouts for reconnoitering enemy-held beaches. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Show round, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition (show someone round, show round someone): Point out interesting features in a place or building to someone. ❗️ Examples: 1. He showed us round and took us to the museum. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Get rid of, phrase. ❓ Definition: Take action so as to be free of (a troublesome or unwanted person or thing) ❗️ Examples: 1. We have been campaigning to get rid of the car tax for 20 years. 2. Perhaps you should dig it up, getting rid of all the roots, and try something else as a windbreak. 3. Having a shave and getting rid of unwanted body hair in the heat or sauna is also supposed to be relaxing for the nerves and skin. 4. Can you advise on the best way of getting rid of the smell? 5. I've been trying to get rid of the smoke smell too. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic