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📚 The coast is clear, phrase. ❓ Definition: There is no danger of being observed or caught. ❗️ Examples: 1. The streetcleaners kept stopping off for a smoke when the coast was clear. 2. She then looks up and down the street, as if she's making sure the coast is clear, and then she just takes off. 3. And then, if the coast is clear, we can safely follow. 4. Our characters were supposed to look around to make sure the coast is clear, then jump in the truck and race off. 5. They all start running off and, thinking the coast is clear, I get out of my car. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Enumerate, verb. 🔉 /ɪˈnjuːməreɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Mention (a number of things) one by one. ❗️ Examples: 1. There is not space to enumerate all his works. 2. Similarly, in the chapter on opera buffa's social reversals, the author enumerates a number of later contributions in a footnote, but she does not incorporate them into her discussion. 3. I would need more fingers and toes than I have to enumerate the number of people who contacted me to say ‘well done’ on going so forcefully public on the matter. 4. For their part, the miners enumerate the number of jobs the industry provides. 5. Thompson enumerates a number of the strategies of domination, including legitimation, dissimulation, unification, fragmentation, and reification. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Calamity, noun. 🔉 /kəˈlamɪti/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: An event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster. ❗️ Examples: 1. Emergency measures may be necessary in order to avert a calamity. 2. The journey had led to calamity and ruin. 3. Nearly every calamity and malady known to humankind has a saint to look after it. 4. Plan for stress, say the experts, just like you plan ahead for any calamity you want to avoid. 5. There were those indeed who believed this calamity marked the end of the world. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Get laid, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Have sex. ❗️ Examples: 1. He was keeping himself busy with his life's work - trying and failing to get laid. 2. He had a Playboy duvet cover and still got laid! 3. I don't go out to get laid - I go out to have fun. 4. What does one's opinion on politics have to do with getting laid? 5. It's like they all just went on the show to get laid more than usual. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Pindan, noun. 🔉 /ˈpɪndan/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Arid, sandy country characteristic of the southwest Kimberley region of Western Australia. ❗️ Examples: 1. The savanna is surrounded by an extensive stretch of pindan. 2. Back in Melbourne, far from the spinifex and pindan, I look over my poem. 3. With its combination of literally turquoise waters, creamy white beaches and red pindan cliffs this is the perfect place to relax after a long drive. 4. The wind force is recorded as causing the "pindan country" to turn brown. 5. He is on record as saying, of the pindan bush where I go hunting and bushwalking and rejoicing in the abundance of nature every weekend, 'It's literally dead.' ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Henceforth, adverb. 🔉 /hɛnsˈfɔːθ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: From this or that time on. ❗️ Examples: 1. Henceforth, parties which fail to get 5% of the vote will not be represented in parliament. 2. It stipulated that no concessions would henceforward be given to individuals, only to recognised institutions. 3. Besides, even if a sensible plan is henceforth followed, it will only prevent future mistakes. 4. Also I am having a party with my flatmate, who henceforth shall be referred to as Blondie. 5. Almost incidentally, on August 2, 1883, a decree went up in every town square in Russia: Yiddish theater henceforward would be illegal throughout the land. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Every dog has its day, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Everyone will have good luck or success at some point in their lives. ❗️ Examples: 1. There comes a time to stop, every dog has its day, and I think I have had mine. 2. In parallel with his ascendancy to the top of the NFL tree went his present team, their unlikely transformation from zeroes to heroes last season illustrating that every dog has its day. 3. It's not nice to keep losing but every dog has its day. 4. I'm aware that, very, very occasionally a performance is given which astonishes us all, but every dog has his day, and England's problem is having too few of these. 5. However, no sooner had I written this than I get to find out every dog has his day, right? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Sylvan, adjective. 🔉 /ˈsɪlv(ə)n/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mainly literary): Consisting of or associated with woods; wooded. ❗️ Examples: 1. A sylvan glade. 2. The Gree home has a lovely sylvan setting with a wood at the end of the garden. 3. Earth predominates because of the sylvan emphasis; woods are abundant. 4. It's hard to envision this urban blight blossoming into a sylvan glade, but that's Pueblo's $8.8 million plan. 5. In the summer it would be nearly sylvan, and the trees would grow new wood and leaves with branches dropping with fruit. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Cleave, verb. 🔉 /kliːv/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Split or sever (something), especially along a natural line or grain. ❗️ Examples: 1. The large axe his father used to cleave wood for the fire. 2. He swung the mighty blade with one arm cleaving the ground and splitting the tiles around it. 3. As we all know, this issue has caused massive issues for the party internally, this divide cleaves the party right down to its lowest level. 4. Especially around Washington, it was inevitable that speculation about the identity of the killer would cleave along ideological lines. 5. Forget about the digital divide - it's the domestic divide that really cleaves this country in two. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 In person, phrase. ❓ Definition: With the personal presence or action of the individual specified. ❗️ Examples: 1. He had to pick up his welfare cheque in person. 2. Otherwise people can go there in person and pay a visit to the kids since the center is not that far. 3. His thesis is undoubtedly better presented in person rather than in the context of a dry academic paper. 4. The cyclists who objected to the scheme presented their views in person to the inquiry. 5. There's also an added bonus for people, like myself, who're extremely shy in person. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bibliophile, noun. 🔉 /ˈbɪblɪə(ʊ)fʌɪl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A person who collects or has a great love of books. ❗️ Examples: 1. Though many bibliophiles would love to have a look at this collection, it has not been available in the market for long. 2. The British Library is asking bibliophiles to adopt a book and save it for the nation. 3. But then surprises always await bibliophiles at a book fair. 4. The idea behind the renovation in the city is part of OUPs recent drive to provide greater visibility of books and set bibliophiles at ease. 5. Being a bibliophile of non-fiction books has also led me to a worrying conclusion. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Convo, noun. 🔉 /ˈkɒnvəʊ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal): A conversation. ❗️ Examples: 1. I struck up a convo with the girl sitting next to me. 2. Developing savvy in voicing yourself is a super way to keep any convo going. 3. My friend makes up an excuse to get off the phone five minutes into every convo. 4. Look attentive to let the person know you're into the convo. 5. No more endless discussions with your buds - his name is now banished from your convos. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Kick the bucket, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Die. ❗️ Examples: 1. When the old girl finally kicked the bucket there was no mention of yours truly in the will. 2. He wanted to do his own thing and he wanted to do it now - not down the track when his father finally kicked the bucket. 3. But in spite of the fact, when he kicks the bucket and departs his mortal coil, it is going to be one of the biggest funerals in the Bahamas. 4. Even though the British Empire had long since kicked the bucket, the expats could still be found pretty much anywhere the Brits had a former colony. 5. When rich Americans kick the bucket, they invariably will a good sum to their alma maters, pet charities or research institutions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Accelerando, adverb. ❓ Definition (Music): (especially as a direction) with a gradual increase of speed. ❗️ Examples: 1. The second half of the song was always sung accelerando. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Adhere, verb. 🔉 /ədˈhɪə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (adhere to • no object): Closely follow, observe, or represent. ❗️ Examples: 1. The account adhered firmly to fact. 2. In numerous poetry collections, books of essays and fiction that followed, he closely adhered to this view of an unfettered aesthetic - not yoked to any ideology or dogma. 3. The association also holds cat shows and judges them based on how closely they adhere to the standards. 4. The play strikes me as an attempt to recreate a winning formula, adhering rather too closely to the mould of its last show, Hatched. 5. The script adheres pretty closely to the basic plot of the 1949 book, which imagined a totalitarian state where even the thoughts of its subjects are controlled by an all-seeing Big Brother. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 In the flesh, phrase. ❓ Definition: In person or (of a thing) in its actual state. ❗️ Examples: 1. They decided that they should meet Alexander in the flesh. 2. Reminds me though, I once had a lunch with a blind colleague whom I'd spoken to on the phone a lot but not met in the flesh before. 3. Not only does he not want journalists to meet people in the flesh, he will actively discourage them from doing any such thing. 4. At any rate, it turns out that I have recently met another blogger, in the flesh. 5. The Fan Faire was a rare opportunity for them to meet in the flesh. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Matronymic, noun. 🔉 /ˌmatrəˈnɪmɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A name derived from the name of a mother or female ancestor. ❗️ Examples: 1. It is interesting that their usual surnames are all patronymics or matronymics, rather than the locatives that would be more likely were any of the four from immigrant families. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic