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📚 Cleave, verb. 🔉 /kliːv/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (cleave to • no object): Adhere strongly to (a particular pursuit or belief) ❗️ Examples: 1. Part of why we cleave to sports is that excellence is so measurable. 2. Nobody gets points for being virtuous and cleaving to fidelity when there are no opportunities to do otherwise. 3. It struck a chord with one of the superstore's workers, who cleaves to anonymity presumably to cleave to her job. 4. I concluded that I rather regret not having completely cleaved to the letter of the law. 5. Jean Bodin's famous definition of 1576 of the commonwealth was one which the following century could instinctively cleave to. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Take it or leave it, phrase. ❓ Definition (usually in imperative): Said to express that the offer one has made is not negotiable and that one is indifferent to another's reaction to it. ❗️ Examples: 1. That's the deal — take it or leave it. 2. This looks like an opening gambit rather than a take it or leave it offer. 3. We have already been told that the moving of the market and interchange are not negotiable and that, in effect, we can either take it or leave it. 4. Would they tell them to take it or leave it, this is what we offer? 5. He offered the cash and said take it or leave it and the bank eventually came back and said it would accept the cash. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Feijoada, noun. ❓ Definition (mass noun): A Brazilian or Portuguese stew of black beans with pork or other meat and vegetables, served with rice. ❗️ Examples: 1. Then you can go on to the hot table, where Robinson's Brazilian black-bean stew, feijoada, waits alongside its traditional accompaniment of greens, cut narrow and cooked so that they retain some spring and crunch. 2. It serves the national dish, feijoada (a black-bean stew with pork, beef and chorizo), with couve (stir-fried collard greens) and freshly cut orange and farofa (a blend of flour, olives, raisins and eggs). 3. On Saturdays, we have feijoada - a stew made out of pig bits, black beans and green cabbage. 4. John Falconer, the head chef, and his Brazilian wife, Lucia, specialise in lung-expanding Brazilian home cooking such as feijoada, a creamy, smoky black bean stew, as well as a range of delicious vegetarian pies and curries. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic 
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📚 Suspend, verb. 🔉 /səˈspɛnd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Temporarily prevent from continuing or being in force or effect. ❗️ Examples: 1. Work on the dam was suspended. 2. While immediate lay-offs have been temporarily suspended, the crisis continues with thousands of jobs among Rover's suppliers also under threat. 3. The traders have been forced to temporarily suspend trading as they do not want any more clients to fall into this black hole. 4. Recently Ryanair was forced to temporarily suspend services on its Strasbourg / London route. 5. Following the Thursday explosion, reports were circulated that claimed the security raid has been suspended and forces were ordered to retreat. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Give or take —, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): To within a specified amount. ❗️ Examples: 1. Three hundred and fifty years ago, give or take a few. 2. They found that the mass extinction occurred 46,400 years ago, give or take 3,000 years. 3. He departed this vale two decades or so ago, give or take a few years. 4. Although no one knows for certain, most authorities agree that the pug originated in China around 2,500 years ago, give or take a few centuries. 5. Eight hours ago - give or take a couple minutes - his aunt had flown to California to visit an old roommate from her college years. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Frowzy, adjective. 🔉 /ˈfraʊzi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Scruffy and neglected in appearance. ❗️ Examples: 1. Seedy-looking doormen in frowzy uniforms. 2. The lone exception is basketball, where the uniforms just hang down all unkempt and frowzy. 3. In 1905, Elbert Hubbard wrote in the Leavenworth Times of Kansas that ‘The girls at a Fred Harvey place never look dowdy, frowsy, tired, slipshod or overworked.’ 4. And don't get me started on the frowzy little strips of bunting that many business houses feel so fully demonstrates good corporate citizenship, or the contrived costuming of employees in the same pursuit. 5. On a bench nearby a frowzy loafer opened his red eyes and perceived that his moral support was due a downtrodden brother. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic
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📚 Ecstatic, adjective. 🔉 /ɪkˈstatɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement. ❗️ Examples: 1. Ecstatic fans filled the stadium. 2. When my eyes finally adjusted I was ecstatic with happiness. 3. Here's how ecstatic Boston fans got the news from their morning paper. 4. But I hoped he felt the same as I had, ecstatic and bubbling with happiness. 5. And when the game finally became available over the Internet last year, fans were ecstatic. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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🎬 Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) 💬 Into this estate, these two come now to be joined If any man present can show cause... why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him speak now or forever after hold his peace. -
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📚 Show cause, phrase. ❓ Definition (Law): Produce satisfactory grounds for application of (or exemption from) a procedure or penalty. ❗️ Examples: 1. A notice to show cause why there should not be a committal to prison. 2. Show-cause notice. 3. In January 1994 the auditor published his provisional findings and the notices to show cause why the ten persons should not be surcharged. 4. On 3 June 1999 the Board wrote to Mr and Mrs Mann requiring them to show cause within 14 days why their legal aid certificates should not be revoked. 5. The draft order nisi that has been filed specifies five grounds on which the respondents are to be called on to show cause. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Coronach, noun. ❓ Definition: (in Scotland or Ireland) a funeral song. ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘Oh, there'll be plenty of that… but not if you play coronachs,’ said Darien. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic
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📚 Frenzy, noun. 🔉 /ˈfrɛnzi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (usually in singular): A state or period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behaviour. ❗️ Examples: 1. Doreen worked herself into a frenzy of rage. 2. And in a wild frenzy, Jones also tried to bite other people as police struggled to arrest him. 3. Then suddenly there was a frenzy of excitement in one corner of the square. 4. The sea always reminds me of a slumbering monster, waiting for a storm to whip it into a wild frenzy. 5. Dozens of people come and go in a frenzy of excitement fuelled by coffee and politics. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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🎬 Wild Child (2008) 💬 You so don't need to play hard to get. I'm totally into you. -
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📚 Play hard to get, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Deliberately adopt an aloof or uninterested attitude, typically in order to make oneself more attractive or interesting. ❗️ Examples: 1. They are playing hard to get with the media, and are keeping us all interested. 2. Sometimes when dates played hard to get, it made the chase more interesting and the inevitable surrender more satisfying. 3. ‘He tried to talk to me for a while after we met, but I was playing hard to get,’ she said with a slight smile. 4. In this love affair, like many others, playing hard to get can only make for a better relationship. 5. After months of being cautious and playing hard to get, I'm going to bravely risk rejection this time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Barchan, noun. 🔉 /ˈbɑːk(ə)n/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A crescent-shaped shifting sand dune, as found in the deserts of Turkestan. ❗️ Examples: 1. Now a team publishing in the 23 December print issue of PRL reports it has generated miniature replicas of crescent-shaped dunes known as barchans in a water tank. 2. Transverse ridges have a higher sand supply than barchans but also exist in unidirectional winds. 3. As he described them to the nomads of the Empty Quarter, they thought of the hard dark dunes found in their own desert called barchan dunes. 4. The pace of an offensive in the desert depends to a great extent on how well the troops can overcome natural obstacles, especially barchans and solonchaks, rock outcrops covered by the enemy fire. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic
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📚 Transgression, noun. 🔉 /trɑːnsˈɡrɛʃn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: An act that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct; an offence. ❗️ Examples: 1. I'll be keeping an eye out for further transgressions. 2. Few ministers now stand down because of sexual transgressions. 3. Her transgression of genteel etiquette. 4. Mobiles ringing in the dressing room, lateness and the wrong kit are all transgressions that can lead to coughing up dollars. 5. One admits to a crime, a transgression, not an illness, unless the illness is a crime, and depression is not. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Like hell, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Very much (used for emphasis) ❗️ Examples: 1. My head hurts like hell. 2. All I know is that my mouth hurts like hell and I've about as much chance of getting in to see my dentist this week as I have getting into a size 10 dress. 3. I didn't really think about it much as I grew up, unless I bashed my hand against something then the tiny scar hurt like hell. 4. Either way, it hurts like hell on my right side when I breathe in. 5. It really is a magnificent bruise and I have no doubt it hurts like hell. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic