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📚 Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Used to express indifference to an insult or abuse. ❗️ Examples: 1. If anyone ever tells you that little rhyme ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me,’ well tell them they are full of it. 2. We say things like ‘actions speak louder than words’, or ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me’. 3. But the child's nursery rhyme is true: sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me. 4. As that old saying goes, sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. 5. Remember the old saying, sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Andiron, noun. 🔉 /ˈandʌɪən/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A metal stand, typically one of a pair, for supporting wood burning in a fireplace. ❗️ Examples: 1. In the fireplace are a pair of brass andirons and a fender, American or English, dating from the early nineteenth century. 2. Antique andirons and fireplace tools survive in some quantity, but hard use has often taken its toll and they may be more decorative than useful today. 3. The original kitchen fireplace remains, retaining its cast-iron cauldron and andirons, but it was refaced during the 1896 renovation with blue tiles purchased from Traitel Brothers, tile suppliers in New York City. 4. A stylish Philadelphia parlor is conceptually incomplete if the fireplace is not fitted with wrought-iron andirons and a cast-iron fireback. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Enact, verb. 🔉 /ɪˈnakt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Make (a bill or other proposal) law. ❗️ Examples: 1. Legislation was enacted to attract international companies. 2. Remember, there has been no significant piece of reformist legislation enacted into law for nearly 30 years. 3. Rather, Parliament was enacting legislation in which a number of classes of persons have significant interests. 4. In the United States, several states have already enacted genetic privacy laws. 5. The statute was enacted pursuant to Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Easy does it, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to advise someone to approach a task carefully and slowly. ❗️ Examples: 1. With father's wine in the back I mustn't drive too fast, so easy does it. 2. Easy, easy does it, not too much, just a little bit more. 3. So easy does it with the imagery from now on, I promise. 4. Whether your sending out a quick ‘hello’ or ‘meet us here later’, it's easy does it all the way. 5. Carter shushed her, ‘Hey, easy does it there, Laura.’ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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🌇 Surf and turf 1. Introduction Shopping online is a popular activity. Many of us use the internet to look for things to buy and to compare prices, but some of us never make it to the virtual checkout where we have to pay for them. We discuss this activity known as 'surf and turf' — and hear from an expert who thinks retailers need to do something about it. 2. This week's question According to recent research, which items are the most likely to be surfed and turfed? a) Books b) Watches c) Women's knitwear Listen to the programme to find out the answer. 3. Vocabulary surf and turf: online shopping without actually buying anything to turf out: to remove someone from a place or organisation, possibly because they've broken the rules or behaved badly checkout: place where you pay for your shopping, either in a real shop or online retailers businesses that sell you things out of date: past their best, too old to be suitable fall foul of (something or someone) make a mistake and get in trouble with someone ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @six_mins_english

📚 Avouch, verb. 🔉 /əˈvaʊtʃ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (archaic • with object): Affirm or assert. ❗️ Examples: 1. The locket contains ringlets which he avouches to be relics of a Spanish girl. 2. Paulina and her friends being gone, I scarce could avouch that I had really seen them. 3. Ask Wall Street and they would enthusiastically avouch that they are quite up to the task - more than able and willing. 4. We might be disposed to question its authenticity, it if were not avouched by the full evidence. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Earring, noun. 🔉 /ˈɪərɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A piece of jewellery worn on the lobe or edge of the ear. ❗️ Examples: 1. Her wedding ring and plain gold earrings are her only jewellery, plus a few red beads and tight bangles on one wrist. 2. In the painting I am wearing a turquoise sari and some gold and ruby earrings with a necklace and a few bangles. 3. She was carrying a small black bag and wearing large silver hoop earrings and a rope bracelet. 4. Alicia returned her attentions to the mirror and slipped her favourite pearl drop earrings into her lobes. 5. He put the cloak back on me, and as I pulled the hood up, the edge caught my earring, and tugged it away. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Rest on one's laurels, phrase. ❓ Definition: Be so satisfied with what one has already done or achieved that one makes no further effort. ❗️ Examples: 1. With TV sports coverage becoming increasingly competitive, the BBC should beware of resting on its laurels. 2. He has experienced more adventure than most of us enjoy in a lifetime but he is not resting on his laurels and is already planning further adventures. 3. He is not resting on his laurels and has already begun working for further improvement. 4. We cannot rest on our laurels after the efforts of the weekend. 5. But I've rested on my laurels and never put effort into anything. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bipartisan, adjective. 🔉 /ˌbʌɪpɑːtɪˈzan/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Involving the agreement or cooperation of two political parties that usually oppose each other's policies. ❗️ Examples: 1. The reforms received considerable bipartisan approval. 2. Bipartisan support. 3. A bipartisan group. 4. In domestic, as well as foreign policy, there is bipartisan agreement between the major parties. 5. Yet the House has just approved it, on a virtual party line vote, ending the recent spirit of bipartisan cooperation in Congress. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Proxy war, noun. ❓ Definition: A war instigated by a major power which does not itself become involved. ❗️ Examples: 1. The end of the Cold War brought an end to many of the proxy wars through which the two sides struggled to exert their influence. 2. People are supposed to ‘liberate’ themselves, not rely on some external force to come to their land and fight a proxy war for them. 3. Thus, as noted, David Aaronovitch describes the assault on Nicaragua as part of ‘the proxy war fought between the two superpowers for power and influence’. 4. Rollback was the American end of the proxy war fought between the two superpowers for power and influence in the developing world. 5. The proxy war in Kashmir between India and Pakistan also demonstrates that irregulars can fight limited wars for limited purposes, especially when the threat of nuclear war or conventional escalation is high. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Suits (2011) - S06E07 💬 And his execution date is set in stone.

📚 Be set in stone, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to emphasize that something is fixed and unchangeable. ❗️ Examples: 1. This pricing scheme is not set in stone and will likely change when the service has a full launch. 2. Anything can change — nothing is written in stone. 3. Your training goals are not written in stone; changes should be made as necessary to work toward a common goal. 4. However, an RFL spokesman said ten teams per division was a minimum, not a fixed figure, while the new format was not yet set in stone. 5. While many thought that the current proposed standard was written in stone might have to change their minds and wait until the squabbling is over. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Plainly, adverb. 🔉 /ˈpleɪnli/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: In a direct and honest way without concealment or deception. ❗️ Examples: 1. To speak plainly, I suffer from a lack of confidence. 2. I will ask you plainly: are you a spy? 3. As he told his tale, he spoke as plainly as he could. 4. To put it plainly, the young grandmaster made the opening look like it loses by force! 5. Make sure that the conditions for using this insurance are plainly stated in the house rules. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Monster (2003) 💬 Because after my daddy killed himself, we were out on the streets.

📚 On the streets, phrase. ❓ Definition: Homeless. ❗️ Examples: 1. The number of people who are out on the streets is lower than twelve months ago. 2. I have seen our lost generation of young people, in hostels for the homeless or out on the streets. 3. A homeless woman is back on the streets again after being evicted from a telephone box. 4. The number of people sleeping rough on the streets of Bedford has risen in the last year. 5. It's real hard not to feel sorry for people who have no homes and sleep on the streets. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Quoth, verb. 🔉 /kwəʊθ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (archaic, humorous • with direct speech): Said (used only in first and third person singular before the subject) ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘Ah,’ quoth he, as soon as the bike started, ‘a blown cylinder head gasket.’ 2. Any port in a storm, quoth the sailors, even if it's a Port-O-Potty. 3. Merriam-Webster online doth quoth: ‘A geek used to be a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake.’ 4. As a result, it saddens me to have to resort to this, but ‘desperate times require desperate measures for measure’, quoth The Bard, or someone else a bit like him who's equally famous. 5. Seabass miso-yaki - marinated for three days in miso and brown sugar, quoth our waiter - never quite rose above its excellent garlic mashed potatoes and dots of racy passionfruit purée. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ukraine, proper noun. 🔉 /juːˈkreɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A country in eastern Europe, to the north of the Black Sea; population 44,800,000 (estimated 2015); official language, Ukrainian; capital, Kyiv. ❗️ Examples: 1. On January 21, 1990, over 300,000 Ukrainians organised a human chain for Ukrainian independence between Kyiv and Lviv, in memory of the 1919 unification of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic. Citizens came out to the streets and highways, forming live chains by holding hands in support of unity. 2. In August 1991, a faction among the Communist leaders of the Soviet Union attempted a coup to remove Mikhail Gorbachev and to restore the Communist party's power. After it failed, on 24 August 1991 the Ukrainian parliament adopted the Act of Independence. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic