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🎬 Axe Cop (2013) - S01E07 💬 Why don't you go home and catch some Zs?

📚 Catch some Zs, phrase. ❓ Definition (North American • informal): Get some sleep. ❗️ Examples: 1. I'll go back to the hotel and catch some Zs. 2. I was catching a few Zs on the lower bunk in our call room. 3. Why is it whenever I try to catch some Zs all I can hear is you two squawking? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Awning, noun. 🔉 /ˈɔːnɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A sheet of canvas or other material stretched on a frame and used to keep the sun or rain off a shop window, doorway, or ship's deck. ❗️ Examples: 1. Maybe it's because stripes evoke memories of canvas deck chairs and awnings at fêtes. 2. The asylum-seekers could be seen massed on a clearing made among the cargo containers, partly sheltered by canvas awnings. 3. I didn't - I got big canvas awnings over a Florida room, and I didn't take those down as I've done in pretty past storms, and they're pretty beat up. 4. Sacks of dates and piles of vegetables lay under canvas awnings. 5. The colourful awnings over the shop windows, again, gave protection against the sun. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Crimea, proper noun. 🔉 /krʌɪˈmiːə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (usually the Crimea): A peninsula of Ukraine lying between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. It was the scene of the Crimean War in the 1850s. The majority of the population is Russian. ❗️ Examples: 1. In 1783, Crimea was annexed by the Russian Empire as the result of the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774). 2. In 1954, the Soviet Union transferred Crimea to the Ukrainian SFSR from the Russian SFSR. 3. Russia formally annexed Crimea on 18 March 2014, incorporating the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol as the 84th and 85th federal subjects of Russia. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Simpsons (1989) - S15E10 💬 Now let's see if lightning strikes twice.

📚 Lightning never strikes twice in the same place, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): An unusual situation or event is unlikely to happen again in exactly the same circumstances or to the same person. ❗️ Examples: 1. Thinking that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, one year after the incident administrators decided to place the figure back on his pedestal. 2. It is said that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. 3. It is a myth that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. 4. There's an old saw that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, but in the case of my wife, Annette, and me, it did. 5. If not, one could usually reconstruct the correct data from the printed record and the two tapes; without a printed record (sometimes the printer did not work), you punched a third tape and created the data tape for the next session on the principle that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Conundrum, noun. 🔉 /kəˈnʌndrəm/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A confusing and difficult problem or question. ❗️ Examples: 1. One of the most difficult conundrums for the experts. 2. Children with recurrent abdominal pain present a difficult conundrum for doctors. 3. For the environmentalists, there was no getting around this difficult conundrum. 4. Other than that, it can be something of a difficult ethical conundrum for somebody. 5. The focus of discussion remains reframing the species problem as a linguistic conundrum. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Speed Racer (2008) 💬 Oops. Sorry, trade secret.

📚 Trade secret, noun. ❓ Definition: A secret device or technique used by a company in manufacturing its products. ❗️ Examples: 1. The exact technique for producing it is a trade secret, but Bob describes the finished cheese as being something like a Brie that has been subjected to pressing. 2. For now, all the California Supreme Court has made clear is that information likely to be proven to be a trade secret can stay secret while litigation over its status continues. 3. The technique is a trade secret, so the application must be closed source. 4. Currently, perfume manufacturers are not required to reveal the fragrance formula because it is considered a trade secret. 5. I don't know if this would be divulging a trade secret or anything, but what is your overall success rate? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Quite a —, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to indicate that the specified person or thing is perceived as particularly notable, remarkable, or impressive. ❗️ Examples: 1. Quite a party, isn't it? 2. Quite the little horsewoman, aren't you? 3. There was quite the little gong show to prep for the party. 4. He is quite the ladies' man, always chasing the girls. 5. Sure, it wasn't quite the indulgences of our 20's. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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🎬 John Wick (2014) 💬 It seems to be fate, or happenstance... or just bad fuckin' luck caused our paths to cross once again.

📚 Happenstance, noun. 🔉 /ˈhap(ə)nˌstans/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (North American • mass noun): Coincidence. ❗️ Examples: 1. It was just happenstance that I happened to be there. 2. An untoward happenstance for Trudy. 3. Some events do occur by chance or happenstance, but the baseline of governmental policy and media spin is far from accidental. 4. It may be that just by accident or happenstance this has come to be. 5. The evolutionary process is rife with happenstance, contingency, incredible waste, death, pain and horror. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Money talks, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Wealth gives power and influence to those who possess it. ❗️ Examples: 1. I twisted Billy's statement to demonstrate that money talks, and therefore gives its bearer power that others lack. 2. I know money talks but at the end of the day it is always going to be the player's choice as to where he plays his rugby. 3. The state of the union is that money talks and public policy is sold to the highest bidder. 4. Meritocracy was not totally absent in this story - if anything, it shows that money talks, but it doesn't necessarily call the shots. 5. Petitions and letters are nice, but money talks. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Acid rain, noun. 🔉 /ˌæsɪd ˈreɪn/ 🇬🇧 /ˌæsɪd ˈreɪn/ 🇺🇸 ❓ Definition (uncountable): Rain that contains harmful chemicals from factory gases and that damages trees, crops and buildings. ❗️ Examples: 1. Sulphur, falling as acid rain, is killing fish in the Great Lakes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Eggcorn, noun. 🔉 /ˈɛɡkɔːn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A word or phrase that results from a mishearing or misinterpretation of another, an element of the original being substituted for one which sounds very similar (e.g. tow the line instead of toe the line) ❗️ Examples: 1. A reader sent in the eggcorn ‘sir name’ for surname. 2. By the way, there seems to be a little discrepancy in what an eggcorn actually is. 3. In the comments, Phil asks "Are we witnessing the birth of an eggcorn?" 4. Looks like we're way past the eggcorn stage here. 5. I really enjoy reading your ' eggcorn ' entries on the Language Log. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Rush (2013) 💬 I don't pay you a cent. That's outrageous!

📚 Outrageous, adjective. 🔉 /aʊtˈreɪdʒəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Shockingly bad or excessive. ❗️ Examples: 1. An outrageous act of bribery. 2. This is, as been stated, one of the most outrageous acts I have ever seen. 3. We need the people who are responsible for these stupid and outrageous acts to come to their senses and put a stop to it. 4. It was an outrageous act and what was really upsetting from my point of view is that the referee did not look at it. 5. There had to be a reason why he lost control and watched helplessly as his own body committed such an outrageous act. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic