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📚 Restless, adjective. 🔉 /ˈrɛs(t)ləs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Unable to rest or relax as a result of anxiety or boredom. ❗️ Examples: 1. The audience grew restless and inattentive. 2. The animals were restless, disturbed by the smell of fire permeating the building. 3. There is a restless feel about this group, but I let the first forty minutes continue as planned. 4. In an age of restless channel surfing, you couldn't ask for anything better than this. 5. She felt restless just sitting there and tried to think of something to do. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A means to an end, phrase. ❓ Definition: A thing that is not valued or important in itself but is useful in achieving an aim. ❗️ Examples: 1. Higher education was seen primarily as a means to an end. 2. We view our technology as a means to an end, and the end is always to deliver business value. 3. However, it must be used as a means to an end and not the end itself. 4. ‘I don't think much of gaming,’ says Morgan, ‘but it was a means to an end.’ 5. So advertising is only a means to an end - if an alternative method existed to increase the reputation of the product, it would also serve the seller's purpose. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Yakka, noun. 🔉 /ˈjakə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Australian, New Zealand • informal • mass noun): Work, especially of a strenuous physical kind. ❗️ Examples: 1. It was their hard yakka that built this place. 2. When the yakka is over, the kip begins. 3. Yet for real hard yakka the plight of the servants, valets and other assorted members of staff stands alone. 4. We do that every day of our lives; it's bloody hard yakka, even if you don't want to do it, it's pushed on you. 5. Most of the journalistic hard yakka on the subject has been done by the FT and some of the best reporting on it has been in The Economist. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Scent of a Woman (1992) 💬 Uhoh, we got a moron here, is that it?

📚 Moron, noun. 🔉 /ˈmɔːrɒn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal): A stupid person. ❗️ Examples: 1. We can't let these thoughtless morons get away with mindless vandalism every weekend. 2. Stupid moron, the chances of me falling for anyone at this party were one in twenty million. 3. I bet that those on the receiving end of such behaviour don't mind whether the villains are dubbed cretins or morons. 4. Adam's a damn fool, a moron for not realising what he could be throwing away. 5. Speaking of idiots, Tom proves he is a moron with his comments on antidepressants. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Simpsons (1989) - S07E21 Comedy 💬 I'm edgy. I got ants in my pants.

📚 Have ants in one's pants, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Be fidgety or restless. ❗️ Examples: 1. What's the matter with you, always fidgeting — you got ants in your pants? 2. Maybe it's just God trying to tell me to keep still and stop acting like I have ants in my pants, to just be calm and happy that all is well. 3. He appeared to have ants in his pants, refusing to stand still for a minute. 4. I have so much energy that the little kids I baby-sit told me it looks like I have ants in my pants. 5. I tossed and turned, and finally Shirley said something like I had ants in my pants, something like that, anyway, and decided to walk the house to try and fall asleep. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Gnomon, noun. 🔉 /ˈnəʊmɒn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: The projecting piece on a sundial that shows the time by the position of its shadow. ❗️ Examples: 1. The problem is that the gardeners have been caught on the gnomon of their own sundial. 2. He also probably introduced the gnomon (a perpendicular sun-dial) into Greece and erected one in Sparta. 3. He placed a pole perfectly upright in the ground to make a simple sundial, or gnomon. 4. To ensure that the sundial registered roughly the correct time all the year round the gnomon had to be set at exactly the correct angle. 5. The simplest astronomical instruments was the gnomon, nothing other than a stick which was erected and the length of its shadow measured. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Ghost Writer (2010) 💬 Look, I'm his ghostwriter. I'm not an investigative reporter.

📚 Ghostwriter, noun. 🔉 /ˈɡəʊs(t)ˌrʌɪtə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author. ❗️ Examples: 1. He said one reason to be more lenient is that everyone assumes that most words uttered by politicians or published under their names were actually written by speechwriters or ghostwriters. 2. Journal articles are no longer published anonymously, and ghostwriters demand that their contributions be acknowledged. 3. Keeping in mind that people trust experts, you can have a ghostwriter write your web content and you present it under your name. 4. He wanted to stay the course with his main character and write it himself without a ghostwriter or co-author. 5. Estimates suggest that almost half of all articles published in journals are by ghostwriters. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Last Action Hero (1993) 💬 It's behind the eight ball, you moron.

📚 Behind the eight ball, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): At a disadvantage. ❗️ Examples: 1. Don't let cash-flow crises put you behind the eight ball. 2. In that respect, any free independent publication will be starting behind the eight ball, with no subsidies, let alone a historical tradition or audience. 3. I know I am really behind the eight ball on this one. 4. It is clear that students from poorer families start behind the eight ball and are not given enough extra assistance. 5. We certainly don't want to fall behind the eight ball on that. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Ataraxy, noun. 🔉 /ˈatəraksi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (literary • mass noun): A state of serene calmness. ❗️ Examples: 1. The stated goal of Epicureanism is ataraxia, or tranquility of mind. 2. They urged instead the cultivation of what they called ataraxia, the complete suspension of belief and consequently of all emotional involvement with anything. 3. The ideal is ataraxia, freedom from disturbance. 4. Instead of finding yourself in a state of stoic ataraxia you might find yourself catatonic or enraged beyond the point of recovery. 5. My emphasis on teaching ataraxia is conducive, I hope, toward that end. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Victor Crowley (2017) 💬 The publisher had my ghost writer embellish some parts, alright?

📚 Embellish, verb. 🔉 /ɪmˈbɛlɪʃ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Make (a statement or story) more interesting by adding extra details that are often untrue. ❗️ Examples: 1. Followers often embellish stories about their heroes. 2. And if people don't get the point, then I will simply repeat my windows story, now embellished by light switches, until they do. 3. Over the centuries, after countless retellings, the story has been slightly embellished. 4. The stress deepened her dependence on alcohol, and her amateurish efforts to market her story led her to embellish the details of her espionage. 5. My hope is that by making this public here, he will perhaps be dissuaded from continuing to embellish this story with false statements. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Eight Men Out (1988) 💬 A patriot of the first order. A family man...

📚 Of the first order, phrase. ❓ Definition: Excellent or considerable of its kind. ❗️ Examples: 1. It is a media event of the first order. 2. However, the overall campaign was a disaster of the first order. 3. It was a disaster of the first order, but Daun was still wary of the ever-aggressive Frederick, with reason. 4. Sarris calls the film ‘a masterpiece of the first order.’ 5. His achievement, though easily taken for granted, was the work of an analytical mind of the first order, and he deserves much more honor than he has so far received. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic