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📚 Bewitch, verb. 🔉 /bɪˈwɪtʃ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Cast a spell over (someone) ❗️ Examples: 1. A handsome prince who had been bewitched by a sorceress. 2. According to historians, Boyan was not a magician in the sense that he was able to cast spells, bewitch people and transform into animals, but he was a learned man and a poet. 3. I was bewitched when I cast my eyes on him at my father's place. 4. Trying to remain calm Leo asked, ‘And who is this lady sorceress that you say has bewitched men everywhere, and why should you warn me?’ 5. The witch doctor poisons a chicken, and, from the way the chicken staggers before dropping dead, the witch doctor determines that the rash has been caused by the client's sister-in-law bewitching him. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Nothing succeeds like success, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Success leads to opportunities for further and greater successes. ❗️ Examples: 1. At the end of the day, nothing succeeds like success. 2. But in America, nothing succeeds like success. 3. In mitigation, this run of bad results was closely tied to a string of away fixtures that would test any team but it once again proved that if nothing succeeds like success then failure facilitates a firing. 4. You know that saying, nothing succeeds like success? 5. Well, its an old saying and a true one: nothing succeeds like success. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Babushka, noun. 🔉 /bəˈbʊʃkə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (in Russia) an old woman or grandmother. ❗️ Examples: 1. Shouldn't we give up the nervous fingering of the beads of the grandmas and the babushkas? 2. My babushka was called Ceceila, an unusual name in Russia. 3. The children continued their swimming exercises in the pond, and the babushkas proceeded with their grave and slow discussions about their grandchildren, prices, and pensions. 4. The losers walk away with their tails between their legs as small children hurl rocks at them and wizened babushkas cackle insults in obscure Slavic dialects. 5. They vie for pavement space with old babushkas selling everything from flowers to cigarettes to kittens in socks, calendar style. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Irritant, noun. 🔉 /ˈɪrɪt(ə)nt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A thing that is continually annoying or distracting. ❗️ Examples: 1. In 1966 Vietnam was becoming an irritant to the government. 2. Still, these are mostly minor irritants that can easily be dismissed as necessary game requirements. 3. Another constant irritant for the judge was poor media reporting. 4. What should be a service to the community is seen as a major irritant. 5. - But Greenpeace had become a bigger irritant for the French than it had realised. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) 💬 If ever there was someone who earned a happy ending, it was... Me! Bravo! "You answer to the name of Ernest.

📚 Answer to the name of, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Be called. ❗️ Examples: 1. A missing gent answering to the name of Bloom. 2. The owner's children were distraught, as they had travelled as far as Wexford in search of their pet that answers to the name of Prince. 3. He answers to the name of Sam and was last seen on Sunday, September 22 in the Borris Road area. 4. The parrot, which is still missing, has red tail feathers and a blue plastic ring on his foot and answers to the name of Monty. 5. He is grey with a white nose and paws and was wearing a white collar, he answers to the name of Socks. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Eradicate, verb. 🔉 /ɪˈradɪkeɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Destroy completely; put an end to. ❗️ Examples: 1. This disease has been eradicated from the world. 2. It eradicates cowardice, destroys doubt, fills you with vitality, lets you do the impossible… 3. By the end of next month we will have succeeded in eradicating the illiteracy of 1,300,000 Venezuelans. 4. It is difficult to erase it from the memory of the brain even after eradicating the disease. 5. We continue to do that and our campaign to eradicate pensioner poverty goes on. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 World view, noun. ❓ Definition: A particular philosophy of life or conception of the world. ❗️ Examples: 1. A Christian world view revolves around the battle of good and evil. 2. Apart from being completely unscientific and unsupported this whole line betrays a world view of utter despair. 3. This type is in quest for a comprehensive view, the world picture, the big answers to the big questions. 4. Labour have been severely punished for the social and economic policies that lie at the very core of their world view. 5. No, I'm watching the mind at work, moving fluidly between ideas before weaving them into a cohesive world view. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Many hands make light work, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): A task is soon accomplished if several people help. ❗️ Examples: 1. To quote the old saying, many hands make light work. 2. Just when you are thinking too many cooks spoil the broth, suddenly someone will remind you that many hands make light work. 3. Putting the Lantern Parade together is a huge job and many hands make light work. 4. But as many hands make light work, meals on wheels convenor Margaret Clark says she is always interested in hearing from people who can help getting the food to the clients. 5. The campaign was launched last Thursday night in the Seven Oaks Hotel but like all events, many hands make light work so the more people who can help make the event a success the better. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Fomites, plural noun. 🔉 /ˈfəʊmɪtiːz/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Medicine): Objects or materials which are likely to carry infection, such as clothes, utensils, and furniture. ❗️ Examples: 1. Transmission by virus-contaminated hands or fomites is less likely. 2. Moreover, they may contaminate fomites that can transmit the disease to persons who do not have direct contact with the animals. 3. Transmission is by person to person and fomites, such as bedding and clothing. 4. Transmission of dermatophytes also can occur indirectly from fomites. 5. Many viral infections are spread chiefly by aerosol, rather than by fomites or personal contact. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Envy, verb. 🔉 /ˈɛnvi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Desire to have a quality, possession, or other desirable thing belonging to (someone else) ❗️ Examples: 1. He envied people who did not have to work at the weekends. 2. I envy Jane her happiness. 3. She imagined her home even lovelier than it was now, and she imagined everyone admiring her, envying her, wishing they, too, had such a gift. 4. You must mark out your territory as an artist, so that others learn to envy you and aspire to what you are doing. 5. Borges' characters can similarly be said to envy women their desire that they cannot understand and do not dare explore. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Jam tomorrow, phrase. ❓ Definition (British): A pleasant thing which is often promised but rarely materializes. ❗️ Examples: 1. A promise of jam tomorrow wasn't enough to satisfy them. 2. Policy holders want cash today, not the promise of jam tomorrow, and if people don't appreciate that then they are out of touch. 3. He should realise that promises of jam tomorrow are not helping shopkeepers in his area to swallow difficulties forced on them by the loss of parking spaces. 4. Unfortunately, in the case of human and civil rights, promises of jam tomorrow are simply not good enough. 5. We have been promised jam tomorrow but we have never got it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Allyship, noun. 🔉 /ˈalʌɪʃɪp/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Active support for the rights of a minority or marginalized group without being a member of it. ❗️ Examples: 1. This training should emphasize tangible ways that employees can practice allyship, such as speaking out against discrimination. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Harness, noun. 🔉 /ˈhɑːnəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A set of straps and fittings by which a horse or other draught animal is fastened to a cart, plough, etc. and is controlled by its driver. ❗️ Examples: 1. He was diminutive, and how he managed to lift the heavy harness on the draught horses for ploughing was more than I could understand. 2. Iron components of the chariot were found in a good state of preservation, including the two wheel rims and hub - hoops, the yoke fittings, harness and horse bits. 3. I went about my usual morning routine, feeding Angel Wing and the pull horses, and putting on the harnesses for the carts. 4. Nash was pleased to see that Fric had padded and rigged the horse's harnesses for silence, as well as shoeing their hoofs with leather covers to muffle their trot. 5. However, small items such as brooches and horse harnesses made out of recycled bronze in native styles have occasionally been found at forts. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 On the back foot, phrase. ❓ Definition (British): Outmanoeuvred by a competitor or opponent; at a disadvantage. ❗️ Examples: 1. Messi's early goal put Milan on the back foot. 2. The government found itself on the back foot as peaceful demonstrations continued. 3. By the early summer of 1918, the German submarines were clearly on the back foot. 4. The Irish government appeared to be put on the back foot. 5. The polls may not show much change but the government gives all the appearances of being on the back foot. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Cockade, noun. 🔉 /kɒˈkeɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A rosette or knot of ribbons worn in a hat as a badge of office, or as part of a livery. ❗️ Examples: 1. The cap bore the traditional cockade in silver, blue, and red. 2. Although the external decoration varied from garland to garland, similarities did exist consisting of ‘printed paper rosettes, cockades, and silk hangings’. 3. Two flunkeys stood at the back of the carriage and the little cockades in their hats were fashioned according to the rank of their employer. 4. They were staunch Jacobites, and even after Culloden they continued to bear arms and wear the white cockade. 5. In his bonnet the champion sports a cockade neither of Jacobite white nor of Hanoverian black. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Junk food, noun. ❓ Definition (mass noun): Pre-prepared or packaged food that has low nutritional value. ❗️ Examples: 1. I was eating too much junk food. 2. When I was a child I wasn't allowed to eat so much junk food from fast food outlets that I became overweight and ill. 3. That means an annual exposure to thousands of commercials for junk food and fast food. 4. Not only are our kids overfed on junk food and fast food, they are fast becoming victims of the techno age. 5. She may be eating a lot of junk food because the junk food comforts her without judging her. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic