Cambridge Dictionary

🎬 Unforgiven (1992) 💬 And we were young and full of beans.

📚 Full of beans, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Lively; in high spirits. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was laughing and shouting and generally full of beans. 2. Chirpy, smiley, full of beans - these are just some of the words which do not describe first-time quarter-finalist David Gray. 3. When I last spoke to her yesterday she was full of beans, very cheerful and chirpy, so I deduce from that that all was going well. 4. They were lovely kids: bright, intelligent and full of beans. 5. Driver Murugan is there at the appointed time. I have risen early again, but today I'm neither bright nor full of beans, unlike yesterday. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) 💬 I'm trying to change 100 years of entrenched dogma.

📚 Entrench, verb. ❓ Definition (with object): Establish (an attitude, habit, or belief) so firmly that change is very difficult or unlikely. ❗️ Examples: 1. Ageism is entrenched in our society. 2. Much of this reaction was informed by the firmly entrenched cultural beliefs associated with these creatures. 3. Unhealthy habits are entrenched in the lives of British children by the time they are 11 years old, world medical experts will be told this month. 4. Given the absence of an enabling set-up, biases are firmly entrenched within the institutional framework as policies. 5. He is one of the rare authors who can change minds on a subject where opinions are firmly entrenched. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Finding Neverland (2004) 💬 Opening night, doctors, lawyers, businessmen and their wives, all dressed to the nines.

📚 To the nines, phrase. ❓ Definition: To a great or elaborate extent. ❗️ Examples: 1. The women were dressed to the nines. 2. Apart from the willingness of the staff to dress up to the nines, preferably in drag, the secret of the unfailing success of this bash is an alcoholic punch whose recipe, if it isn't already, really ought to be classified information. 3. Horse racing is always an excuse to dress up to the nines and no more so than on Ladies Day - on Thursday - when women enter their own particular race: to be the best-dressed female at Knavesmire. 4. I can be dressed up to the nines in a slinky frock, fabulous hair and make-up, and 6 inch stilettos, but I actually feel embarrassed at having to clutch hold of a handbag, or have it slung over my shoulder. 5. If you like dressing up to the nines, expect to pay a fortune for a drink, and enjoy fancy-sounding grub, then you'll feel quite at home in the Living Room, York's new million-pound bar. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Breathtaking, adjective. 🔉 /ˈbrɛθteɪkɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Astonishing or awe-inspiring in quality, so as to take one's breath away. ❗️ Examples: 1. The scene was one of breathtaking beauty. 2. The setting is a breathtaking reminder of the wondrous beauty of our province. 3. As a photographer, I am, of course, touched by the breathtaking beauty of our wildlife. 4. Start at the top end of town for the sheer breathtaking spectacle, if nothing else. 5. What did those people know about the breathtaking beauty of nature and her wares? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Great Muppet Caper (1981) 💬 It is rather breathtaking, isn't it?

📚 As plain as the nose on someone's face, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Very obvious. ❗️ Examples: 1. I knew what he was up to — it was as plain as the nose on his face. 2. He explained why he chose him: ‘That was a decision I felt had to be made as plain as the nose on my face - and that's fairly apparent.’ 3. What's the point of saying something that is as plain as the nose on your face? 4. After eliminating the impossibilities, the master of deduction explained, he had been left with one simple irrevocable conclusion, as plain as the nose on one's face. 5. After the verdict was handed down, the press were talking to the jurors, interviewing the jury, and the one juror said Michael's innocence was as plain as the nose on his face. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Big Fish (2003) 💬 You must've taken a shortcut. Why, yes, I did. It almost killed me.