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📚 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

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

📚 Look on the bright side, phrase. ❓ Definition: Be optimistic or cheerful in spite of difficulties. ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘I expect I shall manage,’ she said, determined to look on the bright side. 2. He was always the one who looked on the bright side, the optimistic one. 3. With so many good things happening, it is so difficult not to look on the bright side, isn't it? 4. At first, anti-dam activists looked on the bright side. 5. The move might seem like nothing more than a disruption, but the director is looking on the bright side. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 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

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

📚 None other than, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to emphasize the surprising identity of a person or thing. ❗️ Examples: 1. Her first customer was none other than Henry du Pont. 2. The first victims of his surprise visit were none other than presspersons themselves. 3. And it was none other than Rossellini who advised him to turn professional. 4. This church is supposed to have been founded by none other than Charlemagne. 5. She's played by none other than Kitty Bruce, daughter of standup legend Lenny Bruce. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Debunk, verb. 🔉 /diːˈbʌŋk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Expose the falseness or hollowness of (an idea or belief) ❗️ Examples: 1. She debunks all the usual rubbish about acting. 2. More importantly, it debunks the idea that educational reform is instituted to enhance the skills of the labour force. 3. A very ordinary rural chap (the Mirror piece certainly debunking the idea that he is a reclusive loner), he has understandably won mass public sympathy for the way he was mistreated. 4. You may have heard of professor Richard Wiseman - a British psychologist famous for debunking irrational ideas. 5. However, by an analysis of econometric studies, case study work and official statistics, this paper debunks the idea that, for the majority of these groups, ‘things are getting better’. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Now You See Me (2013) 💬 And now we are gonna debunk a few magic myths this evening.

📚 Think on one's feet, phrase. ❓ Definition: React to events decisively, effectively, and without prior thought. ❗️ Examples: 1. I am sort of thinking on my feet here as I react to the information from my two correspondents and from other sources. 2. How the candidates think on their feet and react to the audience can be a telling sign as to how they will act once they are in office. 3. I can see Dallas not knowing what to do, but the other three are veterans and talk about not thinking on your feet or reacting to circumstances. 4. She was improvising and having to think on her feet. 5. He thought on his feet, a very bright individual as far as prisoners go. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Bruce Almighty (2003) 💬 They're seeing if l can think on my feet, you know, like, l might have to do in a live news anchor situation.

📚 Alienate, verb. 🔉 /ˈeɪlɪəneɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Make (someone) become unsympathetic or hostile. ❗️ Examples: 1. The association does not wish to alienate its members. 2. The experience will drive him away from his deaf parents and alienate him from an unsympathetic hearing world. 3. Orchin's difficulty was that to make the association more attractive to members he risked alienating the patrons who subsidized its activities. 4. I choose to be loyal to my values and to alienate my team members. 5. It is typical of Keegan not to wish to alienate people who are hoping to arrange an ecologically sound disposal of their mortal remains upon their own flowerbeds. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Frighteners (1996) 💬 Why do you always have to alienate everybody?

📚 Needless to say, phrase. ❓ Definition: Of course. ❗️ Examples: 1. Needless to say, he didn't believe me. 2. We were in a joint family then and needless to say, it was good fun. 3. And, needless to say, shortly after he began to believe me, he went away. 4. So needless to say, there were a lot of jokes about spies and so on. 5. So, needless to say, I am intimately familiar with the incident and what took place. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Prince of the City (1981) 💬 Needless to say, we're very proud of Detective Ciello's work.

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📚 Overhear, verb. 🔉 /əʊvəˈhɪə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Hear (someone or something) without meaning to or without the knowledge of the speaker. ❗️ Examples: 1. I couldn't help overhearing your conversation. 2. Children will hear conversations and overhear information on radio, TV and from the playground network. 3. The researchers will also note every time they hear or overhear the words being used in conversation. 4. We ended our snack (better described as lunch) with a large pot of Chinese tea, overhearing snatches of conversation from a neighbouring table. 5. Do you really want to overhear his cooing conversations with another girl? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Amazing Grace (2006) 💬 Clarkson sat in a coach to Birmingham and overheard someone claim that I'd secretly married a slave woman.

📚 Bite the bullet, phrase. ❓ Definition: Decide to do something difficult or unpleasant that one has been putting off or hesitating over. ❗️ Examples: 1. Decisions have to be taken and as director you have got to bite the bullet. 2. But now I have decided to bite the bullet and give it a go. 3. I decided to bite the bullet and spend the money to rebuild her engine. 4. We decided to bite the bullet, and implement the scheme in order to raise standards, for the sake of Merton's children. 5. With a new wife and a baby on the way, Chris decided to bite the bullet and flew over to Canada two weeks ago, enlisting the help of the local paper. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Once I Was a Beehive (2015) 💬 So she decided to bite the bullet and bring her brooding angst along with her.