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📚 Cry for the moon, phrase. ❓ Definition: Ask for what is unattainable or impossible. ❗️ Examples: 1. There must be no more self-pity, no more time wasted on crying for the moon. 2. If she cried for the moon, he'd borrow every ladder in the parish and lash 'em together to get up. 3. When my brother was a baby, he cried for the moon and would not be comforted. 4. When the baby cries for the moon, you do not give him what he wants. 5. I haven't cried for the moon, and have been sensible in my demands; but there has nevertheless been this sense of boredom with everything, with my family and with my work. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Flatten the curve, phrase. ❓ Definition: Prevent a rate or quantity from greatly intensifying or increasing within a short time. ❗️ Examples: 1. Taking actions to slow the spread of this virus will flatten the curve and protect the vulnerable. 2. Excessive falls in bond yields will flatten the curve and erode pension funds. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Take up, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition (take something up, take up something): Pursue a matter later or further. ❗️ Examples: 1. He'll have to take it up with the bishop. 2. If the matter is not resolved locally, the associations could take it up with Garda Headquarters. 3. You will be starting a bit earlier today, if that is a problem, take it up with Master Shay. 4. This is a matter for us to consider and we will take it up with the principals concerned. 5. If you wish to change legislation, why don't you take it up with the relevant authority? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Bad-mouth, verb. ❓ Definition (informal • with object): Criticize (someone) behind their back. ❗️ Examples: 1. No one wants to hire an individual who bad-mouths a prior employer. 2. As if I had enough to fill my plate, now I have to worry about my ex-best friend bad-mouthing me behind my back. 3. We don't have to be character assassins, we don't have to issue screeds, we don't have to be bad-mouthing other people, but we do have to use logic and reason and persuasion and show why our positions really make more sense for America. 4. We were willing to let it go, but they are bad-mouthing him. 5. But after class, he sometimes came up to me in the hallway and started bad-mouthing those students who had challenged him. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Don't mention it, phrase. ❓ Definition: A polite expression used to indicate that thanks or an apology are not necessary. ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘Thanks very much.’ ‘Don't mention it, dear boy.’ 2. Man, don't mention it; what are friends for? 3. No, don't mention it; I'm sorry I knocked you over. 4. ‘Please don't mention it,’ Vicki snapped slightly. 5. ‘Please don't mention it again,’ she said plainly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Introspection, noun. 🔉 /ɪntrə(ʊ)ˈspɛkʃ(ə)n/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The examination or observation of one's own mental and emotional processes. ❗️ Examples: 1. Quiet introspection can be extremely valuable. 2. Establish a comfort zone with the child before you ask for quiet observation or introspection. 3. From the internal viewpoint of introspection, mental reality is composed of sensations and images. 4. The problem is that men tend to heal in private, through introspection and quiet thinking. 5. There are passages of quiet contemplation and introspection that belie any sense of terror. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A trouble shared is a trouble halved, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Talking to someone else about one's problems helps to alleviate them. ❗️ Examples: 1. The saying, ‘a trouble shared is a trouble halved’ is just as true when it comes to your physical health as it is in relation to your emotional health. 2. They say a trouble shared is a trouble halved, but when holiday anxiety strikes, I suffer in silence. 3. Build a social support network of friends and family - remember a trouble shared is a trouble halved. 4. On the basis that a trouble shared is a trouble halved, I will share some of my troubles with you. 5. They say a trouble shared is a trouble halved and it's true. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Crave, verb. 🔉 /kreɪv/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Feel a powerful desire for (something) ❗️ Examples: 1. If only she had shown her daughter the love she craved. 2. Will craved for family life. 3. Kendall loves it, craves it and can put up with almost anything if there's a chance she's going to experience it. 4. Sixty per cent of those polled said they regularly craved certain foods and drinks. 5. Of course, there are people out there who like spam, who love and crave it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Out of context, phrase. ❓ Definition: Without the surrounding words or circumstances and so not fully understandable. ❗️ Examples: 1. The article portrayed her as domineering by dropping quotes from her out of context. 2. He twists words, quotes people out of context and stretches the truth to suit his purpose. 3. The embarrassment was such that Gilchrist found himself explaining that his words had been taken out of context. 4. She says her words were taken out of context, but soon submits her resignation. 5. He said that his words were taken out of context and he was sorry if he had offended anyone. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Forbid, verb. 🔉 /fəˈbɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Order (someone) not to do something. ❗️ Examples: 1. I was forbidden from seeing him again. 2. My doctor has forbidden me to eat sugar. 3. He is forbidden from participating in future role plays and he was disciplined for being ‘inappropriate’. 4. We are still forbidden from coming anywhere near the house after 6. 5. But that doesn't mean I'm forbidden from ever telling any more stories with any of those characters in ever again, or I hope it doesn't. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Turn a blind eye, phrase. ❓ Definition: Pretend not to notice. ❗️ Examples: 1. Please, don't turn a blind eye to what is happening. 2. We cannot continue to turn a blind eye or ear and pretend that all is well when many people are hurting and yearning for help. 3. In many ways, I think he's given the Saudis a pass and he's turned a blind eye to them. 4. It is a problem people are prepared to turn a blind eye to it because people rarely notice these sites as they are covered over. 5. Please, don't turn a blind eye or passively ignore what is happening. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Convicted, adjective. 🔉 /kənˈvɪktɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Having been declared guilty of a criminal offence by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge. ❗️ Examples: 1. A convicted murderer. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 If you can't beat them, join them, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): If you are unable to outdo rivals in some endeavour, you might as well cooperate with them and thereby possibly gain an advantage. ❗️ Examples: 1. Steve took the view that if you can't beat them, join them. 2. You're saying if you can't beat them, join them. 3. But they have increasingly taken the view that if you can't beat them, join them, and begun offering similar, competitive services. 4. The only solution as far as I can see it is if you can't beat them, join them. 5. Like everyone says, if you can't beat them, join them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Discard, verb. 🔉 /dɪˈskɑːd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Get rid of (someone or something) as no longer useful or desirable. ❗️ Examples: 1. Hilary bundled up the clothes she had discarded. 2. If this week's insights aren't useful, discard them. 3. The next time you go out shopping, you can discard the plastic carry bag and arm yourself with a jute bag instead. 4. Leave overnight to drip through, then remove the jelly bag, discard the contents and leave to soak in cold water while you finish the jelly. 5. Only a minority of people will discard bags full with rubbish in the Lane, but that minority is still numerically big enough to cause environmental havoc. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 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

📚 DUI, abbreviation. 🔉 /diːjuːˈʌɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (US): Driving under the influence (of drugs or alcohol). ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 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