Cambridge Dictionary

📚 Not one's cup of tea, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Not what one likes or is interested in. ❗️ Examples: 1. Cats were not her cup of tea. 2. If sitting and listening is not your cup of tea, sightseeing in a drift boat makes for an interesting alternative. 3. And if running, dodging and shooting was not your cup of tea, there were car and motorcycle rallies, with dirt tracks and the grand prix. 4. If this is not your cup of tea or if you only have a few items for sale then, of course, they will take your items to their auction rooms, where they will be sold on your behalf. 5. Free verse can be wonderful - but it's just not our cup of tea. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Non-Stop (2014) 💬 Flying is not my cup of tea.

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📚 Intervene, verb. 🔉 /ɪntəˈviːn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Take part in something so as to prevent or alter a result or course of events. ❗️ Examples: 1. He acted outside his authority when he intervened in the dispute. 2. Their forces intervened to halt the attack. 3. US forces intervened in the mid-1960s to prop up the stooge government of South Vietnam, against the North. 4. For example, in 1845, as in 1806-07, British forces intervened in the River Plate. 5. A watershed was reached when NATO forces intervened in Kosovo in 1999. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 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

📚 Dough, noun. 🔉 /dəʊ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A thick, malleable mixture of flour and liquid, used for baking into bread or pastry. ❗️ Examples: 1. Add water to the flour and mix to a manageable dough. 2. It is this technique that allows pastry doughs to rise and pie crusts to flake. 3. The oven can cook thinner doughs but not thicker ones. 4. Pour a little rose water in to fruit salads, use it to flavour thick syrups or add it to pastry and biscuit doughs, or whipped cream. 5. One outcome: lower-quality flour, resulting in doughs that were unable to withstand the rigorous mixing that's part of making bread. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 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

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

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📚 Savoury, adjective. 🔉 /ˈseɪv(ə)ri/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of food) belonging to the category that is salty or spicy rather than sweet. ❗️ Examples: 1. Fresh pineapple is useful in savoury as well as in sweet dishes. 2. Leanne imagined thin, crispy crust smothered in sweet yet savory tomato sauce, warm cheese, pepperoni, and succulent mushrooms. 3. Maple syrup is no longer relegated to its standard role of sweetening pancakes and waffles; this versatile ingredient adds flavor to both sweet and savory dishes alike. 4. In general, most of the salt we consume is not added during cooking or at the table, but comes from processed foods such as bread, cheese, savoury snacks, breakfast cereals and ready-meals. 5. Nutmeg is as popular a spice for savoury dishes as sweet, lending a mellow flavour to rice puddings, sausages and mash, baked custards and fruit cake. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 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

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📚 Cope, verb. 🔉 /kəʊp/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): (of a person) deal effectively with something difficult. ❗️ Examples: 1. His ability to cope with stress. 2. It all got too much for me and I couldn't cope. 3. All I can say about it is nice people are easy to deal with and unpleasant people are much more difficult to cope with. 4. Urban and rural dwellers have adopted creative survival strategies, that have helped them cope with difficult times. 5. In a police interview the 39-year-old unemployed man, who is not being identified for legal reasons, admitted he found it difficult to cope with the children. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 From the bottom of one's heart, phrase. ❓ Definition: Very sincerely. ❗️ Examples: 1. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Wry, adjective. 🔉 /rʌɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Using or expressing dry, especially mocking, humour. ❗️ Examples: 1. A wry smile. 2. Wry comments. 3. She gave a wry smile at the comment on breakfast. 4. Director Peter Evans highlights the play's wry humour and latent evil with a low-key, ironic spin. 5. Levy's wry sort of humour and the ironic use of an English woman's perspective to describe the problems confronted by the immigrants is both clever and sensitive. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Things that go bump in the night, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal, humorous): Unexplained and frightening noises at night, regarded as being caused by ghosts. ❗️ Examples: 1. The fear of long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. 2. As a youngster I had a dreadful fear of ghost stories and things that go bump in the night. 3. Meanwhile, professional ghost-finders are set to launch a three-day festival in York dedicated to the things that go bump in the night. 4. You are thinking about things that go bump in the night and monsters under your bed and vampires peering at you through your window. 5. I have a fear of things that go bump in the night. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Whistle-blower, noun. ❓ Definition: A person who informs on a person or organization regarded as engaging in an unlawful or immoral activity. ❗️ Examples: 1. Nurses also may not report other nurses for fear of being perceived as snitches or labeled as whistle-blowers. 2. They're trying to put in measures to help whistle-blowers point out wrongdoing at the United Nations without losing their job. 3. Meet the new target for whistle-blowers and conspiracy theorists: big business. 4. He indicated his information came from FDA whistle-blowers. 5. Tayside Police admit the whistle-blower's inside knowledge shows he has to be a high-ranking officer - at least an inspector and probably a superintendent. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 For my money, phrase. ❓ Definition: In my opinion or judgement. ❗️ Examples: 1. For my money, they're one of the best bands around. 2. Now, for my money, Scott's pretty clearly about as guilty as sin. 3. The best thing about the site, for my money, is that I've managed to avoid having any photographic likeness of myself included anywhere on it. 4. ‘For my money, he is one of the best centre-halves in England,’ said Melrose. 5. His famous novel begins with a couple of paragraphs which, for my money, constitute the most mesmerising start of any novel ever written. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Barton Fink (1991) 💬 Though for my money, you can't beat Jack Oakie.