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πŸ“š My way or the highway, phrase. ❓ Definition (North American β€’ informal): Said to assert the view that there is no alternative (apart from leaving) but to accept the speaker's opinions or policies. ❗️ Examples: 1. They know no way but the way of the autocrat β€” it's my way or the highway. 2. It's always the ultimatum, my way or the highway. 3. β€˜Listen bud,’ she said as she leaned towards him, one arm on the table as she did so, β€˜It's my way or the highway.’ 4. One former international summed up his approach to getting his plans through: β€˜With Jim, it's always been my way or the highway.’ 5. When he first moved into coaching, I did fear for him because, in some ways, he could be old school and rather intolerant - my way or the highway. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š Windfall, noun. πŸ”‰ /ˈwΙͺn(d)fɔːl/ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ ❓ Definition: A large amount of money that is won or received unexpectedly. ❗️ Examples: 1. Members are to get an average Β£520 cash windfall for voting β€˜yes’ to the merger. 2. In so doing, they will reap windfall profits from a property redevelopment scheme. 3. A struggling cricket club has been given a new lease of life following an unexpected cash windfall. 4. Striding ahead of the rest has landed a Lancaster theatre with a huge cash windfall. 5. One thing for certain: this unexpected financial windfall will most definitely not be a handicap to the club. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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🎬 First Snow (2006) πŸ’¬ You will benefit from a windfall.
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🎬 Non-Stop (2014) πŸ’¬ Flying is not my cup of tea.
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πŸ“š 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. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š Nebulous, adjective. πŸ”‰ /ˈnΙ›bjʊlΙ™s/ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ ❓ Definition: Another term for Β«nebularΒ». ❗️ Examples: 1. Shapley noted that nebulous objects tended to be everywhere except in the Milky Way plane. 2. Twenty five years ago, the nebulous gas entombing the dying star at the centre was not hot enough to glow. 3. The Pleiades is a nebulous cluster of stars, all contained within one degree of longitude, located on the shoulder of the Bull. 4. It has few distinguishable stars and is mainly notable for a nebulous, cloud-like cluster which ancient astronomers regarded as an area where energies were dissipated. 5. The billions of years believed necessary for the earth to evolve from some nebulous mass simply evaporate when confronted by such evidence. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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🎬 O Lucky Man! (1973) πŸ’¬ Unanimous decision, I'm afraid.
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πŸ“š Unanimous, adjective. πŸ”‰ /juːˈnanΙͺmΙ™s/ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ ❓ Definition (mass noun): (of two or more people) fully in agreement. ❗️ Examples: 1. The doctors were unanimous in their diagnoses. 2. The councillors were unanimous in their agreement that new hospital facilities were long overdue in the town. 3. The judges were also unanimous in their concern that most of the sites made visitors work too hard. 4. Councillors gave their unanimous support to the bill, although some were concerned the wording was not tight enough. 5. Yet all three were unanimous in admitting that the game was lost in two crucial areas: at the breakdown and in the line-out. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š 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. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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🎬 Unforgiven (1992) πŸ’¬ And we were young and full of beans.
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🎬 The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) πŸ’¬ I'm trying to change 100 years of entrenched dogma.
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πŸ“š 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. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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🎬 Finding Neverland (2004) πŸ’¬ Opening night, doctors, lawyers, businessmen and their wives, all dressed to the nines.
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πŸ“š 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. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š Breathtaking, adjective. πŸ”‰ /ˈbrΙ›ΞΈteΙͺkΙͺΕ‹/ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ ❓ 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? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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🎬 The Great Muppet Caper (1981) πŸ’¬ It is rather breathtaking, isn't it?
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πŸ“š As plain as the nose on someone's face, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Very obvious. ❗️ Examples: 1. I knew what he was up to β€” it was as plain as the nose on his face. 2. He explained why he chose him: β€˜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. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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🎬 Big Fish (2003) πŸ’¬ You must've taken a shortcut. Why, yes, I did. It almost killed me.
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πŸ“š Shortcut, noun. πŸ”‰ /ΛˆΚƒΙ”Λtkʌt/ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ ❓ Definition: An alternative route that is shorter than the one usually taken. ❗️ Examples: 1. They were taking a shortcut to town. 2. We're always looking for the quick route, the short cut, the way to avoid the traffic. 3. Ignoring it as was my custom, I turned off the main road, and took the short cut through the woods. 4. We took a short cut through the woods behind the elementary school at the edge of our neighborhood, and emerged at the side of the highway. 5. I was heading south so I decided to take a short cut through the woods and that is when you found me here, fighting off those two brigands. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š From the bottom of one's heart, phrase. ❓ Definition: Very sincerely. ❗️ Examples: 1. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š Inveterate, adjective. πŸ”‰ /ΙͺnˈvΙ›t(Ι™)rΙ™t/ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ ❓ Definition (attributive): Having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change. ❗️ Examples: 1. An inveterate gambler. 2. They are inveterate gamblers, drink as much beer as their wages will permit, are devoted to bawdy jokes, and use probably the foulest language in the world. 3. The Clermont club was founded in 1962 by inveterate gambler Aspinall, in London's Berkeley Square. 4. Being an inveterate gambler, the fourth son was only too glad to accept the offer. 5. Richard M. Nixon was an inveterate Cold Warrior whose interest in domestic affairs never matched his passion for foreign affairs. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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🎬 Victor Crowley (2017) πŸ’¬ The publisher had my ghost writer embellish some parts, alright?
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πŸ“š Embellish, verb. πŸ”‰ /ΙͺmˈbΙ›lΙͺΚƒ/ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ ❓ Definition (with object): Make (a statement or story) more interesting by adding extra details that are often untrue. ❗️ Examples: 1. Followers often embellish stories about their heroes. 2. And if people don't get the point, then I will simply repeat my windows story, now embellished by light switches, until they do. 3. Over the centuries, after countless retellings, the story has been slightly embellished. 4. The stress deepened her dependence on alcohol, and her amateurish efforts to market her story led her to embellish the details of her espionage. 5. My hope is that by making this public here, he will perhaps be dissuaded from continuing to embellish this story with false statements. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š 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. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š Steadfast, adjective. πŸ”‰ /ˈstΙ›dfɑːst/ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ ❓ Definition: Resolutely or dutifully firm and unwavering. ❗️ Examples: 1. Steadfast loyalty. 2. As for the coronation of the new King, it stands firm, steadfast and unshaken. 3. You've got to just hold steady and steadfast and unwavering in certain situations. 4. The men ridicule him and laugh at him, but Wang Lung is steadfast in his resolution. 5. We need to take seriously their steadfast refusal to admit even their most obvious mistakes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š Bill, noun. πŸ”‰ /bΙͺl/ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ ❓ Definition: A draft of a proposed law presented to parliament for discussion. ❗️ Examples: 1. A debate over the civil rights bill. 2. Within a few weeks a draft bill was presented to parliament; it had two clauses later to become sections 1 and 2 of the Act of 1916. 3. Last week, a private members' bill was presented to Parliament calling for a ban on masts near classrooms and homes. 4. The government has presented around 30 bills to the parliament, which it wants to pass rapidly during final two weeks of August. 5. I guess we can tell that we are at the dog-end when the best the Government can do is present to Parliament bills of this nature for consideration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š 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. β€˜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. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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🎬 Barton Fink (1991) πŸ’¬ Though for my money, you can't beat Jack Oakie.
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πŸ“š Absquatulate, verb. πŸ”‰ /Ι™bˈskwΙ’tΚƒΚŠleΙͺt/ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ ❓ Definition (North American β€’ humorous β€’ no object, with adverbial): Leave abruptly. ❗️ Examples: 1. Some overthrown dictator who had absquatulated to the USA. 2. When I find out where Colonel Prosyonni went when he absquatulated, it will be a moot point. 3. Actually, absquatulate means to leave hurriedly, with the implication that one is being pursued. 4. He [an old bull-walrus] heard us, and lazily awakening, raised his head and prepared to absquatulate. 5. Paul was middle aged and a successful London financier with teenage children when he absquatulated to Paris to become a painter. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š Belligerent, adjective. πŸ”‰ /bΙ™ΛˆlΙͺdΚ’(Ι™)r(Ι™)nt/ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ ❓ Definition: Engaged in a war or conflict, as recognized by international law. ❗️ Examples: 1. A conference of socialists from all belligerent countries. 2. It is based upon the customary international laws of belligerent occupation, including the Hague Regulations. 3. It is widely recognized that access by belligerent groups to the gains from drug production and trafficking contributes to the intensity and prolongation of military conflict. 4. Take also the case of lawful belligerent reprisals (for example, the use of prohibited weapons). 5. Even between belligerent states, such treaties will not necessarily be suspended; a fortiori, if the conflict is not international, treaty rules will in general continue to apply. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š Soft touch, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): A person who readily gives or does something if asked. ❗️ Examples: 1. We've shown people we're not a soft touch and that we won't be pushed over by the criticism. 2. The bit that still gets to me is the look on her face as she approached me, as though she thought I was a soft touch and I was going to bow down at her feet and beg forgiveness. 3. The trouble with caring too much is becoming a soft touch. 4. I think you know very well that you ought to stop being such a soft touch. 5. They are no soft touch, as they proved again last night. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š Flabbergast, verb. πŸ”‰ /ˈflabəɑɑːst/ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ ❓ Definition (informal β€’ with object): Surprise (someone) greatly; astonish. ❗️ Examples: 1. News that activists could be fined for protesting against the policy will flabbergast most people. 2. Well, I'd just like to say that I'm completely flabbergasted and astounded. 3. Brian was flabbergasted, but not really surprised, not on a subconscious level. 4. He was flabbergasted at the total complexity of the question. 5. Today Ms Morris said she was flabbergasted by the award. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š Exaggerated, adjective. πŸ”‰ /ΙͺɑˈzadΚ’Ι™reΙͺtΙͺd/ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ ❓ Definition: Regarded or represented as larger, better, or worse than in reality. ❗️ Examples: 1. An exaggerated account of his adventures. 2. Comic book characters are drawn with exaggerated features so you will remember them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š Get rid of, phrase. ❓ Definition: Take action so as to be free of (a troublesome or unwanted person or thing) ❗️ Examples: 1. We have been campaigning to get rid of the car tax for 20 years. 2. Perhaps you should dig it up, getting rid of all the roots, and try something else as a windbreak. 3. Having a shave and getting rid of unwanted body hair in the heat or sauna is also supposed to be relaxing for the nerves and skin. 4. Can you advise on the best way of getting rid of the smell? 5. I've been trying to get rid of the smoke smell too. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š Tortuous, adjective. πŸ”‰ /ˈtɔːtΚƒΚŠΙ™s/ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ ❓ Definition: Full of twists and turns. ❗️ Examples: 1. The route is remote and tortuous. 2. Varicose veins are tortuous, twisted, or lengthened veins. 3. The Ryder Cup trail has often been tortuous, twisting and downright tedious, but the rewards to the Scottish economy are expected to be enormous. 4. Eventually, after a particularly tortuous twist, the path opened out and they came to the Cave of the Prophet. 5. But that proved only the beginning of a long and tortuous road full of false starts and broken promises. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š Instigate, verb. πŸ”‰ /ˈΙͺnstΙͺΙ‘eΙͺt/ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ ❓ Definition (with object): Bring about or initiate (an action or event) ❗️ Examples: 1. They instigated a reign of terror. 2. I will be instigating legal proceedings. 3. Here the audience obtains a glimpse of the power bloc which oversaw and instigated the events. 4. Over the years she has instigated various events in the Court and the town itself. 5. Does the development team have the power and flexibility to instigate catastrophic events in the game? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š So long, phrase. πŸ”‰ /ˌsΙ™ΚŠ ˈlΙ’Ε‹/ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ ❓ Definition (informal): Goodbye till we meet again. ❗️ Examples: 1. When she walked out on the Sugababes as they hit the big time, it looked like so long, Siobhan. 2. I just want it to be done with, but I don't want to deal with any of the moving or saying so long stuff. 3. β€˜So long!’, Catharine waved goodbye to Audrey as the door closed. 4. So long, Mother. Be expecting a postcard or two in the mail, if you're lucky. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š Petrichor, noun. πŸ”‰ /ˈpΙ›trʌΙͺkɔː/ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ ❓ Definition (mass noun): A pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather. ❗️ Examples: 1. Other than the petrichor emanating from the rapidly drying grass, there was not a trace of evidence that it had rained at all. 2. One can almost smell the petrichor. 3. It's been raining for several days this week but our noses can't smell the petrichor because our showers are falling on saturated ground, ice filled pools, and grey piles of our most recent snowstorm's remnants. 4. I am wondering if they will get the time and the open space to experience the petrichor in the air. 5. The musty, barky smell of fresh rain fallen on the dry earth is petrichor. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š Englished, adjective. πŸ”‰ /ˈΙͺΕ‹(Ι‘)lΙͺΚƒt/ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ ❓ Definition: Made English in character or form; translated into English. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š Get the picture, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Understand a situation. ❗️ Examples: 1. Any trouble your father might have we can hide β€” d'you get the picture? 2. To be honest, I believe it was more difficult to get the picture than to catch the carp. 3. I realize that sounds completely revolting, but I think you get the picture. 4. Scott didn't seem to get the picture, his brain still working on understanding what Jesse had just told him. 5. This includes, buses, trains, lifts, public buildings, pubs, restaurants; I think you have probably got the picture. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š My way or the highway, phrase. ❓ Definition (North American β€’ informal): Said to assert the view that there is no alternative (apart from leaving) but to accept the speaker's opinions or policies. ❗️ Examples: 1. They know no way but the way of the autocrat β€” it's my way or the highway. 2. It's always the ultimatum, my way or the highway. 3. β€˜Listen bud,’ she said as she leaned towards him, one arm on the table as she did so, β€˜It's my way or the highway.’ 4. One former international summed up his approach to getting his plans through: β€˜With Jim, it's always been my way or the highway.’ 5. When he first moved into coaching, I did fear for him because, in some ways, he could be old school and rather intolerant - my way or the highway. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š Windfall, noun. πŸ”‰ /ˈwΙͺn(d)fɔːl/ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ ❓ Definition: A large amount of money that is won or received unexpectedly. ❗️ Examples: 1. Members are to get an average Β£520 cash windfall for voting β€˜yes’ to the merger. 2. In so doing, they will reap windfall profits from a property redevelopment scheme. 3. A struggling cricket club has been given a new lease of life following an unexpected cash windfall. 4. Striding ahead of the rest has landed a Lancaster theatre with a huge cash windfall. 5. One thing for certain: this unexpected financial windfall will most definitely not be a handicap to the club. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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🎬 First Snow (2006) πŸ’¬ You will benefit from a windfall.
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🎬 Non-Stop (2014) πŸ’¬ Flying is not my cup of tea.
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πŸ“š 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. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š Nebulous, adjective. πŸ”‰ /ˈnΙ›bjʊlΙ™s/ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ ❓ Definition: Another term for Β«nebularΒ». ❗️ Examples: 1. Shapley noted that nebulous objects tended to be everywhere except in the Milky Way plane. 2. Twenty five years ago, the nebulous gas entombing the dying star at the centre was not hot enough to glow. 3. The Pleiades is a nebulous cluster of stars, all contained within one degree of longitude, located on the shoulder of the Bull. 4. It has few distinguishable stars and is mainly notable for a nebulous, cloud-like cluster which ancient astronomers regarded as an area where energies were dissipated. 5. The billions of years believed necessary for the earth to evolve from some nebulous mass simply evaporate when confronted by such evidence. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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🎬 O Lucky Man! (1973) πŸ’¬ Unanimous decision, I'm afraid.
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πŸ“š Unanimous, adjective. πŸ”‰ /juːˈnanΙͺmΙ™s/ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ ❓ Definition (mass noun): (of two or more people) fully in agreement. ❗️ Examples: 1. The doctors were unanimous in their diagnoses. 2. The councillors were unanimous in their agreement that new hospital facilities were long overdue in the town. 3. The judges were also unanimous in their concern that most of the sites made visitors work too hard. 4. Councillors gave their unanimous support to the bill, although some were concerned the wording was not tight enough. 5. Yet all three were unanimous in admitting that the game was lost in two crucial areas: at the breakdown and in the line-out. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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πŸ“š 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. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŒ€ @cambridge_dic
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🎬 Unforgiven (1992) πŸ’¬ And we were young and full of beans.
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