Cambridge Dictionary

📚 Windfall, noun. 🔉 /ˈwɪn(d)fɔːl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A large amount of money that is won or received unexpectedly. ❗️ Examples: 1. Members are to get an average £520 cash windfall for voting ‘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. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 First Snow (2006) 💬 You will benefit from a windfall.

📚 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.

📚 Nebulous, adjective. 🔉 /ˈnɛbjʊləs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Another term for «nebular». ❗️ 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. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 O Lucky Man! (1973) 💬 Unanimous decision, I'm afraid.

📚 Unanimous, adjective. 🔉 /juːˈnanɪməs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ 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. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @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

📚 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