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141 Cards in this Set
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Run oneself a bath |
To take a 🛁 |
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Pose a problem |
Is a problem |
The price increase poses a problem for us. |
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A pang of nostalgia |
To feel nostalgic |
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Swell with pride |
Look extremely proud |
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Bored stiff |
Extremely bored |
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To alight from the bus |
To get off the 🚌 |
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Dismount |
Get off |
Cyclists must dismount here |
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Be prosecuted |
Be taken to court |
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Receptacle |
Container used for storing or putting objects in |
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Axe job |
Make staff redundant |
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Slash price |
To cut price drastically |
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To submit a tender |
To present a document offering to do a job and stating the price |
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To go into partnership with someone |
To agree to start/ run a business with someone |
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Do someone a good turn |
Do someone a favor |
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Take a liking to |
Take an interest in |
Ant. Take a dislike to |
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Pay your (last) respects |
To give condolence |
At a funeral |
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Pay tribute |
When Jack retired, his boss made a speech paying tribute to all he had done for the company |
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Solitary figure |
One person on their own |
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Gain + |
+ a reputation/publicity/recognition/ advantage |
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Achieve success |
To be successful |
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Be in a flood/ floods of tears |
Tear streaming down one's face |
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Trickle |
People trickled into the concert hall. |
Trickle suggests a few people moving slowly |
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A stream of traffic/visitors |
There was a stream of traffic outside our room all night |
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To have a fiery temper |
Too often get suddenly angry |
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Tempers flare |
People become angry with each other |
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Violence/troubles flare up |
Problems existed in the past suddenly become serious again |
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A blaze of glory/ publicity |
There is a lot of glory/ publicity and it is spectacular |
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Unbroken sunshine |
Only 🌞, no ☁ in the sky |
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Scorching hot |
Extremely 🔥 🔥 |
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Soak up the sunshine |
Enjoy the 🌞 |
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Torrential rain |
Heavy ☔ |
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Get soaked to the skin |
Very wet |
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A break in the clouds |
No more ☔ |
It's been pouring with rain all day. Every half hour we look out of the tent hoping for a break in the clouds |
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Weather deteriorates |
The weather is getting worse |
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Patches of fog/mist A blanket of fog Fog/ mist comes down / lifts |
There are patches of fog on the east coast but these should lift by midday. |
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Driving rain |
☔ falling fast and heavily |
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Heavy/fresh/crisp/thick/driving snow |
Crisp snow: ❄ that is fresh and hard |
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Biting wind The wind picks up / dies down |
Biting wind: very cold wind |
The wind waa light this morning but it's picking up now and will be very strong by the evening. |
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Freak weather conditions |
Gale-force winds: struck, badly affected |
Roofs were torn off Fences were blown down |
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Outward journey |
Opp: return journey |
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In-flight entertainment |
In-flight magazines.... |
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Board the plane |
The passenger boarded the ✈ on time, but it was delayed taking off and she missed her connecting flight in Amsterdam. |
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Hotel |
Family-run hotel Run-down hotel Smart hotel Budget accommodation |
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Bleak landscape |
Opp: gentle landscape |
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To round a bend |
= to turn a corner |
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To fall into ruin/ to lie in ruins |
To become a ruin |
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Mountains towering |
Mountains rising dramatically |
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To wind |
To make a lot of bend, not flow in a straight line |
The stream winds through the forest |
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Uninterrupted view [of the castle] |
Nothing blocks the view [of the castle] |
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Dominate the landscape |
Can be seen from a long way away |
The castle dominates the landscape for miles around. |
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Beach stretches |
A beautiful beach 🌴 stretches for miles along the coast |
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Secluded beach |
Without many people |
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City skyline |
Outline of land and buildings |
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Cobbled street |
Made of a regular pattern of songs |
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Quaint old buildings |
Attractive because of being unusual and especially old-fashioned |
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Upmarket shops |
Shops for people with expensive tastes |
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Imposing building |
Grand and impressive in appearance |
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Urban wasteland |
An area empty and in a 👎 condition |
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No-go area |
Where the police and other authorities are 😨 to enter |
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To strew |
Many streets are strewn with litter. Scatter or spread untidily |
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Deprived area |
Not having necessary things for a pleasant life |
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Sprawling city |
Spread over a large area (slightly negative) |
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Bumper to bumper traffic |
So many 🚗 🚗 and so close |
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Incessant roar of trucks and buses |
Very loud noise which never stops |
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Shanty town |
Very poor houses made of discard materials |
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To have a selfish streak |
Sometimes act in a selfish way |
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Razor-sharp mind |
Very sharp |
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Snap decision |
Quick decision |
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To bear a grudge |
Resent for a long time 👎 things others have done to you. |
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To make a fool out of someone |
Try to deceive or trick someone. |
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To play a joke/trick (on) |
To trick someone |
The children played a joke on the teacher by hiding under their desks before she came into the room |
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To take a joke |
To not mind a joke being played on |
The teacher could take the joke and didn't punish them. |
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Throw a tantrum |
Behave in a very uncontrolled manner |
The child threw a tantrum when I wouldn't buy him any sweets |
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To come to terms with |
Accept something psychologically |
Nick has found it hard to come to terms with his illness. |
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Reveal your true character |
Opp: conceal/hide your true character |
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Droopy mustache |
Long and hanging down heavily |
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Upturned nose / straight nose |
👃 :)) |
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Sleek hair |
Opp: coarse hair (rough and not smooth or soft 💇) |
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Be Immaculately groomed |
Appearance is always tidy and looked after with great care. |
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Bushy eyebrows |
Very thick eyebrows |
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Tiny tot |
A small child |
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Jet-black hair Fair hair Ginger hair (red or orange-brown color) |
💇 |
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Dumpy woman |
Short and quite fat 🚺 |
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Portly gentleman |
Fat and round (middle-aged 🚹) |
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Lanky youth |
Tall and thin, tending to move awkwardly |
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Disheveled hair/appearance |
Very untidy |
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To bear a striking resemblance (to) |
To look remarkably alike |
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To have a striking appearance |
Unusual appearance in a positive, attractive sense |
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Dysfunctional family |
😡, not working in a healthy way |
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Late husband/ wife |
One who has died |
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Estranged husband/wife |
One who lives in a different place maybe because of trial seperation |
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Acrimonious divorce |
Bitter divorce |
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Broken home |
Opp: stable home |
Extra: deprived home |
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Confirmed bachelor |
A 🚹 with no intention of marrying |
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Apply for custody of Give/ grant custody |
Custody: legal right and duty to care for a child |
The father applied for custody of the children, but the judge gave custody to the mother |
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To set up home |
To start a independent life in one's own flat/ house |
We live with my mum now, but we'll set up home on our own soon. |
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To strike up/ form/ develop a friendship |
To start a friendship |
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To cement a friendship |
Opp: to spoil a friendship |
Spending several weeks in holiday together has cemented their friendship. |
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Short-let accommodation |
Rented for short periods of time |
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Studio flat |
A small flat designed for one person |
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Fully-fitted kitchen |
Kitchen equipped with everything |
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Off-road parking |
Parking place |
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Do up an old house |
Repair, repaint and decorate a house |
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Dilapidated building |
In a state of disrepair or ruin as a result of age or neglect |
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Draughty hall / chilly corridor |
Cold and uncomfortable |
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Cramped room |
Uncomfortably small or restricted |
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Food |
Perishable food (goes bad quickly e.g. cheese, 🐟...) Genetically modified foods (GM foods) Processed foods |
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Meal |
Nourishing meals Ready meals Slap-up meal (unusually large and 👍) Square meal |
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Full houses |
Cinemas/theatres with no empty seats |
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Be engrossed/ absorbed in a book |
To lose yourself into a book |
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Compulsive reading |
So interesting you can't stop reading 📚 |
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Compulsive reading |
So interesting you can't stop reading 📚 |
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Flick/ skim through a book |
Flip through the pages |
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Up-tempo |
Played at a fast beat |
The band have remixed four tracks from earlier albums and Jola's up-tempo numbers just add to the excitement |
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To strum a guitar |
To play a 🎸 |
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Tune the instrument |
Adjust the instrument |
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Put up a fight |
They are likely to put up a fight to gain/get a place in the next stage/round of the competition. |
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Home match - home ground |
Opp: away match - away ground |
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Tackle an opponent |
Players tackle an opponent to try to take possession of the ball. If you tackle in an 🚫 way, you foul your opponent. |
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Take a free kick |
= take a penalty |
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Drop the player (⚽) |
Opp: bring on a substitute |
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Take the lead by half-time (⚽) |
Be in a winning position |
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🚑 to catch + |
A cold, the flu, a chill, pneumonia |
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🚑 to contract + |
A disease, malaria, typhoid |
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🚑 to develop + |
Cancer, diabetes, AIDS, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease |
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🚑 to suffer from + |
Asthma, hat fever, backache |
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🚑 to have an attack of + |
Bronchitis, asthma, hay fever, diarrhoea |
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🚑 to be diagnosed with + |
Cancer, AIDS, leukemia, autism |
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🚑 to suffer/ sustain + |
Injuries |
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Excruciating pain |
= unbearable pain |
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Splitting headache |
Very serious headache |
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Dull ache |
Opp: acute pain |
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The email will bounce |
Come back |
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Job + |
A fulfilling/demeaning/ high-powered/ steady/... job To apply for a job To offer someone a job |
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Work + |
To carry out/ supervise/ complete/ take on/.... work Available to start work To work closely with |
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Career + |
To wreck/ruin one's career To embark on a career To have a career in business A career takes off At the height/peak of one's career One's career lasted.... To climb the career ladder |
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To take charge of |
Bella has a job as a PA, her role is to take charge of her boss |
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To field telephone calls |
Deal with most of the calls except for the most urgent ones (these would be put through boss) |
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To hand in one's notice |
To resign |
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To take the minutes |
To keep the official record of a meeting |
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To make a loss |
Opp: make a profit |
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