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My job is really tough, Yesterday was a tough day. First and foremost, most importantly, primarily First and foremost I'd like to thank my family |
If you want to improve your English, first and foremost, you need to improve your vocabulary. |
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Nine-to-five job, boring, stable job,not an exciting job I know you love being a musician, but you really need a nine-to-five job to pay the bills. |
Football has made me who I am today. How so?, tell me more, why do you say that?, please explain, In what way? |
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Elsewhere, somewhere else, In another place, I've just taken that energy and refocused it elsewhere in my life. |
An edge, a better position than the competition. It definitely gives you an edge. His hard work gives him an edge on the competition, Michael phelp' long arms definitely gave home an edge. |
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No doubt, certainly, that's true, He's the best athlete no doubt about it. To be let down, to be disappointed, Your parents will really be let down when they find out about what you did, Not getting accepted to the top universitie was a huge letdown for her. |
To put in, make an effort do sth, I'll be proud of the work that I put in. I try to put in one hour of exercise every day. How much time and effort are you putting into practicing your English. |
I usually drink beer but I do like wine as well. He used to drink wine, but he did drink beer as well. Also, too |
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For emphasis or clarification I usually drink wine, but I do like beer as well. He used to drink wine, but he did drink beer as well As well, also, too |
It's fun, I fit the mold To be the type they want To have the needed characteristics
Everybody has a good side. |
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To throw under the bus= To harm smn, to hurt smn for your own benefit, to betray. I'm shocked that my colleague threw me under the bus |
It was the manager's fault but I got thrown under the bus instead. |
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For lack of a better term or for lack of a better word. I can't think of a better word That's the best word I can't find now.l He is, for lack of a better word, crazy. |
That's the most important thing is to have fun. That comes across, probably ,too when something comes across people notice, it's noticeable, it gives the impression. He comes across as a cool person,,, as a nice peoson |
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When you first met me, how did I come across? What impression did u have of me? What did u think of me? What did u notice? |
Craig used to get to and day to day life well, as an actor he gets to do things that he normally doesn't get to do in his day-to-day life and what does day-to-day life mean it's ordinary life, routine, everyday life. Some people like to go to Las Vegas to escape their day-to-day lives |
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To live it up, to have an exciting life, to have an good time, to party, to live for today, to not worry so much about the future. You love socializing, you're living it up |
Ever since he won lottery he's been living it up. He's very serious and careful about money, but his brother loves to live it up. You can say come on, have fun live it up |
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To lay low, to like to relax, to be in the background, don't need to be the center of attention. Are you the type that generally prefers to live it up or do u generally prefer to lay low. You can say for example let's stay home and lay low tonight. Let's not go out |
Vice,bad of destructive habit ,something immoral, for example gambling, alcohol, lying, stealing, cheating, those are vices |
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Repercussions, negative consequence, effects of bad actions. You can say to someone, I'm warning you if you do that there will be repercussion |
His least favourite thing about acting is ot so often it's hurry up and wait. That means sometimes people make you hurry and when you arrive, you have to wait People are not ready yet. You have to wait for sth to happen or smn to do sth that's very frustrating. He said they rush to get you to set and what does that mean that's the location where they're filming that's called a film set |
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It's just kind of always up in the air, nobody really knows the schedule if sth is up in the air it's not decided it's not certain, the schedule is not fixed. Nobody knows the exact schedule, it's up in the air. The decision hasn't been made yet. You can say did you get the job? I don't know it's still up in the air |
Nobody ever really knows the schedule and even if they do it's hard to stick to it What is stick to it mean? to stick to sth means to do what you promised, to do what is planned, you don't change the plans. Let's stick to our original schedule. He decided to quit smoking. I hope he can stick to it. |
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Would do u like some dessert? No thank you I'm trying hard to stick to my diet.it's a lot of down time. Down time means a period of inactivity especially between jobs when you're doing nothing you have a lot of down time a lot of free time. |
I am working two jobs and I have zero downtime. I'll call u when I get some downtim It's part of the game that's the way it goes, that's how it's done, that's the reality of the situation that's how it works so you can't complain or be upset about it. If you want to play the stock market, Risk is part of the game |
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The pros and cons means the good parts and the bad parts, the positives and the negatives, reasons for and against. What are the pros and cons of living in LA? |
To outweigh, to be more valuable than any other thing, more important Craig said the pros definitely outweigh and the cons, there are lot of more pros than cons |
You can use out like this I'm going to do it, the Benefits outweigh the Risks. There are so many more benefits to being an actor than negative aspects I'm going to stick to it. I'm not going to stop, I'm gonna continue to do it. Because I really liked it and I hope that you stick with learning English and you stick with watching these videos |
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Dwindle My saving account has dwindled. His popularity as an actor is dwindling |
Become smaller, to reduce over time,to decrease,shrink My enthusiasm has dwindled. |
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Typecast Because of his strong facial features and angry expressions, he's often typecast as a criminal. |
To always give an actor the same type of role, to hire to play the same character in every film. |
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To get stuck I don't like my job, I don't want to get stuck in this job. I'm so sorry I was late I was stuck in traffic My car got stuck in the snow |
To stay in one place, to not be able to move further, to not be able to leave |
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To book, 1.Get hired 2.make a reservation. We booked him for the role I'm so happy I booked that film. I got hired. I booked the hotel The hotel is fully booked. We need to find different hotels |
To hire an actor for performance, to give an actor a job |
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