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Commuter |
A person who travels from one place to another |
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Bemuse |
To confuse, bewilder |
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Axe |
To lay off, terminate or drastically reduce in a rough matter |
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Brace |
To prepare for something bad; To hold firmly |
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Overground |
Aboveground |
Nadzemno |
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Drift |
Movement |
Nanos, zapuh |
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Dub |
To name, call 📞 To deem To do something badly |
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Nod (to) |
A sign that someone is aware of or wants to recognise the influence of something |
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Flagship |
The most important one out of a related group |
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Atrocious |
Frightful, evil 😈 |
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Placard |
A paper or cardboard with written announcement 📢 |
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Tremendous |
Large, terrific, notable for its size, power ⛮ or excellence |
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Rosette 🏵 |
A rose ribbon |
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Suffragette |
A woman's right ↪ supporter in 20th century |
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Grid |
The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race 🏎 |
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Ludicrous |
Laughable, ridiculous 🤣 |
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Swagger |
To boast or brag, to be proud, To bully |
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Bask |
Breathe in warmth, To take great pleasure or satisfaction, To feel warmth or happiness |
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Complacent |
Self-satisfied |
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Revile /rɪˈvʌɪl/ |
To attack someone with abusive language |
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Misogyny |
Hatred of, or prejudice towards women ♀ |
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Sash window 🖼 |
A window consisting of two sliding panels |
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Timber |
Trees 🌳🌲 in a forest regarded as source of wood |
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Warp |
To bend |
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Scaffold |
A structure made for workers to stand on while working on a building 🏢 |
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Glazing |
Part of a window made out of glass 🍷 |
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Abound |
To be full, to be available in large numbers 🔢 |
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Ensue |
To follow, to occur afterwards |
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Speculation |
Process of thinking 💭 and speculating |
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Stack |
A pile |
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Deem |
To judge, sentence To think 🤔 or hold as an opinion Decide or believe |
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Tangible |
Touchable, Real or concrete, Understandable |
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Relegate |
Exile, banish, remove, Assign |
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Deploy |
To prepare or arrange, To unfold or open 🔓 |
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Kudos |
Praise, credit for one's achievements |
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Cart round |
To carry around with you |
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If/when it comes to the crunch |
If/when a situation becomes extremely serious and a decision must be made |
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Speak volumes |
Tell a lot |
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Paperback |
A book 📖 with a flexible binding |
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Tome |
One in a series of volumes, A large scholarly book 📑 |
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Say something off 📴 the top 🔝 of your head |
Say the first thing that comes to mind |
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Be a load off your mind |
The relief 😌 after sharing what you're thinking or feeling with others |
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Be at your wits end |
Be worried 😓 , confused 😕, annoyed |
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Be the brains behind something |
To be the person responsible for a certain plan or idea |
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Come face to face with |
To confront or encounter directly |
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Cross Somebody's mind |
Think 🤔 about something or someone for a short time ⌚ |
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Give someone a piece of your mind |
To speak angrily to someone about something they've done |
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Go to someone's head |
To make someone conceited |
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To have a mind of its own |
To behave in a way which cannot be controlled |
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Keep a straight face 😔 |
Not showing emotions |
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Keep your wits about you |
Stay calm |
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Bang your head against a (brick) wall 🤕 |
To try to do something that is difficult and it makes you feel frustrated |
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Lose/save face 😔 |
Be humiliated/avoid humiliation |
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Put your mind to something |
To decide you want to do something and try very hard to achieve it |
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Rack your brains |
To think 🤔 very hard |
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Knack |
A skill |
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Succinctly /sə(k)ˈsɪŋkt/ |
Briefly, concisely |
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Discern |
To detect with eyes 👀, To recognise, To distinguish something as being different |
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Discrepancy |
Inconsistency |
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Disinterested |
Impartial |
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Exhaustive |
Including every possible element |
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Historical |
Of concerning or in accordance with history |
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Historic |
Very important, noteworthy |
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Industrious |
Hard-working |
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Gobbledygook |
Nonsense, Something written in an overly complex or incomprehensible manner |
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Faze |
To frighten or cause hesitation |
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Liable |
Probable |
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Have a good mind to do something |
To think that you might do something, often because something has annoyed you |
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Homestead |
A house 🏡 together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm |
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Gargantuan |
Huge, immense, colossal |
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Folly |
Foolishness, Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequences |
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Heed |
Careful attention, To guard 💂, protect, To regard with care, Take notice of |
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Subsidy |
Financial support or assistance |
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Creosote bush |
A common North American desert 🏜 shrub |
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Arid /ˈæ.ɹɪd/ |
Very dry |
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Gash |
A deep cut |
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Loom |
To threaten, or hang over |
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Spawning grounds |
A place where fish 🐠 leave their eggs for fertilisation |
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Desecrate |
To violate the sanctity of something |
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Trample |
To crush something by walking 🚶 on it |
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Vow |
A promise to do something, or behave in a certain way, A declaration |
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Watershed |
A region of land within which water flows down into a specified body, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean; |
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Pulverise |
To completely destroy, especially by crushing to fragments or powder |
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Calamity |
An event resulting in great loss |
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Advocacy |
The act of arguing in favour of, or supporting someone |
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Unwavering |
Never doubted, constant |
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Appease |
To calm, to come to terms with |
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Stoical |
Enduring pain without complaint |
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Prospect |
A landscape, Anticipation, A hope |
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Hiss |
Any expression of disapproval made using such a sound 🔊 |
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Glint |
A short flash of light 💡 |
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Thrust |
A push, stab, lunge forward, A goal |
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Laying-out |
To prepare a corpse for viewing |
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Muse |
To become lost in thought 💭, To say something with consideration |
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Reel |
To spin, to walk shakily, To back 🔙 off 📴 or step away, To be in shock 😲 |
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Bloat |
To swell, To fill with vanity |
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Recriminate |
To accuse in return |
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Shutter |
Protective panels on windows |
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Mound |
Globe 🌍, An artificial hill |
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Snatch |
To grasp quickly, To steal, |
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Tarp |
A heavy, waterproof sheet of material used as a blanket |
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Holler |
To yell, shout, to call out, Complain |
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Stringent |
Strict |
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Go-between |
A matchmaker who tries to arrange marriages |
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Laden |
Bearing, carrying |
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Putrefying |
Rotting |
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Indisposition |
Aversion |
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Bear me witness |
Be my witness |
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Fervent |
Showing enthusiasm, zeal, passion |
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Tenterhooks |
Worried or nervous about something that's going to happen |
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Quirky |
Silly, awkward |
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Scope |
Depth of reach of a subject, A domain, A possibility |
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Daunting |
Overwhelming, intimidatingly impressive |
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Eclectic |
A mixture of various doctrines, methods or styles, Diverse way of thinking 💭 |
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Foresight |
The ability to see or prepare wisely for the future 🔮 |
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Endeavour |
An attempt |
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Intricate |
Complicated or detailed |
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Cloze |
A form of written examination in which candidates are required to provide words that have been omitted from sentences, thereby demonstrating their knowledge and comprehension of the text |
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Farm out |
Give work ⚒ to other people instead of doing it yourself |
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Ease off |
Start doing less or do things with less energy ⚡ |
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Step aside |
Leave a job or position, especially so that someone else can do it |
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Call out |
Order workers 👷 to strike |
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See through |
Continue doing a job until it is finished, especially when it's difficult |
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Bogged down |
Become so involved in the details of something that you cannot achieve anything |
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Slog away |
Keep working very hard, usually for a long period of time ⌚ |
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Get passed over |
Are not given a higher position because it is given to someone else |
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Pack in |
Stop ✋ doing something, especially a job |
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Fling into |
Start to spend a lot of your time and energy ⚡ doing something |
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Get off |
Leave a place where you work, usually at the end of the day |
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Cut out for |
Have the right qualities for something, especially a job |
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Knuckle down |
Start to work or study hard, especially if you haven't been working very hard before |
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Plug away |
Work hard at something for a long time ⌚ |
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Cobble together |
Make something quickly and not very carefully |
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Coast along |
Do only the things that you have to do without trying to go faster or be more successful |
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Put through |
Pay for them to study at university 🎓 |
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Sail ⛵ through |
Easily pass |
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Get into |
Succeed in getting a place (at a school 🏫, college 🎓 or an organisation) |
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Buckle down |
Start working ⚒ hard |
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Major in |
Study something as their main subject at university 🎓 |
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Get through |
Succeed (in an examination or competition) |
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Count towards |
Be a part of what was needed in order to complete something |
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Leave behind |
Made much faster progress than others |
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Cream off 📴 |
Separate the cleverest or most skillful people from a group and treat them differently |
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Count against |
Contribute to bad marks |
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Mark down |
Give a lower ☟ mark |
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Fall behind |
Fail to remain level with a group of people who are moving forward |
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Scrape through |
Pass but only just |
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Poring over |
Studying carefully |
Pore over/through |
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Skim through |
Read quickly without studying the details |
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Bury in |
Give all the attention to |
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Check off |
Write 📝 something next to each item on a list 📃 in order to make sure that everything or everyone on it is correct, present, or has been dealt with |
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Cross off |
Remove a word from a list 📃 by drawing a line through it |
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Come across |
Been expressed clearly enough for the reader to understand it |
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Relish |
To taste; To take great pleasure in; To look forward to |
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Grimy |
Covered with grime (=dirt, grease that is difficult to remove) |
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Officialdom |
The people elected to government or employed in the civil service |
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Fraught |
Loaded up Distressed or causing distress |
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Allure |
To entice, attract, seduce |
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Hub |
The central part of a wheel The point where many routed meet and traffic is distributed or diverted |
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Old chestnut |
A well-worn story |
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Potter about |
To be moderately active doing various things in an almost aimless manner |
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Pruning |
Obrezivanje |
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Odd |
One, single, sole |
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Stately home 🏡 |
A country house owned by the aristocracy |
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Foreseeable |
Able to be anticipated |
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Fleece |
To con or trick someone out of money 💵 |
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Souvenir |
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Sulky |
Refusing to smile or be pleasant to people, usually because you are angry about something |
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Pull plug 🔌 |
To put to a stop ✋ |
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Entice |
To lure, attract |
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Exhilarating |
Thrilling (sp*) |
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Deranged |
Insane |
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Feel the heat 🔥 |
To encounter an uncomfortable situation |
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Perceptibly |
Sp* |
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Voice in the wilderness |
Making a suggestion that is ignored |
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Stifle |
To repress, keep in or hold back 🔙 |
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Tides of history |
Events or forces that are difficult or impossible to control |
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Far cry |
Very different from |
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Vagabonding |
Wandering |
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Ravage |
To destroy; To lay waste to something |
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Dodgy |
Risky, unreliable |
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Whinge |
To complain in an annoying manner |
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Wind up ☝️ |
End up in a specific place, situation or state |
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Blazing row |
A very angry 😡 argument |
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Rant and rave |
Shout and complaining angrily in an uncontrolled way |
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Commandeer |
To take arbitrarily or by force |
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March to the beat of your own drum 🥁 |
Do things your own way without taking other people into consideration |
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Defiant /dɪˈfaɪ(j)ənt/ |
Dareful, rebellious |
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Graze |
To rub or touch slightly the surface of something |
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Plume |
Feather |
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Neckline |
The line followed by clothing below the neck |
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Crust |
To cover with a decorative materials |
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Faze |
To cause hesitation or frighten |
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Leave to own devices |
To allow someone to do as they please |
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Avid |
Enthusiastic, eager |
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Fervent |
Exhibiting zeal, passion, persistence |
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Outlandish |
Bizarre, strange |
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Cliffhanger |
An ending or stopping point calculated to leave a story unsolved to create suspense |
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Break the mould |
To be new and different |
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Quaint |
Old-fashioned |
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Barren |
Deserted |
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Bustling |
Full of activity |
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Pristine |
Unspoiled, still with its original purity, perfect ; primitive |
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Lush |
Dense, teeming with life |
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Undergrowth |
Low plants |
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Stifle |
To interrupt; to repress; to smother |
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Pack in |
To stop ✋ doing something (a job) |
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Beset |
To surround, to attack from all sides |
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Outback |
The most remote and distant areas of Australia 🇦🇺 |
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Go off the ends of the world 🌍 |
No limit to the effort |
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Out in the sticks |
Living in the countryside or rural area |
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Backwater |
A remote place, unaffected by new events or ideas |
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Back of beyond |
Extremely remote |
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Upshot |
A concise summary; the final result |
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Repercussion |
The consequence or result |
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Black pudding |
A sausage made from pork 🐷 blood, oats and spices |
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Haggis |
Scottish dish made from minced sheep 🐑 offal with spices and oats |
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Head cheese |
A mush of pork 🐷 scraps boiled and poured into an mold |
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Knock-down |
(of a price): very low |
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Porcini |
Vrganj |
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Nettle |
Kopriva |
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Trout |
Pastrva 🐠 |
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Venison |
Deer meat 🦌 |
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Game |
A meat 🍖 of wild animals |
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Way to unwind |
A way to relieve stress |
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Allotment |
A plot of land rented from the council for growing fruit and vegetables |
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Stress buster |
Something to alleviate stress |
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Stay abreast of |
To know all the recent information |
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Flit |
To fly ✈ or move quickly and lightly |
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Fall into place |
Become natural |
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Be out of place |
Don't belong somewhere |
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In place |
Be ready |
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To clinch |
To make certain; To embrace passionately, to close tightly |
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Refurbish |
To restore, rebuild |
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Warrant |
A protector; A certification, a guarantee |
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Prime |
First in time, excellent, important |
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Incentive |
Something that motivates or encourages; a bonus or reward |
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Stamp duty |
A tax levied upon certain documents, a stamp being applied to show that tax has been paid |
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Keep you eyes 👀 peeled |
To be on the alert, to watch carefully or vigilantly for something |
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To market |
To make available for sale |
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Counter |
To contradict, oppose |
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Sweetener |
Something given or added to a deal to sweeten another's attitude, a bribe |
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(Take something at) face value |
The value or price that is shown on something |
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A case of smoke and mirrors |
Trickery, deception |
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Recoup |
To take back as an investment |
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Subsidise |
To assist someone or something by granting a subsidy (=financial support) |
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To drive a mean deal |
Argue with determination in order to achieve something |
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Soaring |
Increasing quickly in amount or number |
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Crook |
A criminal |
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Adulterate |
To corrupt, spoil by adding impurities ; to commit adultery |
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Backbencher |
A member of Parliament who does not have a cabinet rank |
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Adrift |
Failing to reach a target or winning position |
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Recreational drug |
Psychoactive drug taken deliberately for the effect it has it has on the mind rather than for its medicinal effects |
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Sommelier |
Waiter, server |
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To police |
To enforce a law |
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Denominator |
One who gives names to something; shared trait |
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Posturing |
Exaggerated pose or attitude |
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Prevalence /prɛvələns/ |
To be widespread |
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Cartilage /ˈkɑːtɪlɪd͡ʒ/ |
Connective tissue |
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Spur |
An appendage or spike pointing rearward |
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Linger |
To stay or remain in a place or situation |
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Flurry |
A light, brief snowfall ❄ |
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Drizzle |
To rain ☔ lightly |
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Hazy |
Not clear |
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Overcast |
Cloudy |
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Bulk |
The major part of something |
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Rainband |
A cloud ☁ associated with an area of rainfall |
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Cartridge |
A container designed for insertion into a mechanism |
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Conundrum |
Riddle, dilemma |
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Blot out |
To cause something to disappear; to make obscure (=unclear, difficult to understand) |
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Plunder |
To destroy all the goods by force; to commit robbery |
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Robust |
Strong 💪, violent |
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Batch |
A quantity of something produced at one time |
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Skewer |
Fasten together or pierce with a pin 📍 or a skewer 🍢 |
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Big-ticket |
Having a high price |
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Woolgather |
To daydream |
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Lodging |
Sleeping accommodation |
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Skirmish |
A brief battle between small groups, minor dispute |
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Tatters |
Badly damaged and spoiled |
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Withered |
Shrunken |
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Crack-shot |
Someone skilled at shooting a gun 🔫 |
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Akin |
Of similar character, related by blood |
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Mantelpiece 🕰 |
A structure around the fireplace |
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Forbear |
To avoid, To refuse |
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Pique |
Irritate, annoy, To provoke |
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Portly |
overweight, handsome |
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Dandy |
A man overly concerned with his appearance |
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Partake |
to participate, to take a share or portion (of) |
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Peruse |
to examine, to read completely |
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Clatter |
A rattling noise, Noisy talk |
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Brougham /ˈbruːm/ |
A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage |
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Tread |
A step, A path |
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Ajar |
slightly turned or opened |
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Demeanour |
behaviour |
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Patent nostrum |
a commercial product without scientific proof of its effectiveness |
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Kipper |
a male salmon after spawning |
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Kedgeree /ˈkedʒəriː/ |
a European dish |
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Dab |
to poke |
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Impishly |
Mischievously |
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Gruffly |
Hoarse-voiced, Roughly |
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Make sport of |
make fun of |
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Testy |
Easily annoyed, Impatient |
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Insoluble |
cannot be solved, mysterious, cannot be dissolved |
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Jolt |
To push or to shake abruptly, To shock someone into taking action, To shock emotionally |
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Rookery |
A place where criminals gather |
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Warren |
A mazelike place of dark alleys |
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Cutthroat |
a murderer who slits the throats of victims |
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Nether region |
Hell, A subterranean place |
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Attestation |
Validation |
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Rooming house |
A building 🏢 that is divided into flats or rooms which people rent to live in |
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Usher in |
to announce the arrival of |
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Prod (at) |
poke, jab |
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Wrought iron |
Iron that can be bent into attractive shapes |
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Boot-scraper |
Construction consisting of an upright metal shape placed outside the houses to enable people to scrape the mud from their boots 👢 |
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Flank |
To be placed to the sides of something, usually in terms of two objects, one on each side |
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Burly |
Large, muscular 💪 Amazing |
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Constable |
A police officer 👮 |
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Bedsit |
Single room used both as a sitting room and bedroom |
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Bile |
Bitterness of temper, Ill humor, Gall (žuč) |
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Slab |
A large and flat solid object |
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Gout |
A splot on (stain) |
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Ichor |
A watery discharge from a sore |
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Hazard (v) |
To take a risk |
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Vial |
A bottle, usually a small one to store medicine or perfume |
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Stopper |
Someone that stops something, Cork, To close a container by using a stopper |
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Assent |
To agree |
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Greatcoat |
A heavy overcoat |
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Doff |
To remove or take off (a hat), To get rid of |
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Footman |
A male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the table, ... |
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Stark |
Hard, firm, Severe, Complete |
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Marksman |
Someone skilled at hitting targets 🎯 |
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Palsy |
Paralysis |
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Chink |
A sound of metal objects touching each other |
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Handlebar moustache |
Moustache with long and upwardly curved extremities |
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Contralto |
Lowest female voice |
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Uncoil |
To unwind |
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Pervasive |
Affecting everything, Manifested throughout |
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Soot |
Black particles |
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Rove |
Immoral and lecherous person |
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Venerable |
Respectable, Ancient |
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Stout |
Large, Strong 💪, Proud, Firm |
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Den |
A wretched (=miserable, worthless) place |
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Patter |
A series of quick, quiet, tapping sounds |
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Hothouse |
A heated greenhouse |
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Opine |
To express an opinion |
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Unbidden |
Not invited, requested or asked for |
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Wen |
a cist on the skin |
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Avert |
To turn aside or away, To prevent |
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(Un)perturb |
To disturb |
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Saucy |
Disrespectful, often in a way that is regarded as amusing, Sharp |
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Peer (at) |
To look with difficulty |
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Drawl |
to drag on slowly and heavily, to utter in a dull, spiritless tone |
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Feign |
To make a false pretence, To imagine, to pretend |
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Shag |
Rough shredded tobacco |
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Puff away |
To take brief inhalations of, from, or out of sth |
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Pipe-dream |
Fantasy, illusion, unattainable hope |
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Cupidity |
Extreme greed |
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Procrustean |
Pointless and ruthless demand for conformity |
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Kerb |
The edge between pavement and road |
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Jangle |
To make a rattling metallic sound, to irritate |
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Coffin nail |
a cigarette |
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Fathead |
an idiot, a fool |
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Dottle |
A remnant of tobacco left in a pipe after smoking |
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Stride |
a long step |
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Bootscraper |
An instrument for scraping dirt from the boots |
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Quarry |
A site for mining stone |
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Cove |
A man |
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Recompense |
compensation, payback |
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Taciturn |
Silent 😶 |
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Behoove |
To suit, To be in the best interest of |
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Predilection |
Tendency towards |
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Procure |
To obtain |
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Estimable |
Admirable, valuable |
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At large |
on the loose |
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Tentative |
Experimental, uncertain |
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Herald |
to announce an event, to greet something with excitement, a messenger |
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A shift away from |
To move or to cause someone or something to move to a different place or position |
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Abode |
a residence |
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Idyllic |
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Gleaming |
Shining, glowing |
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Conducive |
Encourage, contribute to |
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Glaze |
Transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint 🎨 |
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Facade |
front part of a building, a deceptive outward appearance |
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Grid |
A rectangular array of squares, such as crossword puzzle |
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Dismantle |
To take apart, to disassemble |
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Gilded |
Made of gold or covered by a thin layer of gold |
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Fete /feɪt/ |
To celebrate 🎉, To welcome or praise |
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Gutted |
eviscerated |
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Upheaval |
A big change that causes a lot of confusion, worry or problems |
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Grass-roots |
People and society at the local level |
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Alcove |
A small area set off from a large room |
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Bay window |
A window space projecting outward from main walls |
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Beam |
greda |
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Loft |
an attic |
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Wring |
To squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out, To obtain by force, to torture |
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To draw a line |
Not allow or accept something, because you think it is wrong |
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Dormer window |
An upright window built from a roof |
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Maintain a facade (of) |
A superficial appearance or illusion of something |
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Windowsill |
A horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame |
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Keep things in perspective |
To look at the whole picture 🖼 |
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A fine line |
A subtle distinction between two ✌️ concepts |
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Down to a fine art |
To practice something so much that you become skilled in it |
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Have designs on |
To have a secret desire and plan to get something |
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Draw the line |
Not agree to do things |
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On a shoestring |
A small or inadequate budget |
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Scale back 🔙 |
To minimise or reduce something in size or scope |
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Mains |
The pipes of a centralised water supply that transport water to buildings 🏢 |
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Ploy |
Tactic, strategy or gimmick |
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Permafrost |
Permanently frozen ground |
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Thaw |
To gradually melt, dissolve |
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Exacerbate |
To make worse |
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Dire |
Warning of bad consequences, urgent, terrible |
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White-knuckle |
Causing extreme excitement or fear 😱 |
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Recount |
To tell over |
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Hark back |
To evoke |
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Intrinsic |
Essential, innate |
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Watchdog |
An organisation that monitors the behaviour of others |
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Slip through the net |
Avoid being caught by the system |
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Hectic |
Busy with activity |
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Adverse |
Unfavourable, Contrary, Opposite |
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Fraternity |
A group of people associated for a common purpose |
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Means to an end 🔚 |
Any action carried out for the purpose of achieving something else |
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Don't bite off more than you can chew |
To try to do too much |
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Wane |
Decrease in power, value, intensity |
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Detract |
To take away, To take credit or reputation from |
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Backdrop |
A decorated cloth hung at the back of the stage |
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Mortar |
A mixture used for bonding building blocks |
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Root out |
To remove or abolish completely, To search for and discover |
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Garment |
A piece of clothing |
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Be in someone's good books 📚 |
They are pleased with you |
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Judge a book by its cover |
You cannot know what someone is like by looking only on their appearance |
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Read between the lines ⚞ |
Look for a hidden meaning |
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Read somebody like a book 📖 |
To be able to understand easily what someone is thinking or feeling |
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Speak volumes |
To tell a lot |
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Take a leaf out of someone's book |
To behave or do something in a way that someone else would |
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Babble |
Idle talk, Inarticulate speech |
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Coax |
To persuade someone by use of flattery to do something |
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Gabble |
Talk fast ⏩ |
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Mutter |
Speak in a low voice |
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Rabbit |
To babble annoyingly |
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Wheedle |
To persuade |
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Attentive |
Paying attention |
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Prolific |
Fertile |
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Discerning |
Of keen insight or good judgement |
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Voracious |
Having a great appetite for anything |
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Tete-a-tete |
A private conversation, Head-to-head |
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Disinterested |
Free of bias, impartial |
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Uninterested |
Not interested |
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Historic |
Very impressive, noteworthy |
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Historical |
Concerning with history |
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Industrious |
Hard-working |
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Underlie |
Serve as the basis of |
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Pick at |
Eat small amounts |
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Gobble your food 🍲 down ⬇ |
Eat very fast |
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Wolf 🐺 down ⬇ |
Eat very fast |
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Eat in |
Eat at home 🏡 |
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Send out for |
Phone 📱 a restaurant and ask for food 🍲 to be delivered to you |
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Serve up |
Serve |
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Slice up |
Cut with the knife 🔪 |
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Help yourself to |
Put on a plate 🍽 for oneself |
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Agree 👍 / disagree 👎 with |
Makes you feel slightly ill 🤒 or uncomfortable |
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Cut out |
Stop ✋ eating |
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Fry-ups |
Quick meals made of fried food 🍲 |
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Fill you up ☝️ |
Makes you feel that you've eaten enough |
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Put on |
Gain |
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Wash down ⬇ |
Help you swallow it |
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Drink to someone / something |
Hold up your glass 🍷 before drinking from it in order to wish someone success or happiness |
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Dip something in |
Quickly put in and take it out again |
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Soak up |
Absorb |
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Water 💦 down ⬇ |
Make it less strong 💪 by adding water 💦 or other liquid |
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Spill over |
Flow over the edge |
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It's in the bag 💼 |
It's safe |
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It's on the cards 🎴 |
it is very likely to happen |
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It's touch and go |
You are uncertain whether it will happen or succeed |
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It's anyone's guess |
It is not possible for anyone to really know something |
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It's all up in the air |
It is uncertain, often because other matters have to be decided first |
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It's a foregone conclusion |
An inevitable result |
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The writings on the wall |
Clear sign that something is going to fail, something bad is going to happen |
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I can feel it in my bones |
I am sure that it will happen |
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Your guess is as good as mine |
You know as little about something as the person who is asking you about it |
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Without a shadow of a doubt |
Certainly true |
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That'll be the day! |
It is very unlikely |
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Pigs 🐷 might fly |
Something will never happen |
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Just to be on the safe side |
To be especially careful in order to avoid something unpleasant |
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An educated guess |
A guess based on knowledge and experience and therefore likely to be correct |
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Just in case |
To protect against something bad that could happen |
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The benefit of the doubt |
To decide that you will believe someone, even though you are not sure that what the person is saying is true |
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Change your mind |
To change your opinion |
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Change of plan |
A change to plans that were made |
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Change hands 👐 |
(of a business or building) pass to a different owner |
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Change your ways |
Permanently improve your behaviour or the way of doing something |
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Change the subject |
Start talking about something else |
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Change places |
To be in another person's situation |
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Change your turn |
Change your opinion completely |
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Have a change of heart ♥ |
Change your opinion or the way you feel about something |
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Change of direction |
Start ▶ doing something completely new or different |
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You can't teach an old dog 🐶 new tricks |
You cannot make people change their ways |
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A leopard 🐆 can't change its spots |
One can't change one's nature |
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Turn over a new leaf 🍃 |
Start ▶ to act or behave in a better or more responsible way |
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Go from strength to strength 💪 |
Develop or progress with increasing success |
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A breath of fresh air |
Someone or something that makes a situation feel new, different, and exciting |
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On the horizon |
Likely to happen or exist soon |
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Make a clean break |
Start doing something in a different way |
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Take shape |
To start to develop a more clear or certain form |
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Just between you and me |
No one else can know |
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Talking to a brick wall |
To be like being ignored |
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Get it off your chest |
Confine in someone |
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Can't get a word in edgeways |
To not to be able to speak because someone else is talking so much |
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Talking nineteen to the dozen |
To talk rapidly, hurriedly, energetically |
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Breathe a word of this |
To tell a secret |
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Beating about the bush |
Hesitate |
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Put in a good word for you |
To say positive things about someone |
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Heard it on the grapevine |
To hear news from someone who heard it from someone else |
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Talk the hind legs off a donkey |
To talk without stopping for a long time |
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On the same wavelength |
To think in a similar way and to understand each other well |
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The gift 🎁 of the gab |
Ability to speak fluently, persuasively and confidently |
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Straight from the horse's 🐴 mouth 👄 |
From the source |
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Go on a bit |
To talk in an annoying way about something for a long time ⌚ |
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Get straight to the point |
Be direct |
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Get the message |
To understand what someone is trying to tell you |
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Have a quick word with you |
Discuss something briefly |
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Keep you posted |
Keep you updated |
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Wouldn't trust him an inch |
Not trust at all |
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Lead you up the garden path |
Deceive you by making you believe something which is not true |
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Snake 🐍 in the grass |
A treacherous person |
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Stab in the back |
Betrayed |
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Take advantage of |
To use |
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Taken for a ride |
Been deceived |
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Pull the wool over my eyes 👀 |
To deceive, fool, misdirect someone |
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Under false pretences |
By pretending that a certain circumstance or condition was true |
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Behind my back |
Without a person's knowledge and in an unfair way |
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Two-faced |
Not sincere |
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Lie through you teeth |
To tell someone something that you know is completely false |
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Trust someone as far as you can throw them |
Don't trust someone at all |
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Daylight robbery |
Overpaying for something |
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White lie |
Innocent lie |
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Be on the fiddle |
Earn money 💵 by doing illegal or dishonest things |
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Don't believe a word |
Don't believe anything someone says |
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Friction |
A disagreement among people who have different opinion about something |
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Flip side |
Different and less welcomed aspect of an idea or argument |
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Hand-wringing |
The excessive display of concern or distress |
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Fermentation |
A state of excitement |
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Oscillate |
To swing back and forth, To be indecisive between two conflicting opinions |
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Public outcry |
A strong public expression of anger and disapproval about something |
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Ambience |
A mood or atmosphere of an environment |
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Invigorating |
Giving strength 💪 or energy ⚡ |
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Rein (sb/sth) in |
To stop or slow by exercising control |
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Infuse |
To extract the soluble constituents by soaking in the liquid |
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Detractor |
A person who degrades the value of another person |
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Facilitate |
To make easy, To preside over (a meeting) |
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Atone |
To compensate for an offence or a crime you have committed |
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Hot spot |
A place of high level of activity or danger |
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Nexus |
The centre of something, A form of connection |
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Adorn |
To decorate |
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Ethos |
The fundamental values of a person or people |
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Polymath |
A person with broad and comprehensive knowledge |
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Deign |
To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity. |
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