CAE Advanced English C1-C2

📣 Attention to all movie buffs! Have you watched anything interesting lately? Do you want to talk about it? ;) Join me tomorrow📍Saturday 2.11 at 🕚 11:00 (GMT +3, Moscow time) to discuss the TV shows and films that left you speechless / puzzled / disappointed / (fill in the blank) ⏲️ 60-75 min / Zoom 💰 500 - No preparation is needed - B2 and above ❗️ A certain degree of consideration is required: some participants might have lower English-speaking skills and/or different preferences and opinions, so please make sure you are okay with this level of discomfort 🤗 Just be nice and considerate at all times ❤️ Please message me if you're interested 🔗@anastasia1mel

to moonlight (as + job) = to have a second job in addition to their main job, often without informing their main employers or the tax office

Wherewithal = resources 📕Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words by Anne Curzan

Without rhyme or reason 📕Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words by Anne Curzan

To tear through books 📚 📕Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words by Anne Curzan

PEDDLE is one of my favorite verbs 😍 What can one peddle? - to peddle fruit and vegetables from a van - to peddle illegal drugs - to peddle clothes and knives (a door-to-door salesperson) - to peddle dubious treatments / nutritional supplements on IG (a self-proclaimed guru on IG) - to peddle bad science to gullible people - to peddle questionable ideas - to peddle some BS (=bullsh*t) - to peddle snake oils (quack doctors) A clip from 📽 Love Guaranteed P.S. Long time no see 🙈 These days I'm busy with my other groups and projects, for example, this one - VK donut club https://vk.com/cae_exam?w=product-111661101_7980144%2Fquery We're learning C1-C2 vocabulary from my mind maps, feel free to join 💫

💠 to sell yourself (too) short = to underestimate yourself 🎦 A Tourist's Guide To Love (2023)

Have you ever heard of negging? = the manipulative practice of making negative or slightly insulting comments to someone you find attractive in order to make them take an interest in you Here's an example (watch the clip) 🔹 veiled insults 🔹 to catch / throw sb off guard 🎦 Puppy Love, 2023 #notes

🔹 to go on a shopping spree - a short period of time that you spend doing one particular activity that you enjoy, but often too much of it - on a buying / spending spree 🔹 to tag along for the ride - to go somewhere with somebody, especially when you have not been asked or invited - Do you mind if I tag along with you tonight? 🔹to come/go along for the ride - (inf) to join in an activity for pleasure but without being seriously interested in it - He wasn't interested in buying anything; he was just along for the ride. - He just came/went along for the ride. #notes

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💪 👏 clout = power and influence political/financial clout 🕶 blinkered = not aware of every aspect of a situation; not willing to accept different ideas about something SYNONYM narrow-minded a blinkered policy/attitude/approach ⭐️ You can't sauna your way out of sth = you can't solve the problem by doing X We can't build our way out of this problem. We can't buy our way out of this crisis. (5/6)