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📚 As if there was no tomorrow, phrase. ❓ Definition: With no regard for the future consequences. ❗️ Examples: 1. I ate as if there was no tomorrow. 2. He gnawed and bit and scratched as if there was no tomorrow! 3. The banks are still lending as if there was no tomorrow. 4. She and Dan would swim and swim as if there was no tomorrow. 5. Before I could say anything, he was kissing me as if there was no tomorrow. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Harness, noun. 🔉 /ˈhɑːnəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A set of straps and fittings by which a horse or other draught animal is fastened to a cart, plough, etc. and is controlled by its driver. ❗️ Examples: 1. He was diminutive, and how he managed to lift the heavy harness on the draught horses for ploughing was more than I could understand. 2. Iron components of the chariot were found in a good state of preservation, including the two wheel rims and hub - hoops, the yoke fittings, harness and horse bits. 3. I went about my usual morning routine, feeding Angel Wing and the pull horses, and putting on the harnesses for the carts. 4. Nash was pleased to see that Fric had padded and rigged the horse's harnesses for silence, as well as shoeing their hoofs with leather covers to muffle their trot. 5. However, small items such as brooches and horse harnesses made out of recycled bronze in native styles have occasionally been found at forts. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Fight one's corner, phrase. ❓ Definition: Defend one's position or interests. ❗️ Examples: 1. We need someone in the cabinet to fight our corner. 2. The company argues that the fact the shareholders are getting anything at all - something some creditors fiercely opposed at the time - was only because the company fought their corner. 3. The same ferocity with which a young, disadvantaged Motherwell side have fought their corner for much of the league campaign was the game's most compelling feature. 4. I fought my corner to the very last, though, and as we waited at the check-out I gave it a final shot. 5. But Mr Jones fought his corner and delivered a prepared, three-minute speech pressing his argument that public services needed to be reformed and firms had to deal with the increasing demands of competition. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Junk food, noun. ❓ Definition (mass noun): Pre-prepared or packaged food that has low nutritional value. ❗️ Examples: 1. I was eating too much junk food. 2. When I was a child I wasn't allowed to eat so much junk food from fast food outlets that I became overweight and ill. 3. That means an annual exposure to thousands of commercials for junk food and fast food. 4. Not only are our kids overfed on junk food and fast food, they are fast becoming victims of the techno age. 5. She may be eating a lot of junk food because the junk food comforts her without judging her. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Sort out the men from the boys, phrase. ❓ Definition: Show or prove who is the best at a particular activity. ❗️ Examples: 1. The mountains apparently sort out the men from the boys. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Straightforward, adjective. 🔉 /streɪtˈfɔːwəd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of a person) honest and frank. ❗️ Examples: 1. A straightforward young man. 2. There is a nice sense of menace developing in it, and I like how none of the characters are straightforward. 3. Men are intensely straightforward and logical beings, and they find this confusing. 4. They are pretty straightforward with me, they know I can handle whatever it takes. 5. Kenneth was trying to hint, but Jessica was more straightforward than the rest of them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Used to express indifference to an insult or abuse. ❗️ Examples: 1. If anyone ever tells you that little rhyme ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me,’ well tell them they are full of it. 2. We say things like ‘actions speak louder than words’, or ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me’. 3. But the child's nursery rhyme is true: sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me. 4. As that old saying goes, sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. 5. Remember the old saying, sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Hung-over, adjective. ❓ Definition: Suffering from a hangover after drinking alcohol. ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘You look distinctly hung-over.’ 2. I was so tired that I slept through everything, and woke up late in the afternoon, refreshed, if not a little hung-over. 3. You are constantly jet-lagged, knackered or hung-over. 4. Nine years ago, whilst hung-over, I fell in the shower. 5. Are you sitting by yourself, eating corn chips, hung-over, depressed about your imminent breakdown, or the news? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Easy does it, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to advise someone to approach a task carefully and slowly. ❗️ Examples: 1. With father's wine in the back I mustn't drive too fast, so easy does it. 2. Easy, easy does it, not too much, just a little bit more. 3. So easy does it with the imagery from now on, I promise. 4. Whether your sending out a quick ‘hello’ or ‘meet us here later’, it's easy does it all the way. 5. Carter shushed her, ‘Hey, easy does it there, Laura.’ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Frankly, adverb. 🔉 /ˈfraŋkli/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: In an open, honest, and direct manner. ❗️ Examples: 1. She talks very frankly about herself. 2. It is time that the parish council told council tax payers what is going on - openly and frankly. 3. I can tell you quite frankly that the stuff from our childhoods is not to be blamed on us. 4. As an Independent councillor he will be able to express frankly what Walcot people say they need. 5. Last night, in an interview to accompany the new portrait, the prince spoke frankly about both issues. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Rest on one's laurels, phrase. ❓ Definition: Be so satisfied with what one has already done or achieved that one makes no further effort. ❗️ Examples: 1. With TV sports coverage becoming increasingly competitive, the BBC should beware of resting on its laurels. 2. He has experienced more adventure than most of us enjoy in a lifetime but he is not resting on his laurels and is already planning further adventures. 3. He is not resting on his laurels and has already begun working for further improvement. 4. We cannot rest on our laurels after the efforts of the weekend. 5. But I've rested on my laurels and never put effort into anything. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ambassador, noun. 🔉 /amˈbasədə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: An accredited diplomat sent by a state as its permanent representative in a foreign country. ❗️ Examples: 1. The French ambassador to Portugal. 2. He also indicated that various foreign ambassadors and high commissioners had expressed similar sentiments. 3. Benjamin Franklin was the US ambassador to absolutist France after the American Revolution. 4. It was conducted by a diplomat who had served as an ambassador to three African countries. 5. Neither letter refers to the resignation of the Eritrean ambassador to Sweden. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Be set in stone, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to emphasize that something is fixed and unchangeable. ❗️ Examples: 1. This pricing scheme is not set in stone and will likely change when the service has a full launch. 2. Anything can change — nothing is written in stone. 3. Your training goals are not written in stone; changes should be made as necessary to work toward a common goal. 4. However, an RFL spokesman said ten teams per division was a minimum, not a fixed figure, while the new format was not yet set in stone. 5. While many thought that the current proposed standard was written in stone might have to change their minds and wait until the squabbling is over. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Suits (2011) - S06E07 💬 And his execution date is set in stone.

📚 Straightforward, adjective. 🔉 /streɪtˈfɔːwəd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Uncomplicated and easy to do or understand. ❗️ Examples: 1. In a straightforward case no fees will be charged. 2. They would have felt easier with a straightforward repayment loan, where each month the debt reduced. 3. Life was easy, straightforward, and if he wanted something done, he just did it. 4. Knowing when to stop is not an easy or straightforward matter in ethnography. 5. Dispassionate analysis of American politics is neither easy nor straightforward. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Hang fire, phrase. ❓ Definition: Delay or be delayed in taking action or progressing. ❗️ Examples: 1. A near agreement was hanging fire because of the concerns of some provinces. 2. Two years ago the District Auditor had warned the council that they must get rid of surplus places, but they had hung fire, because of good schools like Newland, and the upheaval caused to children and staff. 3. I think everyone is hanging fire to see what happens. 4. She said: ‘People have been hanging fire from the outset of the disease to see what happens and because of the outbreak here it's not picking up.’ 5. The international airport project has been hanging fire for the last 10 years, caught in a maze of controversies, suspicions, hurdles and delays. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Evil Under the Sun (1982) 💬 This case has been hanging fire for four months.

📚 Irritable, adjective. 🔉 /ˈɪrɪtəb(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Having or showing a tendency to be easily annoyed. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was tired and irritable. 2. She seemed irritable, and annoyed with my every move. 3. The wait would grate so terribly on my nerves that I could easily be irritable for days afterwards, but that particular drive was different. 4. Will asked, starting to get annoyed, the pain in his head making him more irritable. 5. And these US marines smoking more than usual under the stress of battle conditions are becoming increasingly irritable. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic