Gd19 Flashcards
Beat it = go away
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Crash sb’s dreams
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Wisp of cloud/smoke/steam/grass/hair
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It resulted in a sulk on my part
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A man rushed past and jogged her elbow, making her drop the bag
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Brush a strand of blonde hair from her face
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I resisted the impulse
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I tried to hear what they were saying, but I only managed to catch a few snatches of conversation
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They tried to describe their attempts to fill the void left by their son’s death
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Longing cannot indefinitely direct itself at those we know, for their qualities are charted and therefore lack the mystery longing demands
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A desire that seems as undefinable as it is unquenchable
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My words were time-bound promises
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I looked under the bonnet and clouds of smoke poured out
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The woman I knew abruptly appeared foreign to me
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A leather-clad mechanic
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We were ready to continue, but my desire signaled otherwise
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I was not alone in my erratic moods
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I might get furious with Chloe not for the surface reason
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Reason is a bedrock of continuity
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The trajectory of an arrow in flight
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We are facing an intractable problem
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Fall head over heels in love with sb
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It reined us whenever there was an urge to develop romantic subplots or digress from our love story
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A furious row erupted
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His appendix ruptured and he had to be rushed to hospital
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Moderate our mood swings
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Defend ourselves against love’s demise
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A large fitted kitchen with the sleekest appliances in the basement
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The waiting room was full of people leafing through magazines
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I recalled Alice waxing lyrical about the flatness of her stomach
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It seems so cut off from everything, like a paradise no one’s bothered to ruin
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Tend the goats
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She suddenly winced with pain
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It is very easy to empathize with the characters in her books
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She had fallen ill early in her Spanish sojourn
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Mountain sickness
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Earthly happiness might be within their grasp
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I could not wait till the event had slipped into history
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The anxieties routinely exploded into argument
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The arguing, sulking and reconciliation were over
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By all means, hail a cab/taxi
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We will arrange time-off for you next week
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We will reimburse you later
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He had no qualms about divorcing her
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A third/fifth wheel
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I’ll be ready at six, give or take a few minutes
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It costs $200, give or take
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A big strapping lad like you shouldn’t have much difficulty lifting that
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Which teacher did he grow close to
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I saw them snogging on the back seat of a bus
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You can’t be serious
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Don’t touch that, except by the wrappings
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I’m not usually late
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hourglass figure
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Have it your way
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I sleepwalk
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Point is, I’m a free agent
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Would you get me another drink while I go and powder my nose
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The cold wind had chapped my lips
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Legend has it
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A free sachet of shampoo
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“Open up and take a bite of the biscuit.” “Not for me”
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Without it, we would leave the fate of our world to chance
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He put you up to this, didn’t he
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Fancy a drink
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The patient is well tended
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The new policy of shorter working hours will serve to take the sting out of the pay cut
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He boggled at the suggestion
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He put his knee out playing football
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The gripping season finale
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Some of the greatest geniuses in history had feet of clay
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I am fancy paying him a visit
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A back-alley transaction
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I don’t know what happened to me, even then
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Don’t think badly of me
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The family had no means of support (=way of getting money)
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“May I borrow this book?”“By all means”(of course; certainly(granting a permission))
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A man of means (=rich man)
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Higher education was seen primarily as a means to an end
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I’m not poor by any means (with negative)
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A flat that was within her means
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The government is living beyond its means
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No. Don’t make me
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Stop dawdling! You’ll be late for school
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I didn’t have the stomach for another fight
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You mean a great deal to him
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Time and again, it proves to be
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I felt the place bank steeply as it changed direction
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The video shows a man morphing into a tiger
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It takes millions years of evolution, by trial and error, for the colugo to learn to glide
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The doctor’s out on his rounds
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I’ve made/done the rounds of all the agents, but nobody has any tickets left
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Sooner or later someone would take pity on the poor wallflower and ask her to dance
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You have my back, and I get yours now
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It’s been a lot of hype around/surrounding his latest film
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It’s being hyped as the musical event of the year
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His prison sentence was remitted to two years
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He remitted half of his monthly wage to his family in the Philippines
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I stayed tethered to my paranoia, brittle as glass
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I stumbled over my mouthfuls
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Window ledge
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Politician’s caramel promise
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The hamster nibbled a hole in the sofa
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Caress her shoulders
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Her mouth puckered and I thought she was going to cry
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Hate is the hidden script in the letter of love
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In the vain hope that
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Sensing Chloe drawing away, I attempted to pull her back through blind repetition of elements that had in the past cemented us
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You know how everyone feigns surprise when you tell them how old you are
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She responded to his remarks with feigned amusement
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She began reading me against the grains, and found errors
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Things had reduced themselves to a tragicomic scenario
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He is only a little short of a pathology
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A form of treacly liquid left at the bottom of the glass that needed time to drain off
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He accused the minister of prevaricating
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Like seduction, withdrawal suffers under a blanket of reticence
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In her stories she expressed the whole gamut of emotions, from happiness to sorrow
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Fire on the crowd indiscriminately
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The airport terminal is sombre and empty
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Success in inducing jealousy is dependent on a significant factor: the inclination of the targeted audience to give a damn
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A huge sum was stipulated as ransom
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The secretary was rather brusque with me
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The maroon carpet
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With novelistic timing
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A disproportion between insult inflicted and sulk elicited
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The burgeoning of guilt
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He was no brute
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Chat on neutral territory
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The happiness was illusory
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Love’s death cannot be arrested
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Tense and unable to concentrate, I shifted uncomfortably in my seat
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It fills me with the vague nausea that meals may elicit in aircraft
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She pulled out the plugs from her ears
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Some displayed their wares on stalls, while others had just spread them out on the pavement
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Tears were streaming down her face, her nose was running, her whole body shaken by spasms, her breathing halting, gasping
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A deluge of sadness on both parties
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We grow foreign
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The wheels hit the tarmac at Heathrow
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The plane disgorged its cargo into the immigration hall
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Two days passed, numb
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When you’ve been in love, it is not the length of time that matters, it’s everything you’ve felt and done coming out intensified
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He respects you immensely
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I hope we can stay friends
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The cadences and accent of her speech
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I could feel his strength ebbing (away)
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Love has ebbed
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I felt stung by her disloyalty
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Between altruism and egoism
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She spurned my offers of help
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Salty midnight tears and the heart-wrenching separation
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Amoral vs immoral vs moral
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Human, he argues, are amoral and what guides them is not any sense of morality but an instinct for survival
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Horses snort
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The company offered Jeremy a paltry sum which he refused
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I scoured the past to look for origins, omens, offences, anything that might count as an explanation for the would I had sustained
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I took time off work
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I felt the transience of everything
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A smug grin
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She has spent her life trying to help gypsies, beggars and other social outcasts
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Her departure had rocked my confidence about everything
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A childish, petulant demon took charge of me
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Exiled from the shaded grove of love, I would be compelled to wander the earth till the day of my death
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I lay curled on the bed, the blinds drawn, irritated by the slightest noise or light, unduly upset if the milk was stale
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Everything slipped out of my grasp
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That’s great. Give her my regards
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Everyone knew who was going to get the job from the start - the interviews were just a charade
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My separation from Chloe had been accompanied by a thousand platitudinous sympathies from friends and acquaintances
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Her confidence took a hard knock when her application was rejected
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Roll the tape
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If you know what makes sb tick, you understand why they behave the way they do
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He is a snappy dresser
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Every nook and cranny of the house was stuffed with souvenirs of their trips abroad
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The protestors brought the capital of Thailand to its knees/ to a grinding halt
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She launched a vituperative attack on her ex-boss and former lover
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Effervescent vitamin C tablets
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Soiled clothes
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide
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I like the froth on the top of the coffee
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Chloe weeping at the grave, Will averting his eyes, both of them scattering earth on my walnut coffin
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