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Outrageous

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Shocking and morally unacceptable

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To be smitten with someone

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To find someone SO attractive

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Cagey

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Unwilling to give information

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Preposterous

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Very silly or stupid

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Squawking

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Graznar
High pitched voice

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Wake

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Velatorio

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At the back of your mind

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you intend to do it, but are not actively thinking about it

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Bring to mind

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to make you remember something

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Broaden the mind

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to increase the range of one’s knowledge, understanding, or experience.

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Change your mind

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adopt a different opinion or plan.

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Cross your mind

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think about something for a short time:

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Get something out of your mind

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to make yourself stop thinking about something

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Give someone a piece of your mind

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Tell someone very clearly that you think they have behaved badly.

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Have half a mind to do something

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that you may decide to do something

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Have a lot on your mind

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to be worrying about something

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Have a mind of your own

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if it seems to be controlling the way it behaves or moves, independently of the person using it.

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Last thing on your mind

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something that a person is not thinking about at all

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Make up your mind

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make a decision

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Mind over matter

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the power of the mind to control and influence the body and the physical world generally:

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Mind your business

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rudely telling someone not to ask about something that does not concern them

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My mind went blank

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you cannot remember a particular thing, or you cannot remember anything

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One-track mind

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to think about one particular thing and nothing else

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Out of sight, out of mind

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said to emphasize that when something or someone cannot be seen, it is easy to forget it

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Slip your mind

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Forget something

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Speak your mind
say what you think about something very directly
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Be mindful
paying close attention to or being especially conscious of something
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Change hands
For an object to be passed or sold from one owner to another
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Tip your hand
Reveal a secret
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Give your right arm
You want something so bad and would do anything to obtain it.
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Break someone’s heart
Make someone who loves you very sad
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Have a change of heart
Change your opinion about something
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Heart to heart
Serious conversation between two people in which they honestly talk about their feelings.
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Know / learn by heart
Learn something perfectly
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Wear your heart on your sleeve
Openly show your feelings or emotions
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Pick someone’s brain
Ask someone who knows a lot about a subject for an opinion or information
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Beat someone’s brains out
to hit someone repeatedly with great force
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Brain drain
situation in which large numbers of educated and skilled people leave their own country
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Brainstorm
to suggest a lot of ideas for a future activity very quickly, before considering some of them
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Wrap your head around something
to understand something, especially something strange or out of the ordinary
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Head over heels
completely in love with another person
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What’s his face
used to refer to someone whose name the speaker does not know or cannot remember
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Over your head
too difficult or strange for you to understand
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By a hair’s breadths
very close
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Get someone’s hair
To annoy or hinder someone
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Let your hair down
to allow yourself to behave much more freely than usual and enjoy yourself
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Shake leg
used to tell someone to hurry or act more quickly
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To cost an arm and leg
to be extremely expensive
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Stand on your own two feet
to do things for yourself without wanting or needing anyone else to help you
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Long overdue
it should have happened before now.
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Blabber
talk foolishly or excessively.
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Dribble
to have liquid slowly coming out of your mouth
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Gaudy
unpleasantly bright in colour or decoration
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Shoo-in
something that is certain to happen
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Make a move on someone
try to start a romantic or sexual relationship with someone
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Wacky
unusual in a pleasing and exciting or silly way
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Squalor
the condition of being extremely dirty and unpleasant
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Put up with some
to be willing to accept someone or something that is unpleasant or not desirable
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Chap
Man
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Get fixed up
to find a romantic partner for someone
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Pull your leg
to try to persuade someone to believe something that is not true, as a joke
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Come crawling back
go to someone for help or approval in a way that shows you are weak or sorry for what you have done
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Been there, done that
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Dramatic license
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Zinger
funny or clever remark
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Commute
travel regularly a distance between work and home
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My treat
I’ll pay
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We way back
Long ago
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Rubbery
Feeling like a rubber
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For old times sake
in order to experience again something one did in the past
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Famished
extremely hungry.
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Lowlife
Person of low social status
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Sleaze
Immoral or corrupt
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Schmooze
to talk informally with someone
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Backers
a person who gives support to someone or something with money or words
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Dead ringer
someone or something that looks very similar to someone or something else
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Bury the hatchet
they become friendly again after a quarrel or disagreement
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Idiosyncratic
Unusual
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Ephemeral
Lasting for a very short time
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Lace
Fine cloth with patterns of small holes
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Knot
Fastening made by tying string or rope
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Natural fibres
Thin pieces of natural material
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Billowing
Filled with aire and blowing in the wind
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See something in one’s mind eye
imagine it and have a clear picture of it in your mind
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Put your mind to something
to decide you are going to do something and to put a lot of effort into doing it
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Bear in mind
remember a fact or circumstance and take it into account
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Be in two minds
to be unable to decide about something
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Have something on mind
to be worrying about something
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Blow one’s mind
find something very exciting and unusual
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One’s mind wanders
thoughts do not remain focused on the task at hand but range widely and spontaneously across other topics
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Give a piece of mind
To express one's opinion strongly
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Keep an open mind
have a willingness to listen to or accept new ideas
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Ease someone’s mind
make someone stop worrying
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Collaboration
Working together with other people
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Facilitation
Process of making a task more easy
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Assumption
Idea or belief we imagine to be true without proof
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Executive admin
Assistant to a top manager
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Iterative
A way of developing an idea where things are continually changed and developed.
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Bond as a group
develop a close connection or strong relationship with someone
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Feel a part of things
feeling like they belong to a certain group or community
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Pull your weight
do one's fair share of work
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Do your fair share
you have or do an amount that seems reasonable to you, or to other people.
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Be a team player
someone who is good at working closely with other people
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Have a sense of belonging
sense of identity and belonging
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Go the extra mile
to make more effort than is expected of you
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Share the load
Distributing the workload
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Downcycling
Turning waste material into something that is of lower quality
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Upcycling
Turning waste material into something of higher quality
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Recycling
Using something again after it has already been used

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