A Flashcards

(23 cards)

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Spin-off

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Een soort vervolg op iets

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Give somebody a heads up

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To give someone information or a warning

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Faux pas

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a situation where someone has made an embarrassing style mistake and not dressed well

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Dress to kill

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To dress up in strikingly attractive clothes

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Fashion victim

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Someone who is obsessed with following every fashion fad, to an extreme extent.

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Fad

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Something that is very popular for only a very short period of time

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kill time

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to do something that is not very interesting to pass time

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beat the clock

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to succeed in something before time is up

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Puppy love

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temporary infatuation between young people

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head over heels

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to be very in love with someone

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lovey-dovey

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making an excessive display of affection

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have the hots

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to be strongly attracted to someone

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storm in a teacup

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exaggerate a problem

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chase rainbows

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try to achieve the impossible

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all ears

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awaiting an explanation

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eye-catching

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tending to attract the attention

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big cheese

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an influential person

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couch potato

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a lazy person who watches too much tv

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tough cooky

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a very determined person

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jump off the page

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something that stands out

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jump on the bandwagon

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to get involved in a trend

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Procrastination

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the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent ones, or doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time

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it takes two to tango

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something in which more than one person or other entity are paired in an inextricably-related and active manner, occasionally with negative connotations