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Amped (a)

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[excited, especially because of an event]

I’m pretty amped and hyper when I’m working.

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Suffice it to say

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I won’t go into all the details. Suffice it to say that the whole event was a complete disaster.

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Press charges

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[kien]
Once it was straightened out, they weren’t going to press charges

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Sober(a)

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[Not drunk]

I stayed sober so I could drive us home.

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C-section

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[Delivery through an incision]
She just had to have a C-section

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Flop down

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[to sit or lie down in a heavy and sudden way because you are very tired]

Exhausted, he flopped down into a chair.

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Irk (v)

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[Annoy]
Daisy was sitting on the sofa with her feet up on the coffee table, which irked me

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Pop on over

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[visit]
If you’re free this Saturday, why don’t you pop over for a visit?

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Half in the bag (idiom)

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[mildly drink]

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Fiddle (v)

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[fiddle (with something) to keep touching or moving something with your hands, especially because you are bored or nervous]

He was fiddling with his keys while he talked to me.

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weasel out (phrasal verb)
/ˈwiːzl/

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[to avoid doing something that you ought to do or have promised to do]

He’s now trying to weasel out of our agreement.

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spartan (a)

/ˈspɑːrtn/

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luxurious

[simple or severe]

the spartan life of the training camp

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Congested (a)

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[crowded]

Many of Europe’s airports are heavily congested.

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interpretation (n)

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[the particular way in which something is understood or explained]
1. Her evidence suggests a different interpretation of the events.
2. Dreams are open to interpretation (= they can be explained in different ways).

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Off-key (a)

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[Not in tune]
You won’t have to cringe when your voice breaks or you veer off-key

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inhibition (n)

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[shy or nervous feeling]

The children were shy at first, but soon lost their inhibitions.

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Take your thing on the road

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Start doing sth

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Get down off

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[stop doing sth]

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Rat on

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[mach leo]
Where I came from, you don’t rat on your friends

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camaraderie (n)
/ˌkɑːməˈrɑːdəri/

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Friendship

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Back off

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[stop annoying sb]
The press agreed to back off and leave the couple alone

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Take it down a notch

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Calm down

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Fly by the seat of your pants

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[Tu nhien ma co]
I had no idea how to do it - it was just flying by the seat of your pants

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Slink off

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Walk away quitely

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All the same (idiom)
[despite what has been said] It rained every day of our holiday but we had a good time all the same
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Flashes before your eyes
[Crisis near-death event] My life flashed before my eyes
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Have(got) sth licked
[have succeeded in dealing with a difficult problem] ~every time you think you’ve got something licked, it keeps rearing its head.
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Slack off
[to do something with less effort or energy than before] > I was exercising regularly last summer, but I've been slacking off recently
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Vouch (v)
[Prove] I heard this secondhand, from Teddy. So I can’t vouch for how true it is.
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Decompress (v)
[to calm down and relax] -> For some people, yoga is a way of decompressing after a long day.
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stir-crazy (a)
-> Some passengers go a little stir-crazy on long-haul flights.
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bare your soul (to somebody) ​
[to tell somebody your deepest and most private feelings] -> I bare my soul to him
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Rickety (a)
[not strong or well made; likely to break] -> rickety chair/ bus
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Bombed (a)
[drunk] -> He got completely bombed last night.
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Bounce sth off of s.one
He would have bounced the idea off of me. Ban luan y kien voi ai do
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hindsight /ˈhaɪndsaɪt/
Sau khi moi chuyen xay ra va le ra ko nen lam nhu vay -> With hindsight it is easy to say they should not have released him.
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integral (a) /ˈɪntɪɡrəl/
[essential ] -> Music is an integral part of the school's curriculum.
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subjective
[chu quan] -> Everyone's opinion is bound to be subjective.
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Inklings of grief
Hint of sorrow
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Come down to (phrasal verb)
Depend on a single important point -> What it comes down to is either I get more money or I leave. -> If it comes down to his opinion or my opinion, we go with his opinion
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Floored (v)
[surprised] -> his reply completely floored me
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Water under the bridge
Thoi ke di It was water under the bridge
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chalk sth up to sth
[to consider that something is caused by something] -> We can chalk that win up to a lot of luck.
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Downtime
[Everyone needs a little downtime.]
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Smarmy (a)
Thao mai, ninh hot -> a smarmy salesman
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Formidable (a)
[Powerful] -> The task was a formidable one.
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On pins and needles
[Ngoi tren dong lua] -> My friend has been on pins and needles for days waiting for the result of her test for COVID-19
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Seamlessly
[smoothly] -> they’re working together seamlessly
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level with somebody (Idiom)
(informal) to tell somebody the truth and not hide any unpleasant facts from them -> level with me. Something’s up here
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allude to
​(formal) to mention something in an indirect way | noi bong gio -> The problem had been alluded to briefly in earlier discussions.
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Eloquent (a)
Hoat ngon
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Loathe (v)
Detest -> they loathe each other
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Incline to (v)
[tend to think] -> The government is more effective than we incline to think.
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mend (your) fences (with somebody)
[to find a solution when you disagree with somebody] -> Is it too late to mend fences with your ex-wife?
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High ground
[the advantage in a discussion or an argument, etc.] -> you can’t claim the high ground when you go around throwing other people and their families under the bus
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pipe up (phrasal verb)
[(informal) to begin to speak] -> The person next to me piped up with a silly comment.
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impenetrable
[impossible to understand] -> an impenetrable mystery Her expression was impenetrable.
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Gracious
[kind, polite and generous, especially to somebody of a lower social position] -> Billy is handling it great, being really gracious
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enigmatic
[mysterious and difficult to understand] -> an enigmatic smile
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dicey (a)
[dangerous and uncertain] -> The fog made driving pretty dicey.
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unfazed
(informal) ​[not worried or surprised by something unexpected that happens] -> She was totally unfazed by the news.
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Self-actualized
the fact of using your skills and abilities and achieving as much as you can possibly achieve -> she was fully self-actualized
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Muster (v)
[to find as much support, courage, etc. as you can] -> He could muster only 154 votes at the election. I could muster the energy to step out
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Blurt out
[to say something suddenly and without thinking carefully enough] -> She blurted it out before I could stop her.
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Blurt out
[to say something suddenly and without thinking carefully enough] -> She blurted it out before I could stop her.
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Blurt out
[to say something suddenly and without thinking carefully enough] -> She blurted it out before I could stop her.
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Ache (v) for
(formal) to have a strong desire for somebody/something or to do something -> I was aching for home.
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unnerve /ˌʌnˈnɜːv/
[unnerve somebody to make somebody feel nervous or frightened or lose confidence] -> His silence unnerved us.
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fly off the handle
​(informal) to suddenly become very angry He seems to fly off the handle about the slightest thing these days.
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make/lose money hand over fist ​
to make/lose money very fast and in large quantities

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