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to subsume

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include or absorb (something) in something else

  • ‘Most of these phenomena can be subsumed under two broad categories.’
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a maître d’

maître d’s (pl.)

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the person in charge of a restaurant or of the people who bring food to your table in a restaurant
- ‘a maître d’hôtel’

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an incentive

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something that encourages a person to do something

  • ‘Bonus payments provide an incentive to work harder.’
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obscene

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morally wrong, offensive, rude, or shocking, usually because of being too obviously related to sex or showing sex
* obscenity

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to usher

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to show someone where they should go, or to make someone go where you want them to go

  • ‘She ushered us into her office and offered us coffee.’
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to shriek

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to utter a high-pitched piercing sound or words, especially as an expression of terror, pain, or excitement.

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to utter

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to say something or to make a sound with your voice

  • ‘She sat through the whole meeting without uttering a word.’
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to walk out on sb

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to suddenly leave your husband, wife, or partner and end your relationship with them

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sopping

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extremely wet

  • ‘You’re sopping wet - go and get changed.’
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a significant other

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A person with whom someone has an established romantic or sexual relationship

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to suck it up

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to cope with something unpleasant without complaining

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to call it quits

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to stop doing something

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to give/hand sth to sb on a (silver) platter

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to allow someone to get something very easily, without having to work for it

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to grow on someone

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to become increasingly liked or enjoyed by someone

  • ‘The new house slowly began to grow on her.’
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arm candy [U]

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a very attractive person taken by another person to a social event in order to impress other people

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tad

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a little, slightly

  • ‘The fish was OK, but the chips were a tad greasy.’
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to hit the sauce/bottle

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to drink alcohol, especially rapidly and to excess; booze

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AWOL

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Absent Without Official Leave

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a faculty

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a special ability to do a particular thing

  • ‘She has a faculty for inspiring confidence in people.’
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to step up to the plate

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to take action when something needs to be done, even though this is difficult

  • ‘In this crisis we all need to step up to the plate and make a difference.’
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to walk on eggs/eggshells

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If you are walking on eggs/eggshells, you are being very careful not to offend someone or do anything wrong

  • ‘I feel like I walk on eggshells around you.’
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bogus

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false, not real, or not legal

  • ‘She produced some bogus documents to support her application.’
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a bouncer

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someone whose job is to stand outside a bar, party, etc. and either stop people who cause trouble from coming in or force them to leave

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a bystander

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a person who is standing near and watching something that is happening but is not taking part in it

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from scratch
from the beginning
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to bail on someone
to break a date with someone; stand someone up
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in good/high spirits
happy, cheerful
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to get your head out of your ass
to stop being so consumed with yourself, and your own well being /=ogarnąć się
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to gussy sb/sth up
to make someone or something look more attractive or impressive - 'She was all gussied up in a designer dress.'
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balmy
(of weather) pleasantly warm
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a butterball
a chubby or fat person
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beguiling
interesting or attractive, but perhaps not to be trusted: - 'That's a beguiling argument, but I'm not convinced by it.'
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if sb had their druthers
one's preference in a matter. - 'If I had my druthers, I would prefer to be a writer.' - 'If he had his druthers, I suspect he'd still be in bed.'
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to shoot a text
the simple act of sending a text message
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an acquisition
the process of getting something
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a nutjob
a mad or crazy person
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the flavour of the month
a person or thing that is very popular at a particular time - 'Environmental issues are no longer the flavour of the month.'
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to inundate
​to give someone so much work or so many things that they cannot deal with it all - 'We have been inundated with requests for help.'
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a hump
a large, round raised area or part - 'The car hit a hump in the road and swerved.'
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staggering
very shocking and surprising
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prevalent
existing very commonly or happening often - 'These diseases are more prevalent among young children.'
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to lumber
to move slowly and awkwardly
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reservations [or U]
a doubt or feeling of not being able to agree with or accept something completely - 'They shared deep reservations about his choice.' ! 'He accepted my advice without reservation.'
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syntax
the grammatical arrangement of words in a sentence
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untiring
If someone has untiring energy, interest, or enthusiasm, their energy, interest, or enthusiasm never becomes weaker
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to contend
to say that something is true or is a fact - 'The lawyer contended (that) her client had never been near the scene of the crime.'
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a subtlety
a small but important detail
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to be averse to doing sth
strongly disliking or opposed to an activity
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to make amends for
strongly disliking or opposed to
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to go without saying
be obvious
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to approve of sb doing sth
to have a positive opinion of someone or something
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to be an apple of sb's eye
the person who someone loves most and is very proud of
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to account for sth
to be the reason for something, or to explain the reason for something - 'She was asked to account for the missing money.'
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to amount to
to be the same as something, or to have the same effect as something - 'What you're saying amounts to blackmail.'
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to make a beeline for something
to move quickly and directly toward something
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to bump into sb
to meet someone you know when you have not planned to meet them
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to barter
to exchange goods for other things rather than for money - 'He bartered his stamp collection for her comics.'
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abashed
embarrassed
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a foregone conclusion
a result that is obvious to everyone even before it happens - 'It's a forgone conclusion that Mark will get the job.'
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to make allowances
to accept behaviour that you would not normally accept because you know why someone has behaved that way - 'We have to make allowances for his lack of experience.'
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in abeyance
halted temporarily; in suspension
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out and about
engaging in normal activity after an illness - 'She should be out and about in a few days' time.'
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to be of/have no fixed abode
to not have a permanent home
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in the abstract
in a general way
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of one's own accord
If you do something of your own accord, you do it without being asked to do it
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to agree to differ/disagree
If two people agree to differ, they accept that they have different opinions about something and stop trying to persuade each other that they are right.
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in arrears
owing money that should have been paid already - 'They are in arrears on/with their mortgage payments.'
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to cast aspersions on sb/sth
to criticize or make damaging remarks or judgments about someone or something - 'His opponents cast aspersions on his patriotism.'
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to throw sb off balance
to confuse, surprise or upset someone for a short time by saying or doing something that they are not expecting
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on the ball
alert, active and aware of things
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to be beside oneself with
If you are beside yourself with a particular feeling or emotion, it is so strong that it makes you almost out of control
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to bide one's time
to wait calmly for a good opportunity to do something - 'She was biding her time until she could get her revenge.'
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to be in the black
not owing anybody any money
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to blaze a trail
to do something that has never been done before: - 'Claude Debussy blazed a trail in music.'
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on the blink
When a machine is on the blink, it is not working correctly.
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to go by the board
to be forgotten or not used - 'Does this mean our holiday plans will have to go by the board?'
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cut to the bone
reduced to the minimum
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to pick someone’s brain
to ask someone's advice about a subject the person knows a lot about - 'Can I pick your brain about how you got rid of those weeds?'
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a sitter
someone who is having their portrait painted
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to chuckle
to laugh quietly - 'She was chuckling to herself as she read the book.'
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to guffaw
to laugh loudly, especially at something stupid that someone has said or done
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to sneer
to talk about or look at someone or something in an unkind way that shows you do not respect or approve of them - 'You may sneer, but a lot of people like this kind of music.'
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to snigger
to laugh at someone or something in a silly and often unkind way - 'What are you two sniggering at/about?'
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to beam
to smile with obvious pleasure - She beamed with delight at his remarks.
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to titter
to laugh nervously, often at something that you feel you should not be laughing at
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to grin
to smile a wide smile
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to grin and bear it
to accept something bad without complaining
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adroitly
very skilfully and quickly
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to sway
to persuade someone to believe or do one thing rather than another - 'Her speech failed to sway her colleagues into supporting the plan.'
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affluent
having a lot of money or owning a lot of things: | affluent nations
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well off
rich
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revenue [U]
the income that a government or company receives regularly
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to appreciate
to increase in value - 'The value of our house has appreciated by 50 percent in the last two years.'
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to work like a charm
to be very effective, possibly in a surprising way
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to be in sb's good/bad books
If you are in someone's good/bad books, they are pleased/not pleased with you
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a raw deal
bad or unfair treatment
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to lay the blame for sth on sb
to place the blame for something on someone
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new blood [U]
people with a lot of energy or fresh ideas who are brought into an organization in order to improve it
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unintelligible
impossible to understand
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a cliffhanger
a story or a situation that is exciting because its ending or result is uncertain until it happens

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