Gd1 Flashcards
(240 cards)
1
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A contented mind is a
A
perpetual feast
2
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Students fought running
A
battles with police
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Q
The difference is day
A
and night
4
Q
John Doe Jane Doe
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Jonnie Doe Janie Doe
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Q
He is always incisive and insightful, and understands Wagner s epic character
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almost as well as anyone
6
Q
Caught another fly
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on the web
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Q
Cut to the
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chase
8
Q
Staff should clock
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in on arrival
9
Q
The night shift were clocking
A
off
10
Q
Let s
A
roll
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Q
An excellent aircraft for low-level
A
reconnaissance
12
Q
To honk the
A
horn six times
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He jabbed
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him in his ribs
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He jabbed at the
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air with his finger
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Q
One of those thingummies for keeping all
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the fire tools together
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Q
To serve the murderer
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on the platter
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To lower the shopfront
A
shutter
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I have known few men
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who could match Peter’s grit
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Tired of his humiliation of me, I decided to give him a
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taste of his own medicine
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He is getting weaker by
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the day
21
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The lean winter
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months
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Keep a small reserve to tide
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you over the lean years
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Hunger will be a distant
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memory
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Would you be as good as
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to answer me
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They are like beavers hyped up
on crystal meth
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The story paints a sordid
picture of bribes and scams
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Is it enough, no, not
even close
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He submitted his resignation as an
act of atonement
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An annual ceremony of confession
and atonement for sin
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I think we have set
sail
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I have not found my sea
leg
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Are you running to or
from something
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An unnerving
experience
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A rash of
strikes by the workers
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The generator roared into
life when he cranked the handle
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The volume is cranked up
a notch
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An imploring
look
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He implored her to
change her mind
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They point beyond
themselves to social and political issues that are universal and perennial
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It has a poignant
story to tell
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He condemned the crass
bureaucracy of the democratic government
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Ill-fated rescue bid of
hostages foiled by barking dogs
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He refuses to be drawn on whether Tong would run
for a new term
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Maverick pan-democrat Ronny favoured moderation and attempted to find
rapprochement on democratic development with Beijing
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He had a pronounced
squint
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All the while I was
thinking
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You know it is your time to
shine
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You feel best when your wallet is filled with the
crinkled ones
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In a furious Twitter
tirade, he urged his friends not to fly Cathay Pacific
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Stand by for a second helping of tongue-in-cheek humour, sight gags and a great soundtrack that should
appeal as much to adults as children
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The film went on to
gross 8 million
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Over the course
of seven months
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Suffer blows that caused her teeth to chip and in
one episode knock her unconscious
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First use a duster, then use a
wet mop to wipe the floor
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On one occasion, several punches
landed on her nose
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Depending on market trends, Hong Kong and London regularly
oscillated between first and second place in the residential rankings
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Touted it
as
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Feminine products get an extra
dose of euphemism
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One brand decided to parody the typical evasiveness of such
mealy-mouthed marketing in an advert
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Researchers in this line of
inquiry tend to share a common hypothesis. That being bilingual is a kind of constant inhibitory mental exercise
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The advantage accrues
to those who switch more often
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Radical elements have
infiltrated the crowd
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Bodily
scuffles
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Not to give opponents cause to
besmirch the movement or the police an excuse to use force
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Blanket
ban or propaganda
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I covet one of
their small bags
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We sat ruminating
the nature of existence
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Heretics were
burned if they would not recant
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Galileo was forced to
recant his assertion that the earth orbited the sun
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To house
supplies in heap
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The sprawling
encampment in Almiralty
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As the clear-out
neared
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The protestors heeded
police warning
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I will chalk it
up
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I slept through
the alarm this morning
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They won by
a landslide
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The illness will
strike again
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Communicate with police by
miming her throat being cut
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Australian security forces storm the Sydney cafe where several hostages were being held at
gunpoint, in what look like the dramatic denouement to a stand-off that had dragged on for more than 16 hours
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Heavy gunfire and loud
bangs rang out
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Police, including paramilitary officers, cordoned off several blocks around the cafe as negotiators tried to
defuse one of the biggest security scares in Australia for decades
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He poured
scorn on EU criticism
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The instigators of
the occupy movement
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Hostages ran
for their lives
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Brisk
business
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The reasons for his acts remain
murky
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He was benevolent but no
pushover
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Chinese tourists were blacklisted for
scalding Thai air stewardess in air rage flight
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People respond with humble
protests of surprise or unworthiness
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The speech of accepting appointment is, however, no time for
modesty, feigned or genuine
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Popcorn
moment
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To waltz
through
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To romp
through
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To take it in your
stride
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Easy on the
ear
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Easy on the
eye
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Go easy on
somebody
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Go easy on
salt
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We like to follow the line of
least resistance
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I might be on a sticky
wicket if I used that line
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Your teeth
chatter
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Goose pimples or goose bumps
appear on your skin
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It is stone
cold
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You have a cool-headed
assessment of the situation
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Blow hot
and cold
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Leave someone out
in the cold
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Make one s blood
run cold
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When one person sneezes,
another catches cold
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An impressive feat of mountaineering today saw
yet another giant banner hung up in Hong Kong
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Sporting the wording Do not forget the original goal, in
reference to protestors ongoing push for universal suffrage
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They reported that speed bump was successfully
smoothed over
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An out-of-nowhere, heartfelt
I love you
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The common thread of
the seven habits
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We have trawled the
Internet for a few of the best examples
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No thanks I am all
set
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Make friends of the wrong
sorts
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To die a most painful
death
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I can distinctly
remember the day I first got interested in words
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Sheer dumb
luck
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You stood on
my foot
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Now Ian is ready for the
off
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To pound the point
home
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Here is ten million bucks. Blow it all at the roulette wheel and I will
smack you upside the head
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I beg to
differ
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I agree to
differ
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You need not commit to memory
every little bit of details
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If that takes a while, it is time
well spent
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A light-hearted
speech
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The now-defunct
club
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Drunken revellers
brawled in the town centre in the early hours
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He is a very hands-on
horse owners
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On a bad day, he could rack up
betting losses of up to
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Fork out cash on carrots,
barns and other expenses
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A reality check for women who
want it all
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The argument would have sounded
stale
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Why would her success be tied to
a man
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Something increasingly
gnawed at me
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I looked longingly at my compatriots who had
well-manicured lawns, cute kids and well-groomed husbands
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The epiphany
hit me recently as
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My biological clock would be
winding down
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My somewhat exasperated husband tells me to
make a decision
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Move her professional pursuits
to the sidelines
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He arrive in court unshaved and sporting a
covering grey stubble
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Fall from
grace
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The personal aide to former president was groomed to be
one of the leaders
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The request smacked of a
cover-up
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The floods that threatened to deluge the centre of York yesterday put
paid to virtually all weekend river match action
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The Robin Hood
spoof
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The three words are a constant
refrain for pop songs
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Draw a long
sigh
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Although she said she would sleep on it, she was virtually
certain to resign
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When in doubt, check a dictionary. Better yet,
check two or three
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To let a typo slip
in once in a while
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Will not think any
less of you
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Likely to inspire eye
rolls and unkind thoughts about your skill level
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Another source from which we
draw is our knowledge of each other, a well of familiarity which increases in depth with every passing day
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The Lennon Wall became
plastered with brightly coloured notes of support
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She scrawled
on the wall
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It is posing a
climate of fear
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A servile and
obedient dog
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Your insistence exposed you as, if not
utterly evil, then irrationally disproportionate
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Boorish
behaviour
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The mention of the fee caused a
stir on the bus
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They walked to an open
spot to relieve themselves
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An effort to soothe frayed nerves
A
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Tempers are
frayed
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Other tourists turn tail when they know the Chinese are coming, causing a
dent in earnings
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Their ranks keep
growing
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To deface a stone
sculpture with graffiti
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Many Chinese cringed at the shame and
embarrassment brought on them
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Tensions have spilled into
furious name-calling
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Swamped by the avalanche of
criticism against their citizens
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The good ones are good, but the
bad apples remain the same
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The debris appears
fairly contained
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She endured her illness with
great fortitude
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To pay an immediate
advance of money
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They collapsed in
grief
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The car stalled
at the crossroads
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The disaster have dented
confidence in the industry
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The plane overshot the
runway and spooked travellers
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The pilot with many flying hours
under his belt
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I have been sitting here for goodness
knows how long twiddling my thumbs
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Play
gooseberry
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Zeal without knowledge is
fire without light
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Have more guts than
brains
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I had heard on the
grapevine that the business was nearly settled
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I jumped at the
chance of a career in football
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I got tired of having to wet
nurse performers
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I had a dirty great
chip on my shoulder
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It is grating
to the ears
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The inspector broke the
news to me with tact and consideration
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He was sitting in the bedroom strumming
a guitar
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He shot to
fame after
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It would be foolhardy to go into the scheme
without support
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Even in my befuddled state I could see that they meant
trouble
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She felt disquieted at the lack of
interest the girl had grown
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She strutted down
the catwalk
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Clive had let slip
he was married
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Do not skulk outside the
door like a spy
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It was dear
to my heart
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All else pales
by comparison
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Bumped into an old
flame
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The brows were tweezed to an
almost invisible line
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She spent the loose
change on a soda
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I do feel
for you
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Gusts of snow flurried
through the door
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The sleep-deprived Lai even looked like he would fall off his chair, leaning so far to his side that it was a
wonder his spectacles managed to stay put
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To leave in a
huff
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He shyly stuttered out an invitation to the cinema
A
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Trained workers are on
tap in the afternoon
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To meet up
briefly
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The plans have come to
fruition rather sooner than expected
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They have given the idea the
thumbs-down
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Cathay has lost its boldness of being ahead of the
curve, and is now just playing safe
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He grabbed the back of my head, weaving his
fingers in my hair and then yanked my head up
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One of the other girls gave her ponytail a
yank
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Passengers on a flight to Beijing yanked opened
three emergency exit doors just moments before takeoff after becoming irritated at delays caused by snow
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During a character meet-and-greet, the two seemed to hit it
off well enough at first
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Roman Holiday is
entertainment or gain acquired at the expense of others s suffering or loss, so called from the gladiatorial contests waged as entertainment in ancient Rome
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Hobson's
choice
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Your sister might find the ring if she goes
snooping around
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Two cars were later found
torched
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Firefighters were called to tackle the
blazing vehicles
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Lend their
support to
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He was run over by a van after intervening to try and
foil a street theft
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It was an innocuous
question
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I grinned and gulped
my beer
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To leave a trail of
breadcrumbs for their potential partner
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Material
asceticism
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To reach dazzling
heights on the career ladder
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They loathe to cede
the power
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If it was such a rotten holiday, why
hark back to it
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For the banks chasing this growing business, the gloves are now
definitely off
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You got the emotional range of
a teaspoon
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This year I swore off
booze, vowing to drink casually and infrequently
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The Condor
Lovers
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He chastised his
colleagues for their laziness
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All men look debonair and handsome in
white tie and tails
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Ma is set to face a barrage of
questions when the e-commerce giant reports quarterly earnings today, spurred by a government regulator's blistering accusation of widespread fraud
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It marks an
accusation of the war of words
