Gd11 Flashcards
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1
Q
I would like to go powder
A
my nose/fix my face
2
Q
Go freshen
A
up
3
Q
To drain the
A
lizard/snake
4
Q
Piss like a
A
race horse
5
Q
Grant on-arrival
A
travel permits
6
Q
To string out the
A
process
7
Q
The stalwarts of the
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Labour Party
8
Q
A coquettish
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grin
9
Q
Wish I could take credit for this but big
A
props to him for finding it
10
Q
The kids could be such a
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handful
11
Q
I will sound out
A
parliament first
12
Q
A huge bear was gaining
A
on him with every stride
13
Q
A fudge
A
cake
14
Q
It is going to hit the high
A
street soon
15
Q
A 600-calorie fry
A
up
16
Q
I am absolutely
A
pooped
17
Q
Students bumming
A
around at university
18
Q
Her trainer was on hand to
A
give advice
19
Q
It’s not for the faint
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hearted
20
Q
A hearty
A
meal
21
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Bangers and
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mash
22
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Pure
A
indulgence
23
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A mid morning
A
treat
24
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To tip the
A
balance in the right direction
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He chortled at his
own execrable pun
26
Feast your
eyes
27
I am worried
sick
28
Tart and
gamey
29
They described seeing distraught staff with heads
in their hands
30
He heard a blood-curdling
scream
31
They basically say the president campaigned on that notion and we won the election
fair and square
32
A hoax
999 call
33
It's really funny when Dad tries to be
hip
34
Yes, we deliberately chose people who were high profile, and also yes, quite cool and
quite hip and quite witty
35
It tugged at my
heartstrings to give her a zero score for the assignment
36
She was honourably
adamant her zero score should stand
37
This pretty girl dropping the f-bomb now and again on our date was a
real turn-off
38
I see a critic panned it, but I found it
quite amusing
39
He is happy with the way the deal
panned out
40
Harold's idea had been a good one even if it hadn't
panned out
41
Swarthy men with gleaming
teeth
42
Recently I happened upon
a row of green Gobee bikes in Tai Po Waterfront Park. "Pay HK$5", a sticker on the rear mudguard of each said, "and ride for 30 minutes."
43
Solids can sometimes go
down much easier than liquids
44
I had demeaned the
profession
45
No one demeaned himself so
honourably
46
They will buckle down to
negotiations over the next few months
47
Here are five
takeaways from the interviews
48
The entrepreneur knows this the
hard way
49
They say that pioneers often come back with
arrows in their backs
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The company bled
funds quickly amid tough competition
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We gonna raise the
bar once again
52
He attempted an atrocious
imitation of my English accent
53
It also signifies fugitives and runaways, including known criminals who are
at large such as escaped convicts
54
It's my family business.
Nose out of it
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A stubbornly insular
farming people
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People living restricted and sometimes
insular existence
57
What does it take to make the grade
as a top golfer
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To judge which practices need to be given
precedence over others
59
A deaf or
hard-of-hearing viewer
60
We are joined at the hip in this business, and one guy can't wave
a magic wand
61
Applause drowns
speech
62
I arrived at the store a harrowing thirty minutes later,
no thanks to the driver in front of me
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We achieve little by
brute force
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The yoga studio is a likely
draw for bankers, lawyers and other white collar workers when it opens in August
65
You're kind and generous to
a fault
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It was a return to an old
stomping ground
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One MP appeared to be having a whale of a
time as he flicked through some racy pictures on his smartphone
68
John Terry lifts the
lid on his future
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Oh poor! Don't be such a
spoilsport
70
It generated incredulity and derision and was not taken seriously. But were the naysayers
too quick to pooh-pooh?
71
It is only when the vested interests are unable to rig the market one last time that the virtuous
cycle turns vicious
72
That leads to forced sales at
distressed prices
73
Two events had precipitated this
change in course
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It is often more of a hindrance than
an asset
75
No need to give me the needle just because
someone has given it to you
76
The right of all workers to strike was
enshrined in the new constitution
77
I was shocked that he already dropped the
L-bomb on me after knowing each other for a day
78
Re-enact the
accident
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Jack was not averse to an occasional
dalliance with a pretty girl
80
The iPad 2017 has the same chassis design as the 9.7-inch iPad Pro, with the same elegantly
chamfered edges curving gently to the back of the device
81
Dirty low-down
tricks
82
A taxi driver has been filmed launching a loquacious,
expletive-ridden take-down of a pedestrian on the streets of Hong Kong
83
It is unclear how the altercation escalated, though the driver concluded the interaction by showering the man with a
string of obscenities and exclamations
84
The sickly sight of
loved-up couples on Valentine's Day
85
Film of her poolside
frolics
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She is my little
pumpkin
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Falling pregnant is not something you can
take for granted
88
Easy-peasy
questions
89
She could see that her remark had
hit home
90
British people, as a rule, still disapprove of loud or
demonstrative behaviour, except in very informal situations
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The movie looks like tasty
eye candy
92
Shower
praise on sb
93
Speaking on the tarmac just after
stepping out of his Air China plane, Xi said ...
94
Catch/get some
Z's
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His stand-up comedy was so R-rated that no wonder the teens in the audience were
having such belly laughs
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A by-product of crass
consumerism
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A nicer-sounding
"compensated dating"
98
It may seem more innocuous with every iteration of the term, but the song
remains the same
99
When a man basically rents a woman for company and companionship on the face of it but coitus as the underlying intention,
the world's oldest profession comes into play
100
All the Disneyfication with soft-focus
selfies and shy social messaging does not change the facts
101
Consenting
adults
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Jo is apparently trying to save HK$40,000, courtesy of her
sugar daddies, to buy a clarinet
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Working stiffs pay for the company of young girls with
designer goods and other luxury gifts
104
Sexual exploitation can be just a
wink and another LV handbag away
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In reality, these paid girlfriends will, by definition, attract insecure,
emotionally-stunted, stalker-y, deeply misogynist males
106
Every TV spot is drilling into these young minds the importance of designer goods and
overpriced bling in their lives
107
Oh, lordy. And that, too, on the
front page
108
Perhaps a little off tangent, but worth sharing, here's another reader's
take to wrap things up: ...
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Despite the way I sometimes
rag her, she is my sister
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There is nothing
to it
111
I was champing at the
bit to investigate the shops
112
You are killing
it
113
Well, if it isn't my old
buddy, Doug
114
Megan Fox is even sexier in the
flesh than in the movies
115
I can't get the ruddy
car to start
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A happy man who loved life
to the full
117
I tried to, for want of a better word, coerce them
into reading reference materials by giving them tests, but without success
118
If this group is indicative of BTB students,
there is indeed a cause for concern
119
The comforting, and sad
as well, response from some of them is that they don't want to work as a translator
120
I worked them
very hard
121
Of particular
note is that ...
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The users of any language must constantly invent to adapt to
fresh circumstances, and when invention flags they must borrow
123
Grammatically incomplete sentences, frowned upon in formal usage, are occasionally
permissible and even valuable in informal composition
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While some punctuation is cut-and-dried, much of it falls into the
province of usage and style
125
Style is less reducible to
rule, and more open to argument
126
As a free agent, I had some criteria to meet and this team
fitted the bill perfectly
127
Not entirely without surprise, serendipity had its way
with me and I stumbled on one of my much-loved poems, by Henry Reed, that fitted the bill perfectly
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That said, you still have plenty of scope to
fashion sentences of almost any size and shape
129
Apart from its length it is also a skillfully
wrought passage: clear, supple, flowing and ultimately riveting
130
Our attention has been ambushed by two
extraneous thoughts
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Brusque is my friend Jeremy's
response to pushy salesmen
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The number of people who can survive on six hours of sleep or less and show no impairment, rounded
to a whole number and expressed as a per cent, is zero
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When the sun sets, temperature drops dramatically and when the sun rises it starts to pick back up. Our bodies expect that
beautiful thermal lull
134
The Polish president's wife inadvertently
snubbed the US president in favour of Melania
135
Maddened by the limp rag doll banging
against his legs, he veered to the left
136
This rag doll treatment of our things is great
fun for him
137
He grabbed her collar, dragging her clear and
across the mud like a life-size rag doll
138
He was unceremoniously kicked
out of the door
139
The hat Rita bought is a total
disaster
140
A laugh which jarred on
the ears
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A lethal cocktail of
painkillers and whisky
142
The book contains a powerful
cocktail of romance, family crises, and big business
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In Victorian times, when life was simpler, so,
apparently, was grammar
144
This is not a decision we arrived at
lightly
145
They can't afford to sit
on that
146
I am really excited to know
what lies in store
147
I'm not trying to drive a
wedge between you and your father
148
God bless you. I am forever in
your debt
149
Incredible heights and
great depths
150
His rigid body, clenched fists, and head drawn between his shoulders, all attested to
a fierce hate breathing from every pore
151
Both striking and affluent, Justin turned the
heads of many women and never wanted for anything
152
Their wealth had been stashed
away in Swiss banks
153
That adds a whole new
complexion to the game
154
Abusers get away as animal protection laws
lack bite
155
It stood in the middle of the road now, its gray fur
bristling and its yellowed teeth bared
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The tall, dark stranger strode towards Alita as the wolf
bristled and growled
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Built to last, they bristle with every
modern convenience
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He never merely asserts: every paragraph bristles
with footnotes and quiet exposition
159
The new songs bristle with an
excitement and immediacy that demand attention
160
It is not a gesture of
charity, but an act of justice
161
Lam grant soothes
sting of exam
162
There is a chronic housing shortage which has been in part responsible for the
runaway property price inflation of recent years
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The Nomura analysts are among the few
flagging the dangers
164
The financial meltdown touched off a six-year property slump in Hong Kong that shaved more than two-thirds off prices and
saddled the city with a stagnant economy and deflation
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The kind of property buying fervour that
preceded the last bust seems to have returned
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The world's second-largest economy, to which the rest of Asia is very exposed, is flashing
several signs of vulnerability
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Mild-mannered, cultured, gently spoken - even timid - Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo's public persona
belied his stubborn resilience and steadfastness of belief
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Liu was granted medical
parole on June 26
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He recalls a brief telephone conversation with Liu - which was
to be their last - shortly before Liu's arrest in December
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He delivered lengthy speeches in a
vain attempt to calm the restive students
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Gao, well aware the Hongkonger would cover the bill, carefully
ordered dishes and calculated their prices
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Liu first gained fame in the world of literature as a
maverick willing to challenge the status quo
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Hong Kong stocks fell Friday morning, paring
previous days' gains, but still poised to book their best weekly advance in over a year
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He was brutally cynical and hardened
to every sob story under the sun
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It is generally considered rude, though, to crosspost
a notice about your product to every forsale newsgroup, even ones on the opposite side of the country or world
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Sit up and
take notice
177
He was under the impression that they had
become friends
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A billowing
skirt
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Conjugal
rights
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Ask yourself if you need this job badly
enough to endure daily humiliation
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Don't be afraid to respond gracefully but
firmly if you are bullied
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This doesn't give anyone the right to scold their loved ones for
missing the mark
183
Any demands will only get more
absurd over time
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Viscous
lava
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Knock it off
= stop doing something
186
I kid you
not
187
The victim of a
carjacking
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I earned my living as a freelance writer, ranging very far from economics when the need or the occasion
presented itself
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Between freelance assignments and further studies, I produced the first three chapters and with some
trepidation showed them to Professor Lowe
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The key is to ensure a neutral spine throughout (no arching
of the back; core is engaged) and to focus on the muscles around the knees as you move
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It's warm and friendly, but also a home in which an exile could easily
bunker down in bitter isolation
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We were too hammered to run anywhere, so we just bunkered
down against the bank and laughed about it
193
Unlike its Scottish namesake,
Leven is not by the sea
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The literary scene during his creative heyday was querulous and faction-ridden, but despite ideological rifts, most authors back then were fairly
civil with each other, and friendships often crossed ideological divides
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To many of them he was an old writer,
passé
196
Taiwan loosened up and allowed the aboveground
distribution of his works
197
Literary scholars were bent on overturning
old values and rewriting Chinese literary history
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Shen Congwen no longer seemed a nonentity or a sympathiser with class enemies, as communist textbooks had made him
out to be if they mentioned him at all
199
He was a great writer on a
par with Lu Xun
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In materially
primitive surroundings
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They find his stories uplifting and spiritually challenging. These stories are also filled with
hints of pathos
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He gained a devoted
following for his lyrical cricket writing
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Far from a smutty provocation, the painting is
unexpectedly lyrical
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He could also spin a
good tale
205
The event had political repercussions which are beyond the
compass of this book
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The matter is totally within the
compass of the jury's jurisdiction to determine
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He adopted patently
modernist styles
208
His resistance to conformism required
backbone
209
Even barbaric violence had its place in his ethic, if it were properly
atoned for, as in the opening story of this collection
210
She cried, tears coursing down her cheeks,
mingled with the rain
211
Exultation coursed
through him
212
Power coursed like liquid fire through my veins, as my adrenaline
spiked and I screamed in pain
213
The idea that other animals experience similar emotions to us is not
anthropomorphism; it is based on sound scientific evidence
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Death itself takes on a subjective anthropomorphism; as if it were
a willed activity
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But sheer chance -- or fate -- save Sansan from marriage to the decadent and older sick man, she begins to be
allured, however ambivalently, by the prospect of marrying him
216
He is landless and utterly dependent on his landlord; he wears the landlord's
castoffs for his clothing
217
It is not only the landlords who are decadent, wasting their prosperity on
whoring and gambling and honouring superstitions that end up hurting other people
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He is also in thrall to an absurd
superstition: that the date and hour of her birth predispose her to shorten the life of anyone she might marry
219
The beefy addition gives the fries an extra
kick of flavour
220
It seems that starchy old Goldman Sachs is planning to
edge itself into the glorious world of casual dress
221
The rest of the workforce is still expected to turn up for
work in attire that differs little from that worn by the fine folk who work as undertakers
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They will carry on being shrouded in business attire that probably works okay in New York for most of the year, but cause make employees to sweat and female employees to
glow as they plough their way through the city's humid maze
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Mind you, I've spotted some real self-imagined mavericks who daringly release the top button of their starched shirts, allowing ties to
dangle at half mast, and I've even spotted female staff members bold enough to free themselves from the agony of high heels, which are replaced by sturdy but stylish mid-heel footwear
224
The thing she was looking forward to most about her retirement was the sheer joy of throwing away her entire
stock of agonising high heel shoes
225
The idea was bandied around and
apparently dropped
226
Incivilities were bandied about and
spread to the government
227
The observant eye will quickly spot variations in the quality of the cloth, gradations in the
sophistication of the cut and so on
228
Companies worry that individualism nurtures unruly
behaviour and the possibility of discordance
229
Weaning big organisations from their fussing
over attire is hard to achieve
230
Wide lapels are a no-no, alongside a strict ban on the colour yellow, which
rarely works in clothing but, frankly, what do I know?
231
Slowly they grow estranged from their country villages, and slowly they learn the
vices that are useful only to city folk
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Seventh Maid remains loyal to her husband in every
way but sexual
233
The rural husband gets his
gumption and takes his wife home
234
It is the wife who shows more
presence of mind and courage
235
One passage schematically relates the dissolution of rural society after its division into
propertied and unpropertied classes
236
A group of idle and
swaggering bandits and henchmen
237
The powers that be, though, are the ones to attempt to right these wrongs but
nothing is being done
238
The powers that be will probably have their own side of the story to
relate
239
True rural innocence is banished even from his nostalgic, if
slightly fantastic, memory
240
A health/sex/chocolate
fiend
241
Kids who feel so
entitled and think the world will revolve around them
242
His pompous,
entitled attitude
243
Anyone who is actually involved will be well aware of his oafish and
entitled behaviour
244
My heart skipped
a beat when ...
245
The restaurant is a bloody
rip-off
246
Not
again!
247
With friends like these, who needs
enemies
248
William is a young man who is definitely
going places
249
I'm so jelly that you were at
the show
250
You don't really have to be such an
arse to make your point, you know?
251
To the relief of many, the Court of Appeal in Hong Kong ruled that getting a
boner while in a consensual embrace with the girl of your dream does not amount to indecent assault
252
He slipped into a food
coma after consuming three giant cha siu buns all by himself
253
A pair of
manboobs
254
It's a steal/
bargain
255
It's gonna be a bit chilly today, so
bundle up before you go out
256
He is such a
cheapskate
257
Sometimes, very regrettably, I have to admit that human stupidity really
knows no bounds
258
Stop making an arse
of yourself for God's sake
259
Liang will go down in
history as the first person to have translated the complete works of Shakespeare into Chinese
260
These essays, which deal with familiar and timeless topics and in which social satire is
tempered with light humour, met with instant and wide acclaim
261
His morbid
fear of dogs
262
These are things that endear
him to his writers
263
A careful observer may discern in the later volumes a steady increase in
depth and subtle shift from poignant sarcasm to benign humour as he mellowed
264
The popularity of the Sketchbook has not been affected
appreciably by changing tastes
265
"Smart" is savvy, whereas
"clever" is swotty
266
One source has come to dominate: America, thanks to its cultural, technological and
political heft
267
Contrary to the doleful prophecies of superannuated Jeremiahs, pop is in
rude health
268
The footballer is in rude health and
definitely on form
269
The war came as a very rude
awakening
270
Before dawn broke, drug crime suspects had a rude awakening as officers with battering
rams smashed down doors around the town in an operation to target dealers
271
They should be able to venture into any industry that may capture
their imagination
272
The tartar sauce had a zippy, homemade taste to it, and both our plates were rounded
out well with green salads and ample servings of perfectly nice fries
273
There is also a subtle humour to the film that
rounds it out nicely
274
He is on the slippery slope towards
a life of crime
275
They are offering an argument that, should you accept it, drops you on a slippery
slope leading down to veganism
276
The programme appreciates the
merits of brevity
277
He would badger him about anything, often hitting him on the
least pretext
278
Often the result of one partner badgering the other into
making a bit of a show
279
You should clean up
your act
280
Ear-
duster
281
The social services washed their
hands of his daughter
282
Water was cascading
down the stairs
283
Blonde hair cascaded
down her back
284
The judge recused himself from
the case because he knew a member of the family
285
Chasing down delinquent
accounts is no fun either
286
Loan delinquencies have steadily risen in the past 24 months, to the point where nearly 1 in 20 home
loans is delinquent
287
At least 16 per cent are delinquent or
in foreclosure
288
I couldn't put my hand on my
heart and say I'd never looked at another man
289
The person born into this combination has a forceful and
magnetic personality
290
Underneath that cool image is a very intense,
forceful and determined individual
291
She had a remarkable sense of colour that could be both gentle and
forceful at the same time
292
The results were presented to shareholders as a
fait accompli
293
Nimbleness of
mind
294
I am both honoured and
humbled to be part of the team
295
I'm so screwed for this final.
I haven't studied all semester
296
This binary way of thinking, seeing retirement as a cliff
edge over which workers and consumers suddenly tumble, bears little relation to the real world
297
Spotty, awkward 15-year-olds predated the 1940s, but only then did mystified
adults coin the label "teenagers", fuelling all sorts of products and services, from bobby socks to the music industry
298
Marking out youthful old age as a distinct phase of life might have a similar effect, prodding
employers and policymakers to think differently about how to keep the young old active
299
As life becomes longer, the word "retirement", which literally means withdrawal to a place of
seclusion, has become misleading
300
At 65 you are not clapped out, but pre-tired. So as they embark on the next stage, here's
to all those pre-tirees
301
Donald Trump's new communications director has launched an extraordinary, foul-mouthed
tirade against two senior colleagues, raising the prospect of all-out civil war in the White House
302
The profane language was shocking even by
the standards of the Trump era and suggested a major staff shake-up is imminent
303
He was getting more and more worked up, and he eventually convinced
himself that Priebus was my source
304
They agreed to paper over the
cracks
305
The brasserie attracts discerning
customers
306
A small-time
gangster
307
You have taken your eye
off the ball
308
Mike as good as knows that he has passed his exam. He saw his professor and he gave him a broad smile and a wink
him a broad smile and a wink
309
Steve is as good as his
word. If he said he would help you, then he will
310
I failed my driving test yesterday. ; Oh well, you're in
good company -- so did I last week
311
Sheila said a woman in the accounts department is always rude to her, but knowing Sheila I'm sure she
gives her as good as she gets
