Movies Flashcards

(70 cards)

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Pitch me on slate

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Find good arguments to persuade

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Gripping

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Interesting

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Vaunted

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Tan duong, praised boastfully or excessively

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Picket

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coc!

To fasten or feather to a picket

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Let’s cut to the chase

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Come to the point

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Go under

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Go bankrupt/ die or suffer an emotional collapse

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7
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need a swift kick in the pants

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Need someone to punish him because he has done something he should’ve have

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I am fed up

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I am annoyed

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Cut it/that out

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Stop doing it/that

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Make the leap

=\ Take the plunge

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If you take the leap, you’re jumping across and into something new.

Whereas TAKE THE PLUNGE, you make a decision to do something after thinking about it for a long time.

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Praise be!

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Used as an expression of relief, joy or gratitude

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12
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Glamour shots

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Are meant to look appealing with wearing a lot of make up

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Salacious

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Tuc tiu, dam o

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14
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Tend to boost

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Push

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Stick her neck out

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Taking the risk

Don’t stick your neck out for no good reason

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16
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Pushback

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Negative response/feedback

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17
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Imperative

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crucial

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18
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Underscore

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Emphasize

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19
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Feel neglected

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Feel unloved, ignored, abandoned

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Spin your wheels

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To use a lot of effort without achieving anything

You’re on a contract but just spinning your wheels

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21
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Do you justice

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Treat you with due fairness or appreciation

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22
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Put my leg

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To tease or joke with someone, often by trying to combine them or some hint untrue

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23
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Biceps

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Co bap/muscel

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Blow my head off

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Shoot me

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Trim down
Become thinner
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Spoon-feed
Dut com
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Meathead
A stupid person
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Get infantilized at an early age
Treat as a child/denies their maturity in age or experience
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Astute
Sac sao tinh khon/ accurately assess the situation
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Let’s me pull you back down to the surface of the planet Earth for a moment
To be practical
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Crooked teeth
Rang Bi lech
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Greatness comes from refinement
Mai dua
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Work one’s tail/ass/buns/butt off
Work hard
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Be content to
Be pleased, fulfilled to
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Munch
Chew with noise
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Make your move
Take the action
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Horrified
Scared
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Survive the embarrassment
Vuot qua su xau ho
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On the edge of a precipice | Standing on the precipice forever
Very close to the bad situation | Just be in the same situation
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Steal a march on
Gain an advantage over unexpectedly or secretly
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Vice Squad
A department or division of a police that enforce laws against prostitution, drug abuse and illegal gambling.
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Take a chance on one or thing
Gamble that something good might happen
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To frequent
Often visit thing
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It’s out there now
It is crazy now
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Mugshot
the photograph of crime defendant taken
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Ironic
Interesting funny when something happens differently than what you thought
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Get a finger in every stink hole in town
Know everything
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Be!be not a (big) fan of one or thing doing th
Into th
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to weather | weather-beaten
To overcome | Being through and overcome the difficulties
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Scaffolding
Gian Giao
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Rung
Bac Thang
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He found a wart on his knob, turned on he got syphilis
Muc tren dau ( co the y Noi duong vat), Benh giang Mai
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Drip I had the drip once, it went away after a while
Su kho chiu
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Stash one th up
Store in a secret place
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Stink to high heaven
Have a very strong and unpleasant odor
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Slimy
Gian xao
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Rip/bite your head off
Best sb angrily
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No Hard feelings
Khong nen tuc gian
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To Funnel you all the best/smelly dish/fish
To convey info
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To breathe a word to sb
Share info to sb
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Replete with
Crowded
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Leap of faith on sth
Believe in sth that the outcome cannot be proven
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Homo
Homosexual, de due
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Pull the shit on me again
Don’t do it again
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Don’t give a fig
don’t care
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Miscegenation
Interbreeding between different racial people
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Get/have your ducks in a row for (your little date in court)
Well prepare for
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Busted
Bi phat giac
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Have a great run
Good for a certain of time | Can be for weather “We had a good run of sunshine for a few day but that’s over now”
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Hiatus
Gian doan