08 Flashcards

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Noun + Compound Noun

  • perm
  • bureau
  • night-vision goggles
  • pay-channel language
  • triple leakage protection
  • a night out
  • spittle
  • inhibition
  • grandkids
  • family tradition
  • sloppy joe
  • Western
  • stinker
  • (lead) guitarist
  • phone book
  • ‘80s
  • backup/ lead singer
  • squat
  • straight
  • lightbulb
  • complication
  • downer
  • back catalogue
  • noodle
  • album
  • warlock
  • seascape
  • millennium
  • soundtrack
  • segue
  • first-child syndrome
  • potty-training
  • swim-up bar
  • a fool’s game
  • a break-up song
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perm: a chemical process that makes a person’s hair curly
spittle: the liquid in your mouth
inhibition: a feeling of shyness or embarrassment that stops you doing or saying what you really want has no inhibition lose her inhibition
stinker: someone or something that is very unpleasant or difficult
squat: anything, nothing I got squat. He doesn’t know squat about it.
noodle: the head or brain of a person
straight: in the card game poker, five cards which follow each other in order but are not of the same suit
complication: a medical problem or illness that happens while someone is already ill and makes treatment more difficult She lost her feet to complications from diabetes.
downer: a person or situation that stops you feeling happy
back catalogue: music that a performer has recorded in the past
soundtrack to (a film): the recorded music from a film
segue: a movement without interruption from one piece of music, part of story, subject, or situation to another

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Verb + Phrasal Verb

  • frame
  • (sb/ sth) suck
  • drill sth into sb
  • not care for sb/ sth
  • torture
  • kick off (the day)
  • weep
  • make out with sb
  • get around to sth
  • pay up
  • act out (= to express your feelings about something through your behaviour or actions, especially when you have been feeling angry or nervous)
  • potty-train
  • put sth over on sb
  • track sb/ sth down
  • fix
  • immerse
  • brew
  • rekindle [STN] reawaken
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frame: to surround something with something else so that it looks attractive or can be seen clearly
drill sth into sb: to keep telling someone something until they know it very well
not care for sb/ sth: not like someone or something
if a meeting, event, or a football game kicks off, it starts. if you kick off a discussion, meeting, event etc, you start it
get around to sth: to do something that you have been intending to do for some time We finally got around to clearing out the garage.
pay up: to pay money that you owe, especially when you do not want to or you are late
put sth over on sb: to persuade someone to believe something that is not true
fix: to prepare a meal or drinks fix dinner, fix you a plate
rekindle: to make someone have a particular feeling that they had in the past

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Collocation (verb + noun)

  • strike oil/ gold
  • bring back memories / rekindle memories
  • bleach teeth
  • lightbulb goes out
  • fire up some popcorn
  • share
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strike oil/ gold: to find a supply of gold, oil etc in the ground or under the sea

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Collocation (adjective + noun)

  • dying passion
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Collocation (noun + proposition)

  • dark sense of humor
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Idiom

  • raise the roof
  • be a pill / act like a pill
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raise the roof: to make a very loud noise when singing, celebrating etc

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Adjective + Adverb

  • sensational
  • epic
  • real quick
  • practically
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No, that’s where you’re wrong.

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This makes it official.

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You’re impossible to buy for.

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I think we’d be able to tell.

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It’ll make us a better parents.

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Stop drilling, you’ve struck oil.

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You know who’d be fun to call?

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She has absolutely no inhibition.

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16
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The more, the merrier.

17
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Is she still coming?

18
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What are you apologizing for?

19
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Getting in there

20
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the last thing you want to do is …

21
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You really don’t understand what just happened there do you?

22
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How ‘80s is that!

23
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I had a little practice at this.

24
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She wasn’t throwing anything at me I hadn’t seen before from her mother.

25
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You don’t miss a minute.

26
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I’m making it all about me.

27
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I’m so bad with titles.

28
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What album was that on? I want to say second.

29
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Do you think it’s at all possible that …

30
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She broke up our group.

31
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I have a theory.

32
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I would’ve been back by now.

Would that have killed you?

33
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Why are you being like this?

34
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You’re taking this too personally.

35
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You want to make this into a big game?

36
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He fell in love to a break-up song.

37
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Is this really the way?

38
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We can go in just a minute.