09 Flashcards

1
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trepidation

Thanks @aeonmag for sharing my latest article! I felt some trepidation sharing my journey. But I hope it helps with seeing the value of self-care! 🥰

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Ürperme
Korku, titreme

1: a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : APPREHENSION
//trepidation about starting a new job

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get my head around it

“It was a bombshell. I’m shocked. I’m still trying to get my head around it,” Atwood, multi-award-winning author of The Handmaid’s Tale and many other novels, told The Daily Beast.

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= to succeed in understanding or accepting something such as a new idea. We began to get our heads around what we were facing and how we would fight it.

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bombshell

The novelist Margaret Atwood has revealed her shock at the revelation that her fellow Canadian author Alice Munro knew that her daughter was sexually abused by her husband—and stayed with him after finding out the dark secret.

“It was a bombshell. I’m shocked. I’m still trying to get my head around it,” Atwood,

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  1. an unexpected and surprising event, especially an unpleasant one.
    “the news came as a bombshell”
  2. a very attractive person (typically used of a woman).
    “a twenty-year-old blonde bombshell”
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Do me a solid

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Bana bir iyilik/güzellik yap

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5
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Just play along

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Sadece bana ayak uydur

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add up

“Watson claimed he was at home at the time of the murder, but police said his story didn’t add up.”

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To make sense, to be logical

= to seem reasonable or likely:

“Watson claimed he was at home at the time of the murder, but police said his story didn’t add up.”

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7
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I haven’t the foggiest

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En ufak bir fikrim yok

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8
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dispassionate

“Unless you buy a stock at the exact bottom (which is next to impossible), you will be down at some point after you make every investment. Your success entirely depends on how dispassionate you are towards short-term stock price fluctuations. Behavior matters.”

— Joel Greenblatt

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Serinkanlı
Hislerine kapılmayan

: not influenced by strong feeling
especially

: not affected by personal or emotional involvement

//a dispassionate critic
//a dispassionate approach to an issue

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9
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by virtue of

“they achieved pre-eminence by virtue of superior military strength”

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…den dolayı

= because or as a result of.

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10
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clutch at straws

Some Chinese are rooting for Gavin Newsom to become the Democratic candidate in the hope that he would boost relations between the two countries. They may be clutching at straws econ.st/3xQoqWN 👇

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= be in such a desperate situation as to resort to even the most unlikely means of salvation.

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11
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Don’t beat yourself up

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Kendini hırpalama

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I get that a lot

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Bunu bana çok söylüyorlar

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13
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You’re something else

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Sen başkasın

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14
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It is what it is

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Aman neyse ne

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15
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Hit me up

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Ara beni

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16
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I got your back

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Arkandayım

17
Q

Can I crash at your place?

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Sende kalabilir miyim?

18
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flake out on

” I’m tired of relying on other people - they keep flaking out on me.”

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Birisini son anda ekmek
Yüz üstü bırakmak

= to not do what you are expected or have promised to do:

” I’m tired of relying on other people - they keep flaking out on me.”

19
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get around to

“I still haven’t got around to fixing that tap.”

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(Sonunda) bir şey yapmaya fırsat bulma

to do something that you have intended to do for a long time:

“I intended to tidy the flat at the weekend, but I didn’t get round to it.”

“It’s been at the back of my mind to call José for several days now, but I haven’t got round to it yet.”

20
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rope in

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zorla peşinden götürmek

21
Q

Wreak havoc

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Terör estirmek
Altını üstüne getirmek

22
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atone

“Dark days for Turks as Erdogan atones for economic errors”

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Telafi etmek

{f} (bir suç, kabahat v.b.’ni) affettirecek harekette bulunmak, telafi etmek; kefaret etmek

23
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That’s how we roll

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Bizde işler böyle

24
Q

Look into

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Araştırmak

25
Q

Check someone out

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Kesmek

26
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I’m stuffed

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Doydum, şiştim

27
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Scooch over

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Bilama yana kay

Kenara kaymak

28
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teamster

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{i} kamyon şoförü [amer.]
arabacı

: one who drives a team or motortruck especially as an occupation

29
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Submissively

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Kuzu kuzu

30
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Willful

The Willful Outcast
Although Spinoza was officially expelled from the Jewish community, he and Judaism would always remain inseparable. Far from denying God, he denied that anything existed outside of God. “Instead of saying that he denied God,” Heine wrote, “one might say that he denied man.”

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Düşüncesinde inat eden
Direngen
Kasti

: obstinately and often perversely self-willed
//a stubborn and willful child
2: done deliberately : INTENTIONAL
//willful disobedience