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Here’s the deal

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まあ聞きなさい

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Blip

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Market unexpected deviation

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Complacent

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Self satisfaction

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Head and shoulders

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If you say that someone or something stands head and shoulders above other people or things, you mean that they are a lot better than them. The two candidates stood head and shoulders above the rest.

head and shoulders above は「～よりはるかに抜きんでている」「ずっと良い」という意味

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It’s not helpful

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為にはならんぞ

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Broken

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Damaged

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What’s a rush

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最高だぜ

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Rush

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Slang pleasurable feelungs

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Or what?

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出なかったら？？どうなるの？？

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Rock your world

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Profound effect in satisfaction

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I’ll sit tight

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Remain firmly

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I’ll see what I can come up with

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Think of idea, plan

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How are you settling in with everything?

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落ち着いた？

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Lend oneself to something

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To be adaptable to sth

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Breakwater

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Barrier to protect harbour

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Knock on effects

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Secondary effect

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Rampant

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Uncontrollable

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Dire

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of a situation or event) extremely serious or urgent:
“dire consequences”
SIMILAR:
terrible
dreadful
appalling

(of a warning or threat) presaging disaster:
“dire warnings about breathing the fumes”
SIMILAR:
ominous
portentous

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Suck it up and get it done

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Accept hardship and efficient completion of a task within a specified time

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Speaking in tongues

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Speak in unknown language

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Thrill to

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Become greatly excited

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Neat freak

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Always want things to be orderly, clean

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But now I kind of see —

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I can only see —

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Tip top

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ほんに先っちょ

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Let’s dive in

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Let’s begin

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Stay out

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Without moving

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Do not put me on the spot

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困らせないで

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Out of the picture

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No longer invilved

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Be your own kind of beautiful

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自分らしくあれ

あなた独自の美しさで在りなさい。（他人が言う美しさじゃなく、誰かみたいな美しさでもなく、誰かのための美しさでもなく、あなた自身の為の、あなたらしい、自由な美しさでいい）”

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Clawback

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retrieving money already paid out, typically by taxation.
“a clawback of tax relief”

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Thick-skinned

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Someone who is thick-skinned does not appear to be easily hurt by criticism:
You do need to be thick-skinned to survive as a politician here.

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Forthcoming

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happening soon:
We have just received the information about the forthcoming conference.

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Put on airs

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Pompous self important

a person who acts superior, or one who behaves as if they are more important than others. It is derived from the French word “air”, meaning appearance, and was first used in the 1500s.

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Mock

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not real but appearing or pretending to be exactly like something:

to laugh at someone, often by copying them in a funny but unkind way:
They were mocking him because he kept falling off his bike.

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On the horizon

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Become apparent

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Slouch over

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Lean to one side bend うつむく

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Setback

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Difficulty

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Someone’s two cents

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someone’s opinion about something, esp. when it was not asked for or wanted:
If the changes are going to affect me, then I want to put my two cents in. Opinion

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It is what it is

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A situation cannot be changed
しょうがない

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Rooting for

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Support

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Tacky

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Sticky wet gluey

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Get after it

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To do it

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Bubble up

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Increase and become visible

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Tail off

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Weaken decline languish

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Fruitation

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Point of plan is realized

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Colossal

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Massive

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Empathize

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Understand feelings of another

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Without a hitch

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As planned

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Don’t get me started

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When someone bring up topic about a lot to say about in a negative way

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Analogy

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Comparison between two things

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Fancy schmancy
Razzle dazzle

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Extremely fancy

noisy, showy, and exciting activity and display designed to attract and impress:
“myth, legend, and razzle-dazzle all rolled into one show” · ”hyped-up, razzle-dazzle gimmicks of quick-sell advertising”

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My take

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My conclusuon

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Hold off

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Resist fail

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Biopsy

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Examine tissues

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Bog down

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Stuck行き詰まり

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Crackerjack

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Exceptionally good

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Get you the way

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お任せします

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Run the number

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Do the calculations

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Broil

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Grill

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Luck out (-Out of luck)

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Achieve successfully luck( - bad luck)

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Bread and butter

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Salary

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Off lord

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Unload

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Fire off

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To hastily write and send

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Spell

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Sign

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At your beck and call

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always willing and able to do whatever someone asks:
Go and get it yourself! I’m not at your beck and call, you know.

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Lethargic

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Fatigue
having little energy; feeling unwilling and unable to do anything:
I was feeling tired and lethargic.

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Grimace

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Frown
to make an expression of pain, strong dislike, etc. in which the face twists in an ugly way:
grimace with He tried to stand and grimaced with pain.

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Stink eye

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Express annoyance

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Lye

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灰汁

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Laisse faire

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Free trade

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Other

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Treat different

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Squabble

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an argument over something that is not important:
Polly and Susie were having a squabble about who was going to hold the dog’s lead.

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Whisker

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ヒゲ

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Bogland

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Marshy land

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Far flung

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distant or remote.
“the far-flung corners of the world”
widely distributed.
“newsletters provided an important link to a far-flung membership”
Feedback

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Squish

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押し潰す

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One of the boys

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a man who is an accepted or integral member of a male social group.
“he wants to stay one of the boys”

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Knock on effect

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Secondary effect

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All weather friend

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Good time and bad time friend

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Stratosphere

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Layer of earth’s atmosphere

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Weathered

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風雨にさらされて擦り切れた

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Sequester

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1.
isolate or hide away.
“she is sequestered in deepest Dorset”

83
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I’m having a brain holiday

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頭おやすみ

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Lock away

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Put in a locked container

85
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Over time

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Gradually

86
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To the tune of

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Amounting to

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In the limelight

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Public attention

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It’s something like you’re onto something..

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良いことに気づいたみたいだね

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Jubilee

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the celebration of) the day on which an important event happened many years ago:
the Queen’s diamond jubilee

90
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Battery gate issue

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Appleが、バッテリーが古くなり劣化したiPhoneの性能を意図的に落していた「バッテリーゲート」問題で、合計1億1300万ドル(約117億4849万円)を支払うことに合意したことが発表されました。この和解金は、Appleが2020年7月から申請を受け付けていた「iPhone1台あたり約2700円の和解金」とは別に、今後の消費者保護調査などの資金としてアメリカの複数の州に対して支払われるものです。

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Barbacoa

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in Mexican cooking) beef, lamb, or other meat that has been slowly cooked with seasonings, typically shredded as a filling in tacos, burritos, etc.
“a burrito stuffed with barbacoa”

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Test a boundaries

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ギリまでやる

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Pivot away

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) to change direction; to change the way in which something is done. pivot (to/towards something) (away from something) The company is pivoting towards mobile and away from social media.

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expedient

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helpful or useful in a particular situation, but sometimes not morally acceptable:
It might be expedient not to pay him until the work is finished.

名詞】【可算名詞】 (とりあえずある目的のためにとる)手段，便法，(臨機の)処置. a temporary expedient 間に合わせ策, 一時しのぎの便法

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Take some beating

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If something takes some beating, it is so good that it is hard to improve on it:
His new world record will take some beating.

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The lion’s share

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the largest part of something.
“William was appointed editor, which meant that he did the lion’s share of the work”
Similar:
most
the majority

97
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Far out

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strange and unusual:
I’ve seen the video - it’s pretty far out.

98
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give someone a shout

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call for someone’s attention.
call on or get in touch with someone.

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Heat spell

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A (usually) short period of hot weather. Sometimes a heat wave

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Spell

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a period of time for which an activity or condition lasts continuously:
for a spell I lived in Cairo for a spell.
have a spell as She had a brief spell as captain of the team.
dizzy spell I keep having/getting dizzy spells (= periods of feeling as if I’m turning around).

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