10A Flashcards

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A cause with no chance of success

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A lost cause

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Fiasco

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A box office flip flop

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To not happen

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To fall through

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To experience sth unpleasant

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I come to grief

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To be beneficial for

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To do good

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To come to nought= to be worthless

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To come to nothing

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to express oneself extravagantly or emotionally; talk effusively.

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Gush: She gushed with pride over her new grandchild

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Cramped conditions

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Different conditions

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To turn over on the roof

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Capsize

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Cry

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Sob

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Nienasycony

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Insatiable

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to put ashore and abandon on a desolate island or coast by way of punishment or the like, as was done by buccaneers.

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Maroon

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Rower

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Oarsmen

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Albo zabije albo wzmocni

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Kill or cure

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to exert to the utmost

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Strain

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Go wrong

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Go badly

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Good prospects

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Have a bright future ahead

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Get results

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To get payed off

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Possible

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Have a good chance

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Successful in stats

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Riding high in the charts

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Get over sth

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Get on in life

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an act or instance of swaying abruptly.

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Lurch

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to utter mocking or scoffing words; jeer.

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Gibe

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the ropes, chains, etc., employed to support and work the masts, yards, sails, etc., on a ship.

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Rigging

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Rufa; the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem ).

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Stern

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to move or walk lightly or quickly: The child pattered across the room.

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Patter

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of great weight; heavy; massive.

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Ponderous

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dark, gloomy, and cheerless.

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Murky

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found or occurring apart from others or as an isolated or casual instance; incidental or occasional.

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Stray

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beginning to exist or develop: the nascent republic.

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Nascent

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showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve.

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Sullen

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Raise sail

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Set sail