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1
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low status, low wage job

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menial job

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mental/ office job

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white- collar job

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3
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physical job

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blue collar job

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4
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attractive in an exciting and special way

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glamorous

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5
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not having a fear of high

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have a head for heights

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6
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be good at maths

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have a head for figures

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someone who can do many different jobs

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jack-of-all-trades

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to stay away from school or work or to leave early, especially without permission

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1-bunk off (more school)

2- skive off (more work)

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to say to your employer that you are ill when you are not so that you do not have to go to your place of work for a day

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throw/ pull a sickie

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10
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to have a job

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be in work

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11
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to not have a job

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be out of work

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12
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to be on vacations/ have free time of work

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be off work

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13
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someone who always obeys all the rules of their job even when they cause problems for other people or when the rules are silly

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jobsworth

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14
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to be on the health leave (work)

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be signed-off

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15
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a holiday where you do something similar to your usual work instead of having a rest from it

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busman’s holiday

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16
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to talk about things relating to your work when you are in a social situation, especially in a way that is not interesting to other people

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talk shop

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17
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unemployed and receiving money from the government

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on the dole

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18
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to exercise in order to improve the strength or appearance of your body

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work out

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19
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gradually become hungry, develop an appetite

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work out an appetite

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to get very upset or excited about something

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get worked up over something

21
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find it difficult to do something

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have a hard job doing something

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to have something more important to do

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have other/ bigger fish to fry

23
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to do something that will cause a series of actions to start

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set the wheels in motion

24
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sb is lucky (slung)

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jammy beggar

25
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to feel unwilling or unable to stay still or to be quiet and calm, because you are worried or bored/ to need to be active

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feel restless

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(of prices, values, or sales) to fall suddenly

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to slump

27
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create an unusual amount of interest (in something)

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spark somebody’s interest

28
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to gradually start to sleep

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drift off

29
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a strong personal interest in something because you could get an advantage from it

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vested interest

30
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so boring that it makes you very unhappy

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soul-destroying

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extremely, enormously

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immensely

32
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in a way that exists as a natural or basic part of something

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inherently

33
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without knowing any of the unpleasant facts about something

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blissfully

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in a frightening, violent, or powerful way/ agressively

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fiercely

35
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gorzkie rozczarowanie

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bitter disappointment

36
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w konkurencyjnej cenie

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competitively priced

37
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otepiajaco nudne

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mind-numbingly boring

38
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całkowicie, zupelnie

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utterly

39
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calkowicie nieprzyzwoite

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wholly /utterly inappropriate

40
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głęboko pogrążony we śnie

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soundly asleep

41
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całkowicie, kompletnie, zupełnie

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wholly

42
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naturalnie trudne

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inherently difficult

43
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gwaltownie zaprzeczac

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hotly deny

44
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niezbyt zabawny

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faintly amusing

45
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stanowczo potepiac

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roundly condemn

46
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lubiacy ostro rywalizowac

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fiercely competitive

47
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barely/ hardly other

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scarcely

48
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słabo, lekko, z osłabieniem

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faintly

49
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bezpiecznie przypuszczac

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safely assume