Chunks 5 Flashcards
Bolluk, bereket, çokluk
Abundance:
0 Prayers of gratitude give us a sense of joy and abundance
1 The abundance of money ruins youth.
2. The area has an abundance of wildlife.
3. Wishing you two an abundance of love and happiness.
4 There was an abundance of corn last year.
5 I still have an abundance of energy that leaves my contemporaries standing.
I agree with you
I’m with you
Instead of thank you in official correspondance:
If you don’t mind
“If you don’t mind, I’d love to meet with you at noon to discuss this.”
If you could X, that would be great.
“If you could finish that report by 3pm, that would be great.”
I’d appreciate it if you could…
“I’d appreciate it if you could call some of our clients for feedback today.
Easy peasy
Çocuk oyuncağı, çok kolay
Train of thought
When your mind goes blank, you need to give yourself a little time to say sth.
I am terribly sorry that ı’ve just lost my train of thought
It is on the tip of my tongue.
Pitfall
Gizli tehlike, tuzak.
- [ ] The women say there are pitfalls to having an all-female team.
- [ ] Learn how to avoid common investment pitfalls.
let go of
- [ ] It’s so hard to let go of control.
- [ ] We learn to let go of things and people that hurt us in the past and just move on
- [ ] try to let go of your complex native thoughts that I know you have.
- [ ] My daughter won’t let go of my wife’s hand when she takes her to school.
Stop overthinking everything and let go of the past
Yıpratmak, eskitmek
Wear out
I wear out a pair of shoes every year because I love to go walking.
Children can wear their parents out.
He’d do it so much that he’d wear himself out.
My teen is so disrespectful and I’m worn out trying to handle it.
Filter out
Remove completely
We tried to filter out the background noise in the video edit.
They decided to filter out people from lower age groups from the survey as they weren’t important to the findings
The test is used to filter out candidates who may be unsuitable.
Back in
In the past, formerly
It all started back in 2014 as I had just started teaching
It was easier to rank in Google back in those days.
She told me you were someone from her days back in London before she set up shop here.
Heading
Going
Wrap up your answer with what you like about your profession and where you see yourself heading.
They’re heading for disaster if they’re not careful.
We saw him heading for us, so we stepped aside.
She headed back to her home town
Charlotte basically didn’t stop talking as we headed down to the second floor.
Sonuçsuz
Inconclusive
Pekiştirmek
Solidify
Intensify
I talk all the time about labels and how labeling children can actually lead to them taking on the identity assigned to them. Which in this case, can intensify biting behavior rather than eliminate it!
Yüzeysel davranmak
Skimming the surface (of sth):
To do, engage with, or understand something to only a minimal or superficial degree.
- You are just skimming the surface
- I know you feel like you know everything about philosophy now, but this introductory course only skims the surface.
- Jack never felt satisfied devoting his time and attention to one thing, so instead he’s skimmed the surface of a number of hobbies and interests.
- He seems knowledgeable in many different areas but his familiarity is very superficial, since he only skims the surface of everything he touches.
Overlook
ignore, fail to notice
I would strongly advise you to not overlook the power of writing, to not think that writing is unimportant.
It is easy to overlook a small detail like that.
We decided to overlook his mistake.
Companies are so busy analysing the financial implications that they overlook the effect on workers.
Sometimes, inspiration comes from the most overlooked corners of our lives.
