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Amped (a)

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[excited, especially because of an event]

I’m pretty amped and hyper when I’m working.

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Suffice it to say

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I won’t go into all the details. Suffice it to say that the whole event was a complete disaster.

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Press charges

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[kien]
Once it was straightened out, they weren’t going to press charges

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Sober(a)

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[Not drunk]

I stayed sober so I could drive us home.

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C-section

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[Delivery through an incision]
She just had to have a C-section

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Flop down

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[to sit or lie down in a heavy and sudden way because you are very tired]

Exhausted, he flopped down into a chair.

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Irk (v)

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[Annoy]
Daisy was sitting on the sofa with her feet up on the coffee table, which irked me

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Pop on over

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[visit]
If you’re free this Saturday, why don’t you pop over for a visit?

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Half in the bag (idiom)

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[mildly drink]

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Fiddle (v)

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[fiddle (with something) to keep touching or moving something with your hands, especially because you are bored or nervous]

He was fiddling with his keys while he talked to me.

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weasel out (phrasal verb)
/ˈwiːzl/

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[to avoid doing something that you ought to do or have promised to do]

He’s now trying to weasel out of our agreement.

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spartan (a)

/ˈspɑːrtn/

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luxurious

[simple or severe]

the spartan life of the training camp

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Congested (a)

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[crowded]

Many of Europe’s airports are heavily congested.

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interpretation (n)

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[the particular way in which something is understood or explained]
1. Her evidence suggests a different interpretation of the events.
2. Dreams are open to interpretation (= they can be explained in different ways).

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Off-key (a)

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[Not in tune]
You won’t have to cringe when your voice breaks or you veer off-key

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inhibition (n)

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[shy or nervous feeling]

The children were shy at first, but soon lost their inhibitions.

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Take your thing on the road

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Start doing sth

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Get down off

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[stop doing sth]

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Rat on

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[mach leo]
Where I came from, you don’t rat on your friends

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camaraderie (n)
/ˌkɑːməˈrɑːdəri/

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Friendship

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Back off

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[stop annoying sb]
The press agreed to back off and leave the couple alone

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Take it down a notch

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Calm down

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Fly by the seat of your pants

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[Tu nhien ma co]
I had no idea how to do it - it was just flying by the seat of your pants

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Slink off

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Walk away quitely

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All the same (idiom)

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[despite what has been said]
It rained every day of our holiday but we had a good time all the same

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Flashes before your eyes

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[Crisis near-death event]
My life flashed before my eyes

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Have(got) sth licked

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[have succeeded in dealing with a difficult problem]

~every time you think you’ve got something licked, it keeps rearing its head.

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Slack off

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[to do something with less effort or energy than before]
> I was exercising regularly last summer, but I’ve been slacking off recently

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Vouch (v)

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[Prove]

I heard this secondhand, from Teddy. So I can’t vouch for how true it is.

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Decompress (v)

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[to calm down and relax]

-> For some people, yoga is a way of decompressing after a long day.

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stir-crazy (a)

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-> Some passengers go a little stir-crazy on long-haul flights.

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bare your soul (to somebody)
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[to tell somebody your deepest and most private feelings]
-> I bare my soul to him

33
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Rickety (a)

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[not strong or well made; likely to break]
-> rickety chair/ bus

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Bombed (a)

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[drunk]
-> He got completely bombed last night.

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Bounce sth off of s.one

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He would have bounced the idea off of me.
Ban luan y kien voi ai do

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hindsight /ˈhaɪndsaɪt/

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Sau khi moi chuyen xay ra va le ra ko nen lam nhu vay
-> With hindsight it is easy to say they should not have released him.

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integral (a) /ˈɪntɪɡrəl/

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[essential ]

-> Music is an integral part of the school’s curriculum.

38
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subjective

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[chu quan]

-> Everyone’s opinion is bound to be subjective.

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Inklings of grief

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Hint of sorrow

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Come down to (phrasal verb)

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Depend on a single important point
-> What it comes down to is either I get more money or I leave.

-> If it comes down to his opinion or my opinion, we go with his opinion

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Floored (v)

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[surprised]
-> his reply completely floored me

42
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Water under the bridge

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Thoi ke di
It was water under the bridge

43
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chalk sth up to sth

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[to consider that something is caused by something]
-> We can chalk that win up to a lot of luck.

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Downtime

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[Everyone needs a little downtime.]

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Smarmy (a)

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Thao mai, ninh hot
-> a smarmy salesman

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Formidable (a)

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[Powerful]
-> The task was a formidable one.

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On pins and needles

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[Ngoi tren dong lua]
-> My friend has been on pins and needles for days waiting for the result of her test for COVID-19

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Seamlessly

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[smoothly]
-> they’re working together seamlessly

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level with somebody
(Idiom)

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(informal) to tell somebody the truth and not hide any unpleasant facts from them

-> level with me. Something’s up here

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allude to

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​(formal) to mention something in an indirect way | noi bong gio

-> The problem had been alluded to briefly in earlier discussions.

51
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Eloquent (a)

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Hoat ngon

52
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Loathe (v)

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Detest
-> they loathe each other

53
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Incline to (v)

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[tend to think]
-> The government is more effective than we incline to think.

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mend (your) fences (with somebody)

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[to find a solution when you disagree with somebody]
-> Is it too late to mend fences with your ex-wife?

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High ground

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[the advantage in a discussion or an argument, etc.]
-> you can’t claim the high ground when you go around throwing other people and their families under the bus

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pipe up (phrasal verb)

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[(informal) to begin to speak]
-> The person next to me piped up with a silly comment.

57
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impenetrable

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[impossible to understand]

-> an impenetrable mystery
Her expression was impenetrable.

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Gracious

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[kind, polite and generous, especially to somebody of a lower social position]
-> Billy is handling it great, being really gracious

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enigmatic

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[mysterious and difficult to understand]
-> an enigmatic smile

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dicey (a)

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[dangerous and uncertain]
-> The fog made driving pretty dicey.

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unfazed

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(informal)
​[not worried or surprised by something unexpected that happens]
-> She was totally unfazed by the news.

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Self-actualized

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the fact of using your skills and abilities and achieving as much as you can possibly achieve

-> she was fully self-actualized

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Muster (v)

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[to find as much support, courage, etc. as you can]
-> He could muster only 154 votes at the election.
I could muster the energy to step out

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Blurt out

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[to say something suddenly and without thinking carefully enough]
-> She blurted it out before I could stop her.

65
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Blurt out

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[to say something suddenly and without thinking carefully enough]
-> She blurted it out before I could stop her.

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Blurt out

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[to say something suddenly and without thinking carefully enough]
-> She blurted it out before I could stop her.

67
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Ache (v) for

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(formal) to have a strong desire for somebody/something or to do something

-> I was aching for home.

68
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unnerve
/ˌʌnˈnɜːv/

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[unnerve somebody to make somebody feel nervous or frightened or lose confidence]
-> His silence unnerved us.

69
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fly off the handle

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​(informal) to suddenly become very angry
He seems to fly off the handle about the slightest thing these days.

70
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make/lose money hand over fist
​

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to make/lose money very fast and in large quantities

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