Gd12 Flashcards
(201 cards)
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Then, off to my right around 10 metres, the shark bent, twisted and went
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volte-face on a sixpence, gathering speed as it cruised back toward me
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I stared at her, breath ragged, as she walked to the door, sashaying
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her hips calmly
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She draped the white fur coat seductively around her shoulders and
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sashayed into the sitting room
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They’ve spun, tangoed, waltzed, rumbaed, salsaed, funked, jazzed, hip-hopped and twirled their little hearts out and now they’re sashaying
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off into the sunset in an hour-long final
5
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The script is laced
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with expletives
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His voice was laced
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with derision
7
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The communications director had drawn criticism after calling a reporter to give a profanity-laced
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tirade against his colleagues
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There is no guaranteed
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fail-safe procedure
9
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Europe was first to introduce habeas
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corpus and the jury system
10
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To overstep their
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power
11
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You’ve got a lot on your
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plate at the moment
12
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Postnatal
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care helper
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It’s like taking candies
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from a baby
14
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Baby
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blues
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He acts like a
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crybaby
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Don’t fight before
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bed
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Whatever will be,
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will be
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Black letter
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law approach
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China fleshed out its
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stand in the Himalayan border row with India on Wednesday, saying the number of Indian troops in what Beijing claims as its territory had dropped to 40 from a peak of 400
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Police talked down a man in Hong Kong window ledge
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stand-off sparked by an axe attack on his wife
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Everyone is hard
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at work
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It’s revolting. It put me
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off my food
23
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A hospice
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nurse
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She sounded pretty
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freaked out
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A do-
gooder
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A triage
nurse
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Everything around us, from the inescapable rat race to the gender imbalance, seems
primed to facilitate a single lifestyle
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There's a lot of casual dating and hooking up, but there is a
dearth of deep and meaningful relationships
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It means we have a foot out the door, waiting for someone better to
cross our path
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Most respondents say they would be willing to go down a couple of
notches in looks to be with someone who met a lot of their other criteria
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What about who think love is
overrated and genuinely don't care
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Is it wrong to be alone?
Different strokes for different folks
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The play's cast was excellent, but the dialogue was unforgivably
cringeworthy
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He had long cherished a secret
fantasy about his future
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It remains vital both to China and to the country's trading partners--the adaptor that converts the mainland's financial and legal
voltage into the one used by the rest of the world
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Business folk have three worries: that Hong Kong will be usurped by Shanghai; that it can no longer claim to be a pan-Asian hub; and that it is a
laggard in technology
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Foreign banks are all
but excluded
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The banks are assumed to fudge their futures. Property rights are fluid, as evidenced by
crackdowns on tycoons in the past three years
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Few multinationals would domicile a big holding company on the mainland under its opaque
laws and tax code
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Instead a riot of free trading by individuals, buy and sell orders are
aggregated by the authorities on both sides of the border, and settled bilaterally once a day
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China can keep tabs on mainland investors and it requires them to
repatriate the proceeds of share sales, in yuan
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It was unbecoming for a university to do anything so
crass as advertising its wares
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Could you enlighten us
more on the project and your plan in mind
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We would camp out in the backyard and run
naked through the grass on a dare
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Trump ramps up
threats to North Korea: 'fire and fury' wasn't tough enough
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The fear of financial turmoil still trumps Beijing's
desire for a global currency or a clean float system
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August 11 2015 (the date of the yuan devaluation) left no
fond memories for him as many of his bank's clients panicked
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Some insiders consider this
to be moral turpitude on my part
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His actions amounted to an act of
moral turpitude
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He could spot hypocrisy, pomposity, smugness,
snobbery, tomfoolery and turpitude from miles away
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- Does he?
- Not that I saw
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I swung by
that place down the street and got you some dinner
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Philip was a serial philanderer who did not bother to conduct his affairs very
discreetly, which infuriated the moody and jealous Joan
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We joined the tail
end of a queue
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The guy down the hall says he didn't hear anything.
Ditto the manager
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Correct the, sort of, daffy
things that she says
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A steep membership
fee
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The most romantic
gesture he ever made
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- You're gonna think I'm crazy
- Try me
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How are we gonna fit a dinner
date in
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That's pretty much not in the
cards
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You know, old like a shriveled-up
raisin
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She's proved she's got
swag with this sporty two-piece
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Adam had swag -- he moved like a man who had the
world at his feet
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He was an amazing dancer and his demeanor radiated
confidence and suave
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As e-commerce giants put the squeeze on brick-and-mortar
shops in the Lion City's malls, savvy operators are rethinking the world of retail by offering food, drink .... and experiences
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More and more Singaporeans are shopping like her -- with clicks of a mouse rather than
heels
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Even the annual Great Singapore Sale cannot forestall
the decline
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The Goliath of online shopping Amazon landed
on the island
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Given the sweltering tropical heat, seeking
refuge in air-conditioned malls remains a national pastime
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These shops saw rents grow in the first half of thins year,
bucking the industry trend
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Eateries are low-hanging
fruit for malls -- they fill up the vacant spaces and go some way in helping to draw crowds as most activities in Singapore revolve around eating
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Others take on their rivals online, opening virtual
storefronts to complement their physical presence
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Asked if he thought the death of retail was inevitable, he
demurred
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Seat-of-the-
pants
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I always had a sense of music and rhythm. And that worked in
my favour
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Lam hitched up his bermudas to show 21 staples driven into the flesh, which he said were the
handiwork of his torturers
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The team scored a four-nil victory and earned bragging
rights over their opponents
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We have been given the
runaround many times
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We have been given the short
end of the stick many times
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The kids play merry
hell until she tells them to go to bed at once
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He would raise hell and would not budge
an inch
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What woman would consider a date with him,
much less a marriage?
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The Green Paper does not mention this issue,
still less propose change
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This is understandable enough -- but the idea that the former should find it surprising,
still less offensive, is anything but
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Is it that the administration rides a tiger and is
afraid to dismount
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She was riding a tiger and there was
no way of escape
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She was always giving it to him about the radishes and the
vegetable skins in the garbage disposal
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I asked the waiter for a clean folk and all I got was
attitude
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Chinese children head off or return to boarding schools in Britain for a
prized education
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Asian would remain a rare
sight at the school for a decade more
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A public school education was prohibitively
expensive
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Abandoned and desolate, I sobbed until I thought my heart would
break. I was told that crying was not allowed and that it was a weakness only for girls
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When I was sweaty, I doused myself with water
scooped from an earthenware jar
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Twenty pieces of music is a bit much to take in at one
sitting
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In his place as discipline master was a thickset, older man with broad shoulders, short red hair and steely,
pale blue eyes
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He was as strong as a bull and had a personality
to match
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He was a rough, tough man, fond of
lording it over us seven- to 12-year-olds, whom he called "weedies"
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Then came the underpants examinations, and woe
betide those found with a "skid mark"
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I was sometimes one of the kneeling boys, looking left under the tunnel of arched bodies, listening as the
thwacks and the whimpering drew ever closer
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His rules could be whimsical. I copped
it once for jumping down a couple of steps instead of walking down them
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To my incredulity, the priests shrugged and
gave embarrassed smiles
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He spread his arms in
invitation
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I was astonished but, although I well knew the monster that lurked
behind the mask, my curiosity overcame my trepidation
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Has the world cottoned on to my gentle wit, my innate sense of style, or my ability to tug
at the emotional heartstrings so dexterously?
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The clip was deemed too
racy for TV
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Although shallow charges and discharges hit the longevity sweet
spot, there are exceptions to this rule
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Make sure to keep it in a Goldilocks
spot: not too hot and not too cold
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Don't get marry just
for the sake of it
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The Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal provided limited
sailings
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No fear shone in their orange eyes, only an evil deadness that could be felt, making one's skin
crawl
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Yet in one scene he overturns the balance of power between them with a single disturbing gesture, and the sleazy
satisfaction on his face makes one's skin crawl
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All these books were shelved indiscriminately without regard to the language in which they were written, and this jumble proved that the captain could read fluently whatever volumes he
chanced to pick up
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It's becoming a
stroll
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This morning she lost her fight
for life
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He strummed a few
chords
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The ref called me and over and gave me my marching
orders
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He ended the fight with his face
bloodied and battered
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Is Gareth Bale to Man Utd back on the
cards
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Young Kim is justified in responding the correct
proportion to the military provocations from US-Japan-SK warmongers
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In a majority decision, the full bench of the Supreme Court quashed
the previous suspended sentence
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In a written decision following the two day hearing the tribunal
bench unanimously backed her claim for unfair dismissal
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Although the first lady tried to pull together a utilitarian look for the occasion, her stilettos are
throwing people off
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She wore an all-black ensemble of cropped tailored trousers and a simple black top, fittingly
accompanied by an army-green bomber jacket
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How out of
touch can you be
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More notably, FLOTUS slipped
on some white Stan Smith Adidas sneakers
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The fire started in a wheelie
bin pushed against a door and the flames were already starting to spread
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Drag races are a regular event on the stretch and motorcycle riders pulling
wheelies and other stunts are a common sight in the late hours
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Soft to the foot, the densely textured lawns would have rivaled the most
luxuriant carpets woven by the hand of man
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I am at a total loss of
words
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He was tempted to take off his shirt, but knew that the wicked little insects would
eat him alive
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I think there are times when he needs to retreat from media attention, because the same media that will give you exposure is same media that will
eat you alive later on
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They ganged up
on him
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You're in for a rude
shock
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They had overlooked the red
flag that should have alerted them to the country's disastrous investment strategy
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For an immigrant boy this marital alliance was no mean
feat
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They sold 1 million cards in the first year of business -- no mean
feat, given the problems many businesses are facing
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He penned several newspaper articles that introduced
snippets of linguistic and cultural paraphernalia
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His works has been a desk
staple of almost all sinology and translation scholars and students
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This is a peach of a site that deserves the application of real
genius, not dull commercialism
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It was another peach of
a day
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They stuck to their task and broke through with a
peach of a try
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Beautiful people masquerading as mingers guarantee
brilliant transformation for the crucial 'before' and 'after' photos
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We're nothing that special; not mingers but not
beauty queens either
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I've always been a sucker for a good sense of humour and turn of
phrase; that can cover many flaws
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I'm always a sucker for these kind of movies, with innocent, dreamy teenagers wandering around in orange
sunlight, seeking some sort of self-discovery
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Those that pay for their pieces of paper from unscrupulous overseas institutions in the West are
utter fools
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The recent test, a slap in the face for both China and the US, could have a sobering
effect on the two powers, sharpening the choices before them and strengthening their resolve to cooperate for a solution -- by military means if necessary
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He had them falling for it; hook,
line, and sinker
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The media swallowed it -- as they always do --
hook, line, and sinker
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He looks a sorry
sight with his broken jaw
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The judge gave a short
shrift to an argument based on the right to free speech
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He liked to boast and she would egg
him on shamelessly
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Step up to the
plate
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Did someone just pick a percentage out of a
hat and declare it to be fair
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Boats that can turn on
a dime
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Waste not,
want not
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Pale, foul-smelling
stool
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We live in the moment; and whatever floats
your boat is okay
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If that's what floats your boat, go for it, but it leads us
nowhere fast
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That would suit them
just fine
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The absurdly lenient sentence is a
travesty of justice
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Temper your enthusiasm.
It's not much
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If worst comes to the
worst, we get caught, we get a bed, three meals a day and better healthcare than we get now
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You want to drift off into the sunset, or do you want to go out with
a bang
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Oh, good. Chicken thighs are
on special
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This is not an admission of
guilt
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I think we can make the
light
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You show us the ropes, you
get paid
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Efforts were made to interest her
in a purchase
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He was literally dying with
laughter
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Shades
off
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I saw a happy gleam in the gallant lad's eyes, and to communicate his
pleasure, he jiggled around inside his carapace in the world's silliest way
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I can't for the life of me understand
what you see in her
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I could not, for the life of me, find my wedge
of Parmesan cheese
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My mind goes blank, my heart beatboxes inside my chest, my skin tingles and dampens and I cannot, for the
life of me, think of anything to say
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A smooth-tongued critic who doesn’t pull his
punches
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Browser was daring, versatile, and never pulled
his punches
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He isn’t exactly known for pulling his punches and the remark is in line with his
sharp-tongued commentary
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Such complaints have been dismissed by many as excuses for not
making the grade
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McCrann has exhibited how superior intellect will defeat sloganeering hands
down
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Bad guy, for all inconvenient
truth which surely will hurt. Lol
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How dare you desecrate this holy
ground with foolish intentions
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He didn’t care
twopence for her
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He was sitting bleary-
eyed on her mattress, his elbows on his knees
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We take the liberty to take what was stated in the email as
your stance
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Dismissing any agreement as transitional or denying it afterwards, I am afraid, would never lead to
constructive progress
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I can’t pass up a
bargain like this, can I?
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Argentina must scale
mountain to secure World Cup place
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Compromising letters and
blackmail
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He was found in a compromising
position
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My phone dinged within minutes with a reply, rare because she was one of the least
affable people on the planet
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Her bedside manner left
something to be desired
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She was no longer able to keep the
lid on her simmering anger
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Terri tried to keep a lid on her anger, but was rapidly losing
the fight
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Knowing that we have options can be very
liberating in itself
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To spring the
surprise
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I don’t want to carp
about the way you did it
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All the rest is a soap opera dreamed up by politicians and their lickspittles in the London media, just as mad Roman emperors gave their citizens
bread and circuses to keep them from revolting
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If you want it reduced to a bunch of craven
lickspittles, then you seem to be following the correct procedure
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It is advisable that he weigh more carefully his disdainful utterances if he wants to be taken seriously beyond the narrow
cycle of his lickspittles
