Gd16 Flashcards
A piano is a very unwieldy item to get down a flight of stairs
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They combine together to create something greater than the sum of its parts
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The research was mentioned only in passing
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Women have no right of audience in court
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I caught a glimpse of the sparkling blue sea through the trees
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Going to get changed and do my yoga
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She has broken her leg, but it remains to be seen how badly
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It only remains for me to thank our hosts (=used to introduce the last remark in a speech or meeting)
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She kept him in suspense for a few days
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The suspense is killing me
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There is a gradual build-up of suspense throughout the film
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The long-dormant volcano has recently shown signs of erupting
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She went off the painkillers
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Chemotherapy is often used in the treatment of cancer
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A killer is on the loose
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Wand at the ready
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Love shack
愛巢
She’s decided to shack up with her boyfriend
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I milked a cow
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The winter/summer solstice
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He was sentenced to death but was granted a last-minute reprieve
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The injection provided a temporary reprieve from the pain
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His face registered extreme disapproval of what he had witnessed
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IPO revival primes Hong Kong for another busy year
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Foreign workers form backbone of gambling boom
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To dethrone the incumbent
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I leapt from my pillow and splashed my face from the basin in the corner
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A pillion seat/passenger
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You get a bit uncomfortable after riding pillion for a couple of hours
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Tempestuous and unbelievably reckless driving skills
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Pay no mind to it
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That one kiss had whetted his appetite
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You have sent an email to Mr. Smith and copied me in
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You are burning candle on both ends
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You are putting in hours
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Consolation prize
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If it’s (of) any consolation (to you), you was not the only one he was rude to
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I just offered a few words of consolation
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I have a little car sick
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It should be a good place for timeout
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Try the parking brake!
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He was in a hobbit size
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I am watching my figure
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We may have to shoot our way out!
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Allow me
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Lesson learnt!
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He paid a guy to crush us
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A delicious tea time treat
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Music fills the air
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The sound resounded through the house like thunder
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Suspension bridge
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My mind boggles at the amount of money they spent on food
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Mind-boggling puzzle
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Chinese Almanac
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Important tools of trade
重要謀生工具
Her penchant for disappearing for days at a time worries her family
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The political fallout of the revelations has been immense
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Sardine bait and tackle
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Their family business is a rinky-dink operation
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Thank you for noticing
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Scrunchy/ scrunchie
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I was so embarrassed when I walked in in them having a smooch on the sofa
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They thrust the money into my hand
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The bodyguards thrust past the crowd to get at the cameraman
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She thrust the papers at me
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The main thrust of her argument was that women are compromised by the demands of childcare
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Grains of sand/wheat/rice
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We can have a rare peep of it
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Two helicopters winched the passengers to safety from the deck of the ship
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We pray for deliverance from our sins
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A pig’s snout
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He finally plucked up courage to ask her to marry him
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I’d love to do parachute jump, but I can’t pluck up the/enough courage
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It took me ages to riddle it out
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That was a rash decision
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He lacked the moral fibre to be leader
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I didn’t really know anyone in the party, so I felt a bit of a misfit
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I was a bit of a social misfit at college because I didn’t like going out in the evenings
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Today, thankfully, women tennis players are not encumbered with/by long, heavy skirts and high-necked blouses
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I tried to mollify her by giving her flowers
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Their competitors’ behaviour gave them a great opportunity to welch on their promises
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A hippopotamus is wallowing in mud
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They extend the lead
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If that bottle of wine is going begging, I’ll have it
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The CE was said to be belittled by the seating arrangement
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The police department was a hotbed of corruption
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It exhausts dictionaries with their possible meanings
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Their apartment is devoid of all comforts
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His poetry is imbued with deep, religious feeling
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She was oblivious to the noise and activity in the gallery
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My toes and fingers are tingling with the cold
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There is a line in that poem that make my spine tingle every time I read it
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She tingled with fear as she entered the dark alleyway
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Desire had turned me into a relentless hunter for clues, a romantic paranoiac, reading meaning into everything
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I was aware that the enigma lent Chloe a distinctive appeal
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The most attractive are those who know how carefully to administer varied doses of hope and despair
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We digressed on to beauty, from beauty we went to love
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Most people would throw away all their cynicism if they could
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Chloe and I were politely sparing each other the need to pay the full price for a candid declaration of love
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Exhaust/petrol/cigar fumes
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One person wants a fling, the other real love
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He silently drew invisible pattern on the starched white tablecloth and took unnecessary sips of bubbled water from a large glass goblet
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Silence and clumsiness could of course be taken as rathe pitiful proof of desire
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Real desire lacks articulacy – but how willingly I would at that moment have swapped my constipation for the Vicomte’s loquacity
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I blundered with heavy-handed, interview-like questions
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Local people are stoical about the damage caused by the hurricane
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A girl sandwiched between two favoured and faultless boys
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She is sulky around the house
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A shy and gauche teenager
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She makes cerebral films that deal with important social issues
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You’re being seriously sinful
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She added in an off-hand way that a chocophile was in the end perhaps as much of a problem as a chocophobe
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We charm by coincidence rather than design
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Awed by the dangers of misreading the signs, I concluded that the moment to propose metaphorical coffee had not yet arisen
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Emerging a few minutes later with my intentions unaltered, I reached for my coat and announced, with all the thoughtful authority of a man who has decided restraint would be best, that I had spent a lovely evening
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Hong Kong was ceded to Britain after the Opium War
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I’m going the draw the curtain
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Walked down a book-lined corridor
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Excuse the mess
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His face bore no signs of jealousy
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Thought’s infidelity lies in its privacy
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A chest of drawers
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I stumbled out of sleep
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I awoke to hear water crashing on tiles
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A chamber of wonders
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Sadly, my feeling for him was not reciprocated
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She vowed never to play cupid again
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Cupid’s arrow is easier to send than receive
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Everyone was muffled up in coats and scarves
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The soft beat of a muffled drum
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If one is not wholly convinced of one’s own lovability, receiving affection can appear like being bestowed an honour for a feat one feels no connection with
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I asked Chloe, surveying the laden table
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You’ve deigned to grace us with your presence I see
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If she deigns to reply to my letter, I’ll be extremely surprised
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He was, she said, a heartless scoundrel who had stripped her of everything she owned
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Marxists unconsciously prefer that their dreams remain in the realm of fantasy
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A glass of orange squash
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I had put on an old and particularly off-putting electric-blue pullover
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Pig-headedness descended on me
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She was still in a mild sulk
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She plaited the horse’s tail
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A plaited leather bracelet/belt
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She usually wears her hair in two plaits
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He looked somewhat shamefaced when he realized his mistake
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A small-time suburban punk
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Filmgoers were shut out in droves from the film’s many screenings in Cannes
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They mushily held hands in the dark
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I was overcome with acute nostalgia for my days at university
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Some snails and slugs are hermaphrodites
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It is easier to impute similarity than investigate difference
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And yet in the perverse reality of love, increased knowledge may be as much a hurdle as an inducement – for it may bring Utopia into dangerous conflict with reality
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She was wearing a short skirt and stilettos
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Stiletto heels
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A piece of chunky ribbon
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Unfurl the purple tissue paper
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His head throbbed, and his body ached
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We strolled along the boulevard
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She snaps that these wretched with their wide, gaping eyes are unbearable to her
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She blows her nose aggressively into a handkerchief
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Is the violinist a little off key
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Living day to day with her was like acclimatizing myself to a foreign country, and therefore feeling prey to occasional xenophobia at departures from my own tradition law and expectations
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Paintings lined the walls
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Three salival dogs were running in and out
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Her father was a keen rambler
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As a child she had been thought of as miniature autocrat
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An escaping hatch
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A serving hatch
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A corn-thresher
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I felt a primitive nostalgia for familiar surroundings
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Our world views are incapable of alignment
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I came out of the hospital swathed in bandages
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His head was wrapped in swathes of bandages
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It suffices to say that moments later, the tempest that had been brewing reached a climax
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The second projectile exploded after hitting a tank
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Projectile vomiting
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Our argument was peppered with the paradoxes of love and liberalism
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It is spoiling the game to arrest my gaze on this detail
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Running on a beach, she stumbled on a log and fell on the sand
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I lost my footing and tumbled down the stairs
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She has the demeanour of a woman who is contented with her life
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The sight of blood makes him retch
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The expects are painting a gloomy/brighter/rosy picture of the state of economy
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He was always putting on airs and graces
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People were sent out to snoop on rival businesses
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He had downed four beers
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The competition is drawing close
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Grow the goatee
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Go easy on the Pepsi
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Be out of sorts
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She was right on the button when she said I’d regret moving out
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The glass shattered into a thousand tiny pieces
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He arrived at the top of the hill, panting and covered in sweat
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A fish bone had lodged in her throat
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Does your employer provide a creche?
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Don’t clatter the dishes - you’ ll wake the baby up
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The car horn honks
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The kids are a real pain in the butt
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I’ve never danced salsa before but I’ll give it a whirl
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Last night the place was jumping
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Don’t let the candies spoil your dinner
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