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Mark the occasion

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could use it to refer to an event or situation, emphasizing the importance of it or suggesting that it should be celebrated or commemorated in some way. For example: “Let’s mark the occasion of our 10th anniversary with a special dinner at our favorite restaurant.”.

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Ignite jealousy

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arouse or inflame (an emotion or situation).
“the words ignited new fury in him”

To ignite jealousy means to make someone feel jealousy

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Quit the shit

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Often used to end a conversation; or as an attempt to suppress the stupidity of your friends, during or after their newest escapade.
Ex 1.
Johnathan: So can I get your number?
Bethany: Excuse me, do I know you?
Johnathan: Not as well as I’d like to know you. Hey baby, did you fall from-
Bethany: Quit your shit. (walks away)

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Watch your mouth

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be careful about what one says.
“you’d better watch your mouth, mate, or we’ll have you”

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Carve

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to make something by cutting into especially wood or stone, or to cut into the surface of stone, wood, etc.:
This totem pole is carved from/out of a single tree trunk.

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Run someone over

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If a vehicle or its driver runs over someone or something, the vehicle hits and drives over him, her, or it:
I think we’ve just run a rabbit over.

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Speak up

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speak more loudly.
“We can’t hear you. Speak up!”

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Mercy

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kindness that makes you forgive someone, usually someone that you have authority over:
She appealed to the judge to have mercy on her husband.

Пощада

Say mercy

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9
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Make me

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Someone tells you to get up off their chair you say make me
Like make me get up off your chair

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10
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Kncikers

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a piece of underwear worn by women and girls covering the area between the waist and the tops of the legs:
a pair of black cotton knickers

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Housing estate

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a residential area in which the houses have all been planned and built at the same time.
“a growing number of new housing estates”

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Bonfire

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a large fire that is made outside to burn unwanted things, or for pleasure

Костер

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Youre toast

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If someone says “you’re toast” it means you are, or will soon be, in a lot of trouble.

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Wound up

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very worried, nervous, or angry:
She gets pretty wound up before a game.
What did he say that got you so wound up

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Mental

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meaning someone who is silly or stupid, usually for attention and in a random or sporadic way, involving nonsensical references and actions. usually violent or quick action involved, resulting in general amusement and hilarity of onlookers.
“hey look, archie’s jumping off that cliff while holding a banana!”

Dont to anything mental -stupid

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Fancy that

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used to comment on something that is hard to imagine. “The baby she brought home was the wrong one.” “Fancy that!”

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Bygones

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a thing dating from an earlier time.
“the museum consists of a fascinating collection of rural bygones”

Belong in the past

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18
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Tip of a house

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a dirty or untidy place.
“your room’s an absolute tip!”

Go to that tip of a house

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You toad

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an extremely unpleasant man, especially one who is not very physically attractive:
[ as form of address ] You lying toad!

20
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The husband has pubes for the hair

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He has curly hair that grows around sexual organs instead of normal hair

21
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How come you

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used to ask about the reason for something:
So how come you got an invitation and not me?

How come you ended up with da

22
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I dare

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When you play truth or dare and someone picks dare
to ask someone to do something that involves risk:
Wear the low-cut blouse with your pink shorts - go on, I dare you!
[ + to infinitive ] I dare you to ask him to dance.
I dare you to kiss me for five seconds

23
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Chucked out

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If a person is chucked out of a job, a place, or their home, they are forced by other people to leave.

Your gonna get chuck out if they catch you doing it

24
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Copout

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way of avoiding doing something difficult or unpleasant that you should do, or the excuse that you use to do this:
She always thought that having a family instead of a career was a cop-out.

25
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Chill out

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to relax completely, or not allow things to upset you:
I’m just chilling out in front of the TV.

26
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Fumbling

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awkward, embarrassing, or nervous:
His muddled, fumbling comments show just how out of touch he is with the public.

27
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Saliva

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Stuchit

28
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To put up with something

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tolerate or endure something.
“I’m too tired to put up with any nonsense”

29
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Sort out

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resolve a problem or difficulty.
“the teacher helps the children to sort out their problems”

30
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Purse

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a small container for money, usually used by a woman:
a leather purse

31
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Sponsor

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provide funds for (a project or activity or the person carrying it out).
“Joe is being sponsored by a government training scheme”

32
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Perpetrator

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someone who has committed a crime or a violent or harmful act:
The perpetrators of the massacre must be brought to justice as war criminals.

33
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Creep

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A word used, usually as an insult, on someone who’s personality or overall behaviour is strange or weird.
Guy 1: That guy John is a damn creep…
Guy 2: I know, he acts like a child and he’s nearly 23…

34
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Cover up for someone

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to attempt to conceal (a mistake or crime): she tried to cover up for her friend
If you cover up something that you do not want people to know about, you hide the truth about it.
He suspects there’s a conspiracy to cover up the crime. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
They knew they had done something terribly wrong and lied to cover it up. [VERB noun

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Be caught red handed

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to catch a person in the act of doing something wrong. Example of Use: “Tom was stealing the car when the police drove by and caught him red-handed.”

36
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Sum up a conspiracy

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A conspiracy is when people plan to do something bad and sum up means to give a brief summary of something
Подытожить

The best way of summing up the situation in our office is to say that it is “absolute chaos”.

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Peep

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to secretly look at something for a short time, usually through a hole:
I saw her peeping through the curtains/into the room.

38
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Take off

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When a plane takes off it meams that the plane is gettin off the ground and starts flying

39
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Culprit

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someone who has done something wrong:
Police hope the public will help them to find the culprits.

A person whos responsible for a crime

40
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To plant

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to put something or someone in a position secretly, especially in order to deceive someone:
She insisted that the drugs had been planted on her without her knowledge.

41
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Sidekick

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a person who works with someone who is more important than they are:
I’ve been his sidekick for long enough - it’s time I found myself something better to do

42
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Sit

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to stay in one place for a long time and not be used:
The encyclopedia sits on my shelf at home, gathering dust.

43
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Elude

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If something that you want eludes you, you do not succeed in achieving it:
The gold medal continues to elude her.