Synonyms

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Focus

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Talk about / concentrate

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Characteristics

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Features

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Mention of

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Reference

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To set foot on

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Arrive

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Backfired

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Failed

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Exclude

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To rule out

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Have much chance of succeding

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Will be successful

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Come to nothing

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Fail

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Tried out *his culinary skills

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Attended to cook / practised cooking

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Hair raising

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Scary / threatening

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Nick of time

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Just in time for

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Tramping round

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Wandering round

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Tomb

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Grave

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To get the wrong end of the stick

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Misunderstand / get it wrong

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To go the way of all flesh

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To die

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To turn a deaf ear

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Ignore

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To make an awful song and dance

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Overreact / make a fuss

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To sold smth for a song

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For nothing / for little money

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To shut their eyes

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Avoiding listening to

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To tell someone a mile off

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To easily recognise

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To pour cold water on

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To criticised / discouraged

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Smth don’t grow on trees

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To be rare

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To strike while the iron’s hot

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To take an opportunity

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To be at dragger drawn

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To be in bad terms

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To bury the hatchet

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To get along / to make peace

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To leave no stone unturned

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To try everything you can

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To run somebody

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To catch somebody

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I don’t know him from Adam

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He’s a complete stranger

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Donkey’s years ago

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Years ago / a long time ago

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To be a creaking gate

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To be weak

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To live till a ripe old age

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To live a long life

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The whole bag of tricks went up in smoke

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Everything came to nothing

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To two-time somebody

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To cheat on somebody

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To be barking up the wrong tree

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To be wrong

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To bear in mind

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To remember

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She nearly beat my head off

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To be really mad / get really angry

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Smth makes my blood boil

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Makes me angry

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When someone is a piece of cake

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To be very easy

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Instantaneously

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Immediately

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Inevitable

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Unavoidable

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Alter

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Modify (modification); Amend (amendment)

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To treat

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to care for or deal with medically /surgically

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To spread

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to diffuse (over an area or period of time)

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To affect

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to have a negative effect on sth / to act on sth or sb /
to cause a change in sth or sb

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Repeated

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recurrent = periodical = continually

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Failure (def)

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when you don’t succeed in doing something /
the non-performance of an assigned task

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Surrend

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Give in

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Fight

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Refuse to give in/
Resist

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Value, admire

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give importance / treasure /
to hold dear

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Lead to

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Bring to
Head to

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Keep myself healthy

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Stay healthy

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Along with

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Together with /
With

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Overseen

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Supervised

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Breakthrough

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Innovative
= svolta, scoperta fondamentale

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Drug

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Medicine /
Medication

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Potential

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Possible

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Advances

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Progresses

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Path

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Way

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Likelihood

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Probability