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Unit 10 Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
1
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To be or continue on harmonious terms

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To get on in

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Someone who has achieved a lot and is determined to continue being successful

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High-flier

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3
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Something that becomes successful very quickly

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Overnight success

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4
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To give someone all the money that you have borrowed from them to buy something

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Pay off

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5
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To be very successful

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Ride high in the charts

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6
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Very successful

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Thriving

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7
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To receive; be subjected to

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Come in for

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To encounter, especially a difficulty or major problem

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Come up against

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9
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To act more forcefully to regulate, repress, or restrain

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Crack down on

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10
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To accept sth

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Face up to

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11
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To escape the consequences of

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To get away with

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12
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To have interest in

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To go in for

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13
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To admire

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Look up to

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14
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To compensate for

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To make up for

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15
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To explain something as being caused by something else

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Put something down to something

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16
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Stand, tolerate

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Put up with

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17
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Someone who presents a television or radio programme, especially the news

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Anchor

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18
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to be looking at something and not paying attention to anything else

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Be glued to sth

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19
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Cable television

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Telewizja kablowa

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20
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Satellite television

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Telewizja satelitarna

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21
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Terrestrial television

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Telewizja naziemna

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22
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someone who spends a lot of time sitting at home watching television

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Couch potato

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23
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news about something on television or radio or in the newspapers

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Coverage

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the most popular time for watching television, which is in the middle of the evening

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Prime time television

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25
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the number of people who watch or listen to a particular television or radio programme

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Ratings

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26
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Pilot TV

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Remote Control

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27
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a television or radio series about a particular group of characters who deal with situations in a humorous way

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Sitcom

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28
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a television or radio series about the imaginary lives of a group of people. A soap opera is often simply called a soap.

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Soap

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29
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a cause with no chance of success

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A lost cause

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30
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to be unsuccessful/to have an accident

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Come to grief

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31
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To fail

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Come to nothing

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32
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if something such as a deal, plan, or arrangement falls through, it fails to happen

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Fall through

33
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to make a lot of mistakes when you are doing or dealing with something

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To make a mess of (doing sth)

34
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to last until some time or until reaching some place

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To make it to

35
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to succeed in doing something, especially something that you have been trying to do for a period of time

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Accomplish

36
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a curved structure at the top of a door, window, or gate

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Arch

37
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to wave a weapon or other object around in your hand so that other people can see it

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Brandish

38
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To start laughing

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Break into a fit of giggles

39
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Sth is soon to be ended

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Sth is brought to a close

40
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to reduce the amount of something, especially money that you spend

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Cut back on

41
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a situation in which you do not have something that you need or want

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Deprivation

42
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Dwupasmówka

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Dual carriageway

43
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the ability to continue doing something physically difficult or continue dealing with an unpleasant situation for a long time

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Endurance

44
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Pass quickly

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Flit

45
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to worry about something continuously

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Fret about

46
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to make someone feel sad or lose hope

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Get sb down

47
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to frighten someone or make them nervous

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Give sb the shivers

48
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to give a task one’s best effort

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Give sth one’s best shot

49
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to shine with a soft weak light that is not steady

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Glimmering

50
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the skilful use of dishonest means to trick people or to make them do what you want

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Guile

51
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Unfortunate

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Hapless

52
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Bełkot

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Gibberish

53
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a situation that causes problems for you or that annoys you very much

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Hassle

54
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a leather container for a gun, that is fixed to a belt

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Holster

55
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always wanting more and never feeling satisfied

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Insatiable

56
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A difficult situation

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Jam

57
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be released or become known; of news; be leaked

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Leak out

58
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money or property that you arrange for someone to have after you die

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Legacy

59
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to relax and enjoy yourself because you are in a comfortable environment

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Let hair down

60
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left or caught in a place and unable to leave

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marooned

61
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behaving in a way that shows you want to have an argument or fight with someone

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Confrontational

62
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a long stick with a wide flat blade at one end, used for rowing a boat

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Oar

63
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if a thick liquid oozes from something, or if something oozes a liquid, a small amount of it flows out slowly

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Ooze

64
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off a boat or ship and into the water

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Overboard

65
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to create a difficult or dangerous situation

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Pose a challenge

66
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To move ahead, as in a race

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Pull ahead

67
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To perform in spite of difficulties or obstacles

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Pull off

68
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suddenly start to run or do something much faster than before

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Put a spurt on

69
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to say that something that you previously said or wrote is not true

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Retract

70
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income from business activities or taxes

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Revenue

71
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if a quality that someone has rubs off, it starts to affect another person so that they start to have that quality too

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Rub off on

72
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to believe that something dishonest, illegal, or wrong has happened

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Smell a rat

73
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to cry noisily while taking short breaths

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Sob

74
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to make something happen, especially something involving violence or angry feelings

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Spark

75
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to not allow yourself to be treated badly, especially by someone in authority

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Stand up to sb

76
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a company that is owned by a larger company

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Subsidiary

77
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a small door that covers an opening in a floor, ceiling, or wall

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A trapdoor

78
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to put something in a particular place, especially in order to keep it safe or hidden

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Tuck

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