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Indigenous/Autochthonous

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Native

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Forthcoming

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Upcoming, coming (come out book,film record)

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Down-to-earth (in the context of this text)

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Matter of fact, not abstract, simple, realistic

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Accounts (give an account)

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Experiences, perspectives, stories (describing sth.)

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Reluctant

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Hesitant, unwilling, reluctance

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Country bumpkin

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A person from countryside considered stupid

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Resentment

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Hatred, grudge, bitterness, indignation (indignant), resentful (resent)

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Defiant

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Resistant, uncooperative, defiance, defy, defying, defied,

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Pruning

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Trim

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Presume

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Assume, suppose, presumption, presumably

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Moan

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Complain, whine, grummble

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Influx

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Inflow, arrival of a large number of people

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(One) can only do so much

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You’ve done everything you can to

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Legislate

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Make/enact laws legislation

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To account for sth.

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  1. Represent/make
    2explains why sth. is the case
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Playing up

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Misbehave

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Fell out

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Have an argument

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Buy up

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Buy everything that is available

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Sell up

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Sell everything that you have

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Die out

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Go extinct

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Fragrance

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A pleasant sweet smell

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Sentient being

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One who perceives and responds to sensations of whatever kind

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Congenitally anosmic

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A condition in which people are born without a sense of smell

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Articles

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Objects, items

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Fumes

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An amount of gas or vapour that smells strongly or is dangerous to inhale

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Delicious smell

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Having very pleasant taste or smell

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Alas

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Used to describe/ express grief pity or concern

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Challenged (visually, physically, mentally, olfactorily)

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Politically correct way to say hendicap

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Attend

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Don’t compare

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Hob burner

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The flat top part of a cooking stove

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Aurally

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With regard to sound or ear (alert with sound)

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Bouts

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A brief period of illness

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Best before dates

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Expiration dates

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Assiduously

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With great care

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Mugful

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The quantity that can be held in a mug

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Mug

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Big ceramic

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Cup

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Small

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Olfaction

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Sense of smell

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Enormous

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Very large

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Consistency

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Consistent behaviour (steadiness, stability)

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Relied

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Depend

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Cope

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Manage

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Distinguish

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Recognise

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Nuance

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A subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, sound, fine distiction

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Body odour

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The unpleasant smell of persons unwashed body

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Subliminal information

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Existing or functioning below the threshold of consciousness

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Backdrop

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Serve as a background to? The view behind sth ? The general situation in which particular events happen

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Trigger

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Activate

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Nasal polyps

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Soft growths on the lining of the nose or the spaces inside the nose

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Rectify

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Put right, correct

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Enquire

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Ask, investigate

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Integral

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Essential, fundamental, basic

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Have to soldier on

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To continue to do sth even though it is difficult

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Draw comfort

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The feeling of solace and reassurance that one may get from given someone

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Reminisced

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Remember (with pleasure)

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Wistfully

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With a feeling of vague or regretful longing

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Intrigued

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Interest, fascinate

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58
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Take you back (in time)

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Go back into the past

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Immunotype

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The form of a compound that has separate immunological characteristics

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Offspring

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Child

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61
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Potable

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Drinkable

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Savoury

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Morally wholesome or acceptable

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Unsavoury character

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Dishonest, don’t want him around you

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Sweet and savoury food

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Slatka slana

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65
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You can rules of etiquette (in a good sense)

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Follow abide by observe

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You can rules of etiquette (in a bad sense)

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Break breach

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Make a gaf

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Mistake or breach of rules of etiquette

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Make a faux pas

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Make a mistake in etiquette

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Keeps time

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To maintain a set rhythm,beat,tempo

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Last resort

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A final course of action, used only when all else has failed

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First resort

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What you will do first before you try other things

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Stifling humidity

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Extremely hot, with a lack of fresh air

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Social conduct

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All the interpersonal behaviours that someone exhibits in the social context

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Transcendent

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Beyond or above the range of normal human experience

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Stroking

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Move ones hand with gentle pressure over a surface repeatedly

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Bobbing up and down

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To move up and down quickly and gently

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In time to/with sth

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if you do something in time to a piece of music, you do it using the same rhythm and speed as the music

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No avail

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Without any success or effect

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Resort to

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To do sth that you dobro want to because you cant find any other way

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Fruitless

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Actions, events or efforts that do not achieve anything at all

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81
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Seething

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Filled with or characterised by intense but unexpressed anger

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82
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Righteous indignation

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Anger that is motivated by a perception of injustice

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Laissez- faire attitude

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The idea that people should be free to choose how to do things, without too much control from someone in authority

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(Set of) drawback(s)

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Flaw, disadvantage

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Flick through

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Look quickly through a book, magazine

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Mischief

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Naughtiness

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87
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Indulge

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Allow oneself to enjoy the pleasure of

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Leisure

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Free time

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Converse

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Engage in conversation

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Merely grotesque extension

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Just strange and unpleasant addition

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The downside of

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The negative aspect of sth otherwise seen as good/desirable

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Admittedly

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I have to admit

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Far too stifling

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Rigid, suffocating, strict rules

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Oblivious

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Unaware

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95
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Stem from

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Caused by

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96
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Cocooned

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Envelop in a protective or comforting way

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Unabashed

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Shameless

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Sth makes you blood boil

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It makes you very angry

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Have your hand full

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Be so busy that you don’t have time to do anything else

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Fed up to the back teeth

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Very fed up

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Up to ones neck in sth

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Deeply involved in or affected by sth

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Be up to your eyes/ears in sth

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To be very busy doing sth

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Break ones neck

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To make a great effort

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Be under someone’s feet

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Keep getting in someones way when they are trying to do sth

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Be stuck in a rut

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Have a routine

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Low turnout

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(How many people showed up) not many people showed up

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Heavy downpour/ deluge

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A heavy fall of rain

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Sharp upturn in

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Increase/ rise in

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On low income

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Low earnings/ low salary

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Serious outbreak of

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A sudden occurrence of sth unwelcome such as war and disease

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Insight

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The capacity to gain an accurate and deep understanding of someone or something

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Outcome

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The way a thing turns out, result

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Setback

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A reversal or problem in progress

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Output

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The amount of sth produced by a person, machine or industry

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Upbringing

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The treatment received by a child from its parens ; raising

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Breakdown

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Failure, collapse

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Upset

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Severe loss

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Give someone a cold shoulder

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Intentionally ignore someone or treat them in an unfriendly way way

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Point a finger at someone

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Accuse someone of being responsible for sth bad

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Turn a blind eye to sth

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Pretend not to notice

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Keep an eye out/on

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Keep under careful observation/ with particular attention

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Make eyes at someone

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Look at someone with sexual inerest

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Do sth with your eyes open

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Knowing about all the problem that could emerge

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Eyeing you up

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Look closely at sth that you were interested in

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Keep your ear to the ground

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Pay attention to everything that is happening around you and to what people are saying

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Turn a deaf ear

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Ignore someone when they complain or ask for sth

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Play it by ear

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Decide how to deal with situation as it develops rather than acting according to plans

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Look down his nose at

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Thin or treat someone/sth as unimportant or not worthy respect

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Follow ones nose

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Trust to one’s instincts

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To cut off your nose to spite your face

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They do sth that they think will hurt someone, without realising that it will hurt them as well

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Bite your lip

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Prevent yourself from showing your reaction to sth by speaking or laughing

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Keep a stiff upper lip

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To not show your feelings when you’re upset

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Pay lip service to

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To publicly support or approve of sth while actually taking no action to produce it

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Mouthing apologies

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Say something in a way that is not sincere

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Live from hand to mouth

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Have hardly enough food or money to live on

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Get out of hand

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Become difficult to control

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At the hand of

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Done or caused by

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Sit on your hands

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Do nothing about a problem

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Wash your hands of sth

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Intentionally stop being involved or connected with someone/something

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Keeping me at arm length metaphorically

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Keep someone at distance

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Keeping me at arm length literally

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Arm length; close

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Talk about someone behind their back

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Without someones knowledge

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Live off the backs of someone

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Use money and resources of another group of people to survive and give nothing in return

144
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Pull ones leg

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Deceive someone playfully

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Not have a leg to stand on

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To be in a situation in which you cannot prove something

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On its last legs

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In such a bad condition that it will soon be unable to work

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Put your foot down

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Use your authority to stop sth happening

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Have your feet on the ground

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Sensible and practical attitude

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Set foot in

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To go to a place

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Drag your feet

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Do sth slowly or not start it because you dont want to do it

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Drift off

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Gradually start falling asleep

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Wandering around

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Aimlessly walking around

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Looking a wreck

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Emotional wreck, looking terrible

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Contemporary

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Current

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Letting down their defences

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Being vulnerable

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Short-term

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Happening, existing or continuing for only a little time

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Downsizing

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Make (a company or organisation) smaller by eliminating staff

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Redundancy

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The state of being no longer needed or useful

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Fairly invincible front

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Rather untouchable facade

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Siege

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Opsada

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Ambush

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Zaseda

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Prevail

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Prove more powerful or superior

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To keep me at bay

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Keep at distance

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To air

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To say

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Took pains/ take pain to do sth

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Put a lot of effort to do sth

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Painstaking

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Done with great care

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Stumble

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Come across/found accidentally

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Diminish

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Make it smaller

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Job for life

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Stable job

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Reticent

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Reticence, closed, reserved, not showing emotion

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Reluctance to break away

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Hesitation, unwillingness

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Cuddly

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Gentle

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Frailty

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Vulnerability

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Agility

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Opposite of frailty

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Common sight

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something that is seen often or usually in a particular plac

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Erode/eroding

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Gradually destroy

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Kinship

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Relationships / familiar

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Prosperity

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Financial success

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Jos neke reci

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Relate to, acts of, calling on

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Put someone down

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Make them feel bad

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Turn your back on someone

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Betray them

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Put a strain on something

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Cause problems

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Take to someone

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Begin to like that person

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Get on ones nerves

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Irritate someone

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Have it in for someone

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Dislike them

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Took such a

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Strong dislike to

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Look down on someone

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Think of them as less important

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Back someone up

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Support

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Keep himself to himself

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Private person , spend lot of time alone

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Get out of hand

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Become difficult to control

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Pressed for time

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You don’t have enough time or money

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Peak viewing time

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The time of the day when most people are watching tv

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Set aside

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Save or keep sth typically money or time

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Jos neke reci

A

Space available, way of thinking, hate to say it, make great efforts, given every opportunity

195
Q

Asset

A

Valuable thing we have

196
Q

Effective

A

Takes time but at the end it works

197
Q

Affective? Efficiently?

A

In a way that achieves maximum productivity with minimum wasted time

198
Q

Meet the deadline/expetations

A

Complete sth at or before the time when it must be done

199
Q

Snowed under

A

Overwhelm, overpower

200
Q

Takes the back seat

A

For situations and objects; things that need to take second place

201
Q

Take the back seat

A

To people; to choose not to be in a position of responsibility

202
Q

Slomping/sloping

A

Razvaliciti se

203
Q

A race against time

A

When you have to rush to do sth before the deadline

204
Q

Behind the times

A

Old-fashioned, out of date

205
Q

A whale of a time

A

Had a very good time

206
Q

Bide ones time

A

Remain in a place in readiness or expectation of sth

207
Q

Ahead of her time

A

Have ideas that are too advanced for the society

208
Q

Having a hell of a time/ having a devil of a time

A

Having a very digital experience

209
Q

In the nick of time

A

At the last moment, before its too late

210
Q

Caught me at the bad time

A

Attempt to see or speak to somebody at an inconvenient time

211
Q

Too much time on his hands

A

Too much free time

212
Q

Due time

A

It will happen when the time is right so be patient

213
Q

Matter of time

A

It will definitely happen sooner or later

214
Q

Only time will tell

A

Passing of time will show results (good or bad)

215
Q

Have stood the test of time/ to stand the test of time/ withstand the test of time

A

Last for a long time and continue to be successful

216
Q

Right time

A

It is the best time to do sth

217
Q

Two-timing

A

Deceive, betray, cheat someone

218
Q

Big time

A

The highest or profitable level

219
Q

Time flies

A

Time passes very quickly

220
Q

Time and tide wait for no man

A

If you don’t make use of favorable opportunity you may never get the same chance again

221
Q

There’s no time like the present

A

Sth should be done niw rather than later

222
Q

Extraterrestrial

A

From outside the earth

223
Q

Inference

A

Deduction

224
Q

By inference

A

By implication

225
Q

Dislodge

A

Knock or force out of position

226
Q

Outstrip

A

Exceeds, overtakes, tops

227
Q

Odd intelligent alien

A

Occasional, random

228
Q

British english two a penny ten a penny American english dime dozen

A

Something that is very common and therefore not as remarkable or valuable

229
Q

The matrix of life

A

The set of conditions that provides a system in which something grows or develops

230
Q

Posed

A

Asked, put

231
Q

Steady

A

Continues, regular

232
Q

Prime

A

Excellent, top quality, perfect

233
Q

Put forward

A

Offer, present, suggest, propose
One put forward an argument or case against/for sth

234
Q

Reastrain

A

Control, caution, restriction

235
Q

Blow a fuse

A

Lose ones temper

236
Q

Get worked up

A

Get very angry excited or upset about sth

237
Q

Heated argument

A

One where the people involved are angry

238
Q

Irate customer

A

Extremely angry due to some displeasure; furious fuming

239
Q

Cross with you/ to be cross

A

Be angry or annoyed/ not extreme like irate or furious

240
Q

Seething with anger

A

Experience intense anger, but not show it ; anger boiling inside you

241
Q

Go berserk

A

To be beside yourself with anger ‘go crazy’ ‘go wild’

242
Q

Blow his top

A

Lose ones temper

243
Q

Flew into rage

A

Suddenly become extremely angry

244
Q

Sudden outburst of temper

A

Sudden violent expression of anger

245
Q

Let off steam

A

Get rid of pent up energy or strong emotion

246
Q

Throw a tantrum

A

Sudden period of uncontrolled anger like a young child

247
Q

To scream blue murder

A

To scream, complain, yell in a loud or angry manner

248
Q

Long-held view

A

An opinion, belief, idea, way of thinking

249
Q

Enhance

A

Increase

250
Q

Enchant

A

Captivating

251
Q

Endure

A

Suffer through something difficult

252
Q

Determining factor

A

A circumstance fact or influence that contributes to a result

253
Q

Consider

A

Think carefully about sth, typically before making a decision

254
Q

Considerably

A

By a notably large amount; to a notably large extent; greatly

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