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📚 Let the cat out of the bag, phrase.

❓ Definition (informal): Reveal a secret carelessly or by mistake.

❗️ Examples:

1. Now that Viola had let the cat out of the bag, she had no option but to confess.
2. Gavin Anderson apologises to those in the know for letting the cat out of the bag about this secret haven.
3. So let the cat out of the bag: admit that what you're really up to is a satire on the state of arts funding.
4. The rather inappropriately named Defence Minister let the cat out of the bag by admitting that there isn't really a threat after all.
5. Two such academics were so upset by the broadcast they injudiciously let the cat out of the bag completely.
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10 Oct, 09:00

📚 Pickle, noun.

🔉 /ˈpɪk(ə)l/ 🇬🇧

❓ Definition (North American • count noun): A pickled cucumber.

❗️ Examples:

1. In the making of fresh-pack pickles, cucumbers are acidified quickly with vinegar.
2. By July, she'd already had time to make a batch of the pickles using cucumbers from her garden.
3. They plant and harvest onions, zucchini, pickles, cabbage, lettuce and apples, produce that gets shipped all over the country.
4. The barrel will turn the sweet cucumber into a pickle.
5. Bacon, luncheon meats, potato chips, and pickles are examples of salty foods.
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📚 Take something with a pinch of salt, phrase.

❓ Definition: Regard something as exaggerated; believe only part of something.

❗️ Examples:

1. I take anything he says with a large pinch of salt.
2. An AIB spokesman rejected the claim it was ripping off customers and said it took the report with a pinch of salt as it did not believe true like-for-like comparisons were made.
3. The next time someone says one bullet is vastly superior to another in regards to wind deflection, take their advice with a grain of salt and check for yourself.
4. Many personnel believe that no matter what they have to say, it will be taken with a grain of salt.
5. Since I had no recourse to take this route, I took the stories with a pinch of salt and never checked them out.
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📚 Hatred, noun.

🔉 /ˈheɪtrɪd/ 🇬🇧

❓ Definition (mass noun): Intense dislike; hate.

❗️ Examples:

1. Racial hatred.
2. His murderous hatred of his brother.
3. They must make it clear that religious hatred will not be tolerated and they must be seen to take a stand.
4. It set an end to a terrible century of war and hatred between France and Germany.
5. I read them and am hurt by the injustice and often outright hatred of some of the posters.
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📚 Take root, phrase.

❓ Definition: Become fixed or established.

❗️ Examples:

1. The idea had taken root in my mind.
2. Spatial sequences merging across the shifting levels prevent fixed identities from taking root anywhere.
3. Because he had little to say about social need and there was no legislative provision for subsidising loss-making services, the idea took root that the issue had simply been ignored.
4. Nevertheless, the idea took root in their minds.
5. I quickly stomped on that idea before it fully took root.
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📚 Lost soul, phrase.

❓ Definition (humorous): A person who seems unable to cope with everyday life.

❗️ Examples:

1. A few lost souls wander aimlessly down to the front and stare up at the stage.
2. The nice thing is that everyone left at 12, so I have the entire building to myself - and have locked my office door in case some lost soul wanders by looking for help I can't give.
3. He is an emotionless, lost soul wandering the streets and helping out strangers while looking for a clean razor and dry cleaner for his dirty overcoat!
4. While not locked in his office, he wanders the corridors like a lost soul.
5. One such lost soul turned up at my office door earlier today.
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7 Oct, 20:00

🎬 Downton Abbey (2010) - S01E04

💬 I'm a lost soul to you.

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📚 Rebel, noun.

🔉 /ˈrɛb(ə)l/ 🇬🇧

❓ Definition: A person who rises in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or leader.

❗️ Examples:

1. Tory rebels.
2. Rebel forces.
3. This date marks the 200th Anniversary to the very day when the rebel leader ended his resistance and walked through the gates of Humewood and into captivity.
4. Forked story paths in the beginning allow you to choose between siding with the armed rebels in resistance or the Soviets in appeasement.
5. However, during the truce, the party's militia would respond with force in the event it came under attack from government security forces, the rebel leader said.
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📚 See the back of, phrase.

❓ Definition (informal): Be rid of (an unwanted person or thing)

❗️ Examples:

1. We were always glad to see the back of her.
2. This New Year's Eve I was alone, glad to see the back of 2004 and preparing to move forward in the coming year.
3. I won't be sorry to see the back of all these roadworks so we can all go about our daily business.
4. They will be glad to see the back of him in Edinburgh.
5. By the sounds of it, they're glad to see the back of him.
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📚 Predispose, verb.

🔉 /ˌpriːdɪˈspəʊz/ 🇬🇧

❓ Definition (predispose someone to/to do something • with object): Make someone liable or inclined to a specified attitude, action, or condition.

❗️ Examples:

1. Lack of exercise may predispose an individual to high blood pressure.
2. I'm kind of predisposed towards disliking them.
3. Further, our training predisposes us to conduct our research as scholars of particular nation-states or regions.
4. If people begin honest dialogues with others they are predisposed to trust, they might be less inclined to take a hard-line position in the broader gun debate.
5. All three agreed that it is difficult to lead the masses anywhere - unless they are predisposed to head in that direction anyways.
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6 Oct, 09:00

🎬 Grey's Anatomy (2005) - S12E11 Romance

💬 Because they're predisposed to not like you.

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📚 Back to the drawing board, phrase.

❓ Definition: Used to indicate that an idea, scheme, or proposal has been unsuccessful and that a new one must be devised.

❗️ Examples:

1. The government must go back to the drawing board and review the whole issue of youth training.
2. The developers must now go back to the drawing board in relation to this second phase of their project.
3. The regulations must be sent back to the drawing board and revised to conform to the real world.
4. York Council expects to send developers back to the drawing board over their proposals for the city's Barbican Centre.
5. They have also decided to go back to the drawing board on the idea for bus priority in Shipton Road between Loweswater Road and Rawcliffe Lane.
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📚 Distort, verb.

🔉 /dɪˈstɔːt/ 🇬🇧

❓ Definition (with object): Give a misleading or false account or impression of.

❗️ Examples:

1. Many factors can distort the results.
2. Many investors now distrust pension accounting because it distorts reported earnings.
3. In addition, the probability of the results being distorted by confounding factors has not been adequately addressed.
4. The nature of adulation does not distort his impression of reality.
5. The change in goodwill accounting also distorts year-over-year earnings comparisons in 2002 and 2003.
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5 Oct, 09:00

🎬 The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1988)

💬 But doesn't the commander distort reality more than, say, you do?

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📚 It never rains but it pours, phrase.

❓ Definition (proverb): Misfortunes or difficult situations tend to follow each other in rapid succession or to arrive all at the same time.

❗️ Examples:

1. I never had an injury before in my life, but it's true what they say about injuries, it never rains but it pours.
2. When this fact is added to the rule of thumb that it never rains but it pours and the received wisdom that bad news comes in threes, the omens point to a particularly uncomfortable trip when Edinburgh travel to Toulouse next weekend.
3. Farmers need little convincing at present of the truth of the saying that it never rains but it pours.
4. In terms of troubles, however, it would appear that in shintyland it never rains but it pours.
5. That was when Anderson was to learn that in Scotland it never rains but it pours.
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4 Oct, 20:00

🎬 For Love or Money (1993)

💬 When it rains, it pours.

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📚 Big Brother, noun.

❓ Definition: A person or organization exercising total control over people's lives.

❗️ Examples:

1. Big Brother will be watching you from this week when spy cameras start to operate in Essex.
2. For executives who want the Big Brother touch, there are monitoring systems to keep track of employees.
3. Until September 17 of last year, the Canadian government didn't have any Big Brothers on their payroll and we all lived together in blessed harmony within the wonderful realm of free speech.
4. There is much speculation about what it is that the Big Brothers from Brussels will say, good and bad, about Bulgaria.
5. We can help erode the power of these Big Brothers by highlighting some home truths.
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📚 Faint heart never won fair lady, phrase.

❓ Definition (proverb): Timidity will prevent you from achieving your objective.

❗️ Examples:

1. Yes, awkward; yes, risky - but faint heart never won fair lady and all that.
2. "Faint heart never won fair lady," win the advice of a friend to Mr. Child, the son of a brewer, who sought the hand of the lady.
3. ‘Well, faint heart ne'er won fair maiden, or so the sayin’ goes Rennalt, ‘you had better make this one a good one‘.
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3 Oct, 20:00

🎬 Peep Show (2003) - S04E03 Gym

💬 Faint heart never won fair maid.

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