Learning English Vocabulary

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Sources: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/w...

I learned this idiom from a Pink Floyd song:
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✨ wipe the slate clean

🔎 to start a new and better way of behaving, forgetting about any bad experiences in the past:

▫️ A new relationship presents you with the opportunity to wipe the slate clean.
▫️ She wishes she could wipe the slate clean and start over in a different career.

Source:
dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...

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✨ round-the-clock (adjective) [also around-the-clock]

🔎 happening or done all day and all night:

▫️ He's very sick and needs round-the-clock care.
▫️ around-the-clock news coverage

Sources:
1) dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...
2) www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/b...

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✨ bum rap (noun) [mainly US, slang]

🔎 a false or unfair accusation:

▫️ It’s a bum rap to say we didn’t try to win.
▫️ She thinks motorboats get a bum rap from environmentalists.

Source:
dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...

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✨ at a moment's / two hours' / three weeks', etc. notice

🔎 used to emphasize how little time someone has to do something or how little warning is given:

▫️ We can't be expected to just drop everything and leave at a moment's notice.

Sources:
1) dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...
2) www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/e...

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✨ well disposed (adjective) [also well-disposed]

🔎 friendly and helpful:

▫️ If you feel good about yourself, you are more likely to feel well disposed to/towards other people.

▫️ It was a well-disposed audience.

Sources:
1) dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...
2) www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/h...

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✨ have your work cut out (for you)

🔎 to have something very difficult to do:

▫️ She'll really have her work cut out to finish all those reports by the end of the week.

▫️ The team will have their work cut out if they are to win the competition.

Sources:
1) dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...
2) www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/e...

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✨ write someone/something off

🔎 to decide that a particular person or thing will not be useful, important, or successful:

▫️ Most voters care more about jobs and therefore the Government can write off voters motivated by environmental issues.

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Gall:
dictionary.cambridge.org/tr/s%C3%B6zl...

Gal: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...

Don't mix it up with 'gal', like I did :)

✨ gal (noun, informal or humorous)

🔎 a woman or girl:

▫️ You're just an old-fashioned gal, aren't you, honey!

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✨ gall (noun)

🔎 rudeness and the quality of being unable to understand that your behaviour or what you say is not acceptable to other people:

▫️ Considering that he never even bothers to visit my parents, I'm amazed that Tim has the gall to ask them for money!

Sources: www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/e...
www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/g...

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✨ get/keep your eye in (British, informal)

🔎 to become more skilful or experienced in doing a particular thing because you have been practising it or doing it for a long time:

▫️ You need a run of games, especially as a goalkeeper, just to get your eye in.

Source: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...

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✨ at any rate (idiom)

🔎 something you say to show that you are going to say something more exactly:

▫️ I don't think they liked my idea. At any rate, they weren't very enthusiastic about it.

Sources:
1) www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/e...
2) dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...
3) www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/p...

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✨ peruse (verb, formal)

🔎 read (something), typically in a thorough or careful way:

▫️ She has spent countless hours in libraries perusing art history books and catalogues.
▫️ He opened a newspaper and began to peruse the personal ads.

Sources:
1) dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...
2) www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/e...

✨ Merriam-Webster's definition

🔎 of, relating to, or being the person or thing for whom or which something is named : of, relating to, or being an eponym

▫️ if Noah Webster owns a bookstore called “Webster’s Books,” it’s an eponymous bookstore, and Noah himself is the bookstore’s eponymous owner.

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✨ eponymous (adjective, literary)

🔎 An eponymous character in a play, book, etc. has the same name as the title.

🔎 An eponymous adjective, place name, etc. is one that comes from the name of a person:

▫️ Victorian, Wagnerian, and dickensian are all examples of eponymous adjectives.

'Un-': You Don't Always Have to Be So Negative Unraveling a common negative prefix

'Unravel' and 'ravel' both mean the same thing: "to cause to come apart by or as if by separating the threads of."

www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/when...

Source: dictionary.cambridge.org/tr/s%C3%B6zl...

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✨ libel (verb)

🔎 to write and publish something that contains bad and false things about a person:

▫️ She claims the newspaper libelled her in editorials and news articles.
▫️ He pardoned two journalists who had been sentenced to prison for libelling the foreign minister.