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Beware sth/ Beware of sth
📚used to warn sb to be very careful about sth or sb🚨
• Beware salespeople who promise offers that seem too good to be true.
• You should beware of undercooked food when staying in hot countries.
• Beware of falling asleep while sunbathing.
• It is icy on that pathway in the mornings, so beware.
• You should beware of fraudsters offering overpriced treatments over the Internet.
• Beware anyone who offers you a second-hand car at a bargain price.
Be aware of sth
📚Having knowledge or understanding of sth. It does not imply danger but rather an acknowledgment of a fact or situation.
• It's important to be aware of your surroundings when walking alone at night.
•As a driver, you should always be aware of pedestrians crossing the road."
•Be aware of the potential side effects before taking any medication."
•Teachers should be aware of the diverse needs of their students in the classroom."
A misfit is a person who is not easily accepted by other people, often because their behaviour is very different from that of everyone else.
1. I have been made to feel a social and psychological misfit for not wanting children.
2. She was a misfit in that job after her big promotion.
3. The MBA was a misfit when stuck in a meeting with the programmers.
4. I didn't really know anyone at the party, so I felt a bit of a misfit.
5. I was a bit of a social misfit at college because I didn't like going out in the evenings.
6. They prided themselves on being the class misfits.
7. If all of your friends are great dancers, but you are awkward and uncoordinated with no sense of rhythm, you might feel like a misfit.
Syn: nonconformist, eccentric, maverick, individualist, square peg in a round hole; informal oddball, odd duck, weirdo, freak, screwball
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Lurch
📚to act or continue in a way that is uncontrolled , often with sudden changes
1. We seem to lurch from crisis to crisis.
2. She just lurches from one bad relationship to another.
3. Investors worry as the economy lurches towards recession.
4. The movie lurches from one car chase scene to the next..
5. The first round of multilateral trade talks has lurched between hope and despair.
📚To lurch means to make a sudden movement, esp forwards, in an uncontrolled way
1. As the car sped over a pothole she lurched forward.
2. Henry looked, stared, and lurched to his feet.
3. More and more frequently the vessel lurched into a sudden roll.
4. The train lurched forward and some of the people standing fell over.
Leave sb in the lurch
📚to leave someone without help or protection when it is needed
1. His advisers left him in the lurch when he needed them the most.
2. When Janet's husband decided to go on a weekend getaway with his friends, he left her in the lurch organizing her kid's birthday party.
Soup up
📚to change something in order to make it faster or more powerful or effective
1. New circuit boards can be used to soup up existing machines.
2. He's spent a fortune souping up his car for drag racing.
3. We've souped our computers up to run incredibly complex programs at lightning speeds.
4. At this point, her car is so souped up that it could probably reach 200 miles per hour! ( adj)
5. This souped-up computer is able to run incredibly complex programs at lightning speeds.
🏌♂⛳️Tiger Woods: A Biography - From Tee to Tabloid. What's the full story?Tiger Woods is almost certainly the greatest golfer of all time. His two periods of dominance saw him win 82 PGA Tour wins, including three US Championships, three British Opens, four PGA Championships, and five Masters Tournaments. Throughout his career, he racked up over $1 billion in earnings. But the superstar lifestyle he had built for himself would all come crashing down in 2009. A series of explosive allegations broadcasted in the media ended in Tiger Woods drugged, bloody, and unresponsive in his car. Not only was his legacy at risk — but his life too. This is the story of Tiger Woods.
#Biography
#Tiger_Woods
Collocations
• flagship product
• smartphone wave
• quarterly loss
• increased competition
• mobile launch
• telecommunications and industrial digitalization
• licensing agreement
• cutting-edge technology
• patent licensor
• affordable and more high-end cell phones
• affordable line of tablets
• annual gross profit
Idiomatic Expressions
• too little, too late
• far from a failure
• one of the most epic falls
• divested from the business line in time
Phrases
• jumped on the bandwagon
• opted to go with
• continued to flounder
• officially sold its mobile and devices division
• refocused its operations on
• acquired Alcatel-Lucent and Bell Labs to work on
• boasting positive annual gross profit
#Collocation
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#Videos
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#Mental_Disorders
#Videos
" If you have light on light, you have nothing. If you have dark on dark, you basically have nothing. Just like in life. You gotta have a little sadness once in a while so you know when the good times come. I'm waiting on the good times now."❤️🧑🎨🎨
#Bob_Ross
1. Was that your first brush with the law (= experience of being in trouble with the police)?
2. His first brush with the law came when he was 16.
3. She had a brush with [=briefly saw or met] a famous actor at a restaurant in New York.
4. Her brush with fame/greatness came when she sang the national anthem at the football game
5. It was her brush with mortality - a cancer scare last year - that made Evans rethink her career.
6. After his latest brush with infamy, the footballer is keen to stay out of the tabloids and is keeping a low profile.
7. She had a brush with stardom in the eighties as a member of a minor pop band.
8. Oh, you'll have a brush with the law sooner or later if you keep robbing houses.
9. He started valuing his life since he had a brush with death during the 2004 tsunami.
1. For the life of me, I can't remember where I left my keys!
2. Not for the life of him could he remember it.
3. I've been racking my brain, but I can't recall where we met for the life of me.
4. I've tried so many times, but I can't bake this recipe correctly for the life of me.
5. I can't, for the life of me, understand why people like that movie.
Synonyms : No matter how hard I try
Try as I might
No matter what I do
Despite my best efforts
I just can't seem to
1. Once the heat kicks in, it will be a lot more comfortable in here.
2. Waiting for the new law to kick in
3. Finally the motor kicked in and we could get started
4. The medicine took some time to kick in.
5. The new rules kicked in last year.
6. As discounts kicked in, bookings for immediate travel rose by 15
A Peek Inside the Brains of ‘Super-Agers’ -
#NYT
Readers reply: why do we wear underwear – and when did we start doing so?
#Guardian
🎵3 predictions for the future of music - Michael Spitzer
#Videos
Hit and miss
📚Sometimes good or successful, sometimes not; having mixed or unpredictable results; random, aimless, careless, or haphazard.
1. The quality of the food at this restaurant is very hit and miss, so I’d rather go somewhere else.
2. These days, the quality of Jim Harmon’s movies is really hit and miss. He used to make consistently good films though.
3. Drew Littleton’s game is really hit and miss right now. He used to be a much better golfer.
4. Chris used to be the top salesman at ABC Company, but nowadays his sales performance is extremely hit and miss.
5. It is a hit-and-miss affair to find a reliable doctor in this city.
6. Weather forecasting used to be a very hit-and-miss affair.
✍گاهی عمل می کند، گاهی نه. بگیر و نگیر دارد.
Change your tune
📚If you change your tune, you change your opinion about something or your attitude towards someone.
🎶🎵At first Bill was against selling the rights to his book, but he changed his tune when he realized how much money he could make.
🎶🎵Kelly was quite rude to me at first, but she changed her tune when someone mentioned how wealthy I was.
🎶🎵He was against the idea to start with, but he soon changed his tune when he realized how much money he'd get.
🎶🎵The mention of a hefty tip really changed the host's tune, so I think he'll be able to find us a table after all.
🎶🎵After I threatened him with no allowance, my son changed his tune and started doing his chores.
🎶🎵Well, that negative performance review sure seems to have changed Susie's tune. She's been the ideal employee ever since!
✍تغییر نظر دادن بهخصوص وقتی منفعتی در کار باشد
✍تغییر عقیده دادن
✍تغییر رفتار
Coy
📚not telling or revealing all the information that could be revealed
1. Alicia was a little coy about how much the new dress had cost.
2. She's very coy about her age.
3. Both companies are being coy about the merger deal.
4. Tim is being very coy about his new job.
5. The mayor was coy about his future political aspirations.
6. The hotel are understandably coy about the incident
7. She was a little coy about how much her contract is worth.
8. The lawyer remained coy about her client's next move.
✍تودار ، مخفیکار
Syn :
Cagey
He was very cagey about what happened at the meeting.
Over the odds
📚to pay a higher price than is usual or reasonable
1. It has come to light that hospitals have been spending over the odds for everyday equipment and supplies that would cost a private citizen far less.
2. In order to get the construction work done in time, the local council has paid over the odds to bring extra engineers, contractors, and workers on board.
3. If you wait til next week, you'll find yourself paying over the odds for the tickets.
4. Many people pay over the odds when buying real estate abroad. They should get better informed about the prices before they consider buying.
5. I'm sure I paid over the odds but it was the only bicycle service in the area
Flagship
📚the best or most important product, idea, building, etc. that an organization owns or produces
✍پرچمدار
✍ گل سرسبد، مهم ترین و بهترین بخش
1. This machine is the flagship in our new range of computers.🖥⌨🖱
2. The company's flagship store is in New York. 🗽
3. The next game will be broadcast on our flagship station.📻🎙
4. The hospital has been the government's flagship, leading the health service reforms🏥
5. Xiaomi’s 13 series flagship smartphones are here, and as usual, they’re loaded with the latest technology and features.🤳📞📲
6. Thriller" is Michael Jackson's flagship track.🎶🎸🎺
7. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon is NBC's flagship show.👯
8. The Galaxy S23 is Samsung's flagship product.
9. The Teach for America program is a flagship program for recruiting and training teachers in the United States.👨🏫👩🏫
Collocations:
* mobile phone market
* market share
* meteoric rise
* complete control
* major factor
* leading global tech firm
* best-selling cellphones
* first iPhone
* stiff competition
* Obsolete technology
* good user experience
* app support
Idiomatic expressions:
* Meteoric rise
* on its way to
* on a string of acquisitions
* came to a screeching halt
* willing to pay
* lamented that
Phrases:
* maintain a 49.4% hold
* over the entire mobile phone market
* entered and become a major factor in
* concentrate solely on
* producing its first mobile phone
* the golden era for the company
* emerging technology
* the biggest reason had to do with
#Collocation
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#Tech
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#Videos
Rare breed
📚a person or thing with characteristics that are uncommon among their kind; a rarity.
✍گونه نادر / کمیاب ( در مورد انسان )
1. Arletty was that rare breed of actress - beautiful, sexy and funny
2. Authentic blues singers are a dying breed (= becoming rare) these days.
▪️گونه در حال انقراض
3. Dodd was one of that rare breed (=there are not many of them) who could make the game of football look simple.
4. She's one of the rare breed of Hollywood stars who tread the fine line between commercial glory and art house credibility.
5. People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed.
She is finally reunited with her familyYasna Didar, a four-year-old Iranian girl who had gone missing on Sunday in a village in Golestan province in northern Iran was found alive .
Reunite
📚to come together again or to bring people, parts of an organization, political party, or country together again
1. The children were finally reunited with their families.
2. The police reunited the woman and her son
3. The band has reunited for one last concert.
4. Their shared dream was to reunite the divided family and create new memories together
5. Korean families divided by war reunite in the North
6. She spent years trying to reunite father and son.
7. Emmy Producers Reveals Why The Friends Cast Didn't Reunite To Honour Matthew Perry
8. It was an emotional reunion after 25 years apart.
9. See tearful reunion of five best friends — ten years in the making!🥹
Kick back
📚to relax and enjoy yourself
1. After work, he likes to kick back and watch some TV.
2. spent the weekend just kicking back.
3. I really like to kick back and relax when I'm not working or at school."
Upkeep
📚The process of keeping something in good condition
1. The money will go towards/toward the upkeep of the centre.
2. Our taxes help pay for the upkeep of the roads.
4. My ex-husband pays a mere £163 a month towards the upkeep of our son.
5. He says he can no longer afford the upkeep of his 2 000-acre estate.
6. Once your car gets that old, the cost of upkeep can get very expensive.
7. t takes a lot of money to keep up an old house.
1. Why are you all dolled up today? Are you going out after work?
2. Laura got dolled up for History today, which makes me think there must be a cutie in her class.
3. My roommates want to doll me up because they think I'll never get a date without wearing makeup.
4. She doesn't usually wear much jewelry, but she's dolling herself up to go out with this guy tonight.
5. The classrooms were all dolled up with Christmas decorations
6. He always dolls up for his job interviews to make a good impression
1. A healthy diet, with plenty of vegetables, fruits and protein, can keep your body and mind on an even keel, whereas sugar and caffeine cause more ups and downs in your mood and energy and exacerbate stress,”
2. Setting her life back on an even keel after their break-up had been incredibly difficult.
3. Jason had helped him out with a series of loans, until he could get back on an even keel
4. When the football rally seemed almost ready to become a riot, the principal stepped to the platform and got things back on an even keel.
5. The manager cannot keep the firm on an even keel any longer.
6. When the workers are unhappy, it is difficult to keep the factory on an even keel.
🤱She longs for another child.
🤱She yearns for another child.
🤱She is itching for another child.
🤱She craves for another child.
🤱She aspires to have another child
🤱She is dreaming of having another child
🤱Having another child really tickles her fancy
🤱She fancies having another child
🤱She gives her eyeteeth for another child
🤱She gives her right arm for another child
🤱She's jonesing for another child
🤱She hankers for another child
🤱She pants for another child
🤱She pines for another child
🤱She is aching for another child
🤱Having another child is on her wish list
🤱She is nuts about another child
✍ دلش یه بچه دیگه میخواد
📚to have a strong desire for something, especially something that is difficult or impossible to get
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