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📖 - an end in itself 📚
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🔘 - founder vs. flounder
⚪️ - flounder (verb, noun) /ˈflaʊndə(r)/
⚫️ - founder (verb, noun) /ˈfaʊndə(r)/
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- look
- gaze, glance, peek, stare, gawk, examine
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- FLARE (noun, verb) /fleə(r)/ vs. FLAIR (noun) /fleə(r)/
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🖇 - work one's fingers to the bone ☠️
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▫️◽️◻️ 🔳 - malapropism (noun) /ˈmæləprɒpˌɪz(ə)m/
~ I'm tired of everybody taking me for granite. ➡️ [taking me for granted]
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✳️ - cream of the crop
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◾️ - to commute
◼️ - a commuter
⬛️ - commuting
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- energize (verb) /ˈen.ə.dʒaɪz/
vs.
- enervate (verb) /ˈen.ə.veɪt/
❄️ ☃️ - brain freeze / ice cream headache 🍧🍨🍦
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💥⚡️ - vamoose (verb) /vəˈmuːs/ 🏃🏃♀️🏃
= to depart quickly; to go away or disappear
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🌕 - vamoose (verb) /vəˈmuːs/ 🏃🏃♀️🏃
= to depart quickly; to go away or disappear
~ We'd better vamoose before we're caught.
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⚪️ - It's (high) time ...
⚫️ - It's about time ...
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⬛️ - It's time ...
~ It's time we went home.
~ It's time to start packing.
~ It's time we started packing.
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🖌 - an end in itself
🖋 - a means to an end
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🌑 - gaze at/into/toward/upon/up at
🌕 - stargaze ⭐️⭐️⭐️
~ I lay back on the sand and gazed at the stars above.
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- FLARE (noun, verb) /fleə(r)/ vs. FLAIR (noun) /fleə(r)/
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1) loose vs. lose
2) principal vs. principle
3) stationary vs. stationery
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🖇 - work one's fingers to the bone ✍️✊️👩💻👨💻
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🔘 - take sy/sg for sy/sg
🔳 - take sy/sg for granted
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⚪️ - collocations with 'confidence'
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◽️ - commute (verb, noun) /kəˈmjuːt/
◻️ - commuter (noun) /kəˈmjuːtə(r)/
⬜️ - commuting (noun) /kəˈmjuː.tɪŋ/
~ It's at least an hour's commute to work.
~ The new job will involve much less commuting.
❄️ ☃️ - brain freeze / ice cream headache 🍧🍨🍦
#idiomatic_expressions
🌘 - vamoose (verb) /vəˈmuːs/ 🏃🏃♀️🏃
#Vocabulary
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⚪️ - It's (high) time ...
⚫️ - It's about time ...
▶️ - It's (high) time + past subjunctive expresses that something should be done and that it is already a bit late:
~ It's time you went to bed. You'll have to get up early tomorrow.
~ It's high time I bought a new pair of jeans.
~ It's about time this road was completed. They've been working on it for months.
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▶️ - When we say that the right time has arrived for something and we are still in time, we can use the following patterns:
~ It's time (for you) to go to bed.
~ It's time to say goodbye.
~ It's time for breakfast.
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◻️◼️- The phrases ‘It’s high time…’ and ‘Let’s…’ can both be used to make suggestions.
⚪️ - It's (high) time ...
⚫️ - It's about time ...
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