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Flashcards by viviana morales, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by viviana morales
almost 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Riot | Violent Public Disorder |
| Entitle | To give someone the right to do or have something/ to give a title to. Students and pensioners are entitled to a discount. Entitled his book “My Life on Mars. |
| The last straw | the last of a succession of irritations, incidents, etc ... That leads to a loss of patience. |
| Commitment | Engagement, compromise, obligation, pledge. When you take a job, you're making a commitment to show up and do the job well, and your employer makes a commitment to pay you |
| Wind up | Coming to an end/ finish /end up/ concluded If he keeps doing bad stuff like that he's going to wind up in prison! It's time for lunch - I wish they'd wind up this boring meeting! |
| Get Along ! | Go Away! |
| I bet You bet You can bet on it | I could imagine / I think (emphatic yes) / Affirmation (that is certain) |
| Come up with | Create, invent, produce to find or produce an answer, a sum of money, etc. She came up with a new idea for increasing sales. How soon can you come up with the money? |
| Tide up | Bussy |
| Tease | Joker / Jokes/ To joke That bully who teases all of the children needs to be reprimanded If she wears that sweater to school, all of her friends will tease he |
| Rack your brains | To think very hard: I've been racking my brains all day but I can't remember her name. |
| Bump Into | ( Someone/ Something) To meet someone unexpectedly To accidentally hit against something |
| Slip Out | (leave discreetly) She waited until no one was looking, then quietly slipped out through the back door. (be mentioned unintentionally) I didn't want to spoil the surprise, it just slipped out. (fall out unnoticed) The $100 bill must have slipped out of my pocket; I don't have it anymore. |
| Tricky | Difficult / Complicate It's tricky to learn to ride a skateboard. I'm in a tricky situation |
| Look foward to | (await with excitement) We look forward to our summer holiday every year. |
| Get back at | To take revenge on/ to do something to hurt or upset someone after they have hurt or upset you. She was trying to get back at him for humiliating her. |
| keel over | to fall, collapse to fall down suddenly because of illness or weakness If someone keels over, they collapse because they are tired or ill. |
| Get away with | To do something bad without being punished or criticized for it. They have repeatedly broken the law and got away with it. |
| Pass up | To reject or refuse someone or something: I passed up a chance for promotion because I didn't want to move across the country. That job offer sounds very good—don't pass it up! * It's possible find more meanings |
| Call off | Canceled to decide that something will not happen She’s called off the wedding. If we have much more rain, the game might be called off. |
| Put your mind to | Focus to decide to do something and try very hard to achieve it You can do anything if you put your mind to it. |
| Worth | Used for saying that there is a good enough reason for doing something, because it is important, enjoyable, useful etc It’s worth talking to your financial adviser before making your final decision. be worth it: It was hard work, but it was worth it in the end. |
| Figure Out | Discover, Determine, solve We had to figure out the connection between the two events. |
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