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Capricious Meaning: Unpredictable Changes
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Caveat Meaning: One Condition to Remember
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Come out of your shell
Come out of your shell means to become less shy and more willing to talk with other people.
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Corner the market
One company sells nearly every reusable bottle in a city, and competing shops struggle to attract buyers. How can you describe the company's position?
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Crossed wires
You arrive for a meeting on Tuesday, but your colleague expects you on Thursday. Neither person meant to cause a problem. How can you describe what happened?
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Cut to the chase
Cut to the chase means to stop wasting time on minor details and talk directly about the most important subject.
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Cynical Meaning: How to Use It
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Despicable Meaning: Strong Moral Judgment
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Dichotomy Meaning: Two Opposing Sides
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Distributive Adjectives: Choose Each and Every
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Easier said than done
Someone tells you to stop worrying before an important interview. The advice is sensible, but following it feels much harder than giving it. How can you respond?
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Educational Goals Essay: Planning Your Main Steps
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Elicit or Illicit: How to Choose
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Elusive: Meaning and Everyday Use
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Empathy meaning: how to use it
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Epiphany meaning: sudden clear realization
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Expressions with get
Get in touch means start communicating with someone. Get rid of means remove or throw away something unwanted. Get used to means become familiar and comfortable with a new situation.
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Eye to eye
Two team members have different working styles, but both want to delay the launch until the product is safer. How can you describe the opinion they share?
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Facetious: Meaning, Tone, and Use
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Finite and non-finite verbs: find what changes
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For the time being
Your office is being repaired, so you are working from a library until another arrangement is ready. The plan is temporary, but there is no exact end date. What phrase fits?
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Foreign Phrases in English: Clear Everyday Guide
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Free TOEFL preparation: A daily study plan
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From scratch
A damaged spreadsheet cannot be repaired, and there is no clean copy. You open a blank file and recreate every part. How did you start?
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