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📚 Racy, adjective. 🔉 /ˈreɪsi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Lively, entertaining, and typically sexually titillating. ❗️ Examples: 1. The novel was considered rather racy at the time. 2. As for the film being racy, raunchy or titillating, there's utterly nothing groundbreaking here. 3. The film is probably most notable for its attempts to entertain adults with racy jokes and visuals. 4. Entertainment Weekly wrote about racy Y / A novels in this week's issue. 5. Readers looking for a racy, entertaining romp full of plot twists, scandal and exposed secrets will not be disappointed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Doodad, noun. 🔉 /ˈduːdad/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (North American): A gadget or other object whose name the speaker does not know or cannot recall. ❗️ Examples: 1. The latest electronic doodads. 2. I have one of those insurance thingy doodads so that if one of my kitchen appliances throws a dicky-fit then someone comes out and fixes it. 3. Consider how many little doodads dangle from the cellphone of a stereotypical schoolgirl. 4. I love the conflicting ‘expert’ opinions on what the doodad actually is. 5. There are few retail environments with more to store than a frame shop, with its equipment, artwork, materials and countless tools and doodads. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Behind the eight ball, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): At a disadvantage. ❗️ Examples: 1. Don't let cash-flow crises put you behind the eight ball. 2. In that respect, any free independent publication will be starting behind the eight ball, with no subsidies, let alone a historical tradition or audience. 3. I know I am really behind the eight ball on this one. 4. It is clear that students from poorer families start behind the eight ball and are not given enough extra assistance. 5. We certainly don't want to fall behind the eight ball on that. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Last Action Hero (1993) 💬 It's behind the eight ball, you moron.

🎬 Heavenly Creatures (1994) 💬 I'm saving them for a rainy day.

📚 Rainy day, noun. 🔉 /ˌreɪnɪ ˈdeɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (figurative): A possible future time of hardship or relative poverty. Frequently in "for (also against) a rainy day". ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Wax lyrical, phrase. ❓ Definition: Talk in a highly enthusiastic and effusive way. ❗️ Examples: 1. He waxed lyrical about his splendid son-in-law. 2. It is approaching midnight in a cafe on the outskirts of Moscow and a group of enthusiasts are waxing lyrical on the subject of their favourite car, the Lada. 3. In these pages last week, our art critic Iain Gale waxed lyrical - and certainly much more lyrically than I can ever wax - about the richness of the Demarco collection. 4. I mean, is it strictly necessary to emerge from the shower, grab a towel and commence a sawing action under your crotch while simultaneously waxing lyrical about Fairtrade bananas? 5. Dick Hyman is not one for waxing lyrical, but get him on the subject of his boyhood hero Bix Beiderbecke and the quiet American giant of jazz piano suddenly has plenty to say. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Rush (2013) 💬 And there I was thinking you were about to wax lyrical about the romance of flight.

📚 Foolproof, adjective. 🔉 /ˈfuːlpruːf/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Incapable of going wrong or being misused. ❗️ Examples: 1. A foolproof security system. 2. Bee-eaters have worked out a foolproof security system for the nest. 3. True, democracy and the rule of law provide no foolproof security guarantee. 4. Come up with a foolproof security system and stop other men like you from stealing priceless works of art. 5. Now, no one wants the president assassinated, but the reality is no security is foolproof. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994) 💬 Listen, I've got a foolproof plan.