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📚 Twaddle, noun. 🔉 /ˈtwɒd(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal • mass noun): Trivial or foolish speech or writing; nonsense. ❗️ Examples: 1. He dismissed the novel as self-indulgent twaddle. 2. But technical proficiency does not equal good music, nor does it prevent that music from being boring, from being bloated, self-indulgent twaddle. 3. My second reaction was: What a load of self-indulgent twaddle! 4. Sick of such self-indulgent twaddle, I found the urge to throw the book across the room was strong. 5. Surely a book's narrative should suffice to make its point, instead of relying on this self-indulgent twaddle? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 World view, noun. ❓ Definition: A particular philosophy of life or conception of the world. ❗️ Examples: 1. A Christian world view revolves around the battle of good and evil. 2. Apart from being completely unscientific and unsupported this whole line betrays a world view of utter despair. 3. This type is in quest for a comprehensive view, the world picture, the big answers to the big questions. 4. Labour have been severely punished for the social and economic policies that lie at the very core of their world view. 5. No, I'm watching the mind at work, moving fluidly between ideas before weaving them into a cohesive world view. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Second to none, phrase. ❓ Definition: The best, worst, fastest, etc. ❗️ Examples: 1. The group has a reputation that is second to none in the building industry. 2. The food was quite wonderful, the atmosphere perfect and the welcome second to none. 3. This is a country that's proven second to none when it comes to putting curling on the TV airwaves. 4. He worked harder than anyone and his course management was second to none. 5. The character design is second to none, and they've really taken advantage of the machine's strengths. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Envy, verb. 🔉 /ˈɛnvi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Desire to have a quality, possession, or other desirable thing belonging to (someone else) ❗️ Examples: 1. He envied people who did not have to work at the weekends. 2. I envy Jane her happiness. 3. She imagined her home even lovelier than it was now, and she imagined everyone admiring her, envying her, wishing they, too, had such a gift. 4. You must mark out your territory as an artist, so that others learn to envy you and aspire to what you are doing. 5. Borges' characters can similarly be said to envy women their desire that they cannot understand and do not dare explore. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 In a flash, phrase. ❓ Definition: Very quickly; immediately. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was out of the back door in a flash. 2. I closed the door quickly and like a flash I was at the table filling my bag with the money once again. 3. They will sit on your rear bumper until they get a little bit of a straight road and then they are past you like a flash. 4. He was on to it like a flash, racing into the penalty area. 5. The cold was fierce and I was gone like a flash to get my woolies from the car before I got a dose of hypothermia. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Evil Under the Sun (1982) 💬 Can you make it back to the hotel? In a flash. This thing's no problem.

📚 Harness, noun. 🔉 /ˈhɑːnəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A set of straps and fittings by which a horse or other draught animal is fastened to a cart, plough, etc. and is controlled by its driver. ❗️ Examples: 1. He was diminutive, and how he managed to lift the heavy harness on the draught horses for ploughing was more than I could understand. 2. Iron components of the chariot were found in a good state of preservation, including the two wheel rims and hub - hoops, the yoke fittings, harness and horse bits. 3. I went about my usual morning routine, feeding Angel Wing and the pull horses, and putting on the harnesses for the carts. 4. Nash was pleased to see that Fric had padded and rigged the horse's harnesses for silence, as well as shoeing their hoofs with leather covers to muffle their trot. 5. However, small items such as brooches and horse harnesses made out of recycled bronze in native styles have occasionally been found at forts. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Be in the know, phrase. ❓ Definition: Be aware of something known only to a few people. ❗️ Examples: 1. He had a tip from a friend in the know: the horse was a cert. 2. In today's information-based society, there are few things more infuriating than not being in the know. 3. Well, I used to pride myself as being in the know but I have heard nothing about this idea. 4. Essentially, one needs to be in the know to make the most of Berlin's nightlife. 5. But you have to be in the know to have access to the best-kept secret in showbiz. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Junk food, noun. ❓ Definition (mass noun): Pre-prepared or packaged food that has low nutritional value. ❗️ Examples: 1. I was eating too much junk food. 2. When I was a child I wasn't allowed to eat so much junk food from fast food outlets that I became overweight and ill. 3. That means an annual exposure to thousands of commercials for junk food and fast food. 4. Not only are our kids overfed on junk food and fast food, they are fast becoming victims of the techno age. 5. She may be eating a lot of junk food because the junk food comforts her without judging her. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Every man has his price, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Everyone is open to bribery if the inducement offered is large enough. ❗️ Examples: 1. Last week he was appointed Senior manager there and it just goes to show that every man has his price. 2. I'm sure they have discovered it by now but aren't telling, but every man has his price. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic