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Winter vocabulary – ADVANCED
Useful vocabulary for advanced learners:
TO BUNDLE UP => (PHRASAL VERB) If you bundle up, you wear a lot of clothes, usually because of cold weather.
ICICLE => a long pointed piece of ice hanging down from a surface.
In the picture, you can see a SNOWPLOUGH (in American English SNOWPLOW), a vehicle used to push snow off roads, called also just PLOUGH. This is also the name of a farming tool:
Kill two birds with one stone – Idiom
More example sentences from the web:
- President Obama is hoping to kill two birds with one stone by using green energy to create jobs and cut pollution.
- Getting rid of the bugs, you can do two – kill two birds with one stone. You’ve got a lantern and some bug zappers.
- I knew I needed to visit him, and figured I could kill two birds with one stone since I received the notice for the reunion around the same time.
To account for – Phrasal Verb
Example sentences from the web:
- There may be several reasons that account for this discrepancy between the students’ and the teachers’ opinions. (Source)
- We were also able to account for different assumptions about the combined effects of influenza illness and vaccination in modelling the joint risk of GBS if influenza illness were to occur in persons who had been vaccinated. (Source)
- School personnel may be unaware of the potential barriers created for parents when written communication methods do not account for parent needs and literacy levels. (Source)
- A group of school children from Lancashire, who had been on a school trip to the area, have all been accounted for and are all safe and well, according to staff. (Source)
- Once all known victims have been accounted for, it is time again to change the pace of the operation, shifting back to a more cautious, controlled attitude. (Source)
Fall between two stools – Proverb
Pop/Old man – Slang
Example sentences from the web:
- In 1995, I called my old man when I landed in Miami after getting cut from the Canadian Football League’s Calgary Stamped-ers and I said, ” Dad, you got ta come get me. “
- My old man phoned to check up on me.
- So you and pop should just go home.
- Sounds like you and your pop had a lot in common.
Splinter – Vocabulary (Intermediate – Advanced)
Example sentences:
- The splinter already hurts more than pulling it out.
- They did pull over 50 glass splinters from her hands.
- I landed on the glass. I’ve got splinters.
LET/GET SOMEBODY OFF THE HOOK – IDIOM
More example sentences from the web:
- I don’t know, and I don’t care, because he just got every single one of us off the hook.
- I guess she thought she could use your file and pathetic past to get you off the hook.
- He counted on his friends to get him off the hook.
TO BACK UP
Example sentences from the web:
- Does the Council intend to back up the diplomatic work being carried out by Spain and the other Member States on this issue?
- He is backed up by other professors at Copenhagen University, Kaj Sand-Jensen and Carsten Rahbek.
- Everyone, back up a little bit here.
- Could you back up a little to give me some room?
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. – PROVERB
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