📚 Deem, verb.

🔉 /diːm/ 🇬🇧

❓ Definition (formal • with object and complement): Regard or consider in a specified way.

❗️ Examples:

1. The event was deemed a great success.
2. The strike was deemed to be illegal.
3. At the same time, reports have emerged that the provincial government is making preparations to have the strike declared illegal by deeming it a public emergency.
4. Food was given between two and three stars with judges deeming the service to be slow at times.
5. In the event that scores are deemed to be level, a fourth round is contested to find an overall winner.
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📚 Tomorrow is another day, phrase.

❓ Definition: Said after a bad experience to express one's belief that the future will be better.

❗️ Examples:

1. There's always hope because tomorrow is another day.
2. Who knows, tomorrow is another day and you never know what is going to come in the door.
3. Take each day as it comes and at the end of the day, if things still aren't done, remember that tomorrow is another day.
4. This is just a phase, it will pass, now get some rest, tomorrow is another day!
5. Duncan is obviously disappointed, but tomorrow is another day for getting it right.
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📚 Tenebrous, adjective.

🔉 /ˈtɛnɪbrəs/ 🇬🇧

❓ Definition (literary): Dark; shadowy or obscure.

❗️ Examples:

1. The tenebrous spiral staircase of the self.
2. His greatest scenes happen at night, and the characters in these tenebrous situations are seen, like specters, emerging from shadows.
3. I remember how I liked to feel his presence around me, to hear that deep, tenebrous voice.
4. These girls were kept in tenebrous seclusion, suspended between life and death, until marriage.
5. The crew bunks in a decaying hotel with infinitely unfurling tenebrous corridors.
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📚 Heart-to-heart, adjective.

🔉 /ˌhɑːttəˈhɑːt/ 🇬🇧

❓ Definition: (of a conversation) candid, intimate, and personal.

❗️ Examples:

1. A heart-to-heart chat.
2. In fact, we need heart-to-heart dialogues between friends, between teachers and students, between husbands and wives, between parents and children.
3. He used to drive his children to school in order to get a chance to have heart-to-heart discussions with them.
4. The happy and complacent resolution to the potentially tragic events, brought about apparently by a couple of five-minute heart-to-heart conversations, should satisfy no one.
5. But what you and I need to learn to do is to have real heart-to-heart communion with God, because, after all, that is what prayer is.
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📚 The villain of the piece, phrase.

❓ Definition (British): The person or thing responsible for all of the trouble or harm in a particular situation.

❗️ Examples:

1. TV tends to be cast as the villain of the piece.
2. Holdsworth was the villain of the piece when he missed an open goal.
3. He thinks she's trying to make him out to be the villain of the piece.
4. The locked-up wife is transformed into the villain of the piece.
5. Jones, the villain of the piece to Americans, was an Australian.
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📚 Pandemonium, noun.

🔉 /ˌpandɪˈməʊnɪəm/ 🇬🇧

❓ Definition (mass noun): Wild and noisy disorder or confusion; uproar.

❗️ Examples:

1. There was complete pandemonium — everyone just panicked.
2. On the collective level, poison gas created confusion and pandemonium.
3. Uproar and pandemonium followed, matched only by that of the previous week when Mr. Loy won twice.
4. Let me tell you about the non-stop insanity, the constant chaos, the perpetual pandemonium.
5. How appalling for people living and running businesses beside this noise, mess and pandemonium.
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📚 File, noun.

🔉 /fʌɪl/ 🇬🇧

❓ Definition: A collection of information about a particular person or thing.

❗️ Examples:

1. MI5 were keeping a file on him.
2. The ideal for any organisation is that their employees can access all company information, documents or files within seconds - no matter where they are in the world.
3. Confidential files allegedly containing detailed information about his visit were found on a London Street.
4. My information is that the files pertaining to this particular arrest were sitting on the desk of the DPP for some time previously.
5. They found that nearly one-fifth of them still contained sensitive information such as company files and bank-account details.
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📚 Fight or flight, phrase.

❓ Definition: The instinctive physiological response to a threatening situation, which readies one either to resist forcibly or to run away.

❗️ Examples:

1. I'm sure you've heard of fight or flight in a stressful situation.
2. Humans, like all animals, have an inborn stress alarm system that initiates a fight or flight response to stressful situations.
3. It's true, when you feel that your life might be in danger your natural instinct is fight or flight.
4. In that situation, an animal has two choices - fight or flight.
5. This is when those who haven't punched a ticket feel fight or flight in their bellies.
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📚 Picturesque, adjective.

🔉 /ˌpɪktʃəˈrɛsk/ 🇬🇧

❓ Definition: (of a place or building) visually attractive, especially in a quaint or charming way.

❗️ Examples:

1. Ruined abbeys and picturesque villages.
2. Wiltshire is home to some of the most picturesque towns and villages in the country, often attracting filmmakers to the county.
3. Properties in the village range from picturesque cottages and council houses to large private homes.
4. People like Austrian resorts for their village atmosphere and picturesque settings.
5. We villagers of Dundrum are extremely lucky to live in such a picturesque place in an area of outstanding beauty.
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