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She was working “Up to her eye balls”: it’s an expression of how
stressed a person is
Push/Force it down your throats: to make you
Milk (this) to death: Expression for wasting time or use of something to
the fullest on the cost of something else
Sorry to inject my question like this: interject/ forcing my question into
the conversation such a way.
Let's not jump the gun: ل نستبق الحداث
Stepping stone: first step towards….
I am going to chew your head: I am mad at you
Do calculations down to the nitty gritty…. = very detailed, it means
These results are not strong, but DEMONSTRATE PROMISE
I was screaming my lungs out: shouting so hard
How are things down your side of the woods?? – new way of saying
how are you??
Hindrance: obstacle or impair
Impair: make worse or damage
Disseminate: Spread or distribute
Reciprocate: give in return, give back, or respond emotionally
Sync up with: coordinate with or following the point being discussed
Imperative: crucial or important
Pursuant to: continuing from
Pertain: relates to = pertaining to the last email or "this subject bla blab
la which pertains to blab la bla"
Perusal: inspection or checking
Compelling: forceful or convincing
Recuperate: get well or better or restored or recover
Oblivious: unaware or ignorant
Gear up: get ready for a coming action or event
Utmost: The greatest possible amount, degree, or extent; the maximum
Expedite: To speed up the progress of; accelerate.
Ample (time or information…): enough
Adhere: Comply or stick on/with
Deemed: considered or judged
Plethora: A lot or surplus
Cantankerous: argumentative or difficult person, for EX: annoying
(person for example)
Prudent: wise
Touch Base: it’s an expression to get back to…. Or keep in touch
Varicose: Abnormally swollen it is a medical expression i.e. varicose
vein
Bombarded: "To attack with bombs, shells, or missiles" it's an
expression used to convey how busy the person is or pressure on him
or her
Viable: doable
Deduce: Derive or conclude
Pretentious: Show off
School of Hard nocks: School of Life = Hard life you learn from
Anesthesia: مخدر
1. Medicine/Medical. General or local insensibility, as to pain and other
sensation, induced by certain interventions or drugs to permit the
performance of surgery
or other painful procedures.
2. Pathology. general loss of the senses of feeling, as pain, heat, cold,
touch, and other less common varieties of sensation.
noun:
1. something that softens or soothes
But his more emollient approach, winning hearts and minds through
old-fashioned forms of persuasion, will also be crucial to building a
coalition willing to act against Saddam's most dangerous weapons
Flabbergast: surprise
Meticulous
–adjective
1.
Taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a
meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
2.
Finicky; fussy: meticulous adherence to technicalities
Truculent
1.
Fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
2.
Brutally harsh; vitriolic; scathing: his truculent criticism of her work.
3.
Aggressively hostile; belligerent.
Narcissism - noun:
Excessive love or admiration for oneself; in psychoanalysis
:Triumph
1. the act, fact, or condition of being victorious or triumphant; victory;
conquest.
2. a significant success or noteworthy achievement; instance or
occasion of victory.
3. Exultation resulting from victory; joy over success.
4. Roman History. The ceremonial entrance into Rome of a victorious
commander with his army spoils of war, and captives, authorized by the
senate in honor of an important military or naval victory.
Voluptuous
Sensuously pleasing or delightful: voluptuous beauty or body = jesm
emdawer oo malfoof
Prolong
1. to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue
longer: to prolong one's stay abroad.
Brim
n.
v. intr.
Enumerate
Perpetrated:
1- commit
2- execute
3- implement something in a bad way
Distort
–verb (used with object)
1. To twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis
had distorted his fingers.
2. Give a false, perverted, or disproportionate meaning to; misrepresent:
to distort the facts.
3. To give a false or misleading account of; misrepresent.
4. To cause to work in a twisted or disorderly manner; pervert.