COMPACT FIRST (U1-U2)
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| 🇬🇧 | 🇬🇧 |
| By the look of things | Judging by the info we have now |
| Squash | To crush sth into a flat shape |
| Fortnight | A period of 2 weeks |
| Overhear | To hear what other pp are saying without intending to and without their knowledge |
| Puzzling | Difficult to explain or understand |
| An hour or so | 45 to 75 mins |
| From time to time | Sometimes |
| (every) now and then/again | Not often |
| Snack on | Eat small amount of sth as a snack |
| Live on | Only eat a particular type of food |
| Portion | The amount of food served to or suitable for a person |
| Pick up a bargain | Find and buy sth on sale for less than its usual price |
| Come/get to grips with sth | Make effort to understand and deal with a problem |
| Learning curve | The rate of s.o's progress in learning a new skill |
| Give a great deal of thought to sth | Think a lot about sth |
| Desperately | Extremely or very much |
| Turn around | To cause a situation or organization to change in a positive direction |
| Under your belt | Learned or succeeded in, and now a part of your experience |
| Cut sb/sth off | To prevent pp from reaching or leaving a place, or to separate them from other pp |
| Mark out | To select for some particular purpose in the future |
| Set aside | Tiết kiệm |
| Let the side down | To behave in a way that disappoints a group of pp that u are part of |
| Anticlimax | A dull or disappointing ending to a play, activity after increasing excitement |
| Catering | Công việc cung cấp lương thực, thực phẩm |
| Give s.o the business | To make difficulties for s.o, treat harshly, scold severely |
| Get on one's nerves | To annoy s.o a lot |
| Keep s.o company | To stay with s.o so that they are not alone |
| In those days | In the past |
| These days | Used to talk about present time, in comparison with the past |
| One of these days | Some time in the near future |
| One of those days | A bad day, full of problems |
| In the meantime | The time while sth else is happening |
| To one's amazement | Very surprisingly |
| Simultaneously | At the same time |