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| 🇬🇧 | 🇬🇧 |
| Dispense with the need to | Obviate the need |
| Fill or cover completely, usually with water | Inundate (yourself with something) |
| Certainly, by all means | Hands down |
| Become young again (compare: Revitalise) | Rejuvenate |
| having a lot of importance and interest for somebody | Dear/near to somebody's heart |
| To like somebody/something a lot | Emotionally attached |
| To have a special bright quality that shows in somebody’s face, for example because they are very happy or healthy | To be glowed with radiance |
| To gradually cover more and more of land | Encroach on |
| To be importantly involved in the process of something | Be instrumental in |
| Syn: infectious | Communicable |
| To make sb experience a set of feeling | Fuel sb [emotions] |
| To win sb's favour | Curry favour with sb |
| Physical impairment | Motor impairment |
| Of sb own's deeds | Of one's own making |
| To cause sth bad happen in the future | Spell disaster/problem/difficulty |
| To produce or encourage sth such as [emotions] or support | Muster (courage/strength/confidence) |
| For ever | In perpetuity |
| PASS ( TIME TICKS BY) | TICK BY |
| To influence sb's decision | BRING SB ROUND |
| Be involved in something bad | Be implicated in something |
| To try to get something so hard | Fish for compliments |
| In a state of deep concentration | IN A BROWN STUDY |
| In a situation that is not clear | A GREY AREA |
| Innocent, never do anything wrong | WHITER THAN WHITE |
| To be in discomfort or nervousness | BE IN DISCOMPOSURE |
| IN AN EFFECTIVE MANNER/ TO AN EFFECTIVE DEGREE | TO GOOD EFFECT/ USE |
| To be the action of sb | OF ONE'S OWN MAKING |
| To raise a feeling | TO FOSTER [ A FEELING] |
| To be understood in many different ways ( The parasite metaphors are??) | OPEN TO INTERPRETATION |
| With the good purpose | WITH THE BEST OF INTENTIONS/FOR THE BEST OF REASONS |
| DO SOMETHING FOR THE BENEFIT OF SB | ACT IN SB'S BEST INTEREST |
| See your boyfriend's faults | SEE SB'S WARTS |
| Doubt or unable to accept something "exhaustively" | RESERVATION (C2) |
| To let go of something that worries you by telling someone or doing something | GET SOMETHING OFF YOUR CHEST |
| To make a decision | COMMIT YOURSELF TO [V-ing] |
| To be let OF ONE OWN'S ACCORD | TO BE LEFT TO YOUR OWN DEVICES |
| To keep a secret | Keep sth to oneself |
| To have a private life | KEEP YOURSELF TO YOURSELF |
| To make a speech weaker and less controversial | WATER DOWN A SPEECH |
| Admit being wrong ( = BACK DOWN) | CLIMB DOWN |
| TO BE OUT OF QUESTION | BE NO PICNIC |
| To be reluctant to do something | RESIGN ONESELF TO DOING SOMETHING |
| Yield (to); give satisfaction to | INDULGE YOURSELF IN SOMEHTING |