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2022-08-28 09:00:01 Incessant, adjective.

/ɪnˈsɛs(ə)nt/

Definition: (of something regarded as unpleasant) continuing without pause or interruption.

Examples:

1. The incessant beat of the music.
2. The ordeal was far from over with incessant rain beating down mercilessly upon the operation.
3. The bad condition of city roads is because of the almost incessant rain, often heavy, ever since June.
4. These sounds are fused with the latest Hindi film music, but the incessant drum beating never stops.
5. Also, they were not prepared enough for the incessant rains that lashed the city the past few days.
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2022-08-27 20:00:01 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005) - S09E07 The Gang Gets Quarantined

Oh, I'm-I'm sick as a dog already. Open / Comment

2022-08-27 20:00:01 As sick as a dog, phrase.

Definition (informal): Extremely ill.

Examples:

1. You were as sick as a dog when you ate those shrimps.
2. I have been sick as a dog - still have the bronchitis going, but the worst part is an unbelievably sore throat - so bad that I literally cannot swallow, talk, etc.
3. What amazed me was he was sick as a dog, but if a school was coming the next day, he'd put on his suit and get out there.
4. I've spent the last week trying to do as little as possible, because I've been sick as a dog.
5. At times, when I was lying on my hospital bed being pumped full of chemotherapy drugs that made me as sick as a dog and caused my hair to fall out, I used to close my eyes and dream I was somewhere else.
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2022-08-27 09:00:02 Ship off, phrasal verb.

Definition (ship someone off, ship off someone): Send someone away because they are unwanted or troublesome.

Examples:

1. Eliza is shipped off to boarding school in London.
2. When his father dies, he is shipped off to Copenhagen to seek his fortune.
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2022-08-26 20:00:01 Under the weather, phrase.

Definition (informal): Slightly unwell or in low spirits.

Examples:

1. She was sufficiently under the weather to have to pull out of the championship.
2. He's been under the weather since he's been on his own.
3. I feel sick, have a painful headache and feel a bit under the weather, but I know that if I push myself and get out of bed I will feel better.
4. And every time I go for a stroll by the river when I'm feeling a bit under the weather, I come back home wondering why I felt so poorly in the first place.
5. So I'm more than a bit under the weather at present.
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2022-08-26 09:00:01 Ice Blues (2008)

You really gave that guy quite a wallop. Open / Comment

2022-08-26 09:00:01 Wallop, noun.

/ˈwɒləp/

Definition (informal): A heavy blow or punch.

Examples:

1. I gave it a wallop with my boot.
2. I must go down to the basement at once with my trusty two-by-four and administer a few more bracing wallops.
3. With that Allardyce stands up and wallops Mark and Lard, leaving them flying into the crowd.
4. It appears that she got a hefty wallop from something heavy, which has pushed her sideways several inches over the edge of her plinth.
5. He's not the biggest guard in the league, but his punch packs quite a wallop.
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2022-08-25 20:00:01 What goes around comes around, phrase.

Definition (proverb): The consequences of one's actions will have to be dealt with eventually.

Examples:

1. And it's a powerful belief, offering both hope to the oppressed - suffering cannot last forever - and a warning to the oppressor - take care, what goes around comes around.
2. Watford were on the receiving end of some decisions tonight as we were on Saturday, so what goes around comes around.
3. But although I strive daily to do the right thing - believing firmly in the karmic law that what goes around comes around - I've never, ever aspired to returning to earth as the Dalai Lama.
4. I have no idea what makes someone go to those lengths, but I believe what goes around comes around and she has got what she deserved.
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2022-08-25 09:00:01 The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

There's really no point in doing anything in life, because it's all over in the blink of an eye.. Open / Comment

2022-08-25 09:00:01 In the blink of an eye, locución.

Definition: Very quickly.

Examples:

1. Software that would do lots of boring calculations in the blink of an eye.
2. Richard was a little shocked to see her go from shy and demure to forthright and direct in the blink of an eye.
3. Dinner went by reasonably quickly, and in the blink of an eye, they were fast asleep, except for one.
4. He looks like a picture, frozen in time, one instant that happened in the blink of an eye, unnoticed and uncared for by the rest of the universe.
5. The ball began to grow and then, suddenly, in the blink of an eye, it disappeared.
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