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2022-06-21 20:00:01 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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2022-06-21 16:00:03 Capoeira, noun.

/ˌkapʊˈeɪrə/

Definition (mass noun): A system of physical discipline and movement originating among Brazilian slaves, treated as a martial art and dance form.

Examples:

1. Joseph's - slow, formal, and pristinely beautiful - is based on the Brazilian martial arts form capoeira.
2. Washington incorporates a range of movement idioms - acrobatics, African dance, capoeira and social dancing - but always with an eye toward line, height and pinpoint accuracy.
3. It takes five minutes to absorb the sort of movement Elkins devises: a mix of modern dance, martial arts like aikido and capoeira, hip-hop, and maneuvers from contact improvisation.
4. He's also devoted to capoeira, a Brazilian martial art.
5. She even mixed in some capoeira, a martial art from Brazil.
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2022-06-21 09:00:01 Charlie Countryman (2013)

He's fucking crazy! He's a party animal! Yes. Open / Comment

2022-06-21 09:00:01 Party animal, noun.

Definition (informal): A very gregarious and outgoing person who enjoys parties and similar social activities.

Examples:

1. A buzzing bar makes this a good place for party animals.
2. Somehow, none of the party animals notices that he's drinking non-alcoholic brew.
3. She's a party animal who's never read a book in her life; he's an aspiring novelist who demands absolute quiet for his work.
4. We're party animals here, so we make music for the party people.
5. They have some kind of reputation over here for being like wild and crazy party animals or something.
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2022-06-20 20:00:01 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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2022-06-20 16:00:11 Ubi sunt, noun.

/ˌʊbi ˈsʊnt/

Definition (Literature): A passage or formula in a poem or other work of literature, usually beginning with ‘where are—’, lamenting the mutability of things, the transitoriness of life and beauty, or the loss or death of particular individuals; a poem of this nature.

Examples:

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2022-06-20 09:00:00 Neuroplasticity, noun.

/ˌnjʊərəʊplaˈstɪsɪti/

Definition (mass noun): The ability of the brain to form and reorganize synaptic connections, especially in response to learning or experience or following injury.

Examples:

1. Neuroplasticity offers real hope to everyone from stroke victims to dyslexics.
2. A non-invasive brain stimulation technique was also used to obtain a measure of the participants' neuroplasticity.
3. Neuroplasticity researchers have demonstrated that our brains are indeed malleable.
4. Our chronic headache patients did not get better at the task and there were no associated changes in the brain, suggesting impaired neuroplasticity.
5. "We needed to find a way to measure neuroplasticity without the task depending on the amount of effort the person was putting in."
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2022-06-19 20:00:01 Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 - S01E35 Haredevil Hare

One man's meat is another man's poison, I always say. Open / Comment

2022-06-19 20:00:01 One man's meat is another man's poison, phrase.

Definition (proverb): Things liked or enjoyed by one person may be distasteful to another.

Examples:

1. These very different concepts require very different musical interpretations, and one man's meat is another man's poison.
2. It is not so much that one man's meat is another man's poison as it is that one man's poison is another man's poison.
3. It cuts both ways and one man's meat is another man's poison.
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2022-06-19 16:00:01 Jubilant, adjective.

/ˈdʒuːbɪl(ə)nt/

Definition: Feeling or expressing great happiness and triumph.

Examples:

1. A large number of jubilant fans ran on to the pitch.
2. Mark Williams was jubilant after his title triumph ended his 26-month wait for a tournament win on home soil.
3. The Sligo fans were definitely jubilant and dozens of camera phones captured the moment but that's as far as it went.
4. After the game the jubilant fans carried on celebrating, filling the pubs and painting the Welsh capital blue and white.
5. The big fellow immediately sprinted towards jubilant home fans and was booked for throwing his jersey to the ground.
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