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1. You can  sa y someone is just  skin and  bone s when  you do not  approve  of the  fact  that they are very thin. 2. Use term skin and bones when you say someone is very thin. 3. Extremely thin.

to  make  someone  feel   extremely   tired  by  forcing  them to do a  lot  of  work .

to  make  someone  feel   extremel y tired by  forcing  them to do a  lot  of  work .

1. To try to stop someone from doing something 2. To prevent (something) from being achieved.

to do something without  worrying  about the  risk  or  negative   results .

to  allow  someone to  escape  from a  difficult   situation  or to  avoid  doing something that they do not  want  to do.

to be caught in a bad situation or to owe money. 

too  quickl y, without  careful   planning  or  thought

You  try  to do too many things in too short a period of time so that you have to  stay  up very  late  at  night  and  get  up very early in the  morning  to get them done.

If you  are in  awe  of  someone or if you  stand in awe of  them, you have a  lot  of respect for them and are  slightly   afraid  of them.

1. remain inconspicuous in difficult or dangerous times. 2. try to avoid being noticed or getting involved in something.

1. not very often 2. rarely

1. To  tell  someone about something that has been  worrying  you or making you  feel   guilty  for a  long   time . 2. To talk to someone about something that has been worrying you, so that you feel better about it. He came to see me because he wanted to get something off his chest

fight very fiercely

1. To rush quickly downward in an abrupt sweeping motion. 2. To make a rush or an attack or as if with a sudden sweeping movement. Eg: The bird swoops down to catch the fish.

1. Permanent 2. If an agreement, policy, or rule is  set in stone , it is completely decided and cannot be changed.  The exact terms of the scheme have yet to be set in stone.   These are just preliminary ideas and nothing is set in stone.  

Act more forcefully to regulate, repress, or restrain.

to change direction or turn about or aside; shift, turn, or change from one course, position, inclination, etc., to another: The speaker kept veering from his main topic. 

have the advantage over someone or something. "he usually has the upper hand because he's older"

To gradually start to be noticeable.

1. used to refer to a  situation  in which someone is  able  to  continue   easily  without making much  effort  or  thinking  very hard. 2. If you say that someone is  on cruise control  in a contest, you mean that they are winning the contest easily and without needing to make a lot of effort. The champs were  on cruise control  as they eased to victory in this one-sided bore.

to become difficult to  control.

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1. To be emphasized or made more noticeable. 2. To become prominent/important. 3. To be emphasized or made more noticeable.

1. Imminent or just becoming apparent. 2. Coming in the near future.

to quickly try something again or continue to do what you were doing after a problem or failure, without getting upset.

to become part of  someone  because that person has been in a place where it was present: I like to think that our love of reading will  rub off  on our children.

to  surprise  someone,  esp . in a way that makes the  person   feel   confused  or  uncertain

1. To take (a person) on a surprise romantic journey. 2. To brush or sweep something off of the surface of someone or something else. A noun or pronoun can be used between "whisk" and "away. 3. To remove something (from some place) very suddenly or hurriedly. A noun or pronoun can be used between "whisk" and "away." 4. To escort or accompany someone away (from some place) very abruptly or hurriedly. A noun or pronoun can be used between "whisk" and "away. 5. To bring someone on a romantic or exciting journey (to some place) away from home. A noun or pronoun can be used between "whisk" and "away.

1. to  warn  someone of a  dangerous   situation . 2. to make  people   understand  the  danger  of something.

1. to become unresponsive to  : ignore 2. to dissociate oneself from what is happening or one's surroundings. 3. to  ignore  someone or not give  your   attention  to something or to what is  happening  around you: 5. To stop paying attention to or mentally distance oneself from the environment or surroundings. I already  covered this material in my other class, so I just tune out and doodle in my notebook. I can tell the kids are tuning out when I start talking about verbs and pronouns. 6. To willfully ignore or stop paying attention to someone or something. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "tune" and "out. " I have to try to tune out the kid's shouting when I work from home. Stop tuning me out! I'm just trying to tell you why I'm upset.

1. an obstacle to progress towards an agreement or goal. 2. A  sticking   point  in a  discussion  is a  point  on which it is not  possible  to  reach  an  agreement 3. A  sticking  point  in a  discussion  or  series  of  negotiations  is a point on which the people involved cannot  agree  and which may  delay  or  stop  the  talks . A  sticking point  is  also  one  aspect  of a problem which you have  trouble   dealing  with.

1. to pause, postpone, or suspend an activity. 2. to put someone or someone's telephone call on an electronic hold. 3. to stop all activity or communication with someone. 4. to postpone something; to stop the progress of something. 5. temporarily defer taking action on or pursuing something.

1. to say that something that has  happened  is  unfair  or  illegal . 2. to complain that someone has done something that is not fair.