to make more effort than is expected of you:
Posts made by Jason Yan
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Cup holders
In team sports, the cup holders are the team that won the cup (= prize) for the competition held during the previous year or season:
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Speed hump
a small raised area built across a road to force people to drive more slowly:
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Asks around
to ask a lot of different people in order to get information or help:
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Hanging about
to wait or spend time somewhere, usually for no particular reason:
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Advance purchase fare
the cheaper price that you pay for a plane, rail, etc. ticket when you buy it several days, weeks, or months before you make the journey:
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Stress puppy
someone who seems to be happy and successful when under stress , but complains about it all the time
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Squeeze bottle
a plastic container whose contents can be forced out through a narrow hole at the top by pressing the sides of the bottle together
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RE: Moving out
to leave a place where you have lived or worked in order to go somewhere else:
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Gangmasters
someone who employs a large number of workers, often illegally and for very little money:
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RE: Loess
A loosely compacted yellowish-gray deposit of windblown sediment of which extensive deposits occur, e.g., in eastern China and the American Midwest.