If someone is weaned on something, they have learned about and been influenced by it when young:

If you whip someone into a particular state, you quickly and effectively cause them to be in that state:

to start to do something without considering if it is the right thing to do or the best way to do it:

to cut a very thin piece from an object or surface:

to make someone behave in a particular way:

to prevent someone or something from doing something:

to happen in a particular way or to have a particular result, especially an unexpected one:

a flat floating structure for travelling across water, often made of pieces of wood tied roughly together and moved along with a paddle (= pole with a flat end) :

to allow something or make it possible:

to trust someone or something and know that that person or thing will help you or do what you want or expect him, her, or it to do:

to become increasingly liked or enjoyed by someone:

to return to a place in order to see someone or collect something:

to try to do something:

to design or organize something so that it is suitable for a particular purpose, situation, or group of people:

to attack someone violently:

to experience sympathy and sadness for someone because they are suffering:

to need a particular thing or the help and support of someone or something in order to continue, to work correctly, or to succeed:

to explain the reason for something or the cause of something:

If a lawyer appears for someone, he or she acts for and represents the person:

If you say that you can answer for someone or for a quality that they have, you mean that you know from experience that they can be trusted, or that they have that quality: