Social issues
The type of deep cleaning we do in our home, typically once a year, to refresh things:
spring cleaning
A different verb we can use to say we "beat" a problem or a fear:
to overcome sth
to call __ someone (on the phone)
-
event
evEnt
A phrase we use when we mean we need to mentally motivate ourselves for a task that will be difficult or we really don't want to do:
to psych yourself up for sth
A phrase (borrowed from French) that means doing sth that results in an awkward social situation:
a faux pas
sth is __ social media
ON
vulnerable
vun-r-bl
The large place where rubbish (not recycled) gets dumped:
a landfill
An idiomatic phrase we say in reaction to something that was hugely surprising, we were shocked by this new information:
it blew my mind
to pay attention __ sth
TO
variety
v-RA-yeti
A two-word adjective describing a plan/solution that thinks about the future:
a long-term plan/solution
A verb to describe the thing we do when we remember the past and think it was much better than it actually was, we remember only the good bits and forget the bad bits:
to romanticise sth
to divorce __ someone
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available
a-VEY-l-bl
An expression we use for encountering a problem, but instead of dealing with it now we push it away, delay it in time, and we will have to handle it again in the future:
to kick the can (further) down the road
An idiomatic expression that means "we'll address this problem when it happens":
we'll cross that bridge when we get to it
to run __ office (in politics)
FOR
miscellaneous
miss-cell-ey-news