수요일 오후3시30분 韓劇

A burglar breaks into houses or other buildings and steals things.) A vicious/strong/chill/biting north/northerly wind is blowing/has brought heavy snow and hail to the region, causing us to shiver in the (freezing/biting) cold. A hot/warm/light south/southerly wind has been blowing all week.

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One day on my trip, I went to my friends' birthday dinner in an upmarket/high end restaurant which has recently been extensively/completely refurbished. We found the new decor elegant and exquisitely charming/elegant, being (pretty) easy on the eyes. The place has been spruced up with decorations/antiques, hasn't it? It's a walk-in restaurant in the mornings where there are only five walk-ins so far. In the afternoons, you need to book a table in advance/The restaurant takes walk-ins in the mornings but for the afternoons, you need to book a table in advance. It was Tommy and Christina's birthdays. Christina looked absolutely fabulous whose dress was decorated with ribbons and lace. She knew it the minute (= as soon as) she saw it that she had to buy this dress. Her birthday cake was decorated to look like a car. A (cold/icy) draught (of air) was/I was in/sitting in/felt/was shivering in a (cold/icy) draught which was coming/blowing in under the door/blowing in from the open window/open door/There was a (cold/icy) draught in here coming/blowing in... She and her family have moved into a new home lately where she's furnished her study room with a desk, a swivel chair, shelves and a sofa/settee. Their living room is tastefully decorated with furniture/Their living room is decorated with tasteful furniture, paintings and antiques. She's bought a laptop with all the bells and whistles that can download large files in the blink of an eye/in a blink which also came with a blu-ray DVD drive as a handy add-on. She bought the whole shebang for only eight hundred dollars. She and her fiancé who are childhood sweethearts are planning on traveling to Japan on holiday. Two years ago, they were already so in love with each other that marriage was at hand/on the horizon. Before she went out with him, she was so happy and excited about hanging out with this guy named Paul because she fancied him until her classmate burst her bubble and told her that he had a girlfriend. I'm sorry to/I hate to burst your bubble but he has a girlfriend. Another friend of hers said as she wants to go out with him, she's so excited about meeting him I can't (bear to) burst her bubble. When she finally got to meet him for the first time, he said it was a pleasure meeting you. I hope our paths cross again. However, when they met for the second time, she found him stingy and selfish so she told her friends that if their paths crossed again, she would ignore him. After going out with her fiancé for two months, they were already talking about marriage. Isn't it jumping the gun to be discussing tying the knot already? Actually no. They're head over heels (in love) with each other. He always says she's the apple of his eye. A healthy relationship depends on love and trust standing side by side, supporting each other, growing together. She considers such matters (to be)/regards such matters as a two-way street. They're going to book/buy a basic/standard/premium/bronze/silver/gold/platinum holiday package offered by a travel agency which comes with scuba-diving and a trip to Mount Fuji/trip for stargazing as add-ons. They met at uni and they bonded/hit it off/felt a connection/clicked with/got on like a house on fire right from the start. She met him at uni/From the moment they met/From the first day/The minute (= as soon as) they met, they hit it off immediately and lived together for two years before getting engaged. I was worried that they wouldn't like each other but in fact (= actually) they're getting on like a house on fire. She founded a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the environment for the common good. She used to be an office worker. She was told maybe she would be given/receive a promotion but the manager raked/dragged her over the coals/reprimanded/reproved her multiple times for coming in late. If she had played her cards right and been punctual/arrived at the office punctually, she would've probably received a promotion.

She quit the job after she was engaged. She's an avid (= extremely interested and eager about something, often a hobby)/keen (= showing eagerness or enthusiasm) chess player who will take anyone on in a game of chess anytime. She's also an avid/keen romance fiction/romantic fiction reader/(cross country) runner and skier/keep-fit/(cross country) running and skiing/classical music enthusiast who enjoys collecting CDs and DVDs of concerts by great pianists. She has a massive/extensive/vast/valuable collection/She's an avid/keen collector of Vladmir Horowitz's CDs. Her fiance is an aviation/model-aircraft enthusiast who always talks about the design of different types of airliners/Japanese vase/antiques enthusiast/collector who has a vast antiques collection/collection of Japanese vases/antiques. Later at home, she sat at the table and was supposed to be writing her essay but she was in a brown study, being absorbed in her thoughts/being very involved in her own thoughts and not paying attention to anything else/I could see she was in a brown study, being oblivious to her surroundings. Her mum was using the vacuum cleaner/vacuum/hoover to suck up/remove dust and dirt/crumbs (from the carpet)/leaves and plant debris/garden debris/insect debris/was hoovering the carpet/floor/staors/hoovering up the dust and dirt/crumbs/debris/the mess. She was cleaning the carpet/floor/stairs with a vacuum cleaner/hoover to suck up/remove... She hoovers fortnightly (= happening every two weeks)/on a fornightly basis/on alternate days (= every other day/every second day). The vacuum cleaner had drowned out the sound of the television/The sound of the television had been drowned out by the vacuum cleaner/The vacuum cleaner had drowned us out/We had been drowned out by the vacuum cleaner but lost in a brown study, she was even oblivious to the noise. After her mum finished hoovering and turned off the TV, the house went all quiet/was as quiet as a mouse when a sharp knock at the door/a hand on her shoulder/her phone/a persistent ringing of her phone brought her out of her/roused her from her brown study/a pleasant daydream and she got back to her essay. A moment later, she eventually roused herself from her brown study/a pleasant daydream and got back to her essay. She started the essay slowly but everything was/things were/it was all (finally) (starting to come) coming together now. Her mum went to the bank to deposit/put money in/into her account. She smoothed out the crinkled one hundred-dollar notes/crinkles so that the machine took her notes. Then she bought a bag of dog food and got home where she plopped it down on the table and dusted it off/brushed it off/brushed the dust off/from the bag and dusted/brushed off her hands/brushed herself off. My friend is full-figured who has a fairly large, heavy body with rounded parts, including large breasts and hips. I think she looks utterly/absolutely captivating/exquisitely/delightfully charming/enchanting, especially when her mouth/face crinkles/creases into a smile. She always smiles, her eyes crinkling, especially when she's talking. She has characteristic crinkles around her eyes when she smiles which might be crow's feet but she looks pretty easy on the eyes with them. There was one time/Once while she and her fiance were having a bath/shower together, she slipped in the bath/shower but luckily, he was able to grab/get/take/catch hold of her in the nick of time, preventing her (from) falling and saving her from serious injury/an accident. Her brother had been lethargic, feeling little energy and being unwilling and unable to do anything but he had got to write an essay too so he needed to get his act together and get it done for which the submission deadline was two weeks later. However, he seemed unable to rouse himself to do anything. Christina had tried to rouse him to action/to take action but of little/no avail (= of little or no use)/to little/no avail (= with little or no success).

All his classmates at uni were working extremely hard to meet/working to the deadline for submission of assignments. Finally, they managed to rouse him from his lethargy by booking a (fortnight's) family holiday in Japan for a fortnight (= a period of two weeks)/by booking a family trip to Japan where they're going to spend a fortnight exploring a few cities/exploring/looking at/visiting all the sights/attractions, soaking up the sights and sounds (= discovering something that involves seeing and hearing)/and discovering the sights and sounds of a different culture. While drinking a glass of milk, it slipped out of/from my grasp and spilt/and I spilt milk/it (all) down/on/over my t-shirt and all over the floor/While pouring water into my cup, my cup overflowed all over the floor/water overflowed from the cup onto the floor, causing water to splash (= if a liquid splashes, it hits or falls on something and makes a noise) onto/(all) over the floor so I wiped up milk/the splashes of water
/wiped down the floor/soaked it up/soaked up the splashes of water with a dishcloth/cloth myself instead of having them do it. As it was really coming out there, rain was splashing against/on/over the windows. The rubbish bin was overflowing with rubbish so her helper put the rubbish out. She put on the news where/which/on which it said/reported due to heavy rain, the ocean was splashing against/on/over (= on and over mean over the pier) the pier. A wasp stung him/He got stung by a wasp before. Some types of bees don't sting. Honey bees actually die after they sting you but they're so protective towards/of their hive they'll take one for the team without hesitation. We originally were going to go to a concert because her father managed to get free tickets but we realized we only had four tickets, meaning that we were two short in which case I said it's OK. She and I will take one for the team. We are beat anyway. The next day, we took a boat trip/hired a boat and sailed it along/down the coast/around nearby small islands/went on a cruise/cruised around the ocean. As the ship/boat picked up speed, the coastline/shoreline receded into the distance until it finally became invisible/The next day, we went to the beach. Due to large/huge waves, we unwound/wound down at a nearby cafe, listening to the waves breaking/crashing against the shore. The waves swept away people's bags/people's bags out to the sea/into the sea. After the waves subsided, we walked down to the beach. The waters receded/moved further away and left us high and dry. Then we made/took a detour around the fields to avoid the steep cliff path. It was also worth taking a detour to visit the village. Everyone finds her fiancé's brother hostile and touchy/chippy, being easily annoyed or offended so we have to be careful what we say to him as he's rather touchy, especially about the fact that his wife was married before/about his age. For some people, it's a touchy subject/issue/point, needing to be dealt with carefully/warily/cautiously so we'd better avoid it. He was sacked but he's come up/out smelling of roses (= to be in a better or stronger situation than before, after experiencing a difficult situation). He's been taken on/snapped up as an adminstrator by a rival company and the financial package is even healthier. He has to answer tons of emails each day and ensure no one slips/falls through the net.

Apparently, he's been using dating apps where he tells the women that he owns a mansion/manor house in Japan and they've fallen for it. I recall visiting him with them where he/his/the whole house smelt/smelt foul/stank/smelt of/stank of alcohol/beer and cigarettes, stinking to high heaven/I could smell alcohol and cigarettes on his breath which made him smell to high heaven. He/His clothes smelt strongly/faintly of alcohol/tobacco. Cigarettes make your clothes smell awful. Smoking gives you foul-smelling breath as well as having a detrimental impact on your health/Sunbathing regularly prematurely wrinkles and ages the skin/causes wrinkles and premature ageing of the skin. You smoke/sunbathe regularly frequently to the detriment of their health/skin. You can't smoke/sunbathe regularly without detriment to your health/skin. Tobacco/sunbathing regularly is a detriment to your health/skin. Tobacco/Sunbathing regularly detrimentally affects your health/skin. She's set her Facebook account so that only/configured her account to allow only friends to see her photos/set her posts/post visibility to private. The internet is filled with harebrained get-rich-quick schemes that are silly/foolish and impractical. They usually advertize on social media with a title like hot to make money easy, or how to turn three thousand dollars into one billion dollars. She had received a few fake texts asking for her bank account details over the past several weeks but she didn't fall for it. Nowadays, there are loads of swindlers online as well as malicious Trojan horses (Trojan Horse software/malware/viruses) that could easily take over your phone. Once you link on the link in the text messages or emails, it's usually a set of instructions secretly put onto an app or a programme that can destroy information, taking over your phone. It could be a programme that sends a large number of annoying messages and emails to your phone in an uncontrolled way. It could be a virus that makes copies of itself and sends the link to all your contacts on your phone and moves to the other phones if they click on the link. She hits the gym and only takes whey protein. There are many rubbish supplements that claim they will make you as jacked as the professional bodybuilders or the extremely lean female bodybuilders with only three percent body fat who're endorsing their products. She sees it a lot and isn't falling for that. She does yoga (every) once in a while/every so often. When you do yoga, it's crucial to go with the flow. The same is true for other aspects of your life, isn't it? You let yourself go with the flow and see how things turn out. She's also been so busy with phone calls that I needed to hold her phone to/against her ear/the side of her face as she did up her jacket. Her fiance was repairing their bed because the screw/nuts and bolts holding the bed together had loosened so he needed to use a wrench (BrE spanner)/an adjustable spanner to tighten it/them. However are you doing? Everything is/It should be/I'm hunky-dory (= something is fine or satisfactory). The air is filled with the (lovely strong/lovely sweet) smell of flowers whose/The flowers give off (= produce a smell) a ... smell whose/I love the sweet-smelling flowers/the lovely strong/lovely sweet/faint smell of flowers whose/There's a lovely sweet smell of flowers in the air whose/I notice/smell/detect a faint smell of flowers whose scent is lovely/sweet/delicate (= pleasantly soft)/soothing, having a gently calming effect.

They frown on/upon the new system because under the new system, thief's, robbers, burglars or other criminals can slip/fall through the (police) net. (Slip through the net = to be unintentionally neglected or ignored. Anyone that steals can be called a thief. A robber often uses violence or the threat of violence to steal things from places such as banks or shops. A burglar breaks into houses or other buildings and steals things.) A vicious/strong/chill/biting north/northerly wind is blowing/has brought heavy snow and hail to the region, causing us to shiver in the (freezing/biting) cold. A hot/warm/light south/southerly wind has been blowing all week.

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One day on my trip, I went to my friends' birthday dinner in an upmarket/high end restaurant which has recently been extensively/completely refurbished. We found the new decor elegant and exquisitely charming/elegant, being (pretty) easy on the eyes. The place has been spruced up with decorations/antiques, hasn't it? It's a walk-in restaurant in the mornings where there are only five walk-ins so far. In the afternoons, you need to book a table in advance/The restaurant takes walk-ins in the mornings but for the afternoons, you need to book a table in advance. It was Tommy and Christina's birthdays. Christina looked absolutely fabulous whose dress was decorated with ribbons and lace. She knew it the minute (= as soon as) she saw it that she had to buy this dress. Her birthday cake was decorated to look like a car. A (cold/icy) draught (of air) was/I was in/sitting in/felt/was shivering in a (cold/icy) draught which was coming/blowing in under the door/blowing in from the open window/open door/There was a (cold/icy) draught in here coming/blowing in... She and her family have moved into a new home lately where she's furnished her study room with a desk, a swivel chair, shelves and a sofa/settee. Their living room is tastefully decorated with furniture/Their living room is decorated with tasteful furniture, paintings and antiques. She's bought a laptop with all the bells and whistles that can download large files in the blink of an eye/in a blink which also came with a blu-ray DVD drive as a handy add-on. She bought the whole shebang for only eight hundred dollars. She and her fiancé who are childhood sweethearts are planning on traveling to Japan on holiday. Two years ago, they were already so in love with each other that marriage was at hand/on the horizon. Before she went out with him, she was so happy and excited about hanging out with this guy named Paul because she fancied him until her classmate burst her bubble and told her that he had a girlfriend. I'm sorry to/I hate to burst your bubble but he has a girlfriend. Another friend of hers said as she wants to go out with him, she's so excited about meeting him I can't (bear to) burst her bubble. When she finally got to meet him for the first time, he said it was a pleasure meeting you. I hope our paths cross again. However, when they met for the second time, she found him stingy and selfish so she told her friends that if their paths crossed again, she would ignore him. After going out with her fiancé for two months, they were already talking about marriage. Isn't it jumping the gun to be discussing tying the knot already? Actually no. They're head over heels (in love) with each other. He always says she's the apple of his eye. A healthy relationship depends on love and trust standing side by side, supporting each other, growing together. She considers such matters (to be)/regards such matters as a two-way street. They're going to book/buy a basic/standard/premium/bronze/silver/gold/platinum holiday package offered by a travel agency which comes with scuba-diving and a trip to Mount Fuji/trip for stargazing as add-ons. They met at uni and they bonded/hit it off/felt a connection/clicked with/got on like a house on fire right from the start. She met him at uni/From the moment they met/From the first day/The minute (= as soon as) they met, they hit it off immediately and lived together for two years before getting engaged. I was worried that they wouldn't like each other but in fact (= actually) they're getting on like a house on fire. She founded a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the environment for the common good. She used to be an office worker. She was told maybe she would be given/receive a promotion but the manager raked/dragged her over the coals/reprimanded/reproved her multiple times for coming in late. If she had played her cards right and been punctual/arrived at the office punctually, she would've probably received a promotion.

She quit the job after she was engaged. She's an avid (= extremely interested and eager about something, often a hobby)/keen (= showing eagerness or enthusiasm) chess player who will take anyone on in a game of chess anytime. She's also an avid/keen romance fiction/romantic fiction reader/(cross country) runner and skier/keep-fit/(cross country) running and skiing/classical music enthusiast who enjoys collecting CDs and DVDs of concerts by great pianists. She has a massive/extensive/vast/valuable collection/She's an avid/keen collector of Vladmir Horowitz's CDs. Her fiance is an aviation/model-aircraft enthusiast who always talks about the design of different types of airliners/Japanese vase/antiques enthusiast/collector who has a vast antiques collection/collection of Japanese vases/antiques. Later at home, she sat at the table and was supposed to be writing her essay but she was in a brown study, being absorbed in her thoughts/being very involved in her own thoughts and not paying attention to anything else/I could see she was in a brown study, being oblivious to her surroundings. Her mum was using the vacuum cleaner/vacuum/hoover to suck up/remove dust and dirt/crumbs (from the carpet)/leaves and plant debris/garden debris/insect debris/was hoovering the carpet/floor/staors/hoovering up the dust and dirt/crumbs/debris/the mess. She was cleaning the carpet/floor/stairs with a vacuum cleaner/hoover to suck up/remove... She hoovers fortnightly (= happening every two weeks)/on a fornightly basis/on alternate days (= every other day/every second day). The vacuum cleaner had drowned out the sound of the television/The sound of the television had been drowned out by the vacuum cleaner/The vacuum cleaner had drowned us out/We had been drowned out by the vacuum cleaner but lost in a brown study, she was even oblivious to the noise. After her mum finished hoovering and turned off the TV, the house went all quiet/was as quiet as a mouse when a sharp knock at the door/a hand on her shoulder/her phone/a persistent ringing of her phone brought her out of her/roused her from her brown study/a pleasant daydream and she got back to her essay. A moment later, she eventually roused herself from her brown study/a pleasant daydream and got back to her essay. She started the essay slowly but everything was/things were/it was all (finally) (starting to come) coming together now. Her fiance has helped her a great deal with her essay so she said thank you from the bottom of my heart (for all you have done)/I can't thank you enough/Thanks for having my back. I couldn't have done it without you/It means the world to me. Her mum went to the bank to deposit/put money in/into her account. She smoothed out the crinkled one hundred-dollar notes/crinkles so that the machine took her notes. Then she bought a bag of dog food and got home where she plopped it down on the table and dusted it off/brushed it off/brushed the dust off/from the bag and dusted/brushed off her hands/brushed herself off. My friend is full-figured who has a fairly large, heavy body with rounded parts, including large breasts and hips. I think she looks utterly/absolutely captivating/exquisitely/delightfully charming/enchanting, especially when her mouth/face crinkles/creases into a smile. She always smiles, her eyes crinkling, especially when she's talking. She has characteristic crinkles around her eyes when she smiles which might be crow's feet but she looks pretty easy on the eyes with them. There was one time/Once while she and her fiance were having a bath/shower together, she slipped in the bath/shower but luckily, he was able to grab/get/take/catch hold of her in the nick of time, preventing her (from) falling and saving her from serious injury/an accident.

Her brother had been lethargic, feeling little energy and being unwilling and unable to do anything but he had got to write an essay too so he needed to get his act together and get it done for which the submission deadline was two weeks later. However, he seemed unable to rouse himself to do anything. Christina had tried to rouse him to action/to take action but of little/no avail (= of little or no use)/to little/no avail (= with little or no success). All his classmates at uni were working extremely hard to meet/working to the deadline for submission of assignments. Finally, they managed to rouse him from his lethargy by booking a (fortnight's) family holiday in Japan for a fortnight (= a period of two weeks)/by booking a family trip to Japan where they're going to spend a fortnight exploring a few cities/exploring/looking at/visiting all the sights/attractions, soaking up the sights and sounds (= discovering something that involves seeing and hearing)/and discovering the sights and sounds of a different culture. While drinking a glass of milk, it slipped out of/from my grasp and spilt/and I spilt milk/it (all) down/on/over my t-shirt and all over the floor/While pouring water into my cup, my cup overflowed all over the floor/water overflowed from the cup onto the floor, causing water to splash (= if a liquid splashes, it hits or falls on something and makes a noise) onto/(all) over the floor so I wiped up milk/the splashes of water
/wiped down the floor/soaked it up/soaked up the splashes of water with a dishcloth/cloth myself instead of having them do it. As it was really coming out there, rain was splashing against/on/over the windows. The rubbish bin was overflowing with rubbish so her helper put the rubbish out. She put on the news where/which/on which it said/reported due to heavy rain, the ocean was splashing against/on/over (= on and over mean over the pier) the pier. A wasp stung him/He got stung by a wasp before. Some types of bees don't sting. Honey bees actually die after they sting you but they're so protective towards/of their hive they'll take one for the team without hesitation. We originally were going to go to a concert because her father managed to get free tickets but we realized we only had four tickets, meaning that we were two short in which case I said it's OK. She and I will take one for the team. We are beat anyway. The next day, we took a boat trip/hired a boat and sailed it along/down the coast/around nearby small islands/went on a cruise/cruised around the ocean. As the ship/boat picked up speed, the coastline/shoreline receded into the distance until it finally became invisible/The next day, we went to the beach. Due to large/huge waves, we unwound/wound down at a nearby cafe, listening to the waves breaking/crashing against the shore. The waves swept away people's bags/people's bags out to the sea/into the sea. After the waves subsided, we walked down to the beach. The waters receded/moved further away and left us high and dry. Then we made/took a detour around the fields to avoid the steep cliff path. It was also worth taking a detour to visit the village. Everyone finds her fiancé's brother hostile and touchy/chippy, being easily annoyed or offended so we have to be careful what we say to him as he's rather touchy, especially about the fact that his wife was married before/about his age. For some people, it's a touchy subject/issue/point, needing to be dealt with carefully/warily/cautiously so we'd better avoid it. He was sacked but he's come up/out smelling of roses (= to be in a better or stronger situation than before, after experiencing a difficult situation). He's been taken on/snapped up as an adminstrator by a rival company and the financial package is even healthier. He has to answer tons of emails each day and ensure no one slips/falls through the net.

Apparently, he's been using dating apps where he tells the women that he owns a mansion/manor house in Japan and they've fallen for it. I recall visiting him with them where he/his/the whole house smelt/smelt foul/stank/smelt of/stank of alcohol/beer and cigarettes, stinking to high heaven/I could smell alcohol and cigarettes on his breath which made him smell to high heaven. He/His clothes smelt strongly/faintly of alcohol/tobacco. Cigarettes make your clothes smell awful. Smoking gives you foul-smelling breath as well as having a detrimental impact on your health/Sunbathing regularly prematurely wrinkles and ages the skin/causes wrinkles and premature ageing of the skin. You smoke/sunbathe regularly frequently to the detriment of their health/skin. You can't smoke/sunbathe regularly without detriment to your health/skin. Tobacco/sunbathing regularly is a detriment to your health/skin. Tobacco/Sunbathing regularly detrimentally affects your health/skin. She's set her Facebook account so that only/configured her account to allow only friends to see her photos/set her posts/post visibility to private. The internet is filled with harebrained get-rich-quick schemes that are silly/foolish and impractical. They usually advertize on social media with a title like hot to make money easy, or how to turn three thousand dollars into one billion dollars. She had received a few fake texts asking for her bank account details over the past several weeks but she didn't fall for it. Nowadays, there are loads of swindlers online as well as malicious Trojan horses (Trojan Horse software/malware/viruses) that could easily take over your phone. Once you link on the link in the text messages or emails, it's usually a set of instructions secretly put onto an app or a programme that can destroy information, taking over your phone. It could be a programme that sends a large number of annoying messages and emails to your phone in an uncontrolled way. It could be a virus that makes copies of itself and sends the link to all your contacts on your phone and moves to the other phones if they click on the link. She hits the gym and only takes whey protein. There are many rubbish supplements that claim they will make you as jacked as the professional bodybuilders or the extremely lean female bodybuilders with only three percent body fat who're endorsing their products. She sees it a lot and isn't falling for that. She does yoga (every) once in a while/every so often. When you do yoga, it's crucial to go with the flow. The same is true for other aspects of your life, isn't it? You let yourself go with the flow and see how things turn out. She's also been so busy with phone calls that I needed to hold her phone to/against her ear/the side of her face as she did up her jacket. Her fiance in a shirt buttoned his cuffs and went upstairs to repair their bed because the screw/nuts and bolts holding the bed together had loosened so he needed to use a wrench (BrE spanner)/an adjustable spanner to tighten it/them. However are you doing? Everything is/It should be/I'm hunky-dory (= something is fine or satisfactory). The air is filled with the (lovely strong/lovely sweet) smell of flowers whose/The flowers give off (= produce a smell) a ... smell whose/I love the sweet-smelling flowers/the lovely strong/lovely sweet/faint smell of flowers whose/There's a lovely sweet smell of flowers in the air whose/I notice/smell/detect a faint smell of flowers whose scent is lovely/sweet/delicate (= pleasantly soft)/soothing, having a gently calming effect.

They frown on/upon the new system because under the new system, thieves, robbers, burglars or other criminals can slip/fall through the (police) net. (Slip through the net = to be unintentionally neglected or ignored. Anyone that steals can be called a thief. A robber often uses violence or the threat of violence to steal things from places such as banks or shops. A burglar breaks into houses or other buildings and steals things.) A vicious/strong/chill/biting north/northerly wind is blowing/has brought heavy snow and hail to the region, causing us to shiver in the (freezing/biting) cold. A hot/warm/light south/southerly wind has been blowing all week.

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One day on my trip, I went to my friends' birthday dinner in an upmarket/high end restaurant which has recently been extensively/completely refurbished. We found the new decor elegant and exquisitely charming/elegant, being (pretty) easy on the eyes. The place has been spruced up with decorations/antiques, hasn't it? It's a walk-in restaurant in the mornings where there are only five walk-ins so far. In the afternoons, you need to book a table in advance/The restaurant takes walk-ins in the mornings but for the afternoons, you need to book a table in advance. It was Tommy and Christina's birthdays. Christina looked absolutely fabulous whose dress was decorated with ribbons and lace. She knew it the minute (= as soon as) she saw it that she had to buy this dress. Her birthday cake was decorated to look like a car. A (cold/icy) draught (of air) was/I was in/sitting in/felt/was shivering in a (cold/icy) draught which was coming/blowing in under the door/blowing in from the open window/open door/There was a (cold/icy) draught in here coming/blowing in... She and her family have moved into a new home lately where she's furnished her study room with a desk, a swivel chair, shelves and a sofa/settee. Their living room is tastefully decorated with furniture/Their living room is decorated with tasteful furniture, paintings and antiques. She's bought a laptop with all the bells and whistles that can download large files in the blink of an eye/in a blink which also came with a blu-ray DVD drive as a handy add-on. She bought the whole shebang for only eight hundred dollars. She and her fiancé who are childhood sweethearts are planning on traveling to Japan on holiday. Two years ago, they were already so in love with each other that marriage was at hand/on the horizon. Before she went out with him, she was so happy and excited about hanging out with this guy named Paul because she fancied him until her classmate burst her bubble and told her that he had a girlfriend. I'm sorry to/I hate to burst your bubble but he has a girlfriend. Another friend of hers said as she wants to go out with him, she's so excited about meeting him I can't (bear to) burst her bubble. When she finally got to meet him for the first time, he said it was a pleasure meeting you. I hope our paths cross again. However, when they met for the second time, she found him stingy and selfish so she told her friends that if their paths crossed again, she would ignore him. After going out with her fiancé for two months, they were already talking about marriage. Isn't it jumping the gun to be discussing tying the knot already? Actually no. They're head over heels (in love) with each other. He always says she's the apple of his eye. A healthy relationship depends on love and trust standing side by side, supporting each other, growing together. She considers such matters (to be)/regards such matters as a two-way street. They're going to book/buy a basic/standard/premium/bronze/silver/gold/platinum holiday package offered by a travel agency which comes with scuba-diving and a trip to Mount Fuji/trip for stargazing as add-ons. They met at uni and they bonded/hit it off/felt a connection/clicked with/got on like a house on fire right from the start. She met him at uni/From the moment they met/From the first day/The minute (= as soon as) they met, they hit it off immediately and lived together for two years before getting engaged. I was worried that they wouldn't like each other but in fact (= actually) they're getting on like a house on fire. She founded a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the environment for the common good. She used to be an office worker. She was told maybe she would be given/receive a promotion but the manager raked/dragged her over the coals/reprimanded/reproved her multiple times for coming in late. If she had played her cards right and been punctual/arrived at the office punctually, she would've probably received a promotion.

She quit the job after she was engaged. She's an avid (= extremely interested and eager about something, often a hobby)/keen (= showing eagerness or enthusiasm) chess player who will take anyone on in a game of chess anytime. She's also an avid/keen romance fiction/romantic fiction reader/(cross country) runner and skier/keep-fit/(cross country) running and skiing/classical music enthusiast who enjoys collecting CDs and DVDs of concerts by great pianists. She has a massive/extensive/vast/valuable collection/She's an avid/keen collector of Vladmir Horowitz's CDs. Her fiance is an aviation/model-aircraft enthusiast who always talks about the design of different types of airliners/Japanese vase/antiques enthusiast/collector who has a vast antiques collection/collection of Japanese vases/antiques. Later at home, she sat at the table and was supposed to be writing her essay but she was in a brown study, being absorbed in her thoughts/being very involved in her own thoughts and not paying attention to anything else/I could see she was in a brown study, being oblivious to her surroundings. Her mum was using the vacuum cleaner/vacuum/hoover to suck up/remove dust and dirt/crumbs (from the carpet)/leaves and plant debris/garden debris/insect debris/was hoovering the carpet/floor/staors/hoovering up the dust and dirt/crumbs/debris/the mess. She was cleaning the carpet/floor/stairs with a vacuum cleaner/hoover to suck up/remove... She hoovers fortnightly (= happening every two weeks)/on a fornightly basis/on alternate days (= every other day/every second day). The vacuum cleaner had drowned out the sound of the television/The sound of the television had been drowned out by the vacuum cleaner/The vacuum cleaner had drowned us out/We had been drowned out by the vacuum cleaner but lost in a brown study, she was even oblivious to the noise. After her mum finished hoovering and turned off the TV, the house went all quiet/was as quiet as a mouse when a sharp knock at the door/a hand on her shoulder/her phone/a persistent ringing of her phone brought her out of her/roused her from her brown study/a pleasant daydream and she got back to her essay. A moment later, she eventually roused herself from her brown study/a pleasant daydream and got back to her essay. She started the essay slowly but everything was/things were/it was all (finally) (starting to come) coming together now. Her fiance has helped her a great deal with her essay so she said thank you from the bottom of my heart (for all you have done)/I can't thank you enough/Thanks for having my back. I couldn't have done it without you/It means the world to me. Her mum went to the bank to deposit/put money in/into her account. She smoothed out the crinkled one hundred-dollar notes/crinkles so that the machine took her notes. Then she bought a bag of dog food and got home where she plopped it down on the table and dusted it off/brushed it off/brushed the dust off/from the bag and dusted/brushed off her hands/brushed herself off. My friend is full-figured who has a fairly large, heavy body with rounded parts, including large breasts and hips. I think she looks utterly/absolutely captivating/exquisitely/delightfully charming/enchanting, especially when her mouth/face crinkles/creases into a smile. She always smiles, her eyes crinkling, especially when she's talking. She has characteristic crinkles around her eyes when she smiles which might be crow's feet but she looks pretty easy on the eyes with them. There was one time/Once while she and her fiance were having a bath/shower together, she slipped in the bath/shower but luckily, he was able to grab/get/take/catch hold of her in the nick of time, preventing her (from) falling and saving her from serious injury/an accident.

Her brother had been lethargic, feeling little energy and being unwilling and unable to do anything but he had got to write an essay too so he needed to get his act together and get it done for which the submission deadline was two weeks later. However, he seemed unable to rouse himself to do anything. Christina had tried to rouse him to action/to take action but of little/no avail (= of little or no use)/to little/no avail (= with little or no success). All his classmates at uni were working extremely hard to meet/working to the deadline for submission of assignments. Finally, they managed to rouse him from his lethargy by booking a (fortnight's) family holiday in Japan for a fortnight (= a period of two weeks)/by booking a family trip to Japan where they're going to spend a fortnight exploring a few cities/exploring/looking at/visiting all the sights/attractions, soaking up the sights and sounds (= discovering something that involves seeing and hearing)/and discovering the sights and sounds of a different culture. While drinking a glass of milk, it slipped out of/from my grasp and spilt/and I spilt milk/it (all) down/on/over my t-shirt and all over the floor/While pouring water into my cup, my cup overflowed all over the floor/water overflowed from the cup onto the floor, causing water to splash (= if a liquid splashes, it hits or falls on something and makes a noise) onto/(all) over the floor so I wiped up milk/the splashes of water
/wiped down the floor/soaked it up/soaked up the splashes of water with a dishcloth/cloth myself instead of having them do it. As it was really coming out there, rain was splashing against/on/over the windows. The rubbish bin was overflowing with rubbish so her helper put the rubbish out. She put on the news where/which/on which it said/reported due to heavy rain, the ocean was splashing against/on/over (= on and over mean over the pier) the pier. A wasp stung him/He got stung by a wasp before. Some types of bees don't sting. Honey bees actually die after they sting you but they're so protective towards/of their hive they'll take one for the team without hesitation. We originally were going to go to a concert because her father managed to get free tickets but we realized we only had four tickets, meaning that we were two short in which case I said it's OK. She and I will take one for the team. We are beat anyway. The next day, we took a boat trip/hired a boat and sailed it along/down the coast/around nearby small islands/went on a cruise/cruised around the ocean. As the ship/boat picked up speed, the coastline/shoreline receded into the distance until it finally became invisible/The next day, we went to the beach. Due to large/huge waves, we unwound/wound down at a nearby cafe, listening to the waves breaking/crashing against the shore. The waves swept away people's bags/people's bags out to the sea/into the sea. After the waves subsided, we walked down to the beach. The waters receded/moved further away and left us high and dry. Then we made/took a detour around the fields to avoid the steep cliff path. It was also worth taking a detour to visit the village. Everyone finds her fiancé's brother hostile and touchy/chippy, being easily annoyed or offended so we have to be careful what we say to him/walk/tread on eggshells around him as he's rather touchy, especially about the fact that his wife was married before/about his age. For some people, it's a touchy subject/issue/point, needing to be dealt with carefully/warily/cautiously so we'd better avoid it. He was sacked but he's come up/out smelling of roses (= to be in a better or stronger situation than before, after experiencing a difficult situation). He's been taken on/snapped up as an adminstrator by a rival company and the financial package is even healthier. He has to answer tons of emails each day and ensure no one slips/falls through the net.

Apparently, he's been using dating apps where he tells the women that he owns a mansion/manor house in Japan and they've fallen for it. I recall visiting him with them where he/his/the whole house smelt/smelt foul/stank/smelt of/stank of alcohol/beer and cigarettes, stinking to high heaven/I could smell alcohol and cigarettes on his breath which made him smell to high heaven. He/His clothes smelt strongly/faintly of alcohol/tobacco. Cigarettes make your clothes smell awful. Smoking gives you foul-smelling breath as well as having a detrimental impact on your health/Sunbathing regularly prematurely wrinkles and ages the skin/causes wrinkles and premature ageing of the skin. You smoke/sunbathe regularly frequently to the detriment of their health/skin. You can't smoke/sunbathe regularly without detriment to your health/skin. Tobacco/sunbathing regularly is a detriment to your health/skin. Tobacco/Sunbathing regularly detrimentally affects your health/skin. She's set her Facebook account so that only/configured her account to allow only friends to see her photos/set her posts/post visibility to private. The internet is filled with harebrained get-rich-quick schemes that are silly/foolish and impractical. They usually advertize on social media with a title like hot to make money easy, or how to turn three thousand dollars into one billion dollars. She had received a few fake texts asking for her bank account details over the past several weeks but she didn't fall for it. Nowadays, there are loads of swindlers online as well as malicious Trojan horses (Trojan Horse software/malware/viruses) that could easily take over your phone. Once you link on the link in the text messages or emails, it's usually a set of instructions secretly put onto an app or a programme that can destroy information, taking over your phone. It could be a programme that sends a large number of annoying messages and emails to your phone in an uncontrolled way. It could be a virus that makes copies of itself and sends the link to all your contacts on your phone and moves to the other phones if they click on the link. She hits the gym and only takes whey protein. There are many rubbish supplements that claim they will make you as jacked as the professional bodybuilders or the extremely lean female bodybuilders with only three percent body fat who're endorsing their products. She sees it a lot and isn't falling for that. She does yoga (every) once in a while/every so often. When you do yoga, it's crucial to go with the flow. The same is true for other aspects of your life, isn't it? You let yourself go with the flow and see how things turn out. She's also been so busy with phone calls that I needed to hold her phone to/against her ear/the side of her face as she did up her jacket. Her fiance in a shirt buttoned his cuffs and went upstairs to repair their bed because the screw/nuts and bolts holding the bed together had loosened so he needed to use a wrench (BrE spanner)/an adjustable spanner to tighten it/them. However are you doing? Everything is/It should be/I'm hunky-dory (= something is fine or satisfactory). The air is filled with the (lovely strong/lovely sweet) smell of flowers whose/The flowers give off (= produce a smell) a ... smell whose/I love the sweet-smelling flowers/the lovely strong/lovely sweet/faint smell of flowers whose/There's a lovely sweet smell of flowers in the air whose/I notice/smell/detect a faint smell of flowers whose scent is lovely/sweet/delicate (= pleasantly soft)/soothing, having a gently calming effect.

They frown on/upon the new system because under the new system, thieves, robbers, burglars or other criminals can slip/fall through the (police) net. (Slip through the net = to be unintentionally neglected or ignored. Anyone that steals can be called a thief. A robber often uses violence or the threat of violence to steal things from places such as banks or shops. A burglar breaks into houses or other buildings and steals things.) A vicious/strong/chill/biting north/northerly wind is blowing/has brought heavy snow and hail to the region, causing us to shiver in the (freezing/biting) cold. A hot/warm/light south/southerly wind has been blowing all week.

3.
One day on my trip, I went to my friends' birthday dinner in an upmarket/high end restaurant which has recently been extensively/completely refurbished. We found the new decor elegant and exquisitely charming/elegant, being (pretty) easy on the eyes. The place has been spruced up with decorations/antiques, hasn't it? It's a walk-in restaurant in the mornings where there are only five walk-ins so far. In the afternoons, you need to book a table in advance/The restaurant takes walk-ins in the mornings but for the afternoons, you need to book a table in advance. It was Tommy and Christina's birthdays. Christina looked absolutely fabulous whose dress was decorated with ribbons and lace. She knew it the minute (= as soon as) she saw it that she had to buy this dress. Her birthday cake was decorated to look like a car. A (cold/icy) draught (of air) was/I was in/sitting in/felt/was shivering in a (cold/icy) draught which was coming/blowing in under the door/blowing in from the open window/open door/There was a (cold/icy) draught in here coming/blowing in... She and her family have moved into a new home lately where she's furnished her study room with a desk, a swivel chair, shelves and a sofa/settee. Their living room is tastefully decorated with furniture/Their living room is decorated with tasteful furniture, paintings and antiques. She's bought a laptop with all the bells and whistles that can download large files in the blink of an eye/in a blink which also came with a blu-ray DVD drive as a handy add-on. She bought the whole shebang for only eight hundred dollars. She and her fiancé who are childhood sweethearts are planning on traveling to Japan on holiday. Two years ago, they were already so in love with each other that marriage was at hand/on the horizon. Before she went out with him, she was so happy and excited about hanging out with this guy named Paul because she fancied him until her classmate burst her bubble and told her that he had a girlfriend. I'm sorry to/I hate to burst your bubble but he has a girlfriend. Another friend of hers said as she wants to go out with him, she's so excited about meeting him I can't (bear to) burst her bubble. When she finally got to meet him for the first time, he said it was a pleasure meeting you. I hope our paths cross again. However, when they met for the second time, she found him stingy and selfish so she told her friends that if their paths crossed again, she would ignore him. After going out with her fiancé for two months, they were already talking about marriage. Isn't it jumping the gun to be discussing tying the knot already? Actually no. They're head over heels (in love) with each other. He always says she's the apple of his eye. A healthy relationship depends on love and trust standing side by side, supporting each other, growing together. She considers such matters (to be)/regards such matters as a two-way street. They're going to book/buy a basic/standard/premium/bronze/silver/gold/platinum holiday package offered by a travel agency which comes with scuba-diving and a trip to Mount Fuji/trip for stargazing as add-ons. They met at uni and they bonded/hit it off/felt a connection/clicked with/got on like a house on fire right from the start. She met him at uni/From the moment they met/From the first day/The minute (= as soon as) they met, they hit it off immediately and lived together for two years before getting engaged. I was worried that they wouldn't like each other but in fact (= actually) they're getting on like a house on fire. She founded a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the environment for the common good. She used to be an office worker. She was told maybe she would be given/receive a promotion but the manager raked/dragged her over the coals/reprimanded/reproved her multiple times for coming in late. If she had played her cards right and been punctual/arrived at the office punctually, she would've probably received a promotion.

She quit the job after she was engaged. She's an avid (= extremely interested and eager about something, often a hobby)/keen (= showing eagerness or enthusiasm) chess player who will take anyone on in a game of chess anytime. She's also an avid/keen romance fiction/romantic fiction reader/(cross country) runner and skier/keep-fit/(cross country) running and skiing/classical music enthusiast who enjoys collecting CDs and DVDs of concerts by great pianists. She has a massive/extensive/vast/valuable collection/She's an avid/keen collector of Vladmir Horowitz's CDs. Her fiance is an aviation/model-aircraft enthusiast who always talks about the design of different types of airliners/Japanese vase/antiques enthusiast/collector who has a vast antiques collection/collection of Japanese vases/antiques. Later at home, she sat at the table and was supposed to be writing her essay but she was in a brown study, being absorbed in her thoughts/being very involved in her own thoughts and not paying attention to anything else/I could see she was in a brown study, being oblivious to her surroundings. Her mum was using the vacuum cleaner/vacuum/hoover to suck up/remove dust and dirt/crumbs (from the carpet)/leaves and plant debris/garden debris/insect debris/was hoovering the carpet/floor/staors/hoovering up the dust and dirt/crumbs/debris/the mess. She was cleaning the carpet/floor/stairs with a vacuum cleaner/hoover to suck up/remove... She hoovers fortnightly (= happening every two weeks)/on a fornightly basis/on alternate days (= every other day/every second day). The vacuum cleaner had drowned out the sound of the television/The sound of the television had been drowned out by the vacuum cleaner/The vacuum cleaner had drowned us out/We had been drowned out by the vacuum cleaner but lost in a brown study, she was even oblivious to the noise. After her mum finished hoovering and turned off the TV, the house went all quiet/was as quiet as a mouse when a sharp knock at the door/a hand on her shoulder/her phone/a persistent ringing of her phone brought her out of her/roused her from her brown study/a pleasant daydream and she got back to her essay. A moment later, she eventually roused herself from her brown study/a pleasant daydream and got back to her essay. She later told me that she was tired so she daydreamed until she got her second wind (= energized again that makes it possible to continue in an activity). She started the essay slowly but everything was/things were/it was all (finally) (starting to come) coming together now. Her fiance has helped her a great deal with her essay so she said thank you from the bottom of my heart (for all you have done)/I can't thank you enough/Thanks for having my back. I couldn't have done it without you/It means the world to me. Her mum went to the bank to deposit/put money in/into her account. She smoothed out the crinkled one hundred-dollar notes/crinkles so that the machine took her notes. Then she bought a bag of dog food and got home where she plopped it down on the table and dusted it off/brushed it off/brushed the dust off/from the bag and dusted/brushed off her hands/brushed herself off. My friend is full-figured who has a fairly large, heavy body with rounded parts, including large breasts and hips. I think she looks utterly/absolutely captivating/exquisitely/delightfully charming/enchanting, especially when her mouth/face crinkles/creases into a smile. She always smiles, her eyes crinkling, especially when she's talking. She has characteristic crinkles around her eyes when she smiles which might be crow's feet but she looks pretty easy on the eyes with them. There was one time/Once while she and her fiance were having a bath/shower together, she slipped in the bath/shower but luckily, he was able to grab/get/take/catch hold of her in the nick of time, preventing her (from) falling and saving her from serious injury/an accident.

Her brother had been lethargic, feeling little energy and being unwilling and unable to do anything but he had got to write an essay too so he needed to get his act together and get it done for which the submission deadline was two weeks later. However, he seemed unable to rouse himself to do anything. Christina had tried to rouse him to action/to take action but of little/no avail (= of little or no use)/to little/no avail (= with little or no success). All his classmates at uni were working extremely hard to meet/working to the deadline for submission of assignments. Finally, they managed to rouse him from his lethargy by booking a (fortnight's) family holiday in Japan for a fortnight (= a period of two weeks)/by booking a family trip to Japan where they're going to spend a fortnight exploring a few cities/exploring/looking at/visiting all the sights/attractions, soaking up the sights and sounds (= discovering something that involves seeing and hearing)/and discovering the sights and sounds of a different culture. While drinking a glass of milk, it slipped out of/from my grasp and spilt/and I spilt milk/it (all) down/on/over my t-shirt and all over the floor/While pouring water into my cup, my cup overflowed all over the floor/water overflowed from the cup onto the floor, causing water to splash (= if a liquid splashes, it hits or falls on something and makes a noise) onto/(all) over the floor so I wiped up milk/the splashes of water
/wiped down the floor/soaked it up/soaked up the splashes of water with a dishcloth/cloth myself instead of having them do it. As it was really coming out there, rain was splashing against/on/over the windows. The rubbish bin was overflowing with rubbish so her helper put the rubbish out. She put on the news where/which/on which it said/reported due to heavy rain, the ocean was splashing against/on/over (= on and over mean over the pier) the pier. A wasp stung him/He got stung by a wasp before. Some types of bees don't sting. Honey bees actually die after they sting you but they're so protective towards/of their hive they'll take one for the team without hesitation. We originally were going to go to a concert because her father managed to get free tickets but we realized we only had four tickets, meaning that we were two short in which case I said it's OK. She and I will take one for the team. We are beat anyway. The next day, we took a boat trip/hired a boat and sailed it along/down the coast/around nearby small islands/went on a cruise/cruised around the ocean. As the ship/boat picked up speed, the coastline/shoreline receded into the distance until it finally became invisible/The next day, we went to the beach. Due to large/huge waves, we unwound/wound down at a nearby cafe, listening to the waves breaking/crashing against the shore. The waves swept away people's bags/people's bags out to the sea/into the sea. After the waves subsided, we walked down to the beach. The waters receded/moved further away and left us high and dry. Then we made/took a detour around the fields to avoid the steep cliff path. It was also worth taking a detour to visit the village. Everyone finds her fiancé's brother hostile and touchy/chippy, being easily annoyed or offended so we have to be careful what we say to him/walk/tread on eggshells around him as he's rather touchy, especially about the fact that his wife was married before/about his age. For some people, it's a touchy subject/issue/point, needing to be dealt with carefully/warily/cautiously so we'd better avoid it. He was sacked but he's come up/out smelling of roses (= to be in a better or stronger situation than before, after experiencing a difficult situation). He's been taken on/snapped up as an adminstrator by a rival company and the financial package is even healthier. He has to answer tons of emails each day and ensure no one slips/falls through the net.

Apparently, he's been using dating apps where he tells the women that he owns a mansion/manor house in Japan and they've fallen for it. I recall visiting him with them where he/his/the whole house smelt/smelt foul/stank/smelt of/stank of alcohol/beer and cigarettes, stinking to high heaven/I could smell alcohol and cigarettes on his breath which made him smell to high heaven. He/His clothes smelt strongly/faintly of alcohol/tobacco. Cigarettes make your clothes smell awful. Smoking gives you foul-smelling breath as well as having a detrimental impact on your health/Sunbathing regularly prematurely wrinkles and ages the skin/causes wrinkles and premature ageing of the skin. You smoke/sunbathe regularly frequently to the detriment of their health/skin. You can't smoke/sunbathe regularly without detriment to your health/skin. Tobacco/sunbathing regularly is a detriment to your health/skin. Tobacco/Sunbathing regularly detrimentally affects your health/skin. She's set her Facebook account so that only/configured her account to allow only friends to see her photos/set her posts/post visibility to private. The internet is filled with harebrained get-rich-quick schemes that are silly/foolish and impractical. They usually advertize on social media with a title like hot to make money easy, or how to turn three thousand dollars into one billion dollars. She had received a few fake texts asking for her bank account details over the past several weeks but she didn't fall for it. Nowadays, there are loads of swindlers online as well as malicious Trojan horses (Trojan Horse software/malware/viruses) that could easily take over your phone. Once you link on the link in the text messages or emails, it's usually a set of instructions secretly put onto an app or a programme that can destroy information, taking over your phone. It could be a programme that sends a large number of annoying messages and emails to your phone in an uncontrolled way. It could be a virus that makes copies of itself and sends the link to all your contacts on your phone and moves to the other phones if they click on the link. She hits the gym and only takes whey protein. There are many rubbish supplements that claim they will make you as jacked as the professional bodybuilders or the extremely lean female bodybuilders with only three percent body fat who're endorsing their products. She sees it a lot and isn't falling for that. She does yoga (every) once in a while/every so often. When you do yoga, it's crucial to go with the flow. The same is true for other aspects of your life, isn't it? You let yourself go with the flow and see how things turn out. She's also been so busy with phone calls that I needed to hold her phone to/against her ear/the side of her face as she did up her jacket. Her fiance in a shirt buttoned his cuffs and went upstairs to repair their bed because the screw/nuts and bolts holding the bed together had loosened so he needed to use a wrench (BrE spanner)/an adjustable spanner to tighten it/them. However are you doing? Everything is/It should be/I'm hunky-dory (= something is fine or satisfactory). The air is filled with the (lovely strong/lovely sweet) smell of flowers whose/The flowers give off (= produce a smell) a ... smell whose/I love the sweet-smelling flowers/the lovely strong/lovely sweet/faint smell of flowers whose/There's a lovely sweet smell of flowers in the air whose/I notice/smell/detect a faint smell of flowers whose scent is lovely/sweet/delicate (= pleasantly soft)/soothing, having a gently calming effect.

They frown on/upon the new system because under the new system, thieves, robbers, burglars or other criminals can slip/fall through the (police) net. (Slip through the net = to be unintentionally neglected or ignored. Anyone that steals can be called a thief. A robber often uses violence or the threat of violence to steal things from places such as banks or shops. A burglar breaks into houses or other buildings and steals things.) A vicious/strong/chill/biting north/northerly wind is blowing/has brought heavy snow and hail to the region, causing us to shiver in the (freezing/biting) cold. A hot/warm/light south/southerly wind has been blowing all week.

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One day on my trip, I went to my friends' birthday dinner in an upmarket/high end restaurant which has recently been extensively/completely refurbished. We found the new decor elegant and exquisitely charming/elegant, being (pretty) easy on the eyes. The place has been spruced up with decorations/antiques, hasn't it? It's a walk-in restaurant in the mornings where there are only five walk-ins so far. In the afternoons, you need to book a table in advance/The restaurant takes walk-ins in the mornings but for the afternoons, you need to book a table in advance. It was Tommy and Christina's birthdays. Christina looked absolutely fabulous whose dress was decorated with ribbons and lace. She knew it the minute (= as soon as) she saw it that she had to buy this dress. Her birthday cake was decorated to look like a car. A (cold/icy) draught (of air) was/I was in/sitting in/felt/was shivering in a (cold/icy) draught which was coming/blowing in under the door/blowing in from the open window/open door/There was a (cold/icy) draught in here coming/blowing in... She and her family have moved into a new home lately where she's furnished her study room with a desk, a swivel chair, shelves and a sofa/settee. Their living room is tastefully decorated with furniture/Their living room is decorated with tasteful furniture, paintings and antiques. She's bought a laptop with all the bells and whistles that can download large files in the blink of an eye/in a blink which also came with a blu-ray DVD drive as a handy add-on. She bought the whole shebang for only eight hundred dollars. She and her fiancé who are childhood sweethearts are planning on traveling to Japan on holiday. Two years ago, they were already so in love with each other that marriage was at hand/on the horizon. Before she went out with him, she was so happy and excited about hanging out with this guy named Paul because she fancied him until her classmate burst her bubble and told her that he had a girlfriend. I'm sorry to/I hate to burst your bubble but he has a girlfriend. Another friend of hers said as she wants to go out with him, she's so excited about meeting him I can't (bear to) burst her bubble. When she finally got to meet him for the first time, he said it was a pleasure meeting you. I hope our paths cross again. However, when they met for the second time, she found him stingy and selfish so she told her friends that if their paths crossed again, she would ignore him. After going out with her fiancé for two months, they were already talking about marriage. Isn't it jumping the gun to be discussing tying the knot already? Actually no. They're head over heels (in love) with each other. He always says she's the apple of his eye. A healthy relationship depends on love and trust standing side by side, supporting each other, growing together. She considers such matters (to be)/regards such matters as a two-way street. They're going to book/buy a basic/standard/premium/bronze/silver/gold/platinum holiday package offered by a travel agency which comes with scuba-diving and a trip to Mount Fuji/trip for stargazing as add-ons. They met at uni and they bonded/hit it off/felt a connection/clicked with/got on like a house on fire right from the start. She met him at uni/From the moment they met/From the first day/The minute (= as soon as) they met, they hit it off immediately and lived together for two years before getting engaged. I was worried that they wouldn't like each other but in fact/as a matter of fact (= actually) they're getting on like a house on fire. She founded a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the environment for the common good. She used to be an office worker who once got a pay rise. Getting a pay rise/pay increase/higher salary was good but the extra days off were the icing on the cake (= something that makes a good situation even better).

She was told maybe she would be given/receive a promotion but the manager raked/dragged her over the coals/reprimanded/reproved her multiple times for coming in late. If she had played her cards right and been punctual/arrived at the office punctually, she would've probably received a promotion. She quit the job after she was engaged. She's an avid (= extremely interested and eager about something, often a hobby)/keen (= showing eagerness or enthusiasm) chess player who will take anyone on in a game of chess anytime. She's also an avid/keen romance fiction/romantic fiction reader/(cross country) runner and skier/keep-fit/(cross country) running and skiing/classical music enthusiast who enjoys collecting CDs and DVDs of concerts by great pianists. She has a massive/extensive/vast/valuable collection/She's an avid/keen collector of Vladmir Horowitz's CDs. Her fiance is an aviation/model-aircraft enthusiast who always talks about the design of different types of airliners/Japanese vase/antiques enthusiast/collector who has a vast antiques collection/collection of Japanese vases/antiques. Later at home, she sat at the table and was supposed to be writing her essay but she was in a brown study, being absorbed in her thoughts/being very involved in her own thoughts and not paying attention to anything else/I could see she was in a brown study, being oblivious to her surroundings. Her mum was using the vacuum cleaner/vacuum/hoover to suck up/remove dust and dirt/crumbs (from the carpet)/leaves and plant debris/garden debris/insect debris/was hoovering the carpet/floor/staors/hoovering up the dust and dirt/crumbs/debris/the mess. She was cleaning the carpet/floor/stairs with a vacuum cleaner/hoover to suck up/remove... She hoovers fortnightly (= happening every two weeks)/on a fornightly basis/on alternate days (= every other day/every second day). The vacuum cleaner had drowned out the sound of the television/The sound of the television had been drowned out by the vacuum cleaner/The vacuum cleaner had drowned us out/We had been drowned out by the vacuum cleaner but lost in a brown study, she was even oblivious to the noise. After her mum finished hoovering and turned off the TV, the house went all quiet/was as quiet as a mouse when a sharp knock at the door/a hand on her shoulder/her phone/a persistent ringing of her phone brought her out of her/roused her from her brown study/a pleasant daydream and she got back to her essay. A moment later, she eventually roused herself from her brown study/a pleasant daydream and got back to her essay. She later told me that she was tired so she daydreamed until she got her second wind (= energized again that makes it possible to continue in an activity). She started the essay slowly but everything was/things were/it was all (finally) (starting to come) coming together now. Her fiance has helped her a great deal with her essay so she said thank you from the bottom of my heart (for all you have done)/I can't thank you enough/Thanks for having my back. I couldn't have done it without you/It means the world to me. Her mum went to the bank to deposit/put money in/into her account. She smoothed out the crinkled one hundred-dollar notes/crinkles so that the machine took her notes. Then she bought a bag of dog food and got home where she plopped it down on the table and dusted it off/brushed it off/brushed the dust off/from the bag and dusted/brushed off her hands/brushed herself off. My friend is full-figured who has a fairly large, heavy body with rounded parts, including large breasts and hips. I think she looks utterly/absolutely captivating/exquisitely/delightfully charming/enchanting, especially when her mouth/face crinkles/creases into a smile. She always smiles, her eyes crinkling, especially when she's talking. She has characteristic crinkles around her eyes when she smiles which might be crow's feet but she looks pretty easy on the eyes with them.

There was one time/Once while she and her fiance were having a bath/shower together, she slipped in the bath/shower but luckily, he was able to grab/get/take/catch hold of her in the nick of time, preventing her (from) falling and saving her from serious injury/an accident. Her brother had been lethargic, feeling little energy and being unwilling and unable to do anything but he had got to write an essay too so he needed to get his act together and get it done for which the submission deadline was two weeks later. However, he seemed unable to rouse himself to do anything. Christina had tried to rouse him to action/to take action but of little/no avail (= of little or no use)/to little/no avail (= with little or no success). All his classmates at uni were working extremely hard to meet/working to the deadline for submission of assignments. Finally, they managed to rouse him from his lethargy by booking a (fortnight's) family holiday in Japan for a fortnight (= a period of two weeks)/by booking a family trip to Japan where they're going to spend a fortnight exploring a few cities/exploring/looking at/visiting all the sights/attractions, soaking up the sights and sounds (= discovering something that involves seeing and hearing)/and discovering the sights and sounds of a different culture. While drinking a glass of milk, it slipped out of/from my grasp and spilt/and I spilt milk/it (all) down/on/over my t-shirt and all over the floor/While pouring water into my cup, my cup overflowed all over the floor/water overflowed from the cup onto the floor, causing water to splash (= if a liquid splashes, it hits or falls on something and makes a noise) onto/(all) over the floor so I wiped up milk/the splashes of water /wiped down the floor/soaked it up/soaked up the splashes of water with a dishcloth/cloth myself instead of having them do it. As it was really coming out there, rain was splashing against/on/over the windows. The rubbish bin was overflowing with rubbish so her helper put the rubbish out. She put on the news where/which/on which it said/reported due to heavy rain, the ocean was splashing against/on/over (= on and over mean over the pier) the pier. A wasp stung him/He got stung by a wasp before. Some types of bees don't sting. Honey bees actually die after they sting you but they're so protective towards/of their hive they'll take one for the team without hesitation. We originally were going to go to a concert because her father managed to get free tickets but we realized we only had four tickets, meaning that we were two short in which case I said it's OK. She and I will take one for the team. We are beat anyway. The next day, we took a boat trip/hired a boat and sailed it along/down the coast/around nearby small islands/went on a cruise/cruised around the ocean. As the ship/boat picked up speed, the coastline/shoreline receded into the distance until it finally became invisible/The next day, we went to the beach. Due to large/huge waves, we unwound/wound down at a nearby cafe, listening to the waves breaking/crashing against the shore. The waves swept away people's bags/people's bags out to the sea/into the sea. After the waves subsided, we walked down to the beach. The waters receded/moved further away and left us high and dry. Then we made/took a detour around the fields to avoid the steep cliff path. It was also worth taking a detour to visit the village. Everyone finds her fiancé's brother hostile and touchy/chippy, being easily annoyed or offended so we have to be careful what we say to him/walk/tread on eggshells around him as he's rather touchy, especially about the fact that his wife was married before/about his age. For some people, it's a touchy subject/issue/point, needing to be dealt with carefully/warily/cautiously so we'd better avoid it. He was sacked but he's come up/out smelling of roses (= to be in a better or stronger situation than before, after experiencing a difficult situation).

He's been taken on/snapped up as an adminstrator by a rival company and the financial package is even healthier. He has to answer tons of emails each day and ensure no one slips/falls through the net. Apparently, he's been using dating apps where he tells the women that he owns a mansion/manor house in Japan and they've fallen for it. I recall visiting him with them where he/his/the whole house smelt/smelt foul/stank/smelt of/stank of alcohol/beer and cigarettes, stinking to high heaven/I could smell alcohol and cigarettes on his breath which made him smell to high heaven. He/His clothes smelt strongly/faintly of alcohol/tobacco. Cigarettes make your clothes smell awful. Smoking gives you foul-smelling breath as well as having a detrimental impact on your health/Sunbathing regularly prematurely wrinkles and ages the skin/causes wrinkles and premature ageing of the skin. You smoke/sunbathe regularly frequently to the detriment of their health/skin. You can't smoke/sunbathe regularly without detriment to your health/skin. Tobacco/sunbathing regularly is a detriment to your health/skin. Tobacco/Sunbathing regularly detrimentally affects your health/skin. She's set her Facebook account so that only/configured her account to allow only friends to see her photos/set her posts/post visibility to private. The internet is filled with harebrained get-rich-quick schemes that are silly/foolish and impractical. They usually advertize on social media with a title like hot to make money easy, or how to turn three thousand dollars into one billion dollars. She had received a few fake texts asking for her bank account details over the past several weeks but she didn't fall for it. Nowadays, there are loads of swindlers online as well as malicious Trojan horses (Trojan Horse software/malware/viruses) that could easily take over your phone. Once you link on the link in the text messages or emails, it's usually a set of instructions secretly put onto an app or a programme that can destroy information, taking over your phone. It could be a programme that sends a large number of annoying messages and emails to your phone in an uncontrolled way. It could be a virus that makes copies of itself and sends the link to all your contacts on your phone and moves to the other phones if they click on the link. She hits the gym and only takes whey protein. There are many rubbish supplements that claim they will make you as jacked as the professional bodybuilders or the extremely lean female bodybuilders with only three percent body fat who're endorsing their products. She sees it a lot and isn't falling for that. She does yoga (every) once in a while/every so often. When you do yoga, it's crucial to go with the flow. The same is true for other aspects of your life, isn't it? You let yourself go with the flow and see how things turn out. She's also been so busy with phone calls that I needed to hold her phone to/against her ear/the side of her face as she did up her jacket. Her fiance in a shirt buttoned his cuffs and went upstairs to repair their bed because the screw/nuts and bolts holding the bed together had loosened so he needed to use a wrench (BrE spanner)/an adjustable spanner to tighten it/them. However are you doing? Everything is/It should be/I'm hunky-dory (= something is fine or satisfactory). The air is filled with the (lovely strong/lovely sweet) smell of flowers whose/The flowers give off (= produce a smell) a ... smell whose/I love the sweet-smelling flowers/the lovely strong/lovely sweet/faint smell of flowers whose/There's a lovely sweet smell of flowers in the air whose/I notice/smell/detect a faint smell of flowers whose scent is lovely/sweet/delicate (= pleasantly soft)/soothing, having a gently calming effect.