Noun + Compound Noun
- perm
- bureau
- night-vision goggles
- pay-channel language
- triple leakage protection
- a night out
- spittle
- inhibition
- grandkids
- family tradition
- sloppy joe
- Western
- stinker
- (lead) guitarist
- phone book
- ‘80s
- backup/ lead singer
- squat
- straight
- lightbulb
- complication
- downer
- back catalogue
- noodle
- album
- warlock
- seascape
- millennium
- soundtrack
- segue
- first-child syndrome
- potty-training
- swim-up bar
- a fool’s game
- a break-up song
perm: a chemical process that makes a person’s hair curly
spittle: the liquid in your mouth
inhibition: a feeling of shyness or embarrassment that stops you doing or saying what you really want has no inhibition lose her inhibition
stinker: someone or something that is very unpleasant or difficult
squat: anything, nothing I got squat. He doesn’t know squat about it.
noodle: the head or brain of a person
straight: in the card game poker, five cards which follow each other in order but are not of the same suit
complication: a medical problem or illness that happens while someone is already ill and makes treatment more difficult She lost her feet to complications from diabetes.
downer: a person or situation that stops you feeling happy
back catalogue: music that a performer has recorded in the past
soundtrack to (a film): the recorded music from a film
segue: a movement without interruption from one piece of music, part of story, subject, or situation to another
Verb + Phrasal Verb
- frame
- (sb/ sth) suck (at)
- drill sth into sb
- not care for sb/ sth
- torture
- kick off (the day)
- weep
- make out with sb
- get around to sth
- pay up
- act out (= to express your feelings about something through your behaviour or actions, especially when you have been feeling angry or nervous)
- potty-train
- put sth over on sb (= to persuade someone to believe something that is not true)
- track sb/ sth down
- fix
- immerse
- brew
- rekindle [SYN] reawaken
frame: to surround something with something else so that it looks attractive or can be seen clearly
drill sth into sb: to keep telling someone something until they know it very well
not care for sb/ sth: not like someone or something
if a meeting, event, or a football game kicks off, it starts. if you kick off a discussion, meeting, event etc, you start it
get around to sth: to do something that you have been intending to do for some time We finally got around to clearing out the garage.
pay up: to pay money that you owe, especially when you do not want to or you are late
fix: to prepare a meal or drinks fix dinner, fix you a plate
rekindle: to make someone have a particular feeling that they had in the past
Collocation (verb + noun)
- strike oil/ gold
- bring back memories / rekindle memories
- bleach teeth
- lightbulb goes out
- fire up some popcorn
- share
strike oil/ gold: to find a supply of gold, oil etc in the ground or under the sea
Collocation (adjective + noun)
- dying passion
Collocation (noun + proposition)
- dark sense of humor
Idiom
- raise the roof
- be a pill / act like a pill
raise the roof: to make a very loud noise when singing, celebrating etc
Adjective + Adverb
- sensational
- epic
- real quick
- practically
No, that’s where you’re wrong.
This makes it official.
You’re impossible to buy for.
I think we’d be able to tell.
It’ll make us a better parents.
Stop drilling, you’ve struck oil.
You know who’d be fun to call?
She has absolutely no inhibition.
The more, the merrier.
Is she still coming?
What are you apologizing for?
Getting in there
the last thing you want to do is …
You really don’t understand what just happened there do you?
How ‘80s is that!
I had a little practice at this.
She wasn’t throwing anything at me I hadn’t seen before from her mother.
