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This set of flashcards helps learn English at the secondary school level, focusing on collocations and idiomatic expressions. It covers vocabulary like "to model yourself on someone," "with the utmost," and "to reflect well/badly on someone," along with grammar and usage examples. The platform supports backward learning, allowing users to switch between the target and source languages. Ideal for students and travelers, it aids in building fluency and understanding common phrases, making it suitable for intermediate learners.

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English

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Secondary School

Created / Updated

23.01.2020 / 24.01.2020

to employ something in order to do something

to use it for that purpose

to engage with something

to focus on it

to exert influence on something

to use your influence to affect something

to exercise influence/ authority

to use your influence or authority in order to do something

to reckon with something

to take it into consideration

to bear on something

to relate to or affect it

to be made for each other

to go together perfectly

to be given to something/ doing something

to do it habitually, especially when such a habit is considered strange

to be cut out for/ to do something

to be well suited to it because of skills, personality...

to lend yourself to something

to be suitable for a particular use or purpose

an end in itself

it is an aim on its own and not because of its connection with anything else

no/small/little wonder

it is not at all surprising that...

to reward someone for something/ doing something

to give them something good in return for something they have done

the +noun + of a lifetime

a unique or exceptional thing

to turn into/ become (a) reality

to become real

to tire of something/ doing something

to stop being interested in or wanting to do it

to prompt someone to do something

to cause them to do it by giving them the idea that they should do it

to reflect well/ badly on someone

to give a good/ bad impression of them

with the utmost + uncountable noun

the greatest possible amount of something

to model yourself on someone

to try to copy them

to sweep someone off their feet

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they cause the other person to fall in love with them as soon as they first meet them

to pluck someone from a place

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to rescue someone when they are in a dangerous or unpleasant situation

to drag their feet

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to deliberately respond slowly to something because they do not want it to happen quickly, or at all

to hoist someone/ something

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to physically lift them to a higher position

without so much as

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without even

as/ so far as

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to the extent that,e.g. in expressions like: As/So far as I know.

so + adjecktive/adverb + as to do

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to such an extent that something results (Don‘t work so hard as to make yourself ill.)

as/ so long as

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only if

to proceed to do something

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to do it after completing another action

to follow one action with another

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to complete one action and then do another

to progress to a certain level or stage

to move to that level or stage after completing a previous one

to continue to do/ doing something

to do the same action for a period of time

to glare at someone

to look at them with an angry expression on your face

to wink at someone

zwinkern

to peep at something

to look at it quickly and secretly, especially through a small opening

to eye someone/something

to look at them because you are interested in, attracted to or suspicious of them

to deem someone/ something to be

to consider them to be that thing or judge them to be like this

to ponder (on) something

to think about it carefully and for a long time in order to reach a decision

to discriminate between

to distinguish between

to weigh (up) something

you think about the negative and positive aspects of it before reaching a decision

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to reflect well/ badly on someone

to give a good/ bad impression of them

with the utmost + uncountable noun

the greatest possible amount of something

to model yourself on someone

to try to copy them

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