AU REVOIR

AU REVOIR
- Good-bye until we meet again.
- Used to express farewell.

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Usage:
- She ended it with: "Good bye is an unhappy word. I prefer au revoir."

Labyrinth

Labyrinth
- A complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one’s way.
- An intricate and confusing arrangement.

A Labyrinth
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Usage :
- Throughout this distance the river is a hopeless labyrinth of rocks, islands, reefs and rapids.
- Lana suspected the labyrinth of tunnels and chambers ran beneath the entire town.
- A labyrinth of conflicting laws and regulations.

Stampede

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Stampede
- A sudden panicked rush of a number of horses, cattle, or other animals.
- Wild rush in a sudden mass panic.

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Usage:
- In addition to the four men hurt in the shooting, two women were hurt in the stampede for the exits that followed the attack.
- There will be a stampede of Indian companies going to the markets and trying to reduce leverage and to take advantage.

Amicus Curiae

Amicus Curiae
-Literally, friend of the court.
- An impartial adviser to a court of law in a particular case.

A court room gavel.
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Usage :
- Senior advocate  Subramanium may reconsider his continuation as amicus curiae in the Padmanabhaswamy temple case.
- The Court then appointed former Solicitor General TR as amicus curiae for this case.

Sleep Like A Log

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Sleep like a log
- To sleep very soundly.
- To sleep heavily, long and without disturbance.

Origin:
This probably originated from the days of lumberjacks who used basic tools to bring down trees and then cut them into logs of different sizes. This required a lot of physical effort and the men slept soundly due to sheer exhaustion. As logs are large blocks of wood, they aren't easily movable. Possibly the lumberjacks would term their deep sleep as what the log does - no movement - and hence the term 'to sleep like a log'!

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Usage:
- With a full stomach and a warm blanket, I slept like a log.
- I slept like a log until morning.

White Collar Vs Blue Collar

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White Collar:
- A white-collar worker is a person who performs professional, managerial, or administrative work.

Blue Collar:
- Blue-collar work may involve skilled or unskilled manufacturing, mining, mechanical, maintenance, technical installation and many other types of physical work.

Professional, managerial, or administrative work is considered as White-Collar job
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Workers unchain girder from delivery truck
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Origin:
A blue collar worker refers to the fact that most manual laborers at the turn of the century wore blue shirts, which could hold a little dirt around the collar without standing out.

This working class stands in contrast to white collar workers, which historically have had the higher-paying, salaried positions to go with their clean and pressed white shirts.

Usage:
- Aussie senator calls for commission on white-collar crimes.
- Very few applicants for blue-collar jobs in SF.

Coterie

Coterie
- A small exclusive group of friends or people with common interests.
- An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

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Usage:
- His films are admired by a small coterie of critics.
- He still drives himself to work in the morning, surrounded by a coterie of security guards.

Pet Peeve

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Pet Peeve
- A frequent subject of complaint.
- An irritating experience caused by others in which you cannot control.

This is my pet peeve, too many drivers on the road are distracted with cell phones.
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Usage:
- Grammatical mistakes are his pet peeve.
- One of my biggest pet peeves is people driving too slowly on the highway.

USURP

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USURP
- To seize and held by force, without legal authority.
- To commit forcible or illegal seizure of an office, power, etc.

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Usage:
- Congress accuses government of usurping independence of judiciary.
- Some people have accused city council members of trying to usurp the mayor's power.
- The magazine usurped copyrighted material.

Devour

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Devour
- Eat hungrily or quickly.
- To destroy, consume, or waste.

Usage:
- He devoured half of his burger in one bite.
- The hungry flames devoured the old house.

Dexterity

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Dexterity

- Skill in performing tasks, especially with the hands.

- Readiness and grace in physical activity

Some examples of the extreme dexterity of mountain goats, who scale steep rock sides to lick salty limestone.
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Usage :

- The amazing dexterity of the acrobat.

- His record testifies to a certain dexterity in politics.