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stop wasting your time talking about the matter that cannot be settled the way you would like it empezar lección
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someone tends to make plans that can never be fulfilled empezar lección
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something doesn’t sound true empezar lección
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achieved the required level of knowledge empezar lección
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All the students made the grade and were complimented on by their teachers
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experience hardship, especially financial empezar lección
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do something that is considered to be impossible empezar lección
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Trying to convince the management to change their policy is like squaring the circle
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to challenge someone's statement or threat because it is not believed empezar lección
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The amount you’ve been arguing about is not worth the squabble empezar lección
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break new ground in biotechnology
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conform to another's actions empezar lección
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make a great effort to think of or remember something empezar lección
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Jenny racked her brains but could not remember which magazine she had seen the advertisement in
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be in such a desperate situation as to resort to even the most unlikely means of salvation empezar lección
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make an extraordinarily strenuous effort to do something empezar lección
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to try to settle a disagreement or dispute with words intended to placate or pacify those involved empezar lección
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manage to put oil on the troubled waters
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have a private reason for doing or being involved in something empezar lección
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to try and make an idea or piece of work seem bad by finding all the things that are wrong or missing empezar lección
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pick holes in somebody’s reasoning
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make an indiscreet or embarrassing remark (informal british) empezar lección
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I realized I had dropped a brick by asking Mrs Hobson about her son’s name
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failed to obtain what one has been striving for empezar lección
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gain riches in a dishonest way empezar lección
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give up participation in an unprofitable activity empezar lección
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start doing something before the set time empezar lección
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to seem angry all the time because you think you have been treated unfairly or feel you are not as good as other people empezar lección
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prevent someone from carrying out a plan (British) empezar lección
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put a spoke in their wheel
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