If someone or something turns up, they appear or are found, either after a long time or when you are not expecting them.
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Tatum O’Neal(Kyra) used the phrasal verb “turn up” while talking to Sarah Jessica Parker(Carrie Bradshaw) in Season 6, Episode 9(A Woman’s Right to Shoes) of Sex [...]
The phrasal verb “rip off sth” or “rip sth off” means to remove a piece of clothing very quickly and carelessly.
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Sarah Jessica Parker(Carrie Bradshaw) used the phrasal verb “rip off” while talking to Cynthia Nixon(Miranda Hobbes) in Season 4, Episode 15(change of a dress) of Sex and [...]
If you have an alcoholic drink on the rocks, you have it with lumps of ice.
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Sarah Jessica Parker (Carrie Bradshaw) used the phrase “on the rocks” while she was out with Chris Noth (Mr. Big) in the Season 2, Episode 10 (The Caste System) of a [...]
The phrase “have something up your sleeve” means to have secret plans or ideas.
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John Corbett(Aidan Shaw) used the phrase “have something up your sleeve” while talking to Sarah Jessica Parker(Carrie Bradshaw) in the Season 4, Episode 15(Change of a Dress) of a popular TV show “Sex [...]
Slippery slope refers to a bad situation or habit which, after it has started, is likely to get very much worse.
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Sex and the City
Sarah Jessica Parker(Carrie Bradshaw), when out with her friends Kim Cattrall(Samantha Jones), Kristin Davis(Charlotte York), Cynthia Nixon(Miranda Hobbes) had used the phrase “Slippery slope” in Season [...]