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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Sex and the City
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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Sex and the City
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 [...]
The phrase “Lay/Put your cards on the table” means to tell someone honestly what you think or what you plan to do.
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The Bold and the Beautiful
Antonio Sabato Jr.(Dante Damiano) used the phrase “lay your cards on the table” while talking to Ashley Jones (Bridget Forrester) in the popular TV show [...]
If you have an alcoholic drink on the rocks, you have it with lumps of ice.
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Sex and the City
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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Sex and the City
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 [...]
The phrasal verb “go off something” means to stop taking something.
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Sex and the City
Cynthia Nixon(Miranda Hobbes) used the phrasal verb “go off” in Season 2, Episode 11(Evolution) of Sex and the City as shown below: