If you say something tongue in cheek, you intend it to be understood as a joke, although you might appear to be serious.
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Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke Logan) used the phrase “Tongue in cheek” while talking to Jack Wagner(Dominick Payne Marone) in the popular TV show [...]
If a person calls the shots, it means he or she makes all the important decisions.
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Carlos Bernard(Tony Almeida) used the phrase “call the shots” while talking to Paul Schulze(Ryan Chappelle) in the third season, episode 10 of the popular TV show “24” as shown below:
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Jack Wagner(Dominick Payne Marone) used the [...]
The phrasal verb “walk out on somebody” means to suddenly leave your husband, wife, or partner and end your relationship with them.
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Katherine Kelly Lang(Brooke Logan) used the phrasal verb ”walk out on” while talking to Jack Wagner(Dominick Payne Marone) in the popular TV show “The Bold [...]
Naysayer is someone who denies, refuses, opposes, or is skeptical about something.
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Lesley-Anne Down (Jacqueline ‘Jackie’ Payne Marone ) used the word “naysayer” while talking to Jack Wagner (Dominick Payne Marone) in the popular TV show “The Bold and the Beautiful” as shown below:
The phrase “go all out” means to use all your effort and energy to achieve something.
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Lesley-Anne Down (Jacqueline ‘Jackie’ Payne Marone ) used the phrase “go all out” while talking to Jack Wagner (Dominick Payne Marone) in the popular TV show “The Bold and the Beautiful” as [...]
The phrasal verb “clam up” means to become silent or to refuse to speak about something, usually because you are shy or afraid.
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Lesley-Anne Down (Jacqueline ‘Jackie’ Payne Marone ) used the phrasal verb “clam up” while talking to Jack Wagner (Dominick Payne Marone) in the popular TV [...]
The following are five different ways to refer to the “whole period of time”.
1)All my life
2)All the time
3)All these years
4)All the while
5)All along
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To give you a taste of how the above 5 phrases - All my life, All the time, All the while, All these years and all along [...]
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The phrase “Do sb’s dirty work” means to do something unpleasant or difficult for someone else because they do not want to do it themselves.
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Jack Wagner(Dominick Payne Marone) used the phrase “Do sb’s dirty work” while talking to Katherine Kelly Lang(Brooke Logan) in the popular TV [...]
The phrase “catch sb off guard” means to surprise someone by doing something which they are not expecting and are not ready for.
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Kim Raver (Audrey Raines) used the phrase “catch somebody off guard” while talking to Kiefer Sutherland (Jack Bauer) in the season 4, episode 1 of the popular TV show [...]
If your plans backfire they produce the opposite result from the one you intended.
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Jack Wagner(Dominick Payne Marone) used the word “Backfire” while talking to Patrick Duffy(Stephen Logan) in the popular TV show “Bold and the Beautiful” as shown below:
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Kiefer Sutherland(Jack Bauer) used the word “Backfire” while talking to [...]
