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 [...]
To have time on your hands means you have nothing to do.
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Sex and the City
Tatum O’Neal (Kyra) used the phrase “time on your hands” while talking to Sarah Jessica Parker (Carrie Bradshaw) in Season 6, Episode 9(A Woman’s Right to Shoes) of Sex and the City as shown below:
If a person calls the shots, it means he or she makes all the important decisions.
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24
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:
Bold and the Beautiful
Jack Wagner(Dominick Payne Marone) used the [...]
If an argument or discussion clears the air, it causes bad feelings between people to disappear.
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Sex and the City
Sarah Jessica Parker(Carrie Bradshaw) used the phrase “clear the air” while talking to Tatum O’Neal(Kyra) in Season 6, Episode 9(A Woman’s Right to Shoes) of Sex and the City as shown below:
The phrase “be along for the ride” means to join in an activity without playing an important part in it.
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Desperate Housewives
Doug Savant (Tom Scavo) used the phrase “be along for the ride” while talking to Felicity Huffman (Lynette Scavo) in the second season, episode 16(There Is No Other Way) of the [...]
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 [...]
Pull something off - to succeed in doing something difficult or unexpected
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Sex and the City
Carrie Bradshaw(Sarah Jessica Parker) used “pull off” in her conversation with Samantha Jones(Kim Cattrall), Miranda Hobbes(Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte York(Kristin Davis) in the first episode of first season of “Sex and the City”, as shown [...]
