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come down to / boil down to No matter what you want in life, your ability to attain or achieve that thing boils down to one thing and one thing only. Your thoughts.
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A high degree of independence entails considerable demands for transparency.
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You cannot live to please everyone else.
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to flee (fled - fled), to run away, to escape And rats are the first to flee a sinking ship.
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utrzymywać kontakt wzrokowy start learning
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to make eye contact / to maintain eye contact It's essential to make eye contact when you're speaking to someone.
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spotykać kogoś / nawiązywać kontakt start learning
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On average, I come into contact with about twenty people a day.
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on purpose / deliberately / intentionally
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On the whole, women gossip more than men.
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wtrącać się (niegrzecznie w trakcie rozmowy) start learning
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In general, men butt in more than women, which women find very annoying.
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If you overhear people having a row in public, you should intervene.
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If you overhear people having a row in public, you should intervene.
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pleść bzdury, owijać w bawełnę start learning
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witter on / beat around the bush Politicians generally witter on without ever answering the interviewer's questions.
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grumble / complain / moan Elderly people have reason to grumble about the youth of today.
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Adults spend more time chatting on the phone than teenagers.
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Couples who constantly bicker should split up.
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chat up / hit on / pick up / flirt with Women chat up men as often as men chat up women.
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Też miałbym dość, gdybym był tobą. start learning
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I'd be fed up if I was you, too.
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monitorować, sprawdzać, podejmować działania następcze start learning
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to discover more about sth or to take further action connected with it
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Becoming fluent in a language will take years, but learning to get by takes a lot less.
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traktuj innych tak jakbyś chciał żeby ciebie traktowali start learning
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
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Po jakimś czasie, korki zaczęły mi działać na nerwy. start learning
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After a while, the traffic got on my nerves.
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On Tuesday we drove up to New Hampshire.
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We sometimes miss out words in informal writing when it is clear who or what we are talking about.
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leżakowanie, poleżeć sobie start learning
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Have you had a lie-in today?
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something you say to show that you are going to say something more exactly - I don't think they liked my idea. At any rate, they weren't very enthusiastic about it.
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adrift - without a purpose - aimless If a person is adrift, they do not have a clear purpose in life or know what they want to do.
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contend / fight / struggle contend - compete in order to win something
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to deal successfully with a difficulty or problem
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A reciprocal action or arrangement involves two people or groups of people who behave in the same way or agree to help each other and give each other advantages.
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feeling angry because you have been forced to accept someone or something that you do not like
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maintain / sustain / uphold / secure uphold - to defend or keep a principle or law, or to say that a decision that has already been made, especially a legal one, is correct
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to take the place of something lost or damaged or to compensate for something bad with something good - No amount of money can make up for the death of a child.
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account for - to explain the reason for something
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allowing yourself to be controlled by other people or animals
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a feeling of sadness and being sorry for something you have done: He felt no remorse for the murders he had committed. After the argument, she was filled with remorse.
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to influence someone to behave or think in a particular way or to have a particular condition
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predispose sb to / towards sth to make someone more likely to behave in a particular way or to suffer from a particular illness or condition - Smoking predisposes you to lung cancer.
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cutthroat / ruthless / viscious not involving considering or worrying about any harm caused to others - the cutthroat world of journalism / The advertising world can be a very cutthroat business.
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said to encourage someone to continue to do something many times, so that they will learn to do it very well
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zrównoważyć, znaleźć złoty środek, znaleźć odpowiednią równowagę It's a question of striking the right balance between quality and productivity. start learning
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strike a balance / fina a golden mean If you strike a balance between two things, you accept parts of both things in order to satisfy some of the demands of both sides in an argument, rather than all the demands of just one side:
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outgoing / open / sociable
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przepraszam że informuję tak późno start learning
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sorry for the short notice / sorry for having to inform you this late
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I met her volunteering at the animal shelter.
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przypisywać sobie zasługi start learning
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That was her trying to take credit for my idea.
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w ciągu tygodnia / na przestrzeni tygodnia start learning
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over the course of the week
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the situation in which there is more than enough of something: There was an abundance of food at the wedding. We had wine in abundance
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a situation in which something is not easy to find or get, the scarcity of skilled workers
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nieznane / niezbadane terytorium start learning
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I wish I could tell you but... this is uncharted territory for both of us.
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Możemy rozpamiętywać przeszłość albo spojrzeć w przyszłość. start learning
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to dwell on sth - to think or talk about something a lot of the time We can dwell on the past or look forward to the future.
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downside / flaw / drawback / disadvantage
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our wives and family watched us with dismay
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nadawać na tych samych falach start learning
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to be on the same wavelength
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there's no scientific proof to back that claim
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dated / obsolete / old-fashioned or is it just a dated stereotype?
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be articulate in your speaking
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unnecessary rush / undue haste
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if you have any comments send me them in writing
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since birth I've been exposed to English - Implicit knowledge is the practical application of explicit knowledge.
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Knowledge that is easy to articulate, write down, and share
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Knowledge gained from personal experience that is more difficult to express.
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Because unlike you, I'm trustworthy.
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the number of copies of a book produced at one time - The first print run was limited to 5,000 copies, which w. ls an indication of how small a readership the author and the publishers were expecting.
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czytelnictwo / liczba czytelników start learning
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the group of people who regularly read a particular newspaper, magazine - The magazine has a readership of over 250,000.
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p until now, I've never really had any contact with the guy in the ticket office.
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across the street / across the road There was a chemist's across the road.
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On the way to a meeting, I remembered that I was running low on face cream.
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at the checkout / at the till / at the counter Having a good day? asked the girl at the till smiling blissfully.
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Perhaps the solution is to appoint people who are genuinely interested in people, not those who are trained to be insincere robots.
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There are several cafe bars in the immediate vicinity.
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myśl przewodnia, mowa otwierająca, specjalny wykład start learning
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złowieszczy / złowrogi / groźny start learning
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ominous / sinister / threatening
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retrofit - it's about how sth works, redecorate - it's about how sth looks start learning
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They had to retrofit after the last earthquake.
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Larry was about to pummel me.
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stem from something / result from something / be due to
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krótkoterminowe rozwiązanie start learning
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short-term solution / band-aid solution temporary solution, without solving a real problem focusing more on symptoms / effects.
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