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English word |
English Definition |
English Example sentence |
| 1 |
to be suave |
to be confident and popular, good at making people like
you |
The guy was so suave, when he asked me to lend him some money,
I did it. |
| 2 |
to be in the public eye |
to be featured in the media a lot |
The celebrity was in the public eye so much, he began to feel
like he had no privacy. |
| 3 |
to be overrated |
a situation in which people compliment a person or thing, but
it does not deserve the compliments |
The food at that restaurant is so overrated; people say it's
really good, but actually it is just regular food. |
| 4 |
to be wealthy |
to have a lot of money |
People who are wealthy sometimes own two houses. |
| 5 |
to impersonate ~ |
of a person, to pretend they are someone else |
The criminal escaped notice for many years by impersonating a
priest. |
| 6 |
an autograph |
the signature of a famous person |
I got an autograph from President Obama! |
| 7 |
the paparazzi |
the informal group of photographers that follow famous people
around, hoping to get a good picture |
The paparazzi waited outside the celebrities house, hoping to
get a picture of her when she went out. |
| 8 |
a philanthropist |
a person who gives a lot of money to charity |
Bill Gates is a famous philanthropist; he has given millions of
dollars to charity. |
| 9 |
to donate money |
to give money, usually to charity |
I donated money for the disaster victims. |
| 10 |
to play a character |
to act in a movie, pretending you are a certain person |
The actor had been in many movies, and played all kinds of
different characters. |
| 11 |
to endorse ~ |
to support a product or service, to help to try and sell it to
the public |
The famous bodybuilder endorsed the new energy drink, so pretty
soon it was selling very well. |
| 12 |
to break into ~ |
of a famous person, to move from the original field of activity
into a new field |
I started out as a TV actor, but soon I broke into the
movies. |
| 13 |
to hit the big time |
of a performer, to become very successful and well-known |
He hit the big time after his album was released and sold
millions of copies. |
| 14 |
a big break |
a lucky chance that performers sometimes get |
The record label executives came to listen to my concert; it
was my big break! |
| 15 |
to have a melt down |
to lose one's temper or become angry |
If my niece doesn't go to sleep at 7pm, she usually has a melt
down. |
| 16 |
to be a one hit wonder |
of a musician, to be famous for only one song, even though your
career might be very long |
He was a one hit wonder; one song from his album was really
popular, but the rest were unknown to most people. |
| 17 |
to be washed up |
of a famous person, to become old and tired and not famous
anymore |
I was famous in the 1960s, but now I'm all washed up; nobody
knows who I am anymore. |
| 18 |
to be stuck up |
to have a superior attitude, to think you are better than
everybody else |
Rich people are sometimes stuck up; they think they are better
than poor people. |
| 19 |
a has been |
a formerly-famous person who is no longer famous |
He's a has been; his career ended long ago, but he is still
trying to become famous again. |
| 20 |
a hack |
a writer who produces unoriginal material as part of his or her
job |
He was a hack; just writing commercials and short TV scripts
one after the other. |
| 21 |
to check into rehab |
to enter a short course that helps you stop using drugs or
alcohol |
After he collapsed on stage, the bandleader decided to stop
using drugs, so he checked into rehab. |