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To mark the occasion - To celebrate the occasion / do something to make it memorable
- Would you like to say a few words to mark the occasion?
To have something to do with - To have a connection
- Suddenly I realise that all of this - The gun, the bomb, the revolution - has got something to do with the girl named Marla Singer
Insomnia - Not being able to sleep
A snag - A small problem / difficulty that is actually not expected
- Call me from the road if there's any snags
To flip through - Turn pages with a quick movement
To lighten up - To relax (usually said to someone who is taking something too seriously)
Addicted - Not being able to stop yourself from doing something all the time
- I became addicted
To assume - To expect something to be true (without any proof)
- If I didn't say anything, people always asumed the worst
Cave - A large hole in the side of a cliff or hill or under ground
To be on to someone - To be suspicious of what someone does / is doing and so watching very carefully
Faker - Someone pretending to be something they're not
- I'm on to you. You're a faker. You're not dying
To practice - To train / act out something over and over so you become good at it
To tell someone off - To speak to someoe angrily because they have done something wrong
- I saw you practicing this
- Practicing what?
- Telling me off. Is it going as well as you hoped
To expose - To show / reveal something that is usually hidden
To go ahead - To continue ( with something that might not have been possible. In this case 'I'll expose you' is a threat, a bluff)
- I'll expose you
- Go ahead. I'll expose you
Over - More than
- I've been coming here for over a year
To be into something - To like it alot ( Being into football, music etc)
An addiction - Something you can't stop doing
To kid - To joke
- Look, you don't wanna get into this. It becomes an addiction
- Really?
- I'm not kidding
To have done your homework - To prepare yourself for an argument by thinking out possible solutions
- The girl had done her homework
To slip something by someone - To do something in secret without telling the person it might concern
- You tried to slip it by me,eh?
It's a deal - Agreed
To look like - To seem
To make a big thing out of something - Make something seem more important than it actually is
- It's a deal.It looks like this is goodbye
- Well, let's not make a big thing out off it, okay?
A flight - An airplane journey
Major - Very important / large
- Which car company do you work for?
- A major one
Nevermind - It doesn't matter
Condo / condominium - A luxury flat owned by the people who live in it
Decent - Not bad / Quite good
- I had a stereo that was very decent
Stuff - Things / belongings
To do someone a favour - To help somebody / To do a small thing that someone wants you to do
- I want you to do me a favour.I want you to hit me as hard as you can
A projectionist - A person working in a cinema who operates the machine ( A projector ) that shows films on the big screen
A scar - A mark on the skin that is caused by a cut that skin has grown over
To lose your nerve - To lose courage
- How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight? I don't wanna die without any scars. So come on, hit me. Before I lose my nerve
To tear down - To demolish (a building etc)
Boarded up - Covered with wooden boards (Long pieces of wood)
To squat - To live in an empty building without permission from the owner
- It looked like it was waiting to be torn down. Most of the windows were boarded up. There was no lock on the door from when the police or whoever kicked it in. The stairs were ready to collapse. I didn't know if he owned it or he was squatting
A shithole - A bad, unclean place
Warehouse - A building where large amounts of goods are stored before being sent to shops
Rules - A list of things you must / must not do
Crumby - Cheap, bad, badly made etc
To waste - To use something carelessly or for something that is unneccessary / unuseful
A couple - A few (2 or 3)
- If only I had wasted a couple of minutes and gone to watch Marla Singer die, none of this would've happened
A suspect - A person who is believed to be guilty of a crime
Nutcase - A crazy person
To not quite catch something - To not hear/ understand properly
- You hear me now?
- No, I didn't quite catch that, Lou
To take something / someone for granted -
Vet - Animal doctor
Distractions -
To be out of someones way - To not stay and make trouble for someone
In a sec - (In a second) Quickly / soon
Whatever - A word said to show that you don't care about / don't believe what the person is saying
- I'll be out of your way in a sec
- You don't have to go
- Whatever
Bunk beds - Beds that are stacked on top of each other
Vandalism - To destroy public or private property for no reason
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