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    Born and Bred

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    This document defines various idioms and phrases related to family, relationships, choices, leisure activities, and states of being. It provides definitions for idioms such as "nuclear family", "extended family", "have/start a family", and "marriage of convenience". It also defines phrases involving activities like "double feature", choices like "informed choice" and "pick and choose", and states like "at play", "at your leisure", and "at rest".

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    This document defines various idioms and phrases related to family, relationships, choices, leisure activities, and states of being. It provides definitions for idioms such as "nuclear family", "extended family", "have/start a family", and "marriage of convenience". It also defines phrases involving activities like "double feature", choices like "informed choice" and "pick and choose", and states like "at play", "at your leisure", and "at rest".

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    This document defines various idioms and phrases related to family, relationships, choices, leisure activities, and states of being. It provides definitions for idioms such as "nuclear family", "extended family", "have/start a family", and "marriage of convenience". It also defines phrases involving activities like "double feature", choices like "informed choice" and "pick and choose", and states like "at play", "at your leisure", and "at rest".

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    Born and Bred

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    Born and bred: born and having grown up in a particular place and having the typical qualities of someone

    from that place


    Nuclear family: a family consists of a father, mother and their children
    Extended family: including uncles, aunts and grandparents,
    Have/start a family: have children
    Double feature: when two films are shown together
    Generation gap: a difference in attitude and behavior between old and young people
    Marriage of convenience: a marriage for political or economic reasons, not for love
    Its all relative: used to say that you are not poor, comparing to some people
    Be a near thing: if sth you succeed in doing is a near thing, you succeed but you nearly failed.
    Go native: try to live and behave like the local people
    A native of: someone who lives in a place for a long time
    Be in the national/public interest: to be good or necessary for the success of a country and its people
    Informed choice: good choice because they have the right information
    Pick and choose: to choose the best people or things or the only that you really like
    Take delight in (doing) sth: to enjoy doing sth very much, especially sth you oughtnt do
    Eager beaver: someone who is too keen and works harder than they should
    Free and easy: relaxed, friendly and w/o many rules
    At your leisure: slowly and w/o hurrying
    You need only do sth/ all you need do is: used when saying that you only have to do sth in order to do sth
    else
    Keep/leave your options open: to wait before making a decision
    Play with yourself: masturbate
    Play for time: to try to delay sth so that you have more time to prepare for it or prevent it from happening.
    Play the fool: behaved in a silly way
    Play sth by ear: to decide what to do according to the way a situations develops, w/o planning
    At play: having an effect
    For want of: because of a lack of sth, because sth is not available
    Develop/acquire a taste for sth: start to like sth
    In bad/poor taste: likely to offence people in good taste
    Rest assured (that): used to tell someone not to worry, because what you say about a situation is true
    Put/set sbs at rest: to make someone feel lessa anxious or worried
    At rest: =dead

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