"We will succeed and that success will belong to every one of us."
Queen Elizabeth II has delivered a rallying message to the UK in its fight against coronavirus, thanking healthcare workers and people for staying at home and following government rules.
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He was richer: in 1961 he earned £2.50 a week as a trainee accountant in Liverpool, enough to have saved up for a second-hand van, while they had to scrape the fare for the 81 bus across town, lugging their guitars up to the top deck.
The green double-decker spent more hours in the garage than out of it, and Stan spent more time eating tea with his dysfunctional family or hanging out with his mate Jack, a randy conductor with an eye for the birds; but he often supped his stew still dressed in his bus-driver’s jacket with its shiny badge, a token of his devotion to his job.
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It’s not a flashback to fascism or a new world order – it’s the plot
of a satirical Danish film that’s making the festival rounds in Germany and Scandinavia.
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verb bit, bitten
1 [I or T] to use your teeth to cut into something or someone:
He bit into the apple.
An insect bit me on the arm.
He bites his fingernails.
2 [I] to have a bad or unpleasant effect:
Higher mortgage rates are beginning to bite.
3 [I] When a fish bites, it swallows the food on the hook at the end of a fishing line:
The fish aren't biting today.
4 [I] to show interest in buying something:
The new service is now available but clients don't seem to be biting.
bite
noun
1 [C] when you bite something:
He took a bite (= bit a piece) out of the apple.
He had two bites (= bit two pieces) of apple.
2 [C] a sore place or injury where an animal or insect has bitten you
3 [S] when a fish bites the hook on the end of a fishing line and is caught
4 [U] If food has bite, it has a sharp or strong taste:
I like mustard with a bit of bite.
5 [U] a powerful effect:
This satire has (real) bite.
━━ vt. (bit; bit・ten, bit) かむ, かみつく; (寒さが)しみる; (香辛料などが)刺激する; (霜が植物を)傷める; (ノミ・蚊が)刺す; (カニが)はさむ; (魚が)食いつく; (歯車が)かみ合う (grip); (刃が)食い込む; だます; (酸が)腐食する; 〔話〕 困らせる.
━━ vi. かむ, かみつく ((at)); 刺す; 刺激する; 腐食する; 肌にしみる; えさに食いつく; 誘惑にのる; かみ合う; (車輪が)路面をとらえる; (悪い)影響を与える.
be bitten with [by] …に夢中になる.
bite away [off] かみ切る.
bite back (ことばを)のみ込む; しないでおく.
bite into …に食い込む.
bite one's nails くやしがる.
bite off more than one can chew 手に余る仕事を企てる.
bite on 熟考する; 取組む.
bite [kiss] the dust [ground] 〔俗〕 死ぬ; 〔俗〕 倒される; 負ける.
bite the hand that feeds one 飼い主の手をかむ, 恩をあだで返す.
Once bitten, twice shy. 〔ことわざ〕 あつものにこりてなますを吹く.
━━ n. ひとかみ[かじり], ひと口; かみ[刺し]傷; (魚の)食い; 腐食; (風の)身を切るような冷たさ; から味, パンチ; 辛らつ; (歯車の)かみ合い; (刃の)食い込み.
bite and sup 大急ぎの食事.
put the bite on 〔米俗〕 (金を)ゆする, 強要する.
the tax bite 税控除.
bit・er ━━ n. かみつく犬; かむ人; 詐欺師 (The ~r (is) bit. だまそうとしてだまされる).
bit・ing ━━ a. 刺すような, 鋭い; 腐食性の.
bit・ing・ly ad.
sup
verb [I usually + adverb or preposition; T] -pp- MAINLY UK
to drink or to eat:
NORTHERN ENGLISH He spends most of his evenings in the pub, supping beer.
OLD-FASHIONED They supped on/off cold meat.
sat・ire
━━ n. 風刺(文学), 風刺詩[文] ((on)); 皮肉 ((on)).
sa・tir・ic, sa・tir・i・cal
() ━━ a. 風刺的な.
sa・tir・i・cal・ly ad.
sat・ir・ist
━━ n.
sat・i・rize ━━ vt. 風刺文を書く; 風刺する; あてこする.
sat・i・riz・er n.
sa・tir・ic, sa・tir・i・cal
() ━━ a. 風刺的な.
sa・tir・i・cal・ly ad.
sat・ir・ist
━━ n.
sat・i・rize ━━ vt. 風刺文を書く; 風刺する; あてこする.
sat・i・riz・er n.
scrape (SUCCEED)
verb [I usually + adverb or preposition]
to succeed in getting or achieving something, but only just or with great difficulty:
She scraped into university on very low grades.
scrape by/along (LIVE) phrasal verb
to manage to live when you do not have enough money and other necessary things:
He lost his job, so the family had to scrape along on £95 a week.scrape a living UK
to only just earn enough money to provide yourself with food, clothing and a place to live:
He settled in Paris, where he scraped a living writing short stories and magazine articles.
SYNONYMS reach, achieve, attain, gain, compass. These verbs mean to succeed in arriving at a goal or objective. Reach is the least specific: reached home before dark; reach an understanding. Achieve suggests the application of skill or initiative: achieved national recognition. Attain implies the impelling force of ambition, principle, or ideals: trying to attain self-confidence. Gain connotes considerable effort in surmounting obstacles: gained the workers' trust. Compass implies succeeding by circumventing impediments: will compass the task. See also synonyms at range.
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