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Things are looking up!

▫️◽️🔳- Firstly / first of all / first
vs
▪️◾️🔲 - At first

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🏧💲- To rob Peter to pay Paul

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🔘 on autopilot

= automatically, without thinking about what you are doing

~ He never really cared about the job and is mostly operating on autopilot these days.

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🖌🖍🖋 - work in / at / for a company

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🌑 - inveterate (adj.) /ɪnˈvetərət/

= always doing a particular thing, especially something bad, and unlikely to change; confirmed in a habit

~ an inveterate smoker/liar/gambler/critic

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⚫️ - check back
◼️ - check back (on sy/sg)
◻️ - check back (with sy)

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🔲 - specious (adj.) /ˈspiːʃəs/ - formal - disapproving
= seeming to be true or correct, but actually false - SYN: misleading
~ a specious argument/claim
~ specious allegations/promises

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🔳 - plausible (adj.) /ˈplɔːzəb(ə)l/

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🆚 - 'on time' vs 'in time' 🆚
✴️ - 'just in time'

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▶️ - teething problems / teething troubles

~ early/initial teething troubles
~ Hopefully these are just teething troubles, and will be resolved soon.

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✴️ - in spite of & despite

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✳️ - although & though & even though

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🆚 - despite & in spite of vs although & even though 🆚
- despite the fact that
- in spite of the fact that
~ Kelly loved her husband in spite of the fact that he drank too much.

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🆚 - although vs despite & in spite of 🆚

- although + clause

- despite / in spite of + gerund / noun

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🆚 - although - in spite of & despite 🆚

- I couldn't sleep ALTHOUGH I was tired. ✔️
- I couldn't sleep DESPITE I was tired. ❌
- I couldn't sleep DESPITE being tired. ✔️

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💥 - even so 💥💡💡💡

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🆚 - 'even so' vs 'even though' 🆚

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✳️ - come up / turn up trumps

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1️⃣ (play) a trump card - play/use one's trump card
2️⃣ one's best/strongest/trump card = one's main advantage over other people

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