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1 to visit again

2 (used in the past participle) to re-examine (a topic or theme) after an interval, with a view to making a fresh appraisal
Hitchcock revisited

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revision, revise, revest, revisal

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play to one's strengths	v.	to prioritize using one's natural abilities and specific skills, especially by pursuing tasks or goals suited to such skills
zip one's lip	exp.	stop talking; refrain from saying something	informal
cool one's heels	exp.	be kept waiting
to go apeshit	exp.	to lose one's temper	very familiar
beat one's brain out	id.	make a lot of efforts to understand something
eat one's own dogfood	exp.	expression used to describe the practice of a company using internally the marketed products	[Bus.] expression originating from and widely used in software industry; the practice is also known as "dogfooding"
drop into one's lap	exp.	(about a positive event/situation) happen out of the blue, without any effort from the impacted persons
a taste of one's own medicine	exp.	a sample of the unpleasantness that one has been giving other people	[Fig.]
get one's ducks in a row	exp.	have everything together; have all things settled/organized	E.g.: Just when I had got all my ducks in a row and I was ready to go, I received a call and had to cancel my trip.
get smth./someone out of one's system	exp.	get rid of a strong feeling towards something or someone	[Informal] If you have done something wrong, tell him and get it out of your system. After the break up, it took him some while to get her out of his system.
phubbing	v.	snubbing people by using one's mobile phone	[Neologism] portmanteau word : phone + snubbing
take the leap	exp.	go for something, take one's chances
fly off the handle	v.	become very angry ; lose one's temper	[Fam.] Ex.: She kept a cool head as he was saying all kinds of mean and horrors about her but when he said her Chinese crested dog was ugly, it was the match in the powder barrel and she just flew off the handle
motorboat	v.	the act of pushing one's face in between two ample breasts, and rocking one's head side to side very rapidly while making a vigorous, lip-vibrating "brrr" sound	[Slang]
give (sb) the (middle) finger	v.	make an obscene and offensive gesture at someone by closing one's fist and extending one's middle finger upwards, interpreted as"Sod off!"; [US] flip (sb) off / flip (sb) the bird	Ex.: he has an unfortunate tendency and somewhat dangerous habit of giving the finger to motorists who cut in front of him.
bite off more than one can chew	id.	to attempt or take on a task that is way to big and beyond one's capability	I wonder if that craftsman will be able to fulfil the three commitments he took on at the same time; in my opinion he bites off more than he can chew!
! Leap of faith	n.	Abandoning something that one has intimate knowledge of for something unknown and probably highly risky to one's well-being.
pocket call	n.	it's a unintended call which happens when the keys are not blocked in one's pocket
pet shaming	n.	posting a picture of one's pet on social media, with a sign describing the animal's wrongdoing	more specific: cat shaming or dog shaming

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