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"I've been waiting a week for him to answer

my email."

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Ich bin nicht ganz davon überzeugt, dass das

die beste Lösung ist.

In English, "satisfied" is often used

idiomatically in the sense of " convinced",

"free of doubts".

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"He is an acknowledged expert in his field."

If you're "competent", you are able to do your

jOb adequately - no more. Experts are far more

than just "competent", so "competent expert"

sounds illogical. " Acknowledged expert" is a

standard collocat ion. It means t hat the world

recognizes the person's expert status.

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In informal North American English, a pink slip is

a letter informing an employee that he or she will

have to leave the company. It is called that

because letters of termination were traditionally

printed on pink paper. Here, the speaker is saying

that John has lost his job.

Kündigungsschreiben

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"After showering, shaving and dressing for work,

Brad admired himself in the mirror."

The verbs shower, shave and dress are typically

used without a reflexive pronoun, except in the

context of physical disability or dependence:

"Only one arm is broken - I can dress myself. "

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"Is that ' E' as in 'elephant'?"

In English, when giving an example word to

make sure a letter is understood correctly, one

says "as in" rather than "Iike".

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"Try as I might, I couldn't think of her name."

To think of something is to remember il or come

up wilh i1: " I couldn'llhink of a good excuse."

To think about something is to consider i1: "1'11

think about your suggestion and call you

tomorrow. "

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A workaround is a way of bypassing a problem

without necessarily solving i1. The word is used

chiefly in computing contexts, but it is also

found in general business situations.

Umgehung eines Problems, Zwischen/6sung

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