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Collocations Functional language Idioms Miscellaneous

 Gain/give/offer  In the words of  Skate on thin  My bad
a deeper insight  Speak from ice  Re-enact
 Sheer madness experience  All walks of life  Let´s wrap it
 Fundamental  (not) know  Make out with up/that´s a
question what posed sb. sb. wrap for today
 Crack a code/a To  Go with your  Be a far cry
case  What might just guts from
 Low- key profile be the key to  Somebody’s  Big time
 Thorny  Be well-versed neck is on the  Cough it up
situation in the minutiae line  Pay the piper(
 High spirits of  Put one´s neck full expression
 An explosion of  It´s human on the line “who pays the
interest nature to  Do the maths piper calls the
 Checked history  For starters  Psycho tune”
 What is somebody out  Go against the
significant is  By the skin of grain/the flow
that your teeth  Dweet
 What is  Jazz something  College morning
disconcerting up  Balls-up
here is that  Miss the big  Have a degree
 When it comes picture of legitimacy
to noun  Fork something  An awful lot of
-ing over  There´s a lot at
 It´s safe to say  Swing into high stake
that gear  Memento mori
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 What this  Take a tole  An essential

means is that  Take the high building block
 The bottom line road for
is  Not to touch a  Be akin to doing
 This is not a drop something
silver bullet for  Stumble across  There´s more to
 I´d like to clear  To second guess somebody than
up a couple a  To play for high meets the eye
couple of stakes  A gaping hole in
misconceptions  To make a living  No wonder!
about out of  The light at the
 Contrary to the something end of the
assertion that  To show some tunnel
 There´s another spirit  Be geared to
piece to the  To throw in the  To see better
puzzle towel days
 Be compound  Bite the bullet  One-off
by  An eye opener
 A thing that  Be on the same
always puzzled wavelength
me was  Be truly a man
 It depends how of
it pans out
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Debate phrases
Sentence openers Contrast and Conclusión Vocabulary Miscellaneous
comparison and summary
 It never  compare  Now  Controversial  Arguing for
ceases to d to because  Debatable (names)
amaze me how  All the of this.  Disputed  Arguing against
 More often same .. we  Viewpoint (names)
than not  It is have to  Far from  The floor is
 When it comes doubtful support certain yours
to  Equally this  Perspective  Stimulating
 The question  It motion  Contentious commentators
of whether... contradic  And for  Generate a lot  X is not a matter
is quite ts flatly.. all of of het of debate
(simplistic) even to this  Go beyond  X is not without
 It's probably the reasons,  completely (its problem)
safe/true to extent of the miss the point  The question of
say that motion  irrespective of whether.. is
must quite obvious.
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 It goes stand/f  Not to be The question

without saying all excused/laugh should be
that  In short ed at/taken  We must also
 I have always  let me lightly not forget about
been a conclud  A non-existent (sth)
staunch e by problem  Let us come to a
defender of  In a  To revolting to more concrete
 It is iften nutshell discuss area
claimed that ( in a  In retrospect,..  (Neg.sentence)
 It's thought few  To . Nor am I
 Therefore words) acknowledge denying
 Furthermore  Overwhelmingl  I am not saying
 On balance I y  This again only
feel  Genuinely proves that
 I would like to believe  I have no
add to your  To put it mildly difficulty at all
point  Terribly in admitting that
important
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 Having  implacably  I am stressing

listened to opposed to this because
your  I cannot stress
agreement this enough
 Having  You are fully
considered entitled to ask
the evidence/  You simply have
we can see to start by
from evidence  it troubles me to
 The time has say
come to  I'm choosing the
 Your point is words carefully
well taken  it must be
(agree) remembered
 Without  There will come
doubt a time when
 Research
shows
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 To support my  X is bad, no
view doubt; but not
 The evidence quite as bad as
clearly shows  How can..?/ Is it
 Despite... it not..? I'll tell
clear to see you why
 I'm sure you  Behind... is the
will agree denial of
that/ with me  As if it wasn't
when I say bad enough
 It's generally  I don't know
believed about you but
 Without a I'd like to
shadow of a  this is simply a
doubt missinterpretati
 Unquestionabl on of
y/  Mr X ignores...
Mr X ignores..
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undoubtedly/  It's quite telling

unequivocally that
 But before I  Yet, I do not
come to my recall X doing Y
own  Let's try to
arguments, let imagine
us first have a  You would think
look at what... from listening to
has said X that
 The first  To try to
prop/ divorce X from
opposition Y is simply
speaker has  Who could
told us...; on possibly
the contrary dispute...?
 Let me come  It's all very well
to my fist/ for sb to
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second/ next  But let us not

argument keep the debate
 First of at this level
foremost  I wish to express
no contempt
 It would be
unfair/impertin
ent of me to
 Well, I beg to
differ
 X is found on
the principle
that
 I am not.... I'm
merely saying
 There are some
occasions when
(sth ) is more
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than a moral
duty
 What would X
think of ( self
justification)?
 But until that
day I will not