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How Great Leaders Inspire Action
Vocab & Expressions from TED TALK "How Great Leaders Inspire Action"
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05/08/2011

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Fuzzy
Definition

fuzzyadj  (idea, memory) confuso 

adjfuzzyadj(sight, vision)confuso, indistinto 

adjfuzzyadj(with hair) felpudo, encrespado adj

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Status Quo
Definition
The way things are right now, current state
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Supper
Definition
Dinner
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Plummet
Definition
To Fall Rapidly
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"SPIKE in the stock market"
Definition
a high point (sometimes followed by a fall)
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Skip
Definition
to jump over something
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I hate to BREAK IT TO YOU
Definition
I'm sorry to give you bad news
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Recipe for Success
Definition
Right Combination of Ingredients for Success
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Lo and Behold
Definition

An exclamation, on drawing others attention to something. Used especially to to announce things that are considered startling or important. The phrase is often written with an exclamation mark.

Origin

The word 'lo' as used in this phrase is a shortening of 'look'. So, lo and behold! has the meaning of look! - behold!. Lo in this and its other meaning, which is more akin to O!, has been in use since the first Millennium and appears in the epic poem Beowulf.

Something not very far removed from lo and behold appears in the Bible, Genesis 15:3 (King James Version):

"And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir."

The complete phrase is first recorded in an 1808 letter in the Correspondence 1787–1870, of Queen Victoria's lady of the bedchamber - Lady Sarah Spencer Lyttelton:

"Hartington... had just told us how hard he had worked all the morning... when, lo and behold! M. Deshayes himself appeared.

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Blood, Sweat and Tears
Definition
Dr. King put worked very hard and the Civil Rights movement was a result of his BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS (hard work and dedication)
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"You get enough support, and then the system TIPS"

TIPPING POINT

Definition
overbalance or cause to overbalance so as to fall or turn over.
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Gut Feeling
Definition
The intuitive feeling in your stomach (GUT), like "a hunch"
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Hands down
Definition

Without a doubt

 

"Pelé is the most famous Brazilian soccer player ever HANDS DOWN"

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