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Hi Ewan, To hit the wrong button literally means that someone has pressed the wrong button on their keyboard. In a social environment, pressing the wrong button means that you brought up or pointed out something that is a sensitive subject to another person. Hope this helps. Regards, Herman

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Dear Argo.don , in linguistics there is one rule of the thumb : there is no such thing as a perfect synonym , which means no synonym is the same as the original word. So no , you cannot use pressure and compression interchangeably. You would say : to put pressure, to pressure, to press, to pressurize, to apply pressure , blood pressure, political pressure, psychological pressure, emotional pressure , economic pressure etc vs compression is reduction in volume causing an increase in pressure of the fuel mixture in an internal combustion engine etc .........I remember the word from some IELTS academic and TOEFL coursebooks as well......It was used in a reading passage about distillation and compression chambers , as far as I remember : )

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Hi! That word is a platform or website for some blogger. Thank you

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Hello!these are some Summer idioms: Beat the heat. Soak up some Sun. Dog days of Summer . Catch some rays. Make a splash. Under the sun. Full of hot air. Have a happy vacation!stay save .

Steyn83

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Hi SammyCO, "The juice is worth the squeeze" means the reward is worth the effort required to obtain it. An example would be going to the gym, all the time and effort spent working out leads to you looking and feeling better. Hope this helps, Regards, Herman

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A notch is a mark on something, like a piece of wood, and was used as a guide or a way of counting or measuring things. If you think of a volume knob on a radio, you turn it up to make the sound louder and you turn it down to make the sound quieter. In the same way, you can take something up a notch to increase its intensity or quality. Example - At a recent meeting, the manager asked the team to take it up a notch so that they surpassed last month's figures. Hope this helps.