Building Stories – Chris Ware
A ten-year-old boy
ˈhas-been
noun [countable] informal
someone who was important or popular but who has now
been forgotten
tally /ˈtæli/ noun (plural tallies)
[countable]
a record of how much you have spent, won etc by a
particular point in time
-The final
tally was $465,000.
tally verb (tallied, tallying, tallies)
1 [intransitive] (also tally up) if numbers or
statements tally, they match exactly
- Some of the records held by the accounts departments
did not tally.
tally with
- The number of ballot papers did not tally with the number of voters.
tryst /trɪst, traɪst/ noun [countable] literary
a meeting between lovers in a secret place or at a
secret time – often used humorously
clog /klɒɡ $ klɑːɡ/ (also clog up) verb (clogged,
clogging) [intransitive, transitive]
to block something or become blocked
- tourists whose cars clog the roads each summer
clog with
- Over many years, the pipes had got clogged up with
grease.
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