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| To release all you videos online for free, it had a decent amount of (foreknowledge, prescience) a little (foreknowledge, prescience) might have saved them a lot of money They had the (foreknowledge, prescience) to realize the global importance of the Internet | FORESIGHT /ˈfɔːsaɪt $ ˈfɔːr-/ the ability to predict or the action of predicting what will happen or be needed in the future. he had the FORESIGHT to check that his escape route was clear" Luckily I’d had the foresight to get in plenty of food. |
| Chris Anderson PAID/ PRODUCED a cool 4 million pounds to buy TED All investors had to FOUND / PRODUCED a minimum of $5000. | pony up = to find or produce a particular amount of money I had to pony up $500 just to apply for the visa, and it will be another $500 if I'm actually granted it. |
| TED ex San Diego is a LEGITIMATE/ GENUINE conference. Only LEGITIMATE/ GENUINE members are allowed to use the club pool. | bona fide = ˈbəʊnə faɪd/ real, true, and not intended to deceive anyone = Latin "good faith." Believe me, this is a bona fide job offer—you can start on Monday. They say this is a bona fide Picasso, but I'm skeptical. |
| Part of the TED process is to basically be matriculated, inculcated in this TED atmosphere where you are coached, prompted and CRITICIZED / ATTACKED and maybe spanked on the bottom if you don't deliver script on time, that kind of thing. He stood on the street corner, CRITICIZING / ATTACKING passers-by about the stupidity of the forthcoming war. | /həˈræŋ/ HARANGUE = to speak in a loud angry way, often for a long time, in order to criticize someone or to persuade them that you are right |
| We did a script, and it was a script where I had line and you had line, and there was no IMPROVISE this. Oh man, I totally forgot that I'm supposed to do this presentation today—I'll just have to IMPROVISE. | wing it spoken to do something without planning or preparing it We’ll just have to wing it. |
| We pounded the script into our heads. We did it over over and over again. We presented right after the final rehearsal and we did it. We worked out our brain muscles, but we were BARELY AVOIDING FAILURE/ MISTAKES | hang on by (one's) fingernails = By extension, to narrowly avoid problems or failure. They're hanging on by their fingernails out there—the other team's offensive is totally overwhelming them. Now that I have three small children to care for, I feel as if I'm hanging on by my fingernails every day. |
| I wonder if or how often they LEAVE/ WALK OUT / ABANDON people. Umm. This is not going to work. I am not if they do that or if they take the other approach, no we're going to keep banging this out with you until you got it. | / beɪl/ TO BAIL = to walk out on someone; to leave someone. She bailed on me after all we had been through together. |
| I am not if they do that or if they take the other approach, no we're going to keep BANGING this OUT with you until you got it. typists banging out copy | BANG OUT = to produce (something) in a quick or hurried manner He was only 40 when he fulfilled the common newsman's dream of hitting it big with the novel he'd been banging out between deadlines |
| We don't have to win the crowd over. They're already motivated. |
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