Tie the Knot

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Tie the Knot

To get married

When two people get married, they “tie the knot.” Example: “After dating for five years, we finally decided to tie the knot.” When you tie “a” knot you wrap two pieces of rope around each other in a certain way so that they will not come apart. When you tie “the” knot you make a promise that you will stay together with one person whom you love. Example: “Did you hear about Dan and Jenny? They finally decided to tie the knot.” Two people are like two ropes and they get married to tie “the knot” which keeps them together. Example: “So, when are you two going to tie the knot?”

Tie the Knot usage in recent news (Tie the knot in a sentence)

Former ‘Game of Thrones’ actor Sean Bean, 55, to tie the knot for fifth time
Same-sex couple tie the knot
Dia Mirza, Sahil Sangha tie the knot
Ranbir and Katrina to tie the knot in 2015?
Share the joy: 60 couples tie the knot at Faisalabad mass wedding
Same-sex couples tie the knot on the Las Vegas Strip
Did Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney Secretly Tie the Knot?

Dia Mirza Finally Ties The Knot With Sahil Sangha

Dead Ringer

Synonyms: carbon copy, Doppelganger, facsimile, lookalike, replica

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Dead Ringer (for somebody/something)

An exact duplicate

Dead Ringer origin

The term dead ringer originally referred to a horse that had been substituted for another of similar appearance to defraud the bookies. The verb to ring has long been used by the criminal fraternity to mean to substitute. The most modern example is to ring a car, meaning to steal another car’s identity – usually for the purpose of reintroducing a write-off back on the road. Dead is widely used to mean accurate or precise, as in dead centre or dead heat.

Dead Ringer idiom usage in recent news (Dead ringer in a sentence)

39 seconds of footage that is featuring a woman, who is reportedly a dead-ringer for Kim Kardashian.
Sutton Coldfield Ed Sheeran lookalike: ‘At least I’m a dead ringer for someone good!’
Could Madden, a dead ringer for Megan Fox, be the first to claim the title?
Eddie Powell: With the right make-up this man would make a dead ringer for the “Joker” in a Batman movie
There are tweaks and stretches here and there, but the new car is a dead ringer at the end of the day.

Salman Khan Dead Ringer Found in pakistan

Umbrage

Synonyms: be affronted, be aggrieved, be angry, be annoyed, be disgruntled, be hurt, be indignant, be insulted, be offended, be piqued, be put out, be resentful, be upset, be wounded, bridle, get huffy, get one's hackles up, get/go into a huff, take exception, take offence, take something amiss, take something personally

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Umbrage [uhm-brij]

(noun) a feeling of anger caused by being offended

Umbrage (अम्ब्रिज) meaning in Hindi

कोप (m), छांह, छाया (f), रोष (m)

Umbrage in a sentence ( Umbrage word usage in recent news)

Medha Patkar takes umbrage over dropping of a chapter on her in NBT book
Britain could also take umbrage if Scotland adopts much more liberal immigration policies.
DEEPIKA TOOK EXCEPTIONAL AND VERY PUBLIC UMBRAGE TO SHOW NO SIGNS OF SETTLING DOWN OVER THE ‘CLEAVAGE TWEET’ ROW
The Iranian authorities may have taken umbrage of the fact that the women were dancing alongside the men and not wearing a hijab in the video.
While it is clear that Johar was hunting for talented biceps to star in the film, of course Shah Rukh Khan has taken umbrage.
China should not take umbrage to that,” he added, while referring to a report published in a China daily, which apparently took offence over Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attempting to create a wedge between China and India.

Mnemonic Trick to remember the meaning of word Umbrage

notice the last 4 letters…RAGE.And then umbrella =shade, rage=anger and resentment.

How to pronounce or say Umbrage

Deepika Padukone Cleavage – Times Of India Controversy

Lugubrious

Synonyms: blue, cheerless, dejected, depressed, despondent, dirge-like, dismal, doleful, dolorous, dour, down in the dumps, Eeyorish, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grim, joyless, long-faced, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, morose, mournful, sad, saturnine, sepulchral, serious, solemn, sombre, sorrowful, unhappy, woebegone, woeful, wretched

Antonyms: cheerful, joyful

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Lugubrious [loo–goo-bree-uh s, –gyoo-]

(adj) excessively mournful

Lugubrious (लुगूब्रीअस / लूग्यूब्रीअस) meaning in Hindi

दुखपूर्ण,विष,विषादमय

Lugubrious word usage in recent news (Lugubrious in a sentence)

That kind of lugubrious tone.
He sings in such a lugubrious tone as to suggest simultaneously a low rumbling in the caves and a pronouncement from a deity.
He’s too Welsh and lugubrious.
Some are “poetic”, some lugubrious, some scathingly self-mocking.
The old lady blows out her cheeks and assumes a lugubrious expression.
Two schools of thought that emerged: One, that I just might be tragically right – but who needed such lugubrious news?
The mood is lugubrious.