the brakes on sth
21tamper with something — ˈtamper with sth derived to make changes to sth without permission, especially in order to damage it Syn: interfere with • Someone had obviously tampered with the brakes of my car. Main entry: ↑tamperderived …
22halt — halt1 [ho:lt US ho:lt] n [Date: 1500 1600; : Germa] 1.) [singular] a stop or pause ▪ Heavy snowfalls brought traffic to a halt (=made it stop moving) . ▪ The World Championship was brought to a temporary halt (=was stopped from continuing) .… …
23halt — 1 noun (singular) a stop or pause: bring sth to a halt (=make something stop moving or continuing): Heavy snowfalls brought traffic to a halt on the Brenner Pass. | fuel shortages that have brought the industry to a grinding halt |… …
24as it were — adverb as if it were really so (Freq. 4) she lives here, as it were • Syn: ↑so to speak * * * SO TO SPEAK, in a manner of speaking, to some extent, so to say; informal sort of. → as * * * phrasal …
25test — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 examination of sb s knowledge/ability ADJECTIVE ▪ demanding, difficult, gruelling/grueling ▪ easy, simple ▪ fair, good …
26time — 1 /taIm/ noun TIME 1 (U) something that is measured in minutes, hours, years etc using clocks: a machine that can travel through time | The basic unit of time, the second, was redefined in 1967. | time passes/goes by: time goes by so quickly… …
27trouble — 1 noun 1 PROBLEMS (C, U) problems that make something difficult, spoil your plans, make you worry etc: Every time there s trouble, I have to go along and sort it out. (+ with): They re having a lot of trouble with the new baby. | trouble doing… …
28standard — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 level of quality ADJECTIVE ▪ high ▪ low, poor ▪ certain, minimum ▪ Players have to be of a certain standard to compete in the tournament …
29early — ear|ly1 W1S1 [ˈə:li US ˈə:rli] adj comparative earlier superlative earliest ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(first part)¦ 2¦(before usual)¦ 3¦(beginning)¦ 4¦(new thing)¦ 5 the early hours 6 an early start 7 at/from an early age …
30built-in — adjective existing as an essential constituent or characteristic (Freq. 2) the Ptolemaic system with its built in concept of periodicity a constitutional inability to tell the truth • Syn: ↑constitutional, ↑inbuilt, ↑inherent, ↑integral …
