wrinkle in due course work wonders forestall be prone to alert
────────────────────────────── wrinkle, 新趣向、妙案 ────────────────────────────── [ODE] a clever innovation, or useful piece of information or advice ex) learning the wrinkles from someone more experienced saved time.
────────────────────────────── in due course, そのうちに、やがて ────────────────────────────── If you say that something will happen or take place in due course, you mean that you cannot make it happen any quicker and it will happen when the time is right for it.
ex) In due course the baby was born....
────────────────────────────── work wonders, 驚異的な成果をもたらす ────────────────────────────── If you say that a person or thing works wonders or does wonders, you mean that they have a very good effect on something.
ex) A few moments of relaxation can work wonders...
────────────────────────────── forestall, （…を）未然に防ぐ、先手を打つ ────────────────────────────── = stop If you forestall someone, you realize what they are likely to do and prevent them from doing it.
ex) Large numbers of police were in the square to forestall any demonstrations.
────────────────────────────── be prone to, …しがちである ────────────────────────────── To be prone to something, usually something bad, means to have a tendency to be affected by it or to do it.
ex) People with fair skin who sunburn easily are very prone to develop skin cancer
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