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Affect effect
The programme is about computers and their ... on our
lives.
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: effect
To affect something () = to have an effect on it ():
Smoking affects your health. = smoking has an effect on your health
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It does not affect me immediately – .
Nervousness marred the effect of his speech. – .
Without much effect –
Shouting affects the voice —
beneficial effect, salutary effect —
to affect . « -», .
: This problem has also affected the automobile industry.
Fortunately these new tax laws don't affect us.
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- silent as the grave
- swim like a fish
- struggle desperately, pull the devil by the tail
- he's a cold fish
- I have other fish to fry
- like a fish out of water
- that's another kettle of fish
/ - that's a fish story
- / - something's fishy
- to fish for compliments
/ - the fish rots from the head down (trouble starts at the top)
- fish in troubled waters
- neither fish nor fowl
- feel in one's element/totally at home, take to something like a duck to water
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