to keep in touch with: to maintain contact with (also: to stay in touch with) Examples of TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH Good managers are people you keep in touch with even after you leave a position. Once the Thanksgiving holiday passes, I promise to get in touch with all of you.

now and then: occasionally, sometimes (also: now and again, at times,from time to time, off and on, once in a while) Examples of NOW AND THEN David offends people, now and then, without even meaning to do so, but it’s so rare that everyone still works with him. Every married couple fights now and then.

a crime of passion: a crime committed because of very strong emotional feelings, especially in connection with a sexual relationshipExamples: He killed his lover. It was a crime of passion. She described the stabbing as a crime of passion and jealousy.

to blow up: to inflate, to fill with air; to explode, to destroy (or be destroyed) by explosion Examples of TO BLOW UP Linda must have been pretty angry to blow up at you like that. A storm blew up off the east coast.

to feel like: to have the desire to, to want to considerThis idiom is usually followed by a gerund (the –ingform of a verb used as anoun). Examples of TO FEEL LIKE I’m not hungry yet, but I know I’m going to feel like pizza for dinner. When you’re exhausted, you feel like you haven’t…

to fade away: to diminish gradually in time or distance Examples of TO FADE AWAY The memory of that unpleasant experience has slowly faded away. The music of the band gradually faded away as the parade passed down the street.