Fair-haired: Having light-colored hairs.
Adjective. She has fair hair.
Hard-working: Always doing a lot of work.
Adjective. She was always very hard-working at school.
Grow up: To gradually become an adult.
Verb. Taking responsibility for yourself is part of the process of growing up.
Purposed-built: Built for a particular purpose.
Adjective. Built for a particular purpose.
Bad-tempered: A bad-tempered person becomes angry and annoyed easily.
Adjective. She's very bad-tempered in the mornings!
Left-handed: Using your left hand to write and do most things.
Adjective. Are you left-handed?
Cold-blooded: Cold-blooded animals can only control their body heat by taking in heat from the outside or by being very active.
Adjective. Snakes and lizards are cold-blooded animals.
English-speaking: He language that is spoken in the UK, the US, and in many other countries.
Adjective. Do you speak English?
Award-winning: Having won a prize or prizes for being of high quality or very skilled
Adjective. An award-winning author/TV series/design
Money-making: Making a profit or giving the opportunity to make a profit
Adjective. But for some, at least, there was simply no contradiction between money-making and the noble lifestyle.
Open-minded: Willing to consider ideas and opinions that are new or different to your own.
Adjective. Doctors these days tend to be more open-minded about alternative medicine.
Good-looking: A good-looking person is physically attractive.
Adjective. Who do you think is the best-looking politician?
Easy-going: relaxed and not easily upset or worried.
Adjective. an easy-going attitude/manner.
Well-educated: Having had a good education.
Adjective. Well-educated and highly motivated workers.
Catch-on: To become fashionable or popular.
Verb. I wonder if the game will ever catch on with young people?
Time-saving: The time set usually one hour later in summer so that there is a longer period of daylight in the evening.
Noun. Baillaud's concern for the astronomical time standard led him to be an outspoken opponent of daylight saving time.
Eye-catching: Very attractive or noticeable.
Adjective. an eye-catching poster.
Look into: To examine the facts about a problem or situation.
Verb. We're looking into the possibility of merging the two departments
Old-fashioned: Not modern; belonging to or typical of a time in the past.
Adjective. Old-fashioned clothes/ideas/furniture
Break-down: If a machine or vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
Verb. Our car broke down and we had to push it off the road.