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Question 1

something of a dish

Answer 1

an attractive person, especially a female:

“His wife is quite a dish”. Slang.

Question 2

Limber

Answer 2

=eğilir bükülür, oynak (özellikle kol ve bacaklar)

1: having a supple and resilient quality (as of mind or body): AGILE, NIMBLE

2: capable of being shaped: FLEXIBLE

Question 3

backflip

Answer 3

Geriye doğru perende

a total reversal in policy or opinion
PM predicts water

Question 4

raconteur

About Clerks - A documentary on the career and life of filmmaker and raconteur Kevin Smith.

Answer 4

iyi hikaye anlatan kimse

A storyteller, especially a person noted for telling stories with skill and wit

Question 5

interplay

“It’s just that you owe the willpower you’re so proud of to the interplay between your genes and environment.”

The Art of the Good Life
Rolf Dobelli

Answer 5

Karşıklı etkileşim

“It’s just that you owe the willpower you’re so proud of to the interplay between your genes and environment.”

The Art of the Good Life
Rolf Dobelli

Question 6

Things are looking up

Answer 6

İşler iyiye gidiyor

Question 7

Talk to the hand

Answer 7

Külahıma anlat, seni dinlemiyorum

Question 8

What am I, chopped liver?

Answer 8

Biz neciyiz / bizim başımız kel mi?

Question 9

Grow apart

Answer 9

Ayrı düşmek

Question 10

Set apart

Answer 10

Bir tarafa koymak, diğerlerinden ayırmak

“Set apart from the rest of the kids”

Question 11

Cheesy

Answer 11

Bayağı, sıradan

a. Of poor quality; shoddy:

“a movie with cheesy special effects.”

b. Vulgarly pretentious or sentimental:

“a cheesy romantic comedy.”

Question 12

Don’t ditch me

Answer 12

Beni ekme, satma

Question 13

You reckon

Answer 13

Sen öyle san

Question 14

Cheese it

Answer 14

Toz ol

Question 15

Tell me about it

Answer 15

Bir de bana sor

Question 16

I’m on a roll

Answer 16

Şanslı günümdeyim

Question 17

Hop to it

Answer 17

Haydi acele et

Question 18

Think nothing of it

Answer 18

Rica ederim - Dert etme

Question 19

No ifs, ands, or buts

Answer 19

Aması maması yok, Lamı cimi yok!

Question 20

self-own

“Swearing on the occasion, amid rich vocabulary, is costly signaling that you are self-owned.” - Nassim Taleb

Answer 20

: a statement or an act in which you unintentionally embarrass yourself or harm yourself in some way :

“Theattemptedsmear, oneuserwrote, was the “bestself-own of 2020.”

“How much does thehumiliationof a self-own reallymatterin therealworldofpolitics?”

“Naming thebookin this way hasbecometheultimateself-own.”

Question 21

brittle

“We favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt, and we let our beliefs get brittle long before our bones. “

Adam Grant

Answer 21

Kırılgan, kolayca kırılan

= Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending

= Inflexible, may break or snap easily under stress or pressure

Question 22

scalding

“if you drop a frog in a pot of scalding hot water, it will immediately leap out.

Answer 22

Haşlayıcı, kaynayan

= Hot enough to burn

Scald = kaynatmak = To burn with hot liquid
To heat almost to boiling

“Scald the milk, stop when little bubbles form.”

Question 23

off putting

Answer 23

Disconcerting,annoyingorrepulsive;tendingtoputoff

“His habit of picking his nose is quite off-putting.”

Question 24

There’s a Catch

“Scientists Found a Healthier Way to Cook Broccoli, But There’s a Catch”

Answer 24

Dikkat edilmesi gereken bir husus

If someone tells you there’s a catch, it means there is a complication, but if a person is a catch, he or she makes a good romantic partner.

Question 25

pan out

“You mention Gandhi, Fanon, and Sankara. These very different figures of the anti-colonial struggle all saw decolonisation as an opportunity to live and develop differently. But it didn’t really pan out.”

Answer 25

başarmak

= başarıya ulaşmak

= altın çıkarmak (toprağı yıkayarak)

= To succeed; to proceed according to plan; to result or end up

“The China market is finally panning out, thanks to the voracious consumerism of the middle class.”

Question 26

Serves you right

Answer 26

Oh olsun

Question 27

Count your blessings

Answer 27

Haline şükret

Question 28

Never would have guessed

Answer 28

Hiç aklıma gelmezdi

: One never thought that something could possibly be the case. Often used sarcastically to point out something one thinks is very obvious.

“I never would have guessed Mary could do something so unscrupulous.”

Question 29

if any

“The close-up shows very little if any locale and concentrates on a relatively small object—an animal’s face”

Answer 29

= Çok az, pek nâdir

“Few if any pianists have performed the Grieg concerto with such sensitivity.”

= Not many and possibly none

Question 30

Nuts to you!

Answer 30

Defol! Kaybol!