10 Flashcards
(30 cards)
Take a chill pill
Sakin ol
Rahatla
I’m bushed
Halim kalmadı
Herbal remedies
Bitkisel ilaç
Over the counter
Reçetesiz satılan
Milk
Sağmak (süt)
Kaymağını yemek (?)
Confuzzle
= The state of confusion and/or being puzzled
“Now, I find if there are any posts to send, it seems to get in a confuzzle and never reaches the point of fetching.”
= To confuse or puzzle
glitch
= A problem affecting function; a bug; an imperfection; a quirk
“They are still trying to work out all the glitches.”
= Arıza, bozukluk, hata, kusur
Duck out
To leave
Sıvışmak
= To depart quickly or exit abruptly, especially in a manner which does not attract notice and before a meeting, event, etc. has concluded
“Cathy Song needed to duck out from work at 3pm to ferry her child from pre-school to a neighbour’s.”
Dron on
(Monoton bir şekilde) Durmadan konuşmak
= to speak for a long time in a dull voice without saying anything interesting.
“She had trouble keeping awake as he droned on about himself”
pique
Darılmak, gücenmek
Pique oneself: Övünmek, kendini bir şey zannetmek
Settle down
Sakinleşmek
Yuva kurmak
if you will
= So to speak, like; used to indicate that a description is not standard
“He wasn’t a very honest person; a liar, if you will.”
“These are partial artifacts, if you will: the imaging process has merely amplified flaws that were already present in the original”
chide
“For more than a half century, I have been chided as provocative and controversial merely because I go on insisting that, without aesthetic and cognitive standards, imaginative literature will perish, and something in us also will wane.”
Harold Bloom
Azarlanmak, suçlanmak
scold or rebuke.
“she chided him for not replying to her letters”
Make a blunder
Pot kırmak
Legible
Okunaklı
Bolt
Sürgü,
Cıvata
Fırlayıp kaçmak
= To secure a door by locking or barringit
“Bolt the door.”
= To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly
“The actor forgot his line and bolted from the stage.”
hideous
“Louis buries her in “a hideous suburban grave” and vows revenge”
iğrenç, korkunç, gudubet
extremely ugly.
“hideous lizard-like creatures”
extremely unpleasant.
“the whole hideous story”
caddish
“Since the nobles always choose self-interest, there is nothing inconsistent in Louis’ caddish behavior.”
= dishonourable, especially towards a woman (typically used of a man or his behaviour).
“an impoverished charmer with caddish tendencies”
belch
“Pinocchio goes into the whale’s stomach with Geppetto. There they light a fire to make the thing belch, then there’s a wonderful scene where they are thrown out of the whale. ”
Excerpt From
A History of Pictures
David Hockney
Geğirmek
beat (someone) to the punch
to do or achieve something before someone else is able to
“We were working on a new product but before we could get it into the market our competition beat us to the punch.”
tone-deaf
Thank you Antonia. This is so tone deaf”
müzik kulağı olmayan
= (of a person) unable to perceive differences of musical pitch accurately.
“Henry wasn’t really very musical but Ivy was tone-deaf”
Put off
Ertelemek
İlgisini yitirmek
at the drop of a hat
“People will file lawsuits at the drop of a hat these days”
= without hesitation or good reason.
= If you do something at thedropof ahat, you do it immediately without stopping to think about it:
“he used to be very bashful, blushing at the drop of a hat”
Pat diye (?)
Can not fathom
unable to understand it
- verb [no cont] If you cannot fathom something,you are unable to understand it, although you think carefully about it.
“I really couldn’t fathom what Steiner was talking about.”
