15 Flashcards
(30 cards)
Back to back
Ard arda
Consecutively, iyi a row
in a succession
That’ll do
Bu kadarı yeter
Come (a)round
“He’ll come around to my point of view eventually.”
(İyi anlamda) pes edip onun dediğine geldim
= to change your opinion of something:
Boil down
“The problem boils down to one thing - lack of money.”
Simplify, summarize or shorten; to show the main reason or cause
If a situation or problem boils down to something, that is the main reason for it:
The problem boils down to one thing -lack of money.
unabashedly
“In Utah civil court, the actress has unabashedly leaned into every stereotype that has ever been used to label her”
Arsızca
notabashed:UNDISGUISED,UNAPOLOGETIC
a chip on one’s shoulder
“Madoff had a chip on his shoulder and felt that he was not part of the Wall Street in-crowd.”
an ingrained feeling of resentment deriving from a sense of inferiority and sometimes marked by aggressive behaviour.
“I had a dirty great chip on my shoulder—I thought everybody was against me”
advise
“In an interview with journalist Steve Fishman, Madoff advised, “We were a small firm, we weren’t a member of the New York Stock Exchange. It was very obvious.”
= To inform; notify:
“advised us that the meeting had been postponed”
abreast
None. I find by staying abreast of our Berkshire subsidiaries and by regularly reading business newspapers and magazines, I am exposed to an enormous amount of material at the micro level. I find that what I see going on there pretty much informs me of what’s happening at the macro level.”
C. Munger
yan yana
aynı hizada
bordalamak
stay abreast =
- To remain closely informed about someone or something; to follow the developments of someone or something.
“There are so many software vulnerabilities that it’s difficult to stay abreast of them all.”
Take something too far
(Bir şeyin) suyunu çıkarmak
Fawn
Açık kahverengi
Yavru geyik
Hit (me) up
“if you have a serious band and would like to play some music, hit me up”
Beni ara
= contact someone.
“if you have a serious band and would like to play some music, hit me up”
Catch up
Buluşmak, hasret gidermek
Look up
Things are looking up on my end”
(işlerin) iyiye gitmesi
My end
Things are looking up on my end”
Benim tarafta
What have you been up to
Sen neler yaptın?
Sende ne var ne yok?
snitch on (one)
Why would you snitch on me to the teacher like that?
İspiyonlamak
= To inform against a criminal or wrongdoer to a figure of authority.
I’m afraid the mafia will make a hit on me since I snitched on them to the police about their money-laundering operation.
Why would you snitch on me to the teacher like that?
Parkway
a wide road planted with trees, turf, etc
So be it
Peki, öyle olsun
Be in a pickle
“Help me, I’m in a pickle”
Başı belada olmak
Be in a jam
“Sorry, i can’t come tonight, I’m in a jam”
Darda olmak
Sıkışık olmak
(Parasal) sıkıntıya düşmek
My phone almost died
Şarjım neredeyse bitti
Go off
Çalar saatin çalması
I got no reception
Telefonum çekmiyor
Put someone on the phone
“Put your mother on the phone”
Telefonu (görüşmek üzere) birisine vermek
