22 Flashcards
(30 cards)
best not
You better not do something
We’ve been made
“Get out of there, you’ve been made!
= we have been found out. = we have been discovered = they know about us, etc… “Get out of there, you’ve been made!”
You way off / way off base
A: “I’d say there are probably 500 jellybeans in that jar!” B: “Nope, you’re way off!
To be incorret; mistaken or misinformed means “ you are very wrong about this”
= Completely incorrect, mistaken, or misinformed.
A: “I’d say there are probably 500 jellybeans in that jar!” B: “Nope, you’re way off!
Show promise
Umut vadetmek
Başarılı olacağa benzemek
think the world of
Çok saygı duymak, değer vermek
= to have a very high opinion of someone or something:
“I think the world of my niece - she’s a smart, loving girl.”
“His professors at Columbia think very highly of him.”
wing it
To improvise
on the mend
“the economy is on the mend”
Toparlıyor
improving in health or condition; recovering.
“the economy is on the mend”
wiggle room
“the state legislature allows very little wiggle room in how to design the ballot”
= the freedom or opportunity to do something, or to change your mind and do something differently if that is what is needed:
“We need to leave ourselves some wiggle room when we’re negotiating the deal.”
= capacity or scope for negotiation or operation, especially in order to modify a previous statement or decision.
“the state legislature allows very little wiggle room in how to design the ballot”
I’ll have you know that…
“I’ll have you know you’re insulting the woman I love.”
Bilmeni isterim ki,…
used to start to tell someone something when you are annoyed with them
Bust on
“I only said one dumb thing—quit busting on me!”
Alaya almak
Dalga geçmek
= to make fun of or laugh at; mock
= To tease or ridicule one.
“Aw, come on, dude, I’m your big brother—I have to bust on you when you act like a total dork.”
fly open
Şrak diye açılmak
Birden açılmak
be in cahoots
“the area is dominated by guerrillas in cahoots with drug traffickers
= acting together with others for an illegal or dishonest purpose:
“A banker and a government minister were in cahoots over a property deal.”
“It’s reckoned that someone in the government was in cahoots with the assassin.”
= colluding or conspiring together secretly.
work something out
[ + that ] Investigators needed several months to work out that a fraud had been committed.
= to understand something or to find the answer to something by thinking about it:
[ + question word ] “There will be a full investigation to work out what caused the accident.”
= 1. plan or devise something in detail.
“we need to work out a seating plan”
= 2. (CALCULATE)solve a sum or determine an amount by calculation.
“the interest rate is worked out by adding a certain amount to the current base rate”
roll over
“They’re not going to just roll over and let him play because they’re getting pressure from everybody.”
Mücadele etmeden kabul etmek, pes etmek
= to agree to what someone wants, especially because you are under pressure or under someone’s control:
“If the bill passes, we’re certainly not going to roll over and say that’s fine,” he said.
- Yuvarlanmak, dört dönmek
- vadesi geçmiş bir yükümlülüğü karşılığında aynı türden yeni bir yükümlülük sunarak yeniden finanse etmek
off the top of my head
“I can’t tell you off the top of my head”
= without careful thought or investigation.
“I can’t tell you off the top of my head”
= you say it without thinking about it much before you speak, especially because you do not have enough time
Dork
= a contemptible, socially inept person.
“they’re all dressed like complete dorks”
bum out
“That comment just bummed me out.”
= make someone feel upset or disappointed.
“I was assigned the day shift, which bummed me out”
come across
“comes across as a good speaker”
bir izlenim yaratmak
= to produce an impression
//comes across as a good speaker
= to behave in a way that makes people believe that you have a particular characteristic:
“She comes across really well (= creates a positive image) on television.”
come across as “He comes across as a bit of a bore in an interview.”
pull out all the stops
“we pulled out all the stops to meet the deadline”
to do everything you can to make something successful:
“They pulled out all the stops for their daughter’s wedding.
= make a very great effort to achieve something.
“we pulled out all the stops to meet the deadline”
= do something very elaborately or on a grand scale.
“they gave a Christmas party and pulled out all the stops”
able to be related to
“Thriftier threads can make high-rolling politicos and their wives seem more relatable.”
= possible to understand, like, or have sympathy for because of similarities to oneself or one’s own experiences.
“a movie featuring strong but relatable characters”
inter
“the film centers on a grieving tech entrepreneur named Karsh (Vincent Cassel) who invents a system that allows people to monitor the decaying corpses of their interred loved ones in real time. “
Defnetmek
Gömmek
: to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb
readily
Tereddütsüz
Kolaylıkla
a : without hesitating : WILLINGLY
“readily accepted advice”
b: without much difficulty : EASILY
“for reasons that anyone could readily understand”
nether
“Yet they believed that bourgeois society, like a sorcerer who conjures spirits from the nether world, was losing control of the social forces it had unleashed, careening from crisis to crisis. “
1 : situated down or below : LOWER
//Snakes nested in the nether reaches of the cave.
2 : situated or believed to be situated beneath the earth’s surface
//captured her and carried her off to the nether world to be his wife
— S. V. McCasland
foreshadow
“the Communist Manifesto could point to an already quite elaborate history of conflict over this emerging capitalist world while foreshadowing the socialist and communist struggles that were to gain greater and greater power in the latter half of the century.”
Birşeyin olacağını önceden ima etmek
{f} (birinin/bir şeyin) habercisi olmak
= to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : PREFIGURE
//The hero’s predicament is foreshadowed in the first chapter.
