23 Flashcards
(30 cards)
cool your jets
After the defendant’s outburst in court, the judge said he could “cool his jets” in jail before appearing again next month.
sakinleş
= to become calm and not so excited or worried:
on a roll
“Pippa won five games in a row and it was obvious she was on a roll.”
= to be having a successful or lucky period:
out of sorts
“I’ve been feeling tired and headachy and generally out of sorts.”
= to be slightly ill or slightly unhappy:
hung up on
Why are you so hung up on getting everything right?
to be extremely interested in or worried by a particular subject and spend an unreasonably large amount of time thinking about it:
ineffable
“the ineffable mysteries of the soul”
Tarifsiz
Kelimelerle anlatılamaz
= causing so much emotion, especially pleasure, that it cannot be described:
“ineffable joy/beauty”
= too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words.
“the ineffable mysteries of the soul”
= not to be uttered.
“the ineffable Hebrew name that gentiles write as Jehovah”
balance the scales
- To achieve a harmonious or satisfying equilibrium between two or more conflicting elements.
“Many adults today are struggling to balance the scales when it comes to their home life and the amount of time they spend working.”
- To achieve justness, fairness, or equality in some situation.
“All right, fine, you can stay out till 10:30, like your sister. There, does that balance the scales?”
rat out
ispilemek
Do your worst
“let them do their worst—he would never surrender”
Elinden geleni ardına koyma
= do as much damage as one can (often used to express defiance).
“let them do their worst—he would never surrender”
in the running
= having a chance of being successful, esp. in a competition or election:
“She’s still in the running for Treasurer.”
= If someone is in the running for something, they have a good chance of winning or obtaining it. If they are out of the running for something, they have no chance of winning or obtaining it.
make the cut
= To succeed at something or meet a requirement; to be chosen out of a field of candidates or possibilities.
= equal or better a required score, thus avoiding elimination from the last two rounds of a four-round tournament.
“she shot rounds of 86 and 86 and failed to make the cut”
: to be among the players allowed to continue playing
“He has to birdie the last hole in order to make the cut.”
knock oneself out
- US —used to tell someone to go ahead and do something
“Do you mind if I use this exercise machine first?” “Knock yourself out.”
- to cause oneself to become unconscious
“He hit his head against the table when he fell and knocked himself out.”
2 informal : to make oneself very tired by doing work
“I knocked myself out to get the job done on time.”
ducks in a row
get one’s ducks in a row
= make all the preparations needed to do something; get everything organized.
“we have an event planned and possibly a dance, but we have to get all our ducks in a row first”
play hardball
“The law firm had a reputation for playing hardball.”
= to do everything that you can to achieve success even if this involves hurting or upsetting other people:
“She is not afraid to play hardball when negotiating deals for her clients.”
hand over fist
“Business was good and we were making money hand over fist.”
= If you make or lose money hand over fist, you make or lose a lot of money very quickly:
“Business was good and we were making money hand over fist.”
get a word in edgewise
“Brad talked so much that nobody could get a word in edgewise”
= to have an opportunity to speak:
not get a word in edgewise = to not be able to say anything because someone else is talking all the time:
“Roz was talking so much that nobody else could get a word in edgewise!”
be in over your head
“Sean tried to pay his gambling debts, but he was in over his head.”
= to be involved in a difficult situation that you cannot get out of:
to live hand to mouth’
“I have a wife and two children and we live from hand to mouth on what I earn.”
they have hardly enough food or money to live on.
obstetrician
Kadın doğum uzmanı
keepsakes
“He has held on to a few keepsakes from his former life in the coastal suburb of Duxbury, Massachusetts, with his wife, Lindsay, and their three small children.”
Hatıra, yadigar
recursive
Walking organizes the world around us; writing organizes our thoughts. Ultimately, maps like the one that Nabokov drew are recursive: they are maps of maps.
Tekrarlamalı
Yinelemeli
Tekrarlanan
= Of or relating to a repeating process whose output at each stage is applied as input in the succeeding stage.
= pertaining to or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly.
hand-me-down
“Similarly, laugh ending in an F sounds makes no sense, but it helps chart the history of the language’s seismic Teutonic shifts. For many writers and word lovers — the very people any spelling reformer needs to convince — there’s a hand-me-down charm to these marks of distinction.”
Elden düşme
= a piece of clothing given to a younger family member or friend because the person who owns it no longer wants it or it no longer fits:
“Claudia had three older sisters, so she wore a lot of hand-me-downs.”
chastise
2: to inflict punishment on (as by whipping)
1: to censure severely : castigate
//The coach chastised the players for their mistakes.
dumpling
hamur tatlısı
go to town (on something)
“Kayla and Josh really went to town on their wedding.”
to do something eagerly and as completely as possible:
