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Question 1

passado de escolher

Answer 1

chose

Question 2

Psiquiatra

Answer 2

Psychiatrist

Question 3

Wander

Answer 3

Perambular, vaguear

Question 4

Matar dois coelhos com uma cajadada

Answer 4

kill two birds with one stone

Question 5

keen

Answer 5

very interested, eager, or wanting (to do) something very much:

Question 6

bound up

Answer 6

closely connected or involved
vinculado

The survival of whales is intimately bound up with the health of the ocean.

Question 7

to be bound

Answer 7

certain or extremely likely to happen:
“You’re bound to forget people’s names occasionally.”

to having a moral or legal duty to do something
“She feels (duty)-bound to tell him everything.”

tied with rope, cord, string, etc.:
“They left Jack, bound hand and foot, and guarded by one man”

Question 8

fasten

Answer 8

to (cause something to) become firmly fixed together, or in position, or closed:

Question 9

quicar

Answer 9

bounce

Question 10

badger

Answer 10

texugo, que pertence à família das mustelas, assim como o famoso furão. Ele é carnívoro, tem pernas curtas, é gordinho e o pelo dele é preto e cinza.

Question 11

to squirm

Answer 11

Tremer de medo ou vergonha

Question 12

torcer joelho
torcer roupa

Answer 12

twist

She slipped on the ice and twisted her knee.
You’re twisting my words - that’s not what I said at all.

Wring (roupa):
She wrung out the shirt and hung it up to dry.

Question 13

to pillage

Answer 13

saquear

to steal something from a place or a person by using violence, especially during war

Question 14

bedrock

Answer 14

the fundamental principles on which something is based

alicerce, fundamento

honesty is the bedrock of a good relationship

Question 15

henhouse

Answer 15

galinheiro

Question 16

LOOPHOLE

Answer 16

brecha, ambiguidade, omissão na lei; escapatória, saída

Question 17

spread yourself too thin

Answer 17

to try to do too many things at the same time, so that you cannot give enough time or attention to any of them:

I realized I’d been spreading myself too thin so I resigned as secretary of the golf club.

Question 18

banter

Answer 18

brincadeira (provocação)

Question 19

to sponge off (somebody)

Answer 19

viver as custas de (alguem)

My brother’s been sponging money off my parents ever since he dropped out of college.

Question 20

to call forth

Answer 20

suscitar, trazer a tona (The love song called forth sad memories)

convocar, chamar (the principal called John forth)

Question 21

to lay up (3 meanings)

Answer 21

estar de cama ( I was laid up with the flu)

imobilizar, parar (my car is laid up for repairs)

estocar um bem escasso (I better lay upa supply of TP)

Question 22

to ring out (2 meanings)

Answer 22

ressoar (som): a shot, bell, cheer

celebrar o fim de (we rang out the old year with a champagne)

Question 23

to prey on

Answer 23

caçar (the wolves prey on small animals)

aproveitar-se (criminals who prey on lonely elderly people)

Question 24

word up

Answer 24

escuta, atenção

“Word up, boys, it’s going down tonight)

Question 25

to run along

Answer 25

sair, ir embora

I have to run along now. Good-bye.

Question 26

to ride out

Answer 26

to ride out to: ir até
to ride out of: sair de

resistir a, enfrentar (the ship rode out the storm)

Question 27

to pan out

Answer 27

dar certo, dar resultado (the experiment wasn’t panning out

correr, desenrolar-se (de determinada forma)
My plan panned out poorly

Question 28

to take to

Answer 28

adquirir um habito (I’be been taking to cycling)

ir com a cara (I too to John from day one)

Question 29

to barge in

Answer 29

entrar sem avisar, interromper

I wish he’d knock instead of just barging in.

Question 30

to urge on

Answer 30

encorajar a ir em frente

Question 31

to bang up

Answer 31

amassar, danificar (car, screen)
machucar (I banged myself up)
prender, encarcerar (the police banged him up)

Question 32

to snap out of

Answer 32

libertar-se, sair dessa (estado mental/físico)

Question 33

to clue in (on)

Answer 33

informar

Please clue me in on what’s been going on

Question 34

to wise up

Answer 34

abrir os olhos a respeito de uma situação desagradavel
ficar esperto

(They finally wised up to the fact that they were being cheated)

Question 35

to flip out

Answer 35

surtar (revolta ou alegria)

Question 36

to take someone for

Answer 36

assumir que alguem seja

She looks so young I took her for your sister

Question 37

to rush off

Answer 37

sair apressadamente, correndo

He rushed off after the meeting to catch a flight to New York.

Question 38

custos de mao de obra

Answer 38

labor costs

Question 39

Dedurar

Answer 39

Tell on, snitch on:

If you don’t stop hitting, I’m going to tell on you.

Rat on/out

He ratted on us
Ican’t believe you ratted me out!

Question 40

Monkey business

Answer 40

comportamento ou negócio desonesto

Question 41

To swan

Answer 41

If you describe someone as swanning around or swanning off, you mean that they go and have fun, rather than working or taking care of their responsibilities

Question 42

Tumbleweed

Answer 42

a plant of North America and Australia that breaks near the ground when it dies, and forms large balls that are rolled around by the wind

Question 43

To lunge

Answer 43

Atacar, se lançar.

To leap forward to grab, attack, or strike someone or something:

The criminal lunged for the police officer with a knife

He suddenly lunged at her with a broken bottle.

Question 44

Sleuth

Answer 44

Investigador, detetive

Question 45

To prompt

Answer 45

Incitar, motivar

Question 46

To shun

Answer 46

Evitar

to ignore someone and not speak to that person because you cannot accept their behaviour, beliefs, etc.

She has shunned publicity since she retired from acting.

Question 47

Contender (subs)

Answer 47

Concorrente, candidato

Now aged 42, he is no longer considered a serious contender for the title

Question 48

descendente de japonês

Answer 48

Japanese descendant