English 5 Flashcards
English 5 (480 cards)
in deadly earnest
completely serious:
These fanatics are in deadly earnest when they say they want to destroy all forms of government.
to be in earnest
to be speaking honestly:
I thought he was joking - I didn’t realize he was in earnest.
Which are dubious and which are persuasive? Which force us to rethink our preconceptions?
dubious–> hesitating or doubting.
“I was rather dubious about the whole idea”
one-time
former.
“a one-time actor”
make no mistake about it
Translated: make no mistake about it
it is also a prerequisite for keepping you sage from serious blunders.
a stupid or careless mistake.
to blunder
make a stupid or careless mistake; act or speak clumsily.
“he knew he’d blundered”
the firm-fondation thoery argues that each investment instrument, be it a common stock or a piece…
que ce soit
dull
lacking interest or excitement.
“your diet doesn’t have to be dull and boring”
to ascribe
regard something as being due to (a cause).
“he ascribed Jane’s short temper to her upset stomach”
synonyms: attribute, assign,
to go on
He went on and on until I finally interrupted him and told him I had to go.
I just wish he’d stop going on about how brilliant his daughter is.” “Yes, he does go on (a bit), doesn’t he?”
I wish you’d stop going on at me (= criticizing me repeatedly) about my haircut.
it stands to reason
it is obvious or logical.
“it stands to reason that if you can eradicate the fear the nervousness will subside”
return to the fold
Come back to a group after an absence, as in Matthew taught for a number of years, but now he’s returned to the fold as vice-president of the firm. If someone returns to the fold, they start to belong to or support a group of people that they belonged to or supported in the past. He had left the party just before the peace deal was signed, but has since returned to the fold.
Keynes practiced what he preached
Translated: Keynes practiced what he preached
not to, but rather
Translated: not to, but rather
to toil
work extremely hard or incessantly.
“we toiled away”
synonyms: work hard, labour,
tenfold
ten times as great or as numerous.
“a tenfold increase in the use of insecticides”
hereinafter
further on in this document.
“grievous bodily harm (hereinafter GBH)”
analogous to
comparable in certain respects, typically in a way which makes clearer the nature of the things compared.
“they saw the relationship between a ruler and his subjects as analogous to that of father and children”
to snowball
increase rapidly in size, intensity, or importance.
“the campaign was snowballing”
to beat the gun
To take action or finish a task before a deadline. This phrase comes from sporting events in which gunfire was sometimes used to indicate the end of a contest.
this theory has many advocates
Translated: this theory has many advocates
there may be no more respected thinker than Daniel Kahneman.
Translated: there may be no more respected thinker than Daniel Kahneman.
will-o’-the-wisp
a person or thing that is difficult or impossible to reach or catch.