Upper-Intermediate Flashcards
(16 cards)
make matters worse
to make a situation more unpleasant or difficult
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закрой рот, иначе ты сделаешь только хуже
Keep your mouth shut or else you’ll make matters worse.
make matters worse (2nd definition)
used to say that smth has made an unpleasant or a difficult situation worse.
Школы переполнены, и что ещё хуже, большинство учителей планируются уволиться в следующем году.
Schools are overcrowded, and to make matters worse, many teachers plan to retire next year.
run into
to drive a vehicle into an object or a person in another vehicle by accident.
run into (2nd definition)
to meet someone your know you’re not expecting it (by accident).
(from) out of nowhere
very suddenly or unexpectedly
появится из неоткуда
come out of nowhere
Из неоткуда появился НЛО.
The flying object came from out of nowhere.
neither…nor
used when you want to say that two or more things are not true.
ничего не иметь из этого
to have neither something
on top of (that)
in addition to smth, especially smth unpleasant.
Мы пропустили наш автобус, и что ещё хуже, у следующего автобуса, который мы поймали, произошли технические неполадки.
We missed our bus, and on top of that the next one we took, had mechanical problems.
the latter
near or towards the end of smth
Строительство начнётся в конце месяца.
The construction will begin in the latter part of the month.
The latter half of
the second of two elements (people, objects, things) that have been just mentioned in the current or previous sentence (or that have been just talked about).
