Рубрика: Идиомы
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Not Giving In
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to stick to your guns = to continue to have your beliefs or continue with a plan of action, even if other people disagree with you Despite the advice from his surrounding, he stuck to his guns on this issue.
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Body — 2
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to twist somebody’s arms = to make people do something, to persuade so that it is hard to refuse to have one’s arms twisted My wife twisted my arm into buying this unnecessary thing.
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Make
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to make a beeline for… — to go somewhere quickly, to move towards a person or a thing The moment I noticed him, I made a beeline to him.
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Words that Alliterate and Rhyme — 2
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higgledy-piggledy = in a mess This is my son’s room, and, as you can see, it’s a little bit higgledy-piggledy.
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Words that Alliterate and Rhyme — 1
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Words that alliterate (start with the same letter) or rhyme: willy-nilly = happening without people’s intention ~ волей-неволей “Yet I found myself drawn willy-nilly into the intricacies of a conversation that had nothing to do with me.”
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Sport
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to be thrown in at the deep end – to make someone start doing a difficult without getting them prepared Masood, the young left-arm spinner from Khanewal, was thrown in at the deep end just like countless other boys in the country […]
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Personality
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eager beaver = an enthusiastic person, a very diligent person She is an eager beaver who wants to learn everything.
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Smell
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to smell a rat = to suspect that something is wrong All the documents were in order, still I smelled a rat.
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Dog
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to go to the dogs = to become less successful, to deteriorate My uncle likes to repeat that the country is going to the dogs.
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Cat
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to think of oneself as cat’s whiskers = to be big-headed, to regard oneself as important I can’t stand him. He thinks he’s the cat’s whiskers.