NTC’S American IDIOMS Dictionary phần 3 docx

... rolling to get started. (Informal.) ᮀ Come on. It’s time to leave. Let’s get rolling! ᮀ Bill, it’s 6 :30 . Time to get up and get rolling! get second thoughts about someone or something to have new ... of my mind. ᮀ Mary couldn’t get the song out of get someone or something out of one’s mind 1 43 a shellacking anyway. ᮀ I practiced my tennis game so I wouldn’t take a shellack- ing in the...

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... said. 2. doped or drugged. (Slang.) ᮀ Bob acted very strangely—as if he were strung strung out 38 3 sit tight to wait; to wait patiently. (Infor- mal. This does not necessarily refer to sit- ting.) ... become depressed. ᮀ After losing all my money, I sank into despair. ᮀ There is sink into despair 36 3 thrill someone to pieces and thrill someone to death to please or excite someone very...

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... sympathy system get something out of one’s system systems all systems (are) go T done to a T NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 588 up wrapped up in someone or something up wrap something up up write ... build up to something to burned to a cinder to burn someone or something to a crisp NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 596 shot (all) shot to hell shot give something a sho...

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... or something let let go (with something ) let let grass grow under one’s feet NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 530 in in the first place in in the flesh in in the forefront (of something ) in ... one’s marbles marbles lose one’s marbles March (as) mad as a March hare March mad as a March hare NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 536 noses count noses not All that glitters i...

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... tilt at windmills at tip the scales at something at try one’s hand (at something ) NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 458 as happy as a lark as happy as can be as hard as a rock as hard as nails as ... tick as tight as Dick’s hatband as tough as an old boot as true as steel as ugly as a toad NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 456 with impunity without risk of punish- ment; with...

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... grade down. T Let’s see if we can pull down your temperature. pull someone or something down 32 3 sleeves up and get busy. This isn’t a pic- nic. This is work! T Come on, you guys, get busy. ... had nowhere to live and so they had to rough it in a tent till they found somewhere. rough it 34 3 nication with someone. (See also on hold. ) ᮀ John put Ann on hold and started dating Mary. ᮀ .....

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... biblical story recounting the return of the prodigal son. Fatted is older kill the fatted calf 233 nip and tuck almost even; almost tied. (In- formal.) ᮀ The horses ran nip and tuck for the first ... transportation. ᮀ The driver let Mary off the bus. ᮀ “I can’t let you off at this corner,” said the driver. 3. [with something] to release something; to give something off. T The engine wa...

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... Look, John, I’m in a tight spot. Can you lend me twenty dol- lars? ᮀ I’m in a spot too. I need $30 0. ᮀ I have never gotten into a tight spot. in a tizzy in an excited and confused con- dition. ... ᮀ You’ve got nothing on me! Let me go! 2. to have no information about someone or something. ᮀ The dictionary had nothing on the word I looked up. ᮀ The librarian said that the library has no...

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... the second act. ᮀ The class cracked up when I told my joke, but the teacher did- n’t like it. 3. to go crazy. (Slang.) ᮀ The mayor cracked up after only a year in of- fice. ᮀ I was afraid the ... loose (from someone or something ).) ᮀ Jane is finding it cut loose (from someone or something) 83 by hook or (by) crook by any means, le- gal or illegal. (Folksy.) ᮀ I’ll get the job done by ....

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... the dictionary. The compiler has included idiomatic phrases drawn from or suggested by Anne Bertram in NTC’s Dictionary of Proverbs and Clichés, NTC’s Dictionary of Euphemisms, and NTC’s Dictionary ... Dictionary of Folksy, Regional, and Rural Sayings and Eliza- beth Kirkpatrick in NTC’s English Idioms Dictionary. About This Dictionary xiii amount of salt called for in...

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