NTC’S American IDIOMS Dictionary phần 1 potx

... and Clichés, NTC’s Dictionary of Euphemisms, and NTC’s Dictionary of Folksy, Regional, and Rural Sayings and Eliza- beth Kirkpatrick in NTC’s English Idioms Dictionary. About This Dictionary xiii amount ... wouldn’t permit it. ᮀ Please don’t 31 B Contents To the User vii Terms and Symbols ix About This Dictionary xi Dictionary 1 Phrase-Finder Index 447 Appendix 6 21...

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... shouting distance within within someone’s grasp within within someone’s reach NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 616 scene come on the scene scene create a scene scene make a scene scene make the ... the year Ye a r ring in the New Year year year after year year year in, year out NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 618 they count one’s chickens before they hatch They They don’...

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... hot water hot hot and bothered hot hot and heavy hot hot as fire hot hot as hell NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 514 hand lend a hand (to someone ) hand lend ( someone ) a hand hand lift a hand ... tight rein on someone or something Keep Keep at it! keep keep at someone or something NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 526 It It never rains but it pours. It It (only) stands t...

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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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... else). ᮀ Yo u want to sell for $12 0, and I want to buy for $10 0. Let’s split the difference and close the deal at $11 0. ᮀ I don’t want to split the difference. I want $12 0. split up [for people] ... cruel things to you, but he was angry. You shouldn’t take those things to heart. take something up 1. to begin to deal with an issue. (See also take something up (with someone ).) ᮀ Tha...

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... something to express a number in the nearest whole amount or nearest group of 1, 10 , 10 0, 1, 000, 1 ⁄ 10 , 1 ⁄ 10 0 , 1 ⁄ 1, 000 , etc. ᮀ When doing taxes, Anne rounded her figures off to the nearest ... safe and stole the money. pick a lock 311 Over the short haul, you may wish you had done something different. But things will work out all right. over the top 1. having g...

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... something, such as a rate of interest, permanent over a pe- riod of time. (Informal.) ᮀ We locked in an 11 percent rate on our mortgage. ᮀ You should try to lock in a high percentage rate on your bonds. lock, ... house and make free with my food and drink. ᮀ make free with someone or something 2 61 melt in one’s mouth 1. to taste very good. (Also can be literal.) ᮀ This cake is so go...

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... in communication. (Also literal.) ᮀ I have had no contact with Bill have contact with someone 18 1 describe my job because it’s in a constant state of f lux. ᮀ The price of gold is in flux. in ... prime when we ran out of money. ᮀ I could work long hours when I was in my prime. in one’s prine 211 in one’s right mind sane; rational and sen- sible. (Often in the negative.) ᮀ That was a...

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... told to fall in behind the scoutmaster. ᮀ The soldiers fell in quickly. fall (all) over oneself 11 0 frighten the wits out of someone and frighten the (living) daylights out of someone ; scare ... with everything they needed. ᮀ They fitted them out for only $14 0. ᮀ He fitted his car out with lots of chrome. fit someone to a T 1. Go to suit someone to a T. 2. [for something] to fit a pe...

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... Someday it will be valuable. die a natural death 1. [for someone] to die by disease or old age rather than by violence or foul play. ᮀ I hope to live to 10 0 and die a natural death. ᮀ The po- lice ... the picnickers come on the scene? ᮀ The witness arrived on the scene at about 7 :13 in the evening. come out 1. to become; to turn out. (Also literal.) ᮀ We’ll just have to wait and see...

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