hit the sauce

hits the sauce
hitting the sauce
hit the sauce

Pat Crowley's been hitting the sauce pretty hard since Karen split, and he's got no head for it.

2007, Dana Stabenow, A Deeper Sleep, →ISBN，第 120 頁:

If you've done all you can, and everyone still hit the sauce a little too hard, take their keys, call them a cab, offer them the couch, or give them a ride if you are sober

2009, Christina Perozzi, Hallie Beaune, The Naked Pint: An Unadulterated Guide to Craft Beer, →ISBN:

She adored him and never said an unkind word about him, although she said he hit the sauce every now and again.

2012, Analiese Douchay, The Flight of the Wood Nymphe, →ISBN:


Man Upstairs

A rhapsodic inquiry greets us from the TV screen and the radio: "Have you talked to the Man Upstairs?" God is a friendly neighbor who dwells in the apartment just above. Call on him any time, especially if you are feeling a little blue.

1972, Harold Edward Fey, The Christian Century Reader:

"Oh, you know, the Man upstairs has been good to this person." I kept on pressing for an explanation. Finally I was told, "Oh, you know, the Man upstairs—He's the One who answers prayer."

2000, Lee Roberson, Diamonds in the Rough:

God can't be found in unsanctified imaginations or in the caricatures of pop culture. He is not The Man Upstairs. He does not "help those who help themselves."

2007, Ellen Santilli Vaughn, Time Peace: Living Here and Now with a Timeless God:


remobilises

remobilise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


there be

补充词there源自古英語 þær，用于放在英语曾使用的动词第二顺位的第一个位置。

If there be any thing ILL in the Univerſe from Deſign, then that which diſpoſes all things, is no one good deſigning Principle.

1749, Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury, Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, J. Baskerville, page 8:

Unless there be some lesion of the stomach, there is no blood, either microscopic or occult.

1907, Southern Society for Clinical Investigation, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, J.B. Lippincott, Co., page 627:

There ought to be representation on the broad basis of population and public discussion with open doors and free debate. . . . Nor should there be any constraint upon the opinions of any of the members of the Diet or upon their right of publishing them, even though such would meet with opposition from without.

1988, John S. Doskey, William Maclure, The European Journals of William Maclure, →ISBN，第 204 頁:

There may be people with drug or alcohol problems who may go into withdrawal.

1996, Diane Meyers, Disaster Response and Recovery: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals, →ISBN，第 75 頁:

I just want to know the truth, you are expressing your concerns, but I also want there to be some candor between us.

1999, Christopher Shays, “Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relationsof the Committee on Government Reform”, 出自 Anthrax Immunization Program, →ISBN，第 35 頁:


Ont.

Ontario (“安大略”)之縮寫。


OPP

Ontario Provincial Police (“安大略省省警”)之首字母縮略詞。


pull strings

来源于木偶戏，其中的角色需要拉动人偶上的线才能活动。

pulls strings
pulling strings
pulled strings

牵线，打招呼 （用自己的影响力请别人为自己做有利的事）

He has the job not because of talent, but because his dad pulled strings with the boss.

他并非因为他的才华而得到工作，而是因为他爸爸让老板开了后门。

通常在“string”前加“the”

“his”之类形容词性物主代词

We know who pulls the strings around here.


at gunpoint

At gunpoint I was told to hand over my money.

I held him at gunpoint until police arrived.

警察来之前我一直用枪指着他。


draw near

draws near
drawing near
drew near
drawn near

/dɹɔː nɪə(ɹ)/

I became nervous as my wedding day drew near.

我离大喜日子越来越近，变得越发紧张起来。

The crowd drew near to the speaker.


tsundere

借自日語 ツンデレ (tsundere)，源自つんつん (tsun-tsun, “漠不关心地”, 副词) + でれでれ (dere-dere, “含情脉脉地”, 副词)。

I usually draw very peaceful, happy manga, so it has been a real challenge for me to illustrate the vice president's death glare and Ri-chan's subtle tsundere attitude.

2008, Kio Shimoku, Kujibiki Unbalance 1, Del Rey/Ballantine Books, →ISBN，unnumbered 頁:

Even Kaname's rude and overbearing tsundere personality is explained by her having gone to school in the United States where she was socialized to just bluntly say what she thought.

2010年August14日, David Johnston, “Full Metal Panic: One Night Stand”, 出自 rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

Despite his apparent power, the boy behaves with uncharacteristic meekness toward the formidable tsundere Misato Tachibana, whose grotesquely distorted romantic feelings for Koujirou almost invariably result in her shooting him all over the school with heavy weaponry (which seems to spring out of nowhere).

2012, Dani Cavallaro, Kyoto Animation: A Critical Study and Filmography, McFarland & Company, →ISBN，第 157 頁:

有關使用本詞的更多用例，請參閱Citations:tsundere。


tsundere

more tsundere (comparative)
most tsundere (superlative)


heartwrenching

more heartwrenching (comparative)
most heartwrenching (superlative)

The interview with Sarah Mohess was both heartwrenching and inspiring.

2007年September23日, “In a Tough City, Almost an Adult; An Active Approach to Psychic Change (4 Letters)”, 出自 New York Times:


sob story

悲惨的故事，伤感故事 （尤指用来引起人同情的）

"Dis picture is called De Tale o' Two Cities, and it's de French revolution. It's about a feller vot takes anodder feller's place and gits his head cut off; and say, dere's a sob story in it vot's a vunder."

1922, Upton Sinclair, 章號 14, 出自 They call Me Carpenter:

Mr. Martin objected at first to the bastardization of my talent, but I gave him a sob story about needing money for lessons.

2006, Keith Donohue, The Stolen Child, →ISBN，第 56 頁:


lay claim

Spencer University lays claim to the recently published discovery.

Argentina also lays claim to what is now Queen Elizabeth Land, as well as to other South Atlantic dependencies including South Georgia and the uninhabited South Sandwich Islands.

2013年January3日, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, The Guardian:


iced-over

more iced-over (comparative)
most iced-over (superlative)


come to grips with

comes to grips with
coming to grips with
came to grips with
come to grips with

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Until she comes to grips with her mother's death, she has no hope of putting it behind her.

On Thursday, Robert A. Iger, Disney’s chief executive, put the sale of the company’s “noncore” channels, including ABC and FX, on the table. He called the decline in traditional television “a reality we have to come to grips with.”

2023年July15日, Brooks Barnes, 引 Robert A. Iger, “In Hollywood, the Strikes Are Just Part of the Problem”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:


by any stretch of the imagination

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完全（不），一点也（不），不管怎么想都（不）

The British Prime Minister isn't a monarch by any stretch of the imagination.

英国首相绝不是什么君主。


anyone's guess

拿不准的事情，大家都不知道的事情

It was a disappointing way for the game to finish, with Sagna guilty of leaning his head in towards Zabaleta's after a challenge by the touchline, though what the Argentine did to warrant a dismissal is anyone's guess.

2011年January5日, Jonathan Stevenson, “Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, 出自 BBC:


confrontational

more confrontational (comparative)
most confrontational (superlative)

/ˌkɒnfɹənˈteɪʃənˈəl/

对峙的；（尤指）咄咄逼人的，挑衅的

It was Liverpool who once again carried the momentum after the break and the recalled Rio Ferdinand was booked for a foul on Suarez, whose confrontational approach and brilliant natural ability was proving hard to handle.

2011年October15日, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, 出自 BBC Sport:


pleasantries

（正式谈话之前的）寒暄，客套，打招呼

exchanging pleasantries

Signora Caterina thought it could. Weak, yet cunning—vain, yet conscious of having outlived her attractions—with one of those tempers which we conceive to be the true interpretation of the old fairy tale, where out of the mouth of the party proceeded snakes, toads, locusts, and other pleasantries.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], 章號 XI, 出自 Romance and Reality. […], 第 III 卷, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC，第 221 頁:


none the wiser

never the wiser

（对某事物）没能了解的，没能知道的

（对某事物）没能了解的，没能知道的

They were none the wiser from their experience

他们从经验里什么都没学到。

After the lecture, nobody was any the wiser on the subject.

讲座后，大家对那个主题还是一头雾水。

He's very careful, so his victims are none the wiser.

他行事谨慎，他的受害者都没有察觉到。


hear the end of it

hears the end of it
hearing the end of it
heard the end of it

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If I spilled wine on their new carpet, I'd never hear the end of it.

如果我把酒撒到他们的新毯子上，他们就会没完没了地说我。


all-encompassing

more all-encompassing (comparative)
most all-encompassing (superlative)


get a word in edgewise

edgewise和edgeways (“边缘向着移动方向地”)是比喻用法，比喻插话者能够进入的间隙很小。

gets a word in edgewise
getting a word in edgewise
got a word in edgewise
got a word in edgewise
gotten a word in edgewise

/ˌɡɛt ə ˈwɜːd ɪn ˈɛdʒwaɪz/

/ˌɡɛt ə ˈwɝd ɪn ˈɛdʒwaɪz/

Everyone was talking at once. I couldn’t get a word in edgewise.

大家都同时说了起来，我插不上话。

The converſation at breakfaſt began on reading, which ſhe ſaid ſhe was extremely fond of, and Joſeph, her ladyſhip, and my papa, fell into ſuch a deep diſcourſe, that I verily thought they would never have finiſhed; for, believe me, I was quite out of patience, as neither mama nor I, could ſo much as put a ſingle word in edgewiſe; for they might as well have talked Greek to us, and we ſhould have underſtood them much the ſame.

[1778 December, “[Original Letters. Miss Clifford to Miss Granby.] In Continuation.”, 出自 The Lady’s Magazine; or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated Solely to Their Use and Amusement, London: Printed for G[eorge] Robinson, […], →OCLC，第 652 頁，第 1 列:

Accordingly she was exceedingly elevated; alternately singing pieces of hymns in a hobbling broken voice, having lost her teeth, breaking out into incoherent exclamations, and relating parts of her experience; while I had not room, which indeed I did not much require, to get a word in edgewise.

1822, [James Colman], “Letter VIII. The Contrast.”, 出自 Walks in the Country; or, Christian Sketches of Scenery, Life, and Character, in Familiar Letters, London: Printed for the author; published by James Nisbet, […], →OCLC，第 100–101 頁s:

We help him push his Nash down the street, then drink awhile and talk with Evelyn a beautiful blonde woman that young Ron Blake wants and even Dave Wain wants but she's got her mind on other things and taking care of the children who have to go to school and dancing classes in the morning and hardly gets a word in edgewise anyway as we all yak and yell like fools to impress her tho all she really wants is to be alone with me to talk about Cody and his latest soul.

1962年September11日, Jack Kerouac, 章號 13, 出自 Big Sur, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →OCLC; 再版為 Big Sur (Penguin Modern Classics), London: Penguin Books, 2012, →ISBN:

源自the women who write to her, Cokie Roberts has observed, "I get the feeling that the country is full of women who've never gotten a word in edgewise when the men talk politics."

1996, Louis Baldwin, “Cokie Roberts: Political Commentator (1943– )”, 出自 Women of Strength: Biographies of 106 who have Excelled in Traditionally Male Fields, A.D. 61 to the Present, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN，第 177 頁:

I sat there, letting his voice run on. Even if I'd wanted to, I couldn't have gotten a word in edgeways. Perhaps if life continued thi way, I would gradually lose the faculty of speech, [...]

1999, Zena Collier, 章號 3, 出自 A Cooler Climate, Lincoln, Neb.: toExcel Press, iUniverse, →ISBN，第 24 頁:

I only included the interview because it is revealing of Javanese gender relationships. The young dancer is muted and hardly gets a word in edgeways, as the (male) troupe leader and her mother hijack each question and provide answers which are sometimes contradictory.

1999, Felicia Hughes-Freeland, “Dance on Film: Strategy and Serendipity”, 出自 Theresa J. Buckland 編, Dance in the Field: Theory, Methods and Issues in Dance Ethnography, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, part II (Methodological Approaches)，第 117 頁:

[W]hen interacting with a member of a cultural group used to taking longer to reflect on what to say next, native English speakers virtually prevent this person from getting a word in edgewise. We feel compelled to fill the "uncomfortably long" silence with words.

2003, Sylvia Helmer, Catherine Eddy, “ESL Learners and Communication”, 出自 Dyanne Rivers 編, Look at Me when I Talk to You: ESL Learners in Non-ESL Classrooms (Pippin Teacher’s Library; 39), Toronto, Ont.: Pippin Publishing Company, →ISBN，第 48 頁:

Stanton stood up. It seemed the only way of getting a word in edgeways.

2014, Ben Elton, 章號 5, 出自 Time and Time Again, London: Black Swan, Transworld Publishers, →ISBN，第 57 頁:

Betsy rang me every now and then, but I couldn't get caught up in the 'fight' like she did. Besides, if I got a word in edgeways during each call I'd be lucky.

2014, Emma O’Reilly, with Shannon Kyle, “Old Wounds”, 出自 The Race to Truth: Blowing the Whistle on Lance Armstrong and Cycling’s Doping Culture, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN，第 248 頁:

She must have nattered on for half an hour. Everyone else was gone when I finally got a word in edgewise and escaped.

2015 February, Eva Gates, By Book or by Crook (A Lighthouse Library Mystery), New York, N.Y.: Obsidian, New American Library, →ISBN，第 313 頁:


take at face value

takes at face value
taking at face value
took at face value
taken at face value

take on trust

看...时只看表面，不假思索地接受

take on faith

看...时只看表面，不假思索地接受

take with a grain of salt

看...时只看表面，不假思索地接受

read between the lines

看...时只看表面，不假思索地接受

看...时只看表面，不假思索地接受


sunup

“Shagbark, that was risky on your part; even where it lies it is much closer than I like, for we shall all have to see it in the morning.”
“No, you won’t; it’ll be gone afore sunup.”

1909, Edward S. Ellis, Alden the Pony Express Rider:


piehole

源自pie + hole。由史蒂芬·金在其1983年所作恐怖小说《克丽斯汀》内所造。

“You trying to help your buddy right out of here, Junior?” “No,” I said. “Sir.” “Then shut your pie-hole.”

"[T]hey kin always do a mouth transplant on ya. Be a big improvement over the piehole you was born with."

2007, David Sherman, Dan Cragg, Firestorm, →ISBN，第 258 頁:


brownnose

拍马屁的人，阿谀奉承者，马屁精

A workmate reported the matter, "which is why the worker threatened to beat up the latter," calling him a "brownnose" and threatening to "wipe the floor with him."

1997, Ulrich Herbert, Hitler's foreign workers: enforced foreign labor in Germany under the Third Reich, Cambridge University Press，第 126 頁:

'I know, he's a natural brownnose. I guess he does have some talents.'

2007, Felicity Young, An Easeful Death, Fremantle Press，第 13 頁:

You don't have to be such a brownnose, at least not to me.

2010, Joseph Morse, Gods of Ruin: A Political Thriller,，第 46 頁:


slasher movie

(常指包含折磨、血腥镜头的） 恐怖片

Two girls, watching a slasher movie about a psycho in an Edvard Munch Scream mask who calls girls at home and then stabs them to death, get a call from a psycho who shows up in a Scream mask and stabs them to death.

2011年April15日, Richard Corliss, “Movies: Scream 4 — The Ultimate Shriekquel”, 出自 Time:


take the edge off

takes the edge off
taking the edge off
took the edge off
taken the edge off

Allen Gregory DeLongpre: You know what? Let's forget all the mishegoss and try to enjoy our lunch, huh? Take the edge off.

2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):

She knew better than to drink from the bar, but she'd been so thirsty, and she needed something to take the edge off.

2011, Allison Brennan, Kiss Me, Kill Me: A Novel of Suspense，第 1 頁:

（通过饮酒、服药等）放松


skulk

源自中古英語 skulke, skulken，源自北日耳曼語支，对比丹麥語 skulke (“逃避，偷懒”)、瑞典語 skolka (“偷懒”)。

A skulk of foxes, a cowardice of curs are tonight’s traffic whispering in the yards and lanes.

1973, Thomas Pynchon, 章號 1, 出自 Gravity’s Rainbow, Penguin, 出版於 2000，第 59–60 頁s:

A skulk of fox padded daintily over a stream-slashed meadow, and a herd of deer like iron ornaments stood stock still in their winter pelage.

2007, Millard Kaufman, 章號 19, 出自 Bowl of Cherries, San Francisco: McSweeney’s Books，第 128 頁:

一群狐狸一样狡猾，阴险的人

[…] a skulk of priests flapped out of the Church of San Geronimo, and women kneeling at novena put away their beads […]

1972, R. M. Koster, 章號 43, 出自 The Prince,, New York: Morrow，第 320 頁:

The law was served by a skulk of informers, who traded their whispers to the royal foresters and woodwards, who gilded their tales for the verderers and regarders, who presented the guilty to the forest Justices.

1982, Richard Girling, “1160: Chivalry”, 出自 The Forest on the Hill, New York: Viking，第 69 頁:

[…] they went on, down the road, staggering, and shouldering each other, like a skulk of Jacobean villains.

2000, John Banville, Eclipse, New York: Knopf, 出版於 2001, Part 5, p. 190:

Ten days after the attacks, a skulk of insurance executives met with President Bush and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans to press for the creation of a multibillion-dollar government safety net to limit their exposure to future terrorist incidents.

2004, Micah L. Sifry, Nancy Watzman, 章號 24, 出自 Is That a Politician in Your Pocket?, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley，第 200–201 頁s:

动词的名词化形式 鬼鬼祟祟地走

A part of their company, who had been sent out on a skulk, had not returned, and great anxiety was felt lest they had fallen into an ambush and been captured.

1857, Jacob S. C. Abbott, History of King Philip, Sovereign Chief of the Wampanoags, New York: Harper, Chapter , p. 369:

There was only the danger that his horse might lame himself in the night; but then he could go back in the hills and make a skulk on foot.

1902, Frederic Remington, 章號 18, 出自 John Ermine of the Yellowstone, New York: Macmillan，第 246 頁:

Willie knew that the time was propitious for a skulk across Hall, thence into the class-room of Mr. Beach.

1922, Henry Williamson, “The Opening of the Flower”, 出自 Dandelion Days, London: W. Collins，第 120 頁:

That gave him three or four more hours of darkness in which to plan an escape more sensible than a skulk to the hut next door.

2012, Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, New York: Random House, Prologue, p. xix:

His gait was something between a slouch and a skulk.

1987, Lloyd Alexander, 章號 5, 出自 The Illyrian Adventure, New York: Dell，第 32 頁:

Romen had developed a kind of strut to replace his former skulk.

2003, Toni Morrison, Love, New York: Knopf，第 109 頁:

动词的名词化形式
逃避，规避 （责任等）

[They took] good care […] to swing their hammocks as far abaft as possible, for the twofold purpose of having a skulk in their watch below at night, and to keep clear of the sprays, which usually pour down the gratings […]

1859, George Little, 章號 3, 出自 The American Cruiser’s Own Book, Philadelphia: J.B. Smith，第 36 頁:

“This nonsense won’t do for me, you know; if you want a skulk, you had better pack off back to the house.”

1867, James Greenwood, 章號 15, 出自 Humphrey Dyot, 第 1 卷, London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston，第 224 頁:

Bidwell is not the only one who feigns paralysis; many poison their flesh by inserting in it copper-wire or worsted; others swallow ground glass, eat poisonous insects, swallow soap and soda, or slightly maim and disable themselves. Anything by which they can secure a skulk, and escape from what Mr. Carlyle has wisely called the “sacredness of work.”

1879, anonymous author, 章號 7, 出自 Convict Life; or, Revelations Concerning Convicts and Convict Prisons, London: Wyman & Sons:

“I shall do my duty, Mr. Jackson,” replied Newton, “and fear no consequences.”
“Indeed! you saw how I settled a skulk just now;—beware of his fate!”

1832, Frederick Marryat, 章號 16, 出自 Newton Forster; or, The Merchant Service, 第 1 卷, London: James Cochrane，第 238 頁:

Toward evening there was something to be done on deck, and the carpenter who belonged to the watch was missing. “Where’s that skulk, Chips?” shouted Jermin down the forecastle scuttle.

1847, Herman Melville, 章號 4, 出自 Omoo, New York: Harper，第 32 頁:

If you should ever need help, my son, let this be your rule—‘never ask it from the man who deserted his country in her hour of need.’ The soldier’s child will find no mercy from a skulk, depend on it.

1872, Sallie F. Chapin, 章號 7, 出自 Fitz-Hugh St. Clair, the South Carolina Rebel Boy, Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger，第 75 頁:

An exempt, a skulk, or one upon whom rested the faintest suspicion of evading duty or shrinking in the critical hour of impending battle, was the special object of his wrath.

1906, Henry E. Shepherd, Life of Robert Edward Lee, New York: Neale, Part 3, p. 62:


skulk

Stephen's craze for physical culture increased, and now it began to invade the schoolroom. Dumb-bells appeared in the schoolroom bookcases, while half worn-out gym shoes skulked in the corners.

1928, Radclyffe Hall, 章號 6, 出自 The Well of Loneliness, London: Jonathan Cape, →OCLC; 再版 New York, N.Y.: Covici Friede Publishers, October 1932, →OCLC, book 1, section 5，第 60 頁:

He has been seen with her, by one whom he would not know, at Cuper’s Gardens; dressed like a Sea-officer, and skulking, like a thief, into the privatest walks of the place.

1753, Samuel Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison, London, Volume 4, Letter 38, p. 266:

Noble brother, I am
Not one of those men who in words are valiant,
And when it comes to action skulk away.

1800, Friedrich Schiller, 譯者 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Piccolomini, or The First Part of Wallenstein, London: Longman and Rees, act V, scene 4，第 196 頁:

Fully a dozen of the citizens had seen him hastening toward the woods and noted his skulking air [...]

1904, Paul Laurence Dunbar, “The Lynching of Jube Benson”, 出自 The Heart of Happy Hollow, New York: Dodd, Mead，第 233 頁:

They are paid about three shillings a day for ten hours’ work—it is hard work, especially in windy weather, and there is no skulking, for an inspector comes round frequently to see that the men are on their beats.

1933年January9日, George Orwell [筆名；本名 Eric Arthur Blair], 章號 33, 出自 Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:


look the part

looks the part
looking the part
looked the part

If you want to be a successful business person, you have to look the part.

你想做成功的商务人士的话，你就要仪表得体。

We were going to cast him in our new movie but unfortunately he didn't look the part.

我们本来想找他出演我们的新电影，但是他外貌不太合适。

Turner looked assured, picking out his men at the lineouts, while Redpath was seeing plenty of the ball and also looked the part as the Scots probed for opening.

2021年February6日, Graham Bean, “Scotland beat England at Twickenham for the first time in 38 years”, 出自 The Scotsman:


mangled

more mangled (comparative)
most mangled (superlative)


mangled

mangle 的簡單過去時和過去時分詞


what gives

于1940年首次可考于约翰·奥哈拉所著小说《Pal Joey》。据《American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition》（2013年）和一些其他文献，其是仿譯自德語 “was gibt's?”或一个意第緒語等价构式。

Not even thirty minutes after leaving the shower, my head starts itching. What gives?

洗完澡还没三十分钟，我的头就开始痒了。到底是怎么回事？

What gives with you and Martha?

你和Martha是怎么了？


add insult to injury

派生自公元前一世纪的菲得洛斯寓言。寓言中，有一个秃子打落在自己头上的苍蝇，但却给了自己的头一击。苍蝇说：“你因为我碰了你你就想杀我，那你现在在伤口上撒盐（added insult to injury），你要对自己做什么呢？”首个英语内的措辞记载出现于18世纪中叶。

adds insult to injury
adding insult to injury
added insult to injury

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To add insult to injury,...

As if the hostile takeover weren't enough, to add insult to injury they scrapped ninety percent of our products and replaced them with their own.

恶意收购还不够，他们还雪上加霜，把我们百分之九十的产品都换成了他们的。

[...] the line crossed over an iron bridge spanning Ludgate Hill itself [...] neatly obliterating any view of St Paul's from Ludgate Circus and Fleet Street. A thousand people had put their names to a petition against the bridge. To add insult to injury it carried a small thicket of railway signals as well as regular steam trains.

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, ISBN 978-1846684777，第 52 頁:


color me

Well, color me surprised! I wasn't expecting you here.

喔，真没想到！怎么在这里碰到你了。

Oh, phew. Color me relieved.


gloss over

They glossed over the problem, hoping that the customers wouldn't notice.

他们隐瞒了那个问题，希望顾客们注意不到。

忽略，忽视，对...关心不足

This book only glosses over quantum mechanics, and doesn't go into detail.

这本书对量子力学只是一笔带过，没有细讲。


wig out

Oh no, you didn't! You called me a what? / Don't make me wig out / How you gonna let some shit like that slip out your mouth?

2003, “Let Me Watch”, 出自 Vaudeville Villain, 演出者 Viktor Vaughn ft. Apani B. Fly:

An organist wigged out like Rick Wakeman, the diamante lapels of Humza Yousaf’s kilt jacket sparkled, and out in the Mall, the procession began.

2023年May6日, Rachel Cooke, “It was ludicrous but also magnificent: the coronation stirred every emotion”, 出自 The Guardian:


wig out

“Let’s get high!” say Quill, Saturday’s opening act and maybe the most obscure name on the bill. They are also awful. They Live The Life lasts a leaden, eight minutes, ending in a percussive wig out with the band sarcastically chanting: “You’re so free!” This was played during one of the brief sunny spells, but you wouldn’t know it.

2019年August15日, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, 出自 The Guardian:


send someone packing

sends someone packing
sending someone packing
sent someone packing

拒绝某人，回绝某人；赶走某人

[T]he parliament, to their immortal honour, presently sent him packing.

c. 1695, Dr. Robert South, “To Archbishop of Dublin”, 出自 Sermons, Vol. III:

Two ladies called one day, pale and anxious, and begged earnestly, humbly, to be allowed to see Mr. Moore one instant: Mrs. Yorke hardened her heart, and sent them packing.

1849, Currer Bell [筆名; Charlotte Brontë], 章號 32, 出自 Shirley. A Tale. […], 第 (請指定|volume=I、II或III) 卷, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC:

"Monsieur, you and yours are not for me. Seek elsewhere." . . .
"You send me packing!" he blurted out, getting red in the face.

1904, Gilbert Parker, 章號 2, 出自 Michel and Angele:

[L]eague authorities sent him packing after ruling he was registered with a fake Dominican passport under circumstances that remain murky.

2014年June14日, Anne Marie Garcia, “Cuba ballplayers chase dreams, big bucks, overseas”, 出自 Businessweek, retrieved 2014-07-08:


hand someone his hat

hands someone his hat
handing someone his hat
handed someone his hat

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McNeil replied, "It may have been Hitler who helped Chamberlain with his overcoat but don't forget it was the British people who handed him his hat."

1948年November27日, Drew Pearson, “The Washington Merry-go-round”, 出自 Ludington Daily News, US, retrieved 2015-11-10，第 4 頁:

You grew up under dictators who would have put people to the sword if they dared hand them their hats and invite them to buzz off.

1972年July25日, Bob Considine, “Letter to Kremlin”, 出自 Reading Eagle, US, retrieved 2015-11-10，第 4 頁:

The President's men, nonetheless, view him the way the Vatican saw Galileo—as a dangerous heretic. . . . They would hand him his hat if they dared.

1984年February6日, Mary McGrory, “Feldstein doggedly speaks his mind”, 出自 Eugene Register-Guard, US, retrieved 2015-11-10，第 15A 頁:


sophism

源自中古英語 sophim，源自古法語 soffime、sofime、sofisme、sophisme，源自拉丁語 sophisma (“谬误，诡辩”)，源自古希臘語 σόφῐσμᾰ (sóphĭsmă)，源自σοφίζω (sophízō) + -μα (-ma)。

Within the framework of democracy a new ideology, born of sophism, took root and proclaimed the rights of the individual in all spheres, political as well as moral.

1958, Sophie Trenkner, The Greek Novella in the Classical Period，第 15 頁:

Empiricism has its roots in Greek and Roman sophism and skepticism, and continues through Kant and American pragmatism.

2003, Murray Leaf, “Ethnography and Pragmatism”, 出自 Alfonso Morales 編, Renascent Pragmatism: Studies in Law and Social Science, →ISBN，第 92 頁:

Sophistic teachers did not, in general, consciously aim at corrupting the young or turning them against their parents, but the radical skepticism and moral relativism of later sophism indirectly achieved something like this.

2009, Richard M. Berthold, Dare to Struggle: The History and Society of Greece, →ISBN，第 75 頁:

The hope of improvement is a quality at once so strong and so excellent in the human mind, that I, for one, disapprove of any sophism—or, if you will, argument—that tends to repress it.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], 章號 XIX, 出自 Romance and Reality. […], 第 I 卷, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC，第 232 頁:

What! No demonstration of the Being of God! No abstract arguments! No proofs a priori! Are these, which have hitherto been so much insisted on by philosophers, all fallacy, all sophism? Can we reach no further in this subject than experience and probability?

1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion:


sophism

Sufism的古舊形式。


grow on

I didn't like this song at first, but now it's starting to grow on me.

我一开始不喜欢这首歌，但是现在越来越喜欢。

Blinking and swallowing, she checked her list of questions. “What are some of your favorite outdoor and indoor activities?” “Well, whale watching is growing on me.”

2015, Jenny Elliott, Save Me, Macmillan, →ISBN，第 82 頁:

"I can tell you now, Sam. […] When you left me last night, the whole deadly seriousness of the matter grew on me, till I was as miserable as a man can be." His face lightened as I spoke.

1902, Bram Stoker, 章號 XVIII, 出自 The Mystery of the Sea:

Realisation grew on me / As quickly as it takes your hand

2014, “Hunger of the Pine”, 出自 This Is All Yours, 演出者 alt-J:


get a rise out of

gets a rise out of
getting a rise out of
got a rise out of
got a rise out of
gotten a rise out of

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He's just doing it to get a rise out of you. Just ignore him.

1985, John Hughes, 導演John Hughes, The Breakfast Club, 角色 Claire Standish（Molly Ringwald）:

Ahmadinejad is no simpleton. . . . His Holocaust denial is a flagrant ploy—the easiest way to get a rise out of the Jewish community.

2007年September26日, Joe Klein, “Inflating a Little Man”, 出自 Time:


make nice

And now he had to go make nice with the good doctor's grandma.

1999, Gina Wilkins, Doctor in Disguise，第 18 頁:

[H]e either had to make nice with the guards or make nice with the prisoners. And frankly, the way the prisoners made nice scared the bejeesus out of him.

2002, Dee Davis, Dark of the Night，第 31 頁:

“A jackass? I'm trying to make nice.” “I don't need your nice. Go make nice with Angela.”

2010, Catherine Wade, Let's Dish，第 76 頁:


Roomba

品牌用词。可能是room + rumba 組成的混成詞。

（iRobot销售的）扫地机器人


transpire

借自中古法語 transpirer，源自中世紀拉丁語 transpirare (“通过...呼吸”)，源自拉丁語 trans (“穿过”) spirare (“呼吸”)。“为人所知”一意也出现于法语内，但是“发生”没有。可能后者是在英语内基于前者衍生出来的。

sweat

出汗，排汗 （17-19世纪）

perspire

出汗，排汗 （17-19世纪）

come to light

为人所知，公开，透露出来 （自18世纪）

排出，发出，散发出 （自16世纪）

出汗，排汗 （17-19世纪）

为人所知，公开，透露出来 （自18世纪）

It eventually transpired that the murder victim had been a notorious blackmailer.

最后发现，谋杀案死者是一个恶名昭彰的勒索者。

Hubert then recommends M. Leproux to be punctual to meet him at the rendezvous agreed on between them, where a third individual, whose name did not transpire, was to join them.

1839, Edmund Burke, The Annual Register of World Events:

Although I was prevented from attending the 1952 annual conference, I was immediately informed as to what had transpired.

1994, Nelson Mandela, “Part Four: The Struggle is My Life”, 出自 Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN，第 166 頁:

But there is a school of thought that holds that the more you talk about recession, the more likely it is to transpire.

2018年September21日, Mark Rice-Oxley, “Don't mention the R-word”, 出自 The Guardian:


parkgoer

There tend to be more parkgoers in the summer months.

夏天时公园游客会多一些。


park-goer

Cobble Hill Park Lush dogwood trees, bright yellow and cream-colored daffodils, and a wrought-iron fence provide an atmosphere of privacy and seclusion to the Brooklyn park-goer.

2008, Joseph Meyers, Inside New York 2009, →ISBN，第 278 頁:


keep tabs on

见tab (“用来记录的小板子”)。

keeps tabs on
keeping tabs on
kept tabs on

If you are careful to keep tabs on your finances, you should be able to stay within a budget.

The police kept close tabs on him during the holidays.

He might have spent the hours camped under the trees of the more remote meadow, whence in the brilliant moonlight he could keep tabs on the trails.

1910, Stewart Edward White, 章號 85, 出自 The Rules of the Game:

I'll catch him—I'll trip him up—I'll keep tabs on his arguments.

1919, Lucy Maud Montgomery, 章號 16, 出自 Rainbow Valley:

Syria's much feared state-security apparatus keeps close tabs on everyone entering and leaving the embassy.

2010, Andrew Lee Butters, “Why the U.S. Is Back on the Road to Damascus”, 出自 Time:

Nadal, absent from the draw for the first time nearly two decades, said he won’t watch it all from afar, but he will be keeping tabs.

2023年May18日, Christopher Clarey, “Even as He’s Out, Rafael Nadal Will Always Be a Part of the French Open”, 出自 The New York Times:


put the cart before the horse

puts the cart before the horse
putting the cart before the horse
put the cart before the horse

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The hour had struck; and with it, as always, appeared the man. So it has ever been in the history of the world; though we, with characteristic vanity, uniformly put the cart before the horse, and declare that it is the man that brings the hour.

1898, Julian Hawthorne, 章號 1, 出自 The History of the United States:

To attempt to remove the armaments before removing these substantive conflicts of interest is to put the cart before the horse.

1957年December2日, “Corruption of the Mind”, 出自 Time:

Mr. Schumer said that the idea of agreeing to a date for a vote before the committee had held hearings was "to put the cart before horse."

2005年July27日, David D. Kirkpatrick, “Timing of Hearings and Vote Stalls Confirmation Talks”, 出自 New York Times, retrieved 2008-11-06:


sardonic

源自法語 sardonique，源自拉丁語 sardonius，源自古希臘語 σαρδόνιος (sardónios)，σαρδάνιος (sardánios, “尖酸刻薄的笑”)的变体，被认为源自撒丁岛的一种植物（撒丁岛毛茛（Ranunculus sardous）或者藏红花色水芹（Oenanthe crocata）），作σαρδάνη (sardánē)或σαρδόνιον (sardónion)。据称食用这种植物会导致人的面部扭曲成像蔑视的表情（之后通常会死亡）。可能还与σαίρω (saírō, “露齿笑”)有关。

more sardonic (comparative)
most sardonic (superlative)

He distances himself from people with his nasty, sardonic laughter.

他的笑讨厌而轻蔑，让大家都疏远他了。

[Q]Uivering fears, Heart-tearing cares, / Anxious ſighs, Untimely tears, / Fly, fly to the Courts; / Fly to fond worldings ſports, / Where ſtrain’d Sardonick ſmiles are cloſing ſtill, / And grief is forc’d to laugh againſt her will; / Where mirth’s but mummery, / And ſorrows only real be.

1685, Henry Wotton, “[A Deſcription of the Countrys Recreations.] Poems Found among the Papers of Sir Henry Wotton”, 出自 Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, or, A collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; […] , Fourth版, London: […] B[enjamin] Tooke, […] and T[homas] Sawbridge […] , →OCLC，第 390–391 頁s:

Another manifestation, significantly reaching its apogee in the midst of Antonine virtues, was the growing popularity of adoxographical exercises. Mock panegyrics were dashed off, not just by sardonic intellectuals such as Lucian, but also by trained courtiers and polished encomiasts of the stamp of [Marcus Cornelius] Fronto.

1979, Carl Deroux 編, Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History [Collection Latomus; 164], 第 1 卷, Brussels: Latomus, →OCLC，第 111 頁:


make a point

makes a point
making a point
made a point

I suppose the people who wrote that stuff on the wall were trying to make a point, but they mainly made a mess.

我认为在墙上写东西的人想说点什么，但是他们弄得乱七八糟。

Make a point to carry [or of carrying] your calendar with you at all times.

记得到哪都要带着你的记事本。


the nerve of

...真是的，...真讨厌 （后接代词或人名，表达对这个人言行的不满或愤怒）

This store charged me twice the price for this item! The nerve of them!

那家商店让我付了两次这东西的钱！真是的！

仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见the、nerve、of。


come to terms with

comes to terms with
coming to terms with
came to terms with
come to terms with

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She finally came to terms with her addictions at her third rehab clinic and rarely drank again.

她终于在第三家复健诊所治好了她的瘾，之后几乎没再喝过酒。

接受，妥协，面对 （让人心理上痛苦的事物）

Until he comes to terms with the likelihood of failure, he will not succeed.

在他接受失败的可能性之前，他不会成功。


contraries

Things might go by contraries, she thought.

Ambition, luxury, drunkenness, avarice, and lust have no contraries, for temperance, sobriety, and chastity are not emotions (passive states), but denote the power of the soul by which the former are moderated, and which is discussed later under the name fortitudo.

1893, Richard Falckenberg, History Of Modern Philosophy:

Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.

1812, Daniel Defoe, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Of York, Mariner, Vol. 1:


recomposts

recompost 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


fiefdom

The duke's fiefdom had been greatly expanded as a reward for his dutiful military service on behalf of the king.

"If you wish to offer any of my vassals fiefdoms or positions in your new kingdom, they have my leave to accept. I promised them that when they came with me."

1989, Robert Shea, The Saracen, The Holy War:

“[Bill Clinton] was just walking around, looking in all the offices, like he was surveying his fiefdom. He had a big grin on his face.”

2008, David Maraniss, First In His Class: A Biography Of Bill Clinton, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

Hollande told cheering supporters in his rural fiefdom of Corrèze in south-west France that he was best-placed to lead France towards change, saying the vote marked a "rejection" of Sarkozy and a "sanction" against his five years in office.

2012年April23日, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, 出自 The Guardian:

Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX was run as the “personal fiefdom” of founder Sam Bankman-Fried, with one of the company’s units spending $300m on real estate in the Bahamas for the use of its executives, a court heard on Tuesday.

2022年November22日, Dominic Rushe, “FTX was run as ‘personal fiefdom’ of Sam Bankman-Fried, court hears”, 出自 The Guardian:


cluttered

more cluttered (comparative)
most cluttered (superlative)


cluttered

clutter 的簡單過去時和過去時分詞


loose lips sink ships

略自一个美国战时的宣传标语。

Loose Lips Sink Ships, said the wartime poster. Of course the ships will all sink anyway, sooner or later.

2000, Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, Anchor, 出版於 2007, →ISBN，第 448 頁:

‘Loose lips sink ships,’ she spat at Dad once, when they were arguing about Grandpa, but ‘loose lips killed our son.’

2014, Crystal Chan, Bird, Random House, →ISBN，第 59 頁:


get a kick out of

gets a kick out of
getting a kick out of
got a kick out of
got a kick out of
gotten a kick out of

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高兴于，喜欢，从...得到乐趣

I really got a kick out of that clown's juggling act.

我觉得那个小丑的杂技特别好玩。

Some get a kick from cocaine / I'm sure that if I took even one sniff / That would bore me terrifically too / Yet I get a kick out of you

1934, Cole Porter （作曲作詞）, “I Get a Kick Out of You”:


go nuclear

goes nuclear
going nuclear
went nuclear
gone nuclear

In this context, the humiliating defeat of 1971 and the Indian nuclear test were major factors in the Pakistani decision to go nuclear.

2000, Hooman Peimani, Nuclear Proliferation in the Indian Subcontinent, →ISBN，第 28 頁:

A decision to go nuclear has important adverse diplomatic repercussions as well. Trying to build a nuclear arsenal is not the way to win friends in the international community.

2008, Ted Galen Carpenter, Smart Power: Toward a Prudent Foreign Policy for America, →ISBN，第 111 頁:

This agreement codified nuclear apartheid, leaving in place three types of nuclear states: the five recognized nuclear powers (the United States, Britain, China, France, and the Soviet Union), NATO and Warsaw Pact allies with access to nuclear weapons but not ownership, and a large class of non-nuclear states who renounced their right to go nuclear.

2010, Shane J. Maddock, Nuclear Apartheid, →ISBN:

Now the cost-benefiters calculated nuclear power to be a more efficient investment than building more coal-fired plants, which put them in agreement with the technological optimists on the question of whether to go nuclear.

1997, Robert Pool, Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology, →ISBN:

However, once we bite the bullet and decide to go nuclear again, it will take at least a decade before new plants start coming on line.

2005, A.W. Galston, Christiana Z. Peppard, Expanding Horizons in Bioethics, →ISBN，第 240 頁:

When US energy policy went nuclear, about the same time as some large mines flooded in Canada and Australia, hedge fund speculators dived into the market and uranium shot up to US$138 a pound, settling back eventually to about half that price, but still almost ten times the US$7 low.

I suppose what he is worried about is epitomized by a conversation that I had ten years ago with the Executive Vice President of a utility that was going nuclear.

2013, George G. Berg, Measurement of Risks, →ISBN，第 338 頁:

Some have suggested that nuclear disarmament will increase the chance that conventional wars will occur since nation states will no longer be deterred by the thought that wars can go nuclear.

1984, Douglas P. Lackey, Moral Principles and Nuclear Weapons, →ISBN，第 236 頁:

This paper does not deal with nuclear terrorism as Thomas Schelling once defined it — namely being he 'balance of nuclear terror' between the major nuclear weapon state - but rather refers to terrorist groups going nuclear.

2012, Paul Wilkinson, Technology and Terorrism, →ISBN，第 48 頁:

The best place to be if things went nuclear was in a bomb shelter.

2015, Dean Marquis, Roxanne of Dark Energy: A Construct of Science Fiction, →ISBN:

“We cut the show short, and the brothers went nuclear on me afterward,” said Sammy. “They crucified me for that."

2011, Kevin Dodds, Edward Van Halen: A Definitive Biography, →ISBN，第 150 頁:

He snickered. Janelle was going nuclear. “Why didn't you tell me?” she shouted.

2015, James Patterson, NYPD Red 3, →ISBN:

There's barely a week that goes by without me going nuclear about something or other to do with middle age as portrayed in the media.

2015, Helen Walmsley-Johnson, The Invisible Woman: Taking on the Vintage Years, →ISBN:

Years ago, the sport spread from New Zealand to Australia—and went nuclear. Overnight, it seemed, Australia boasted 40 tracks, which were promptly divided into several warring factions.

1999 November, Ted West, “Kicking and Screaming”, 出自 Boating，第 114 頁:

As if the release of her emotions had freed something in him, his ardor increased and the kiss went nuclear.

2011, Lucy Monroe, The Sheikh's Bartered Bride, →ISBN:

But the fever pitch went nuclear when the Ramones took the stage.

2015, Marky Ramone, Richard Herschlag, Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone, →ISBN，第 358 頁:

“They don’t want to deal with this,” Ms. Lalich said. “It’s going to have to go nuclear, using the Insurrection Act and bringing out the military.”

2020年December12日, Hailey Fuchs, Pranshu Verma, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, “4 Stabbed and One Shot as Trump Supporters and Opponents Clash”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:


stakeout

The police had a stakeout in place where they expected the crime to occur.


rein in

The government has no other option than to rein in public spending.

政府不得不减少公共开支。

“As you are well aware, over the last few months we’ve made a considerable effort to rein in costs, but it simply hasn’t been enough,” Daniel Ek, Spotify’s chief executive, said in a note to employees on Monday.

2023年January23日, Isabella Simonetti, 引 Daniel Ek, “Spotify to Lay Off 6% of Its Work Force”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:


knock for a loop

knocks for a loop
knocking for a loop
knocked for a loop

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throw for a loop

使...惊讶，使...困惑，使...动摇，使...犹豫

throw off

使...惊讶，使...困惑，使...动摇，使...犹豫

使...惊讶，使...困惑，使...动摇，使...犹豫

[Denham answered] "Gas bombs, Old Man! My own prescription. […] Gas bombs powerful enough to knock a row of elephants for a loop."

1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, 出版於 1965，第 7 頁:

[A] triple threat to the U.S. economy[…]has knocked stock prices for a loop.

1967 November 17, “Wall Street: Big Casino”, 出自 Time, retrieved 2014-08-02:

Poor Janice, she'll be knocked for a loop. She'll feel she's let her father down.

1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest, →ISBN，第 394 頁:

Karyn McNay as Ulla, the sexy Swedish actress/receptionist/cleaning woman, knocks the audience for a loop too.

2008 September 7, Anita Gates, “Stage: Dinner and a Show, in One Spot, at One Price”, 出自 The New York Times, retrieved 2014-08-02:


throw for a loop

throws for a loop
throwing for a loop
threw for a loop
thrown for a loop

He thought he was up-to-date on all the latest wine lingo until a longtime wine writer returned his sample request card with a bold, hand-written note on it that stated, “Send me all samples—ABC!”
 “ABC” threw my friend for a loop. When he called me, I translated the cryptic phrase—ABC is winespeak for “Anything But Chardonnay.”

1997 March, Ron Loutherback, “Beyond the Label: The ABCs of white wine”, 出自 Orange Coast, 第 23 卷, 第 3 期，第 168 頁:


afforest

16世纪起可考。源自中世紀拉丁語 afforēstō，源自拉丁語 ad (“向”) + forēsta (“森林”)。

After we leave the quarry, we intend to afforest the land and turn it into a nature reserve.

我们离开采石场后，打算把那片地绿化成森林，变成自然保护区。

It is probably impossible to afforest quickly any real desert.

1901年June7日, G. H. Davies, “Rain-making”, 出自 The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, 第 4 卷, 第 7 期，第 195 頁:


dimwitted

My memories of high school and college French are mostly negative because I usually felt dimwitted anytime I tried to speak.

2010年December19日, Terry Gardner, “The Gift of Foreign-language Learning”, 出自 The Chicago Tribune, retrieved 2013-04-17:


screw the pooch

20世纪50年代，源自早期形式fuck the dog (“浪费时间”)（1935年）（对比fuck around），后面意思为“犯丢人的错误”（对比screw up、fuck up）。由汤姆·沃尔夫所著的《太空先锋》（1979年）及其电影改编（1983年）普及开来。

screws the pooch
screwing the pooch
screwed the pooch


what the doctor ordered

指医生开处方时定下的能让病情更快好转的嘱咐（如健康饮食、多休息等）。

/ˌʍɒt ðə ˈdɒktə ˌɔːdəd/

/ˌʍɑt ðə ˈdɑktɚ ˌɔɹdɚd/

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正好需要的事物，正好合适的事物


just what the doctor ordered

/ˌd͡ʒʌst ʍɒt ðə ˈdɒktə ˌɔːdəd/

/ˌd͡ʒʌst ʍɑt ðə ˈdɑktɚ ˌɔɹdɚd/


twenty-twenty hindsight

20/20指的是使用斯内伦视力表测视力时的正常视力水平。


hindsight is 20/20

20/20指的是使用斯内伦视力表测视力时的正常视力水平。

Another common error dealing with memory is that of "hindsight bias." This is the tendency to exaggerate what could have been anticipated in the past. This is also known as "Monday morning quarter backing" or "hindsight is 20/20" where the "right" decision as to what should have been done appears to be more obvious now than it was in the past.

2009, Joseph Grcic, Facing Reality: An Introduction to Philosophy, Revised版, Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse，第 57 頁:

Honestly? If you would have told me that becoming a professional tennis player might net me a decent supply of free pasta, I would have never begged my mom to quit my lessons. 😭 Hindsight = 20/20.

2023年July30日, Gretty Garcia, “Coco Gauff Is Still a Teenager, but Her Net Worth Reveals That She’s Already a Millionaire”, 出自 Cosmopolitan:


out of the woods

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The patient is feeling a little better, but she's not out of the woods yet.

患者稍微舒服了一些，但是还没有完全脱离危险。

仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见out of、the、woods。


take five

takes five
taking five
took five
taken five

休息几分钟 （常指五分钟）

Hey, stop fighting! Take five, people!

喂，别打了，各位！休息几分钟！


undulating

more undulating (comparative)
most undulating (superlative)

上下晃动的，起伏的，波浪一样的

The Borinage coalfield around Mons is another attractive area for the railway enthusiast; it is rather like South Lancashire, with its gently undulating landscape studded with slag heaps and pithead gear and criss-crossed by railway lines and tramways.

1960 February, J. N. Faulkner, “The Belgian Railways today”, 出自 Trains Illustrated，第 86 頁:


undulating

undulate 的現在時分詞和動名詞


undulating

In good poetry every word and phrase, as Professor McKail says, reverberates like the sound of a lyre, and leaves after it numberless undulatings. The verse exhales sweet sound, and light-like thought, as perfumes do; but we cannot explain just why.

1930, John Thomas Ingram Bryan, The Philosophy of English Literature，第 27 頁:


transmogrify

17世纪，词源不详，但可能源自transmigure、transmigrate。但还可能派生自maugre，因此一开始可能指“凶眼”，但受到了上一个词源的影响，其词义变换为“变形”。还有一种可能性是transfigure和modify的合并。

/tɹænzˈmɒɡɹɪfaɪ/

/tɹænzˈmɑɡɹɪfaɪ/

Our present Governors (who have transmografide Monarchy into a Free State) ...

1652, n.a. [Isabel Yeamans], The Year of Wonders, London: George Horton，第 10 頁:

Just set the dial to "Calvin", and I'll transmogrify back to a boy.

1987年April2日, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):

But 'Hamilton,' directed by Thomas Kail and starring Mr. Miranda, might just be about worth it—at least to anyone who wants proof that the American musical is not only surviving but also evolving in ways that should allow it to thrive and transmogrify in years to come.

2015年August5日, “Review: `Hamilton,' Young Rebels Changing History and Theater”, 出自 The New York Times:


fit the bill

源自早期形式fill the bill，可能与戏剧表演有关。

fits the bill
fitting the bill
fit the bill


get down to brass tacks

不详。字面意思是「黄铜钉子」。最早记录出现于1863年美国德克萨斯。一个理论认为，其源自五金店或布店的柜台上用来以准确单位量布的黄铜钉子（而不是用一边放在鼻子前，另一边放在伸长的手臂上来近似量出一码）。还有一种说法是，其源自19世纪通行于美国的用黄铜钉子在棺材上写出死者名字的做法。再有一种说法是，美国西部早期用黄铜钉子来装饰枪托的习惯。用黄铜是因为其不会生锈而且易于抛光。根据作家Stanley Vestal的说法，“钉在步枪上的黄铜钉子记录了死在枪口下的受害者的数量。黄铜钉子。”

gets down to brass tacks
getting down to brass tacks
got down to brass tacks
gotten down to brass tacks
got down to brass tacks

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When you come down to brass tacks – if we may be allowed the expression – everybody is governed by selfishness.

1863, January 21, 1863, The Tri-Weekly Telegraph, newspaper of Houston, Texas

That's no answer. Get down to brass tacks.

Let's get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?

1972, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

We're gonna stop playing games with these Arabs and get down to brass tacks!

You must be Jules, which would make you Vincent. Let's get down to brass tacks, gentlemen. If I was informed correctly, the clock is ticking. Is that right, Jimmie?

1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, 角色 The Wolf（Harvey Keitel）:

And if the government got a grip, got down to brass tacks and started doing their actual job, all these things could be avoided.

2023年April2日, Pippa Crerar, Robyn Vinter, 引 Lisa Nandy, “Suella Braverman denies Brexit to blame for Dover queues of 14 hours”, 出自 The Guardian, →ISSN:


jerkwad

And frankly, jerkwad, you're not worthy to lick the dirt off his briefcase.

2001, William Bernhardt, Murder One, Ballantine, →ISBN，第 110 頁:

Hidge said, "Someone with a license, jerkwad."

2001, Bill Roorbach, The Smallest Color, Counterpoint, 2003 pbk ed., ISBN 1-5824-3252-X, p. 222:

You're not crazy, just extremely annoying. Go soak your head, jerkwad.

2003年December16日, “Confidentials”, 出自 Weekly World News，第 23 頁:


keep at arm's length

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Ramsey's goal secured the points, but the win came on the back of a measured performance that saw Arsenal keep Dortmund at arm's length for long periods and score with a classic counter-attack.

2013年November6日, Chris Bevan, “Borussia Dortmund 0-1 Arsenal”, 出自 BBC Sport:

She's been keeping me at arm's length all the time. She doesn't want to get involved.

她一直都与我保持距离，不想掺和进来。


make tick

I honestly don't know the specifics that make him tick, and I wish I did.

2005, Cherie Priest, Four and Twenty Blackbirds, →ISBN，第 91 頁:

Most of us find ourselves caught in the middle, ducking for cover and wondering just who these people are and what could possibly make them tick.

2012, Kevin Seamus Hasson, The Right to Be Wrong: Ending the Culture War Over Religion in America, →ISBN:

I wanted to roam the world, exploring what made it tick, helping to make it tick better, and never get married.

2013, Betty Lussier, Intrepid Woman: Betty Lussier's Secret War, 1942-1945, →ISBN:

仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见make、tick。


glutton for punishment

sucker for punishment

不怕吃苦的人，坚持不懈的人，百折不挠的人

不怕吃苦的人，坚持不懈的人，百折不挠的人

I should have quit this job long ago, but I guess I'm just a glutton for punishment.

我早就该辞掉这份工作，但是我觉得我这人可能比较不怕吃苦。

Other gluttons for punishment include Phil Whittingham，源自Avanti West Coast, who has returned for four events in a row.

2021年October6日, Paul Bigland, “The hills were alive... again”, 出自 RAIL, 第 941 期，第 54 頁:


go to great lengths

goes to great lengths
going to great lengths
went to great lengths
gone to great lengths

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The most surprising thing was to discover that each job had its little tricks, peculiarities that had been learned in the experience of years, and one of the really pleasing features was the unlimited patience and kindliness of the chargehands and fitters, who would go to great lengths to teach the budding engineer all they themselves knew.

1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, 出自 Railway Magazine，第 283 頁:

[…] They said good-bye on the eleventh, and the Portuguese noblemen saw him off, going to great lengths to show him respect."

2008, José Rodrigues does Santos, Codex 632: The Secret Identity of Christopher Columbus (trans. from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin), William Morrow (2008), ISBN 9780061173189, page 262:

Most scholars writing on the mafia were going to great lengths to demonstrate that it did not exist—and the mobsters wanted to keep their brotherhood secret.

2009, Diego Gambetta, Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate, Princeton University Press, 出版於 2009, →ISBN，第 272 頁:

As a father, I would go to great lengths to protect my children.

2013, Chad R. Torgerson, Waking Up Catholic: A Guide to Catholic Beliefs for Converts, Reverts, and Anyone Becoming Catholic, Assisi Media, 出版於 2013, →ISBN，第 62 頁:


MBTI

Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (“邁爾斯-布里格斯性格分類法”)之首字母縮略詞。


pauses

pause 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


cold hard cash

冷冰冰的钱 （暗含这些钱可以让人干出违心或者不道德的事的意思）

现金 （常与电子钱包的钱、借款、或支票相比较）


pull one's weight

pulls one's weight
pulling one's weight
pulled one's weight

He isn't really pulling his weight at work.

If one shares a flat one should be prepared to pull one’s weight in cleaning it.

合租一间公寓就要出力打扫。


soapbox

soap + box。比喻用法是因为美国的肥皂产品常用大木箱运到商店内，以前，常有人看到可以站上去的东西（比如这些肥皂箱子）就站上去开始向附近居民发表即兴演讲。

观点发表平台；临时演讲台

The madman obtained a soapbox which he stood on at the corner of Broadway and Wall street, to shout out his prophesy of the end of the world.

那个疯子站在百老汇和华尔街角落，大喊大叫宣传他的世界末日预言。

The one image which the word “Socialist” brought to Jurgis was of poor little Tamoszius Kuszleika, who had called himself one, and would go out with a couple of other men and a soap-box, and shout himself hoarse on a street corner Saturday nights.

1905, Upton Sinclair, 章號 XXV, 出自 The Jungle, 紐約，N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, 出版於 1906年2月26日, →OCLC:

Bernhard's last appearance on a late-night talk show was a handy soapbox to expound on his political message of patriotism, nationalism, and populism.

2013, Robert F. Ely, Candidate for President, →ISBN，第 25 頁:

爱聊的话题 （尤指与当前谈话不太相关的）

He's been on his soapbox all day about the new football coach.

他这整天都在说新足球教练的事。

肥皂盒汽车 （一种没有引擎的简易小车，常用来参加靠重力前进的下坡竞速）


soapbox

（站在某处）发表临时演讲

He soapboxed for whales and pressed us to write petitions and demonstrate with him—he as the leader, we as followers.

2011, Phil Wolfson, Noe: A Father-Son Song of Love, Life, Illness, and Death, North Atlantic Books, →ISBN:

[…] and various members soapboxed in Hyde Park on Sunday.

2015, Marc Matera, Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century, University of California Press, →ISBN，第 80 頁:


cut someone some slack

cuts someone some slack
cutting someone some slack
cut someone some slack

放某人一马，不严厉责备或惩罚某人

He's the new kid on the block and doesn't know the way we do things around here yet. Cut him some slack and let him learn from this.

他是这块儿新来的，还不知道这儿的规矩。这次放他一马，让他长个教训。


get back at

gets back at
getting back at
got back at
got back at
gotten back at

She put toothpaste in his shoes to get back at him for the frog he left in her refrigerator.

她把牙膏挤到他鞋子里，报复他往自己冰箱里放了一只青蛙。


all hell breaks loose

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Came not all hell broke loose?

1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, 出自 Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; 再版為 Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

I think it's kind of fun because, had Hillary Clinton spoken at the Democratic Convention, all hell would have broken loose.

1992年August19日, “Beckel, Barnes and Rollins Discuss the Republican Convention”, 出自 CBS Morning:

It was a shocking attack, and within hours all hell had broken loose.

2023年November26日, Rory Carroll, Lisa O'Carroll, “‘Remember who we are’: riots, race, and the end of the ‘Irish welcome’”, 出自 The Observer, →ISSN:


out of kilter

源自out of + kilter、kelter (“（良好的）条件，秩序，条理；状态”)。最后一个词词源不详，但在英国和美国是方言用词。

不正常的，不协调的，混乱的，失去条理的，失灵的，故障的

I stayed up late to watch a movie, and my entire sleeping schedule has been out of kilter ever since.

我熬夜看了一部电影以后，我的作息规律就完全被打乱了。

Aye, ſquire, that thing [a statue of Hercules] has been fixt in this ſpot I warrant you theſe hundred years; it was ſadly out of kilter when I came to the eſtate, but I got my neighbour the conſtable, who is a carpenter, to make him that right arm, and put the ſtaff into it, for I could not bear to ſee ſuch a clumſy log as he had in it before; [...]

1762, [Susan Smythies], “Presents the Reader with a Prospect of the Sullens”, 出自 The Stage-coach: Containing the Character of Mr. Manly, and the History of His Fellow Travellers, Dublin: Printed by Henry Saunders […], →OCLC，第 140 頁:

Wall, chilern, whar dar is so much racket dar must be somethin' out o' kilter. I thik dat 'twixt de niggers of de Souf and de womin at de Norf, all talkin' 'bout rights, de white men will be in a fix pretty soon.

1851年May29日, Sojourner Truth, reported by Frances D[ana] Gage, “Ohio [Reminiscences by Frances D. Gage. Sojourner Truth. [Ain’t I a Woman?]]”, 出自 History of Woman Suffrage. [...] In Three Volumes, 第 I (1848–1861) 卷s, Rochester, N.Y., London: Susan B. Anthony; Charles Mann […], 出版於 1887, →OCLC，第 116 頁:

[T]hey are either round-shouldered, knock-kneed, bow-legged, or parrot-toed; some are also badly cross-eyed. It seems as if they can see two different ways at the same time. Jack says they are lop-sided and out of kilter altogether.

1890, Charles Erskine, 章號 V, 出自 Twenty Years before the Mast: […], Boston, Mass.: Published by the author, →OCLC，第 72 頁:

Snowstorms often knock the Government's Salt Lake radio range out of kilter.

1941年March10日, “An Airliner Cracks Up in Pine Woods near Atlanta and Seven People Die”, 出自 Henry R[obinson] Luce 編, Life, 第 10 卷, 第 10 期, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, photograph caption，第 27 頁:

This was a champion team out of kilter, stung by what was arguably an act of disrespect to their opponents, a failure to appreciate their threat and the fine planning of Carlos Osorio, and never really able to regain its balance.

2018年June17日, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, 出自 Katharine Viner 編, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC，於2019-08-05歸檔自原頁面:


grind to a halt

grinds to a halt
grinding to a halt
ground to a halt

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Work on the new high-rise ground to a halt as contractors tried to deal with all the red tape.

After the visionary's death, work on his ideas ground to a halt.

But to no avail - the suburban (Sunday) service ground to a halt, with only 20 of the 268 motormen turning up for work on Boxing Day [1949]. Kempton Park races lost 10,000 visitors, with the cancellation of 12 extra race day trains.

2023年December27日, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, 出自 RAIL, 第 999 期，第 29 頁:


mince pie

Christmas pie

百果馅饼 （一种英国的节日甜点）

mincemeat pie

百果馅饼 （一种英国的节日甜点）

shred pie

百果馅饼 （一种英国的节日甜点）

twelfth pie

百果馅饼 （一种英国的节日甜点）

Twelfth Night pie

百果馅饼 （一种英国的节日甜点）

百果馅饼 （一种英国的节日甜点）

Gorblimey, guvnor, I couldn't believe me mince pies!


chalk up to

chalks up to
chalking up to
chalked up to

Chalk it up to fear that he didn't finish.

将他没有完成归因于恐惧。

“You can chalk it up maybe to, as one of my friends says, a nautical superstition,” he said. “Maybe I read too many Greek tragedies. I don't believe something’s going to happen like that until it’s happened.

1990年October5日, “Souter plans to get right down to work”, 出自 Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 第 85 卷, 第 154 期, section 1，第 14 頁:

Some of the best pre-mortems for Steve Ballmer, out-going CEO of Microsoft, have chalked up the company's problem to the "innovator's dilemma."

2013年August28日, Derek Thompson, “How Goliaths Beat Themselves: Microsoft's Mobile Failure and the Innovator's Dilemma”, 出自 The Atlantic:


shack up

The only thing I want to do after the war is marry some girl who's got more money than I have and shack up with lots more pretty girls.

1961年November10日, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, 出自 Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC，第 173 頁:

So I don't believe in alimony, okay, love? / Though I think we'd ought to / Shack up baby, shack up

The other rumor flying around thicker 'n flies on a three-day-old carcass is that new redheaded cook, Rory, is shacked up with you.

2011, Pamela Toth, The Mail-Order Mix-Up:


scream bloody murder

screams bloody murder
screaming bloody murder
screamed bloody murder


come off

One of the wagon wheels came off.

He tried his Chaplin impression, but it didn't really come off.

他试了试模仿卓别林，但反响平平。

有...的感觉，看着像，表现得

I'm sorry if I came off as condescending; that wasn't my intention.

如果我表现傲慢的话不好意思，我没有这个意思。

You should be careful about how you come off during interviews.

你应该要注意自己在面试时的举止。

Well that is precisely what I did, and as I had never heard of using gloves and veil in connection with bees I suppose I came off lightly with one sting on the tip of the nose.

1952, British Bee Journal & Bee-keepers Adviser, 第 80 卷，第 466 頁:

It came off as we expected.

And then the wedding came off, and the king gave a grand feast which lasted for many a day, and if they have not done feasting by this, why they are still at it.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, 譯者 H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales，第 61 頁:

‘I was never frightened of any job yet,’ he said, ‘and I'd do this job to-night if the house was full of rozzers,’ Hill pretended that he wasn't particular whether the thing came off or not that night, but all the while he kept egging Fred on to do it.

1916, Arthur J. Rees, John R. Watson, The Hampstead Mystery:


come off it

原为英国对“come off the grass!”缩略，其又是一个起源于美国的短语。Come off the grass!最初是一个对公园等处常见的“keep off the grass”等告示牌的调侃。

Come off it, mate! You can't be serious.

你少来，兄弟！你肯定是在逗我。


side hustle

But think of this side hustle as an opportunity to do something you love to do.

2015年December14日, Carl Richards, “Your Most Valuable Asset Is Yourself”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:

“I love the side hustle. It allows you to do something that your job does not allow you to do.”

2017年March31日, Rob Walker, “Headphones Won’t Solve the Problem of a Chatty Colleague”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:

The majority of Americans with a side hustle are young millennials,[…]

2017年August11日, “Survey: 44 million Americans have a “side hustle””, 出自 WSPA 7NEWS:

He wrote on Twitter that the submissions were largely “driven by ‘side hustle’ experts making claims of easy money with ChatGPT.”

2023年February23日, Michael Levenson, 引 Neil Clarke, “Science Fiction Magazines Battle a Flood of Chatbot-Generated Stories”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:


smooth-talking

more smooth-talking (comparative)
most smooth-talking (superlative)

By the time the campaign was finished, you never saw a quicker, more smooth-talking political animal than Afram Milovan.

1988, Owen Sela, The KGB Candidate, →ISBN，第 261 頁:

Children are an increasingly attractive target for ID thieves, in part because they're easy prey for smooth-talking predators in chat rooms, and because the crime can go undetected for years.

2005, Dan Tynan, Computer Privacy Annoyances, →ISBN:

In another case, a young woman, a smooth-talking, parasitic psychopath, constantly complained to her friends that her parents were not contributing enough to her already lavish lifestyle.

2011, Robert D. Hare, Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us, →ISBN:

At twenty-one, it was easy for strippers to fall for smooth-talking, married customers.


smooth-talking

Anything is possible, but if you haven't begun talking smooth yet, then I would really like to have a demonstration of what you think smooth-talking is.

2008, Brian Peterson, Move Over, Girl: A Novel, →ISBN，第 114 頁:

For instance, suppose that smooth-talking is important for business.

2013, David Hulme, John Toye, Understanding Poverty and Well-Being: Bridging the Disciplines, →ISBN:

No more smooth-talking or wheedling or coercing.

2014, Bonnie Dee, The New Leaf Pledge, →ISBN:


elevenses

源自方言词elevens (“11点钟的一餐饭”)。

elevensies

（上午十一点左右的）上午茶

（上午十一点左右的）上午茶

The harvestmen who board in the farm-houses fare sumptuously during the month of harvest.— […] at eleven o'clock in the morning, and four in the afternoon, they have each a large light plum-bun, with a pint of ale a piece, carried into the field, to encourage them to work cheerfully. These extra refreshments they call, in their provincial language, their "elevenses" and "fourses." I could not at first imagine what the servants meant by talking of carrying the harvestmen their elevenses and fourses, till Mrs. Henley explained that it was a vulgar abbreviation of the four-o'clock and eleven o'clock meals.

1837 February, Anna Lee, “The Pinch of Salt”, 出自 The Ladies’ Companion: A Monthly Magazine, Embracing Literature and the Arts, […], 第 VI 卷, New York, N.Y.: Published by William W. Snowdon, →OCLC，第 162 頁，第 2 列:

"In Europe," said Ghosh Babu who read a great deal, "they all stop work at eleven to have tea or coffee or cocoa, or some stronger beverage; they call it elevenses." / […] ["]Ghosh Babu, how long time they get for elevenses?" / "About half-an-hour," replied Ghosh with authority. […] / "We get no time off for elevenses," complained Sambamurthy. "We should bring it up before the Clerks' Association."

1989, Khushwant Singh, “Man, How the Government of India Run!”, 出自 The Collected Short Stories of Khushwant Singh, New Delhi: Ravi Dayal Publisher, →ISBN，第 96 頁; 再版為 “Book Extract: They also Serve …”, 出自 Sunday, 第 18 卷, 第 4 期, Calcutta: Ananda Bazar Patrika, 2 January – 2 February 1991, →OCLC，第 75–76 頁s:

Even in these tough economic times when many employers seem hell-bent on sucking any and all vestiges of pleasure out of the daily existence of the average working stiff, some things remain sacrosanct. Chief among them is the partaking of elevenses. Even if we spend the majority of our lives glued to a desk, staring at a computer screen or in meetings pretending we care about the interpretation of a spreadsheet, the break for a hot drink and a little snackette between breakfast and lunch is a covenant between Britain and God.

2010, Simon Majumdar, “Elevenses”, 出自 Eating for Britain: A Journey into the Heart (and Belly) of the Nation, London: John Murray, →ISBN:

Betjeman, who was a bit of a gricer, wrote: "I know of no greater pleasure for elevenses in London than to sit in this tea place and watch the trains arrive and depart."

2021年January13日, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, 出自 RAIL, issue 922，第 63 頁:


break in

breaks in
breaking in
broke in
broken in

Someone broke in and stole his radio.

有人闯进来偷了他的收音机。

Thousands gathered at São Paulo’s main cathedral and made their way to the mayor’s office, where a small group smashed windows and tried to break in, forcing guards to withdraw.

2013年June18日, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, 出自 New York Times, retrieved 2013-06-21:

用久...使其更加好用，使...磨合

These shoes will be more comfortable after I have broken them in.

这些鞋子穿多了以后就会变得更舒服。

开始 （新事物或新阶段）

He broke in with the New York Yankees.

他开始了在纽约洋基队的新生涯。

While brothel patrons placed their bets / On who would be the first to break her in

2002, Allison Moorer （作曲作詞）, “Ruby Jewel Was Here”, 出自 Miss Fortune:


pitch in

If we all pitch in, we can raise enough money for the renovation of the church.

我们每个人都帮忙的话，我们就能为教堂的翻新筹到够多的钱。

He spent 20 minutes one afternoon describing the club he'd formed with other teenagers in his Brooklyn neighborhood. They'd each pitched in a buck a month to rent the basement of a mallet factory, which they used as a clubhouse.

2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, 出自 Men's Health, 第 23 卷, 第 8 期, →ISSN，第 112 頁:


romps

romp 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


take a load off

takes a load off
taking a load off
took a load off
taken a load off

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-take a load off.ogg


read between the lines

reads between the lines
reading between the lines
read between the lines

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-read between the lines.ogg

If you read between the lines a little, you will realize that he has deeper motives.

如果你稍微多想想，你就会懂他有更深层的动机。

“I’m quite of your opinion,” Miss Van Vluyck came briskly to her support; “on condition, that is, that all grossness of language is avoided.”
“Oh, I’m sure we shall understand without that,” Mrs. Leveret tittered; and Laura Glyde added significantly: “I fancy we can read between the lines,” while Mrs. Ballinger rose to assure herself that the doors were really closed.

“Trust is as trust does. I tend to be extremely literal in what I say … One does not [need]^([sic]) to read between the lines. One can simply read the lines,” Musk said in the meeting, according to a tweet from Nola Weinstein, Twitter’s global head of brand experiences and engagement.

2022年June16日, Kari Paul, 引 Elon Musk, “In rare move, Elon Musk meets Twitter employees to give ‘freedom of speech’ address”, 出自 The Guardian:


have it in for

has it in for
having it in for
had it in for

对...很生气；和...有仇，对...怀恨在心

My boss must really have it in for me; that was the third lecture this week!

我老板和我有仇还是怎么回事，这星期都训了我三次了！


fall on deaf ears

falls on deaf ears
falling on deaf ears
fell on deaf ears
fallen on deaf ears

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Every time I ask him to do something for me, it falls on deaf ears.

每次我叫他干什么，都被当成耳旁风。

My earlier warnings, both in RAIL and in an article I wrote for The Times, have not fallen on deaf ears. There are many people (I suspect most) in the [rail] industry who recognise that telling people not to use their trains will cause lasting damage, but they are silenced publicly because they are now taking the Government's shilling.

2020年June17日, Christian Wolmar, “The strategy of 'don't use the railways' must be reversed...”, 出自 Rail，第 44 頁:


titubant

源自法語 titubant，tituber 的現在分詞，源自拉丁語 titubāre (“蹣跚”)，titubō 的現在主動不定式。

more titubant (comparative)
most titubant (superlative)

To these, by the door L. C., the CURATE and the NOTARY, arm in arm; the latter owl-like and titubant

1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, Macaire, act i, scene 2 (stage directions):

His walk had become titubant.

1928, Acta Psychiatrica et Neurologica, 第 3 卷，第 65 頁:

her feet showed the typical Friedreich's deformity; her speech was drawling and monotonous; her gait was staggering and titubant

1948, Karl Pearson, Treasury of Human Inheritance: Nervous Diseases and Muscular Dystrophies，第 253 頁:


way out of a paper bag

可能源自类似he couldn't punch his way out of a paper bag (“他连一个纸袋子都打不穿”)之类的短语

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-way out of a paper bag.ogg

（不能...）一点，最基本的...都（不）会

My boss is so clueless, he couldn't schedule his own way out of a paper bag.

我老板是真的没用，连日程都安排不清楚。

Junior varsity couldn't play their way out of a paper bag in comparison.

The old chap did not look as though he could push his way out of a paper bag.

1923, Asia, 第 23 卷, American Asiatic Association，第 281 頁:

Personally I don’t think this egg could punch his way out of a paper bag. He’s only been workin’ in this trap two days

1924, Harry Charles Witwer, Love and Learn, G. P. Putnam's sons，第 260 頁:

“You'd hate his cooking[,” he said.]
 “Most guys can't cook their way out of a paper bag[,” Charlotte said.]

2014, Allie Peter, Saved by the Fireman，第 105 頁:


way out of a wet paper bag

After four weeks, I gave up [Econ] in disgust, muttering that the clown teaching it couldn't teach his way out of a wet paper bag.

2003, James J. Cramer, Confessions of a Street Addict，第 16 頁:


uphill battle

“It is an uphill battle,” said Dr. Uzma Syed, an infectious disease specialist in Jericho, N.Y., on Long Island, who for months has been giving vaccine education talks to national and international groups.

2021年October11日, Jan Hoffman, 引 Uzma Syed, “Boosters Are Complicating Efforts to Persuade the Unvaccinated to Get Shots”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:


hypocalcemia

hypo- + calcemia = hypo- + calc- + -emia


hypokalemia

hypo- + kalemia = hypo- + kal(ium) + -emia


normokalemia

normo- + kalemia = normo- + kal(ium) + -emia。


hypercalcemia

hyper- + calcemia = hyper- + calc- + -emia


normocalcemia

normo- + calcemia = normo- + calc- + -emia。


one up

Every year the neighbors try to one-up each other with their holiday lights.

每年街坊邻里都争着比谁的节日装饰灯亮。

"Time flies when you're having fun!" said one of the skiers in our party. "Yeah, but time's more fun when you're flying," Jay one-upped.

“开心的时候真是时光飞逝啊”，我们聚会上一个滑雪的人说道。“是啊，但是你飞的时候不是更开心嘛”，Jay接着他的话说道。


one up

WePay wants to get one-up in the mobile payments race with its new iOS app for small businesses.

WePay想用为中小企业新开发的iOS APP赢得移动支付竞赛中的优势。

1-up (“一条命”)的另一種拼寫法

If you hit that block, you can get a one up.

打一下那个方块就会得一条命。


two and eight

I didn't get home until two in the morning, and me missus got herself into a right two and eight over it!

我到了凌晨两点才回家，我老婆肯定担心死了！

Suddenly, to his horror, Mr Candy found himself in what Ma would have called a terrible two-and-eight.

1963, H. E. Bates, Oh! To be in England:


'ow

“’Ow do we know you ain’t the filth?”

2015, L.J. Oliver, The Humbug Murders, Pocket Books, →ISBN，第 134 頁:


donkey's ears

1916年英国，源自英国押韵俚语，与years押韵，因为驴的耳朵长。

Now for my first bath for what the men call ‘Donkey’s ears’, meaning years and years.


scrub up

He scrubs up well.


cut corners

cuts corners
cutting corners
cut corners

抄近路或违反交通规则来超过别人

[…] but I believe the old man did not ride fair, as he cut corners and joined in with them again […]

1882, Dan Seffert, quoted in “Half Hours with Dan Seffert”, in Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 39, page 275:

The guy who built the fence cut corners when sinking the posts, and the fence fell over in the last storm.

建围栏的人在立杆子的时候偷工减料，上次刮暴风之后围栏倒了。

Do you know why Wendy's has square burgers? Because they don't cut corners.

你知道为什么温蒂汉堡有方形汉堡吗？因为他们都是实打实的。


penny-pinching

more penny-pinching (comparative)
most penny-pinching (superlative)

If there is an overall lesson, it is that train quality should be seen as part of the battle against climate change, with penny-pinching specifications robustly opposed as a false economy.

2021年July14日, Anthony Lambert, “Grand designs on superior interiors”, 出自 SAIL, 第 935 期，第 49 頁:


keep someone on their toes

keeps someone on their toes
keeping someone on their toes
kept someone on their toes

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Four-year-old twins will certainly keep you on your toes!

这对四岁双胞胎可不会让你闲下来！


see fit

认为...合理，认为...恰当

Shepard: Don't tell me how to do my job!
Tevos: You are free to act as you see fit, Commander. Our role is to offer guidance and advice.
Sparatus: It's up to you if you're smart enough to listen.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC，PC，幕：Normandy SR-1:

[Harry] Kane was the victim in incidents plucked straight from the world of wrestling in each half, and on neither occasion did any of the officials – on the pitch or in the VAR booth – see fit to intervene in what were obvious penalties.

2018年June18日, Phil McNulty, “Tunisia 1 – 2 England”, 出自 BBC Sport，於2019-04-21歸檔自原頁面:


cut loose

失控，没有约束 狂欢，纵情

Cut loose, let your hair down honey
Unwind, turn the lights down low
Relax, let's uncork the stopper
Come to papa, come on let's go

失控，没有约束 无拘无束

England cut loose at the end of the half, Ashton, Mark Cueto and Mike Tindall all crossing before the break.

2011年February12日, Mark Orlovac, “England 59-13 Italy”, 出自 BBC:

Torpedoes were loosed, but the range was too short for them to actually arm, and they bounced harmlessly off the ship as it cut loose with its secondary and antiaircraft guns, smashing anything that it could see.

2021年March10日, Drachinifel, 片头起14:43, 出自 Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN)，於2022-10-17歸檔自原頁面:


cut someone loose

cuts someone loose
cutting someone loose
cut someone loose

The pizza chain was forced to close several locations and cut employees loose.

披萨连锁店关闭了几间店铺，解雇了多名员工。


flunk out

（因成绩不佳，不及格而）退学或退课

He flunked out of high school as a youth, but finished school later in life.

他年轻时从高中退学了，但是后面又回去把高中读完了。

给...不及格 （尤指导致其重修这门课的情况）


brick up

I am going to brick up the window instead of replacing the glass.

我准备用砖头把窗口堵起来，不换玻璃了。

The tunnel's mouth was bricked up because it was unsafe.

隧道口因为不安全被封起来了。

The chest was bricked up into the wall.

We've encountered servers bricked up into secret rooms many times, but never a UPS hidden behind a locked door.

2020年December11日, Richard Speed, “Oh, no one knows what goes on behind locked doors... so don't leave your UPS in there”, 出自 The Register，2022-01-20歸檔自原頁面:

She’s got a little meat along her lats and femur muscles that bricks me up more.

2023, Lula White, Drink You (Explore Men of the Hamptons; 3), Lula White Books, →ISBN，第 unknown 頁:


bricked up

* (俚语义项)根据Know Your Meme，由美国的说唱歌手杰克·哈洛造出，出自其在2020年一次与Genius的采访中。见引文。

more bricked up (comparative)
most bricked up (superlative)

Man, this girl got me bricked up.

The female reindeer from the Rudolph claymation series? When I was in preschool, I used to be bricked up watching that shit.

2020年February11日, “Jack Harlow "WHATS POPPIN" Official Lyrics & Meaning | Verified”, 出自 YouTube, 上传者：Genius, 说话人：Jack Harlow:

Remember when we would see her on the screen and get bricked up instantly?!?? Hahaha we were some crazy kids!!!

bell pepper (bricked up)

if i was a guy I'd be bricked up 24/7

the guy at the tattoo place when i was getting my knuckle tats said i had tiny delicate fingers and i got bricked up


bricked up

brick up 的簡單過去時和過去時分詞


pocket change

The cost of a wedding is pocket change to a millionaire.

一场婚礼的钱对百万富翁来说就是一点小钱。

I see your money on the floor / I felt the pocket change through all

1982, R.E.M. （作曲作詞）, “Gardening at Night”, 出自 Chronic Town:


doggoned

doggone的另一種寫法。

I could see the bridge was lined with bears
But I didn't have a doggoned dime.

1975, “Convoy”, 出自 C.W. McCall, Chip Davis 作詞, Black Bear Road, 演出者 C. W. McCall:


do someone's bidding

听命于某人，效命于某人，为某人效劳

Once Princess in Love was published, Diana threw both Hewitt and Pasternak under the bus. Besotted to the end, her cashiered toy soldier never revealed whether or not he had done her bidding.

April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, 出自 Vanity Fair:


hell to pay

"When I'm hungry, there's hell to pay if I'm not fed quick."

1912, Mary Roberts Rinehart, “The Miracle”, 出自 Love Stories:

"I told him I had sent for you an' when you got heah these slippery, mysterious thieves, whoever they were, would shore have hell to pay."

1921, Zane Grey, 章號 3, 出自 To The Last Man:

Congressman Bart Stupak of Michigan . . . vows that "there will be hell to pay" if his language gets stripped out of, or weakened in, the final legislation.

2009年November16日, Amy Sullivan, “Can Dems Resolve Their Abortion Split?”, 出自 Time, retrieved 2013-08-28:


get a room

即指示情侣去开房私下亲密。

仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见get、a、room。

注意影响 （用来指示情侣不要在公共场合唧唧我我。）

One night he kissed me on a park bench. I knew we shouldn’t but he would be gone so soon. The next night a homeless guy on a bench nearby hollered at us to get a room, but we couldn’t as we both had fierce landladies.

2021年December26日, Alys Fowler, “My winter of love: I was homesick in New York. The quiet Danish poet was just what I was longing for”, 出自 The Guardian:


when the chips are down

指在打扑克时，将筹码（即chips）放下的时候。

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-when the chips are down.ogg

He wasn't a very talented musician but, when the chips were down, he played well.

他不是特别有音乐家才能，但是在关键时刻，他演奏得很好。

When the chips are down, you need to make tough decisions.

紧要关头时，你需要作出艰难抉择。

The armed forces of North Korea, which borders on and is allied with Russian Manchuria, marched into the U. S.-sponsored South Korea Republic over the week-end — and the chips are down for American prestige throughout the Far East.

1950年June26日, Alex H. Washburn, “Korea — Sound of War”, 出自 Hope Star, 第 51 卷, 第 214 期, Hope, Ark.，第 1 頁，第 1 列:

“Lucian and Monte basically said to me, ‘Whatever you turn in, we will be proud to put out. We give you 100% creative freedom and trust.’” It was exactly what she needed to hear most when the chips were down.

2023年December6日, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, 出自 Time:


in cahoots

与...私下串通的，与...共谋的


cool one's jets

cools one's jets
cooling one's jets
cooled one's jets

Star Wars fans who positively can't cool their jets until the 19 May opening of Star Wars prequel The Phantom Menace need wait no longer than until early May.

1999年April7日, Joyce Slaton, “Phantom Menace Book Tells All”, 出自 Wired:

Belle's boyfriend Jesse (Henry Simmons) is left to cool his jets while his woman bangs around the New York area.

2004年October6日, Kirk Honeycutt, “Taxi (film review)”, 出自 The Hollywood Reporter:


take a crap

takes a crap
taking a crap
took a crap
taken a crap


lummock

lummox的另一種寫法

Jimbo—not there, you great lummock, push it over here.

2016, Tony Weston, Catching the Arrow，第 174 頁:


lummocks

lummox的另一種寫法


lummux

lummox的另一種寫法


saggy

saggier (comparative)
saggiest (superlative)

saggy boobs

saggy skin


ridonkulous

more ridonkulous (comparative)
most ridonkulous (superlative)

/ɹɪˈdɒŋkjʊləs/

I just finished a well-conceived brainstorm that concluded this thread is ridonkulous only if you continue to read.

2000年December18日, Mike Drain, “Re: Smoking pot and watching dvd movies”, 出自 alt.video.dvd (Usenet):

Drimmer's hat looks ridonkulous ($1,000).

2001年October19日, “Smack Zone”, 出自 Yale Herald:

Who needed Tyler's ridonkulous scooter and his smelly old T-shirts from Hot Topic and that weird habit he had of scratching his ear 'til it bled?

2009, Christian Carvajal, Lightfall，第 21 頁:


down for the count

指的是拳击比赛时，选手倒地后裁判数到10之前不能起身的判定为输的规则。

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-down for the count.ogg

“But what puts me down for the count is the action of the fellow. Never showed up; just made her miss two performances.”

1912, Harold MacGrath, 章號 7, 出自 The Place of Honeymoons:

But every time the music world thought it was down for the count, the orchestra has managed to rise again.

1991年November4日, Allan Kozinn, “Despite Odds, Many of Them, A Bedeviled Orchestra Persists”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:

So, while Europe is still groggy and the U.S. is just starting to show signs of a pulse (and Japan of course is still down for the count), little Korea will grow anywhere from 3.2% to 6% this year.

2002年March11日, “Veni, Vidi, Gucci”, 出自 Time，於2013-05-11歸檔自原頁面:


lop off

砍掉 （尤指某物的顶部或一端，且可以后接head指斩首）

TPE's Manchester Airport-Newcastle has both ends lopped off to become Manchester Victoria-York.

2021年June30日, Philip Haigh, “Regional trains squeezed as ECML congestion heads north”, 出自 RAIL, 第 934 期，第 52 頁:


have the hots for

has the hots for
having the hots for
had the hots for

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-have the hots for.ogg

喜欢 （指爱情或性上的）

I think Donnie has the hots for Lisa.

Whoa. Wait a minute, Doc. Are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me?

1985, Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale, Back to the Future, 角色 Marty McFly（Michael J. Fox）:

I met this chick and she just moved right up the block from me / And uh, she got the hots for me

2002, “Dilemma”, 出自 Nellyville, 演出者 Nelly ft. Kelly Rowland:


barf bag

barf bag of a face


feel up

抚摸，爱抚 （尤指胸部）

Mostly we heard her laughing and the squeaking of the porch swing while the boyfriend felt her up. All the boys went to second base with Diana Estabrook.

2013, Dan Pope, In the Cherry Tree, →ISBN:


feel up to

Since I have the flu, I don't feel up to going out clubbing tonight.

我得了流感，我觉得今晚应该没法去泡夜总会了。


out like a light

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-out like a light.ogg

Once she received anesthesia, she was out like a light.

她被麻醉以后立刻不省人事。


up someone's alley

符合某人的，适合某人的，某人感兴趣的

This article would be right up his alley. Why don't you show it to him?

他应该对这篇文章挺感兴趣的，不如给他看看吧？


up someone's street

符合某人的，适合某人的，某人感兴趣的

This new album should be just up your street.


hold the phone

Hold the phone! We've had this problem before, with the other machine.

待会！我们之前在另一台机器上遇到过这个问题。


hold the phone

holds the phone
holding the phone
held the phone

They asked me to hold the phone while they went to look up the answer.

他们说他们去查查答案，叫我不要挂电话。


on the flip side

They were behind twice, first to James Morrison's 11th-minute strike and then Kenny Miller's effort early in the second half. England responded with goals of their own from Theo Walcott and Daniel Welbeck and, on the balance of play, probably deserved the victory. On the flip-side, they could conceivably have lost because of their various shortcomings in defence. They also have a goalkeeper, Joe Hart, who is a danger to his own team on nights like these.

14 August 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland”, 出自 The Guardian:


sumn

something的發音拼寫，代表了非洲裔美國人白話英語。


bullcrap

R&B rap is bullcrap is what I'm dumpin'


stick in the mud

sticks in the mud (plural)
stick in the muds (plural)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-us-stick in the mud.ogg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-stick in the mud.ogg

不愿意参加集体活动的人，扫兴的人

Have a little fun sometimes and don't be such a stick-in-the-mud.

久不久放松一下嘛，别老是不参加活动。

"I don't hold back like you do. Even Tedd's dad can tell you're a stick-in-the-mud. That's why he made you the supervisor of this party."

2005年November9日, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Nov 9, 2005:

There’s a parallel here: the idea of Barbie dolls being in any way noxious seems, in the current climate, to be as hopelessly stick-in-the-mud a stance as the concept of selling out.

2023年July19日, Caspar Salmon, “Has Barbie killed the indie director? Why credible film-makers are selling out”, 出自 The Guardian, →ISSN:


straight and narrow

可能原作“strait and narrow”，源自《圣经》Matthew 7:14（马太福音 7:14）。

The project would seriously go down the pan if Mrs. Foster weren't here to keep it on the straight and narrow.

如果不是Foster夫人在这里管事，项目可能就黄了。


mortified

mortify 的簡單過去時和過去時分詞


mortified

more mortified (comparative)
most mortified (superlative)


delish

more delish (comparative)
most delish (superlative)

Tom Aikens is the name of the notorious kitchen firebrand who runs this wonderful modern European restaurant where the setting is handsome and the food delish.

"Ummm. Sounds delish." I don't know what to say; this is what comes out. "Yes, delish."

2000, Kathryn Glasgow Stern, Another Song about the King: A Novel，第 262 頁:

Delish! I tried some crackers loaded with cheese and pâté. Double delish!

1997, James Grippando, The Informant，第 239 頁:

Not that I want to rush you, but that'd be simply delish!

1956, Julian Maclaren-Ross, The Funny Bone，第 36 頁:


high and dry

搁浅的；停泊于干船坞中的

与高教会有联系的 （福音派教会用low and slow，广派教会用broad and shallow）

"There are two recognized parties in the church of England, the old High-and-dry church party, and the so-called Evangelical. To one or other of these two the Anglo-Catholic must conform."

1844, A. H. Maltby, The New Englander, 第 2 卷，第 321 頁:


swingeing

swinge + -ing。swinge派生自中古英語 swengen (“击打”)，源自古英語 swengan (“冲击；使...动摇”)。

more swingeing (comparative)
most swingeing (superlative)

/ˈswɪnd͡ʒɪŋ/

/ˈswɪnd͡ʒɪŋ/

And when Occaſion did require, / In midſt of Houſe a mighty Fire, / Of black dry'd Earth and ſwingeing Blocks / Was made, enough to roaſt an Ox; […]

1716, W[illiam] M[offat], Hesperi-neso-graphia: Or, A Description of the Western Isle. In Eight Canto’s, 4th版, London: Printed and sold by J. Baker, at the Black-Boy in Pater-Noster-Row, →OCLC, canto II，第 7 頁:

"Let him pursue his own course," said Diggs, taking up a pen, and making some hasty memoranda on a sheet of paper. "We shall have swingeing damages—swingeing damages."

1855, William Harrison Ainsworth, “Abel’s Interview with the Miser—Unexpected Appearance of Randulph and Cordwell Firebras—Result of the Meeting”, 出自 The Miser’s Daughter: A Tale, London, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] Routledge & Co., Farringdon Street; New York, 18, Beekman Street, →OCLC，第 123 頁:

A shock for passengers by the Dover-Dunkerque "Night Ferry" is the swingeing increases in berth rates for those who are not travelling in the sleeping cars.

1962 December, “Beyond the Channel: European timetables: The winter train services”, 出自 Modern Railways，第 413 頁:

Every day produces more evidence that this hard Tory Brexit is a disaster in the making. Carmakers and other export manufacturers, fearing swingeing tariffs, are demanding special protections and exemptions or else they leave.

2017年March27日, “The Observer view on triggering article 50: As Britain hurtles towards the precipice, truth and democracy are in short supply”, 出自 The Observer, London，於2017-05-17歸檔自原頁面:

After petrol rationing ended in 1952, the BTC was aware that more swingeing cuts had to be made, and a sinister message was conveyed by the loss of the meandering 38-mile route from Blisworth to Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1952, and the 25-mile Abergavenny-Merthyr Heads of the Valleys line in January 1958.

2023年March8日, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, 出自 RAIL, 第 978 期，第 51 頁:

a swingeing verbal attack

Steven's cold blood was now heated, and springing from the ground, he rushed forward utterly regardless of science, and with his head down, protected by his bended arm, he closed with a swingeing right-handed hit that unfortunately caught Ned upon the ear, and sent him reeling, and for the instant half stunned, upon one side.

1869, Samuel W[hite] Baker, 章號 IV, 出自 Cast Up by the Sea, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC，第 80–81 頁s:

With the publication of Drunk Man [A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926)] [Hugh] MacDiarmid revealed that he had developed from an accomplished and sometimes brilliant miniaturist into a major poet. The poem represents the high-water mark of his work in Scots and probably of his writing as a whole. Maturity of utterance and sophistication of expression combine in a swingeing, energetic exploration of his situation which he never surpassed.

1987, John Baglow, “Uncouth Dilemmas”, 出自 Hugh MacDiarmid: The Poetry of Self, Kingston, Ont., Montreal, Que.: McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN，第 64 頁:

Perhaps not since the felling of America's vast forests in the 19th century, […] has the world seen such a spectacular environmental change. The consequences for Arctic ecosystems will be swingeing.

2012年June16日, James Astill, “Special Report: The Melting North”, 出自 The Economist，於2017-01-20歸檔自原頁面，第 4 頁:

Switzerland, a bastion of neutrality through two world wars, has decided to adopt wholesale swingeing EU sanctions against the Russian central bank, freezing as much as billions of dollars in assets and massively increasing the pressure on the Russian economy.

2022年February28日, Patrick Wintour, the Guardian, Guardian Media Group, retrieved 2022-02-28:


swingeing

/ˈswɪnd͡ʒɪŋ/

/ˈswɪnd͡ʒɪŋ/

swinge 的現在時分詞和動名詞


walk-in

walk in 的動詞派生詞。

能够徒步进入的设施或房间 衣橱，食品贮藏室，冷藏库等较小但能够进入的房间

能够徒步进入的设施或房间
较大的房间； （不经由走道或大堂能直接进入的）公寓

a walk-in bathroom, a walk-in apartment, lived in a walk-in on Lime Street

As Officer Byrne watched the front of the building he observed about ten people enter and leave a walk-in apartment unrelated to the buy and bust operation.

1993, Reports of Cases Decided in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York:

能够徒步进入的设施或房间
（能够不预约就直接进入的） 设施或活动

Most teen clinics are walk-ins.

多数青少年诊所无需预约。

An increasing demand for skills in niche technologies coupled with higher attrition have prompted these software services firms to organise walk-ins for technology talent too.

能够徒步进入的设施或房间
（徒步进入的）设施 （常与drive-in相对）

This consideration applies to the location of all types of petroleum-solvent cleaning plants, whether operated as delivery plants, drive-ins, walk-ins, or wholesale establishments.

As most of the food is prepackaged and frozen, and anyone can cook a hamburger or make a malted, drive-in payrolls run a full third under those for "walk-ins"

1961, “Drive-ins Booming: Highway restaurants now a $6 billion annual business.”, 出自 Financial World, 第 115 卷，第 1060 頁:

Walk-ins are not like drive-ins, which freeze or isolate the individual in his eco-damaging armour-tool. Walk-ins are freewheeling playgrounds for the naked ape.

It is undisputed this method of distribution and exhibition would insulate drive-ins from competing with walk-ins for licenses to exhibit first-run pictures, thereby resulting in less film rental to the distributors from the drive-ins.

1978, Trade Regulation Series, 第 12 卷, 第 5 期，第 327 頁:

徒步进入某设施的人
没有事先预约、介绍就直接进入的人 （如饭店的顾客，医院的看病病人，应聘者等）

An astute manager will have a table or two set aside for important regular customers or demanding walk-ins.

1996, Kazuo Nishiyama, Welcoming the Japanese visitor: insights, tips, tactics，第 85 頁:

Any patient with such a history and any woman who has not received prenatal care or who is a walk-in—an unexpected patient with no prenatal chart—will have toxicology labs done,

1996, Susan L. Diamond, Hard Labor，第 275 頁:

others may be getting their first medication through the new Doorway program at Lakes Region General Hospital, which works with walk-ins as well as people referred by the state's 2-1-1 health services crisis line.

2019年May3日, “As the roads to addiction differ, so do the paths to recovery”, 出自 The Laconia Daily Sun:

徒步进入某设施的人 （突然进入使馆等处的）叛逃者等

Still, a rapidly formed working group of Mossad wise men debated the risk in dealing with a walk-in, a volunteer who shows up bearing gifts.

2007年April10日, “[//www.nytimes.com/2007/07/13/opinion/13blum.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Who Killed Ashraf Marwan?]”, 出自 The New York Times, retrieved 2015-09-18:

（聚集在工厂等门口然后一起进入这一设施的）示威活动，抗议活动

This soul-exchange happens without the body dying. Star People and Walk-ins can be of either orientation—positive or negative—although most from fifth density and beyond are positive.


walk-in

walk in 的動詞派生詞。

能够徒步进入的 可不预约直接进入的

On multiple occasions, beginning when she was 12, Sara went to her local GP and to walk-in clinics wearing her hijab to get the morning-after pill.

2014年August29日, Ruzwana Bashir, “The untold story of how a culture of shame perpetuates abuse. I know, I was a victim”, 出自 The Guardian:

能够徒步进入的 可徒步进入的

Aspen is a walk-in tent campground with sites tucked in among the pine

2007, Fred Dow, Suzanne Dow, U. S. National Forest Campground Guide:

能够徒步进入的 能容纳人走进去的

Our roomy superior category double looked out onto the open wraparound promenade through one-way glass that reversed its view at night. The closet was walk-in, and the bath had a full tub. The TV brought in both the BBC and Euronews, ...

The closet was walk-in, but all the clothes had been shoved to one side over a low dresser. The other side was consumed by shelves spanning from floor to ceiling. Arranged on the shelves were boxes of every shape and size neatly labeled ...

2011, Paradise Avenger, The Breaking of Poisonwood, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN，第 80 頁:

My closet was walk-in with plenty of hanging space and drawers, but most of my clothes ended up on the floor anyway.

2017, K M Randall, Blue Sun, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

能够徒步进入的 （不需要经过横档等）能直接进入的

a walk-in bathtub

“The shower is walk in, multiple showerheads and a tiled bench. Take your time, I installed one of those perpetual hot water heaters, so you can have an endless experience. If you're not out in an hour, I'll call 911.”

2016, Douglas E Roff, Jacob A Roff, Cryptid: Discovery, BookBaby, →ISBN:

Eighteen-inch ceramic tiles, laid diagonally, made the home seem bigger. Opposite the kitchen was the bedroom wing with a master suite plus two other bedrooms, each having its own bath. All the showers were walk-in.

2018, Forrest Steele, Never Again, Seriously, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:

… (locations, that are vulnerable to walk-in robbery), which makes isolation of the value from UCR statistics impossible.

1976, Warner A. Eliot, John R. Strack, Alice E. Witter, National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. National Evaluation Program, Mitre Corporation, Early-warning robbery reduction projects: an assessment of performance, section II, § A, page 6:

[...], not least because the offence can vary from a quick walk-in theft to planned and targeted plundering.

2010, Andrew Ashworth, Sentencing and Criminal Justice, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN，第 137 頁:


at someone's throat

They were at each other's throats all evening.