stick up one's ass

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have a stick up one's ass

My parents […] had been decently off at some time in the past, but all that remained by the time I came along was a certain New Englandy Puritan sense of respectability. […] I've inherited it. As much as I've tried to fight it, when you're born with a stick up your ass, you die with a stick up your ass.

2009, Don Nigro, Gorgons and Other Plays, →ISBN，第 47 頁:

President Adrian Kantor, whom […] Sandy often referred to as a "prissy do-gooder with a stick up his ass," credited Sanderson & Dunn with his swift ascent from the House to the Senate to the White House.

2014, Jay Giles, 章號 1, 出自 Moneymoon's End, →ISBN:

He was too straight-laced to appreciate piercings and tattoos. If he could manage to keep future comments to himself, she wouldn't have any reason to mention the stick up his ass.

2015, Tara Mills, 章號 2, 出自 Going Solo, →ISBN:


carrot and stick

源自两种驱赶运货动物的方式：用胡萝卜在前方吸引，和用棒子在后面抽打。

胡萝卜和大棒，恩威并济，软硬兼施

It was this carrot and stick discipline to which Mr. John Mill was subjected, and which he accepted dutifully as flowing from that perfect wisdom of which up to this time his father had been the representative.

1876, Lord Blachford, “The Reality of Duty, as Illustrated by the Autobiography of Mr. John Stuart Mill”, 出自 The Contemporary Review，第 523 頁:

There was no similar carrot and stick for use against the French land armaments.

1928, Joseph Montague with George Young, Freedom of the Seas，第 159 頁:

The proposal to use the world trade order as a source of carrots and sticks for the pursuit of environmental objectives is based on three illusions.

2000, Anne O. Krueger with Chonira Aturupane, The WTO as an International Organization，第 225 頁:

the artful tactic of carrot and stick bore relatively plentiful fruit.

2008, Paul Lendvai with Ann Major, One Day that Shook the Communist World: The 1956 Hungarian Uprising and Its Legacy，第 227 頁:


botted

more botted (comparative)
most botted (superlative)

人机似的 （都是新手的）

a botted lobby


botted

bot 的簡單過去時和過去時分詞


teeny

变换自tiny （1825年），可能为了让其听起来有儿语等的感觉

teenier (comparative)
teeniest (superlative)


woe is me

源自me的一个弃用用法，即可以不带借词表达与格意义。
对比同义的德語 Weh ist mir和意第緒語 וויי איז מיר (vey iz mir)。

/ˌwəʊ ɪz ˈmiː/

我真可悲，我真倒霉；哀哉

Woe is me, that I soiourne in Mesech: that I dwell in the tents of Kedar.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 120:5:


gooner

Gooner的大小寫替代形式。


gooner

源自goon (“长时间保持性兴奋而不高潮”) + -er。

I am likely both too repressed and too vanilla to ever be a gooner of any distinction, but the term speaks to the existence of a community of men for whom masturbation is a serious and important aspect of their sexuality.

2018年July18日, John Sherman, “Why Some Guys Like Jerking Off Together”, 出自 BuzzFeed News，2022-08-18歸檔自原頁面:

Instead, a gooner remains “deeply in the bliss of masturbation,” Christfister continues, submitting themselves to an unrelenting cycle of tease and denial.

2020年November21日, Michael Stahl, “The Psychedelic Science of 'Gooning' — Or Masturbating Into a Trance”, 出自 MEL Magazine，2022-07-03歸檔自原頁面:

By ruining orgasms along the way, a gooner can extend the overall length of their masturbation session.

2022年October3日, Lauren Beller, “G is for Gooning”, 出自 Medium，於2022-12-22歸檔自原頁面:

"nier automata is a gooner game" you have never played past ending a

This designs really good when you don’t have a gooner in your ear telling you how much they wanna fuck it

when you're childproofing a gooner's phone, remember to block apps like shein, youtube and amazon. they'll go desperately searching for underwear reviews or bra ads just to see an inch of the female form.


ham-fisted

源自ham (“火腿”) + fisted (形容词)，可能是比喻人的手部不是手，而像火腿一样笨拙。

more ham-fisted (comparative)
most ham-fisted (superlative)

cack-handed

笨拙的，不熟练的，笨手笨脚的

ham-handed

笨拙的，不熟练的，笨手笨脚的

heavy-handed

笨拙的，不熟练的，笨手笨脚的

mutton-fisted

笨拙的，不熟练的，笨手笨脚的

undexterous

笨拙的，不熟练的，笨手笨脚的

dexterous

笨拙的，不熟练的，笨手笨脚的

skilful

笨拙的，不熟练的，笨手笨脚的

笨拙的，不熟练的，笨手笨脚的

[Stephen] Harper has a few weeks' grace, during which he and his ham-fisted finance minister, Jim Flaherty, can ponder the error of their ways.

2008年December5日, “Everyone benefits from prorogue”, 出自 Michael Den Tandt 編, The Sun Times, 第 156 卷, 第 285 期, Owen Sound, Ont.: Osprey Media Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC，第 A4 頁，第 1 列:

In 1973, Sonia Orwell broke David Bowie's heart by refusing him permission to adapt her late husband [George Orwell]'s final novel into a rock musical. She had rebuffed every request since the hamfisted 1956 movie version starring Edmond O'Brien, and was never likely to make an exception for a glam-rock dandy, but he was sorely aggrieved.

2019年November13日, Dorian Lynskey, “Bowie’s Books and Why Bowie Matters review – a manic turnover of new ideas”, 出自 Katharine Viner 編, 衛報, 倫敦: 衛報媒體集團, →ISSN, →OCLC，2023-07-16歸檔自原頁面:

What an utter farce. Just like DfT [the Department for Transport]'s ham-fisted, blundering ticket office closure programme.

2023年September6日, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Leaderless and Rudderless”, 出自 Rail, 第 991 期, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC，第 3 頁:


knocked up

My name is Wendy and I first moved to New York when I was 21 to be a dancer, but I broke my big toe and then I got knocked up by this actor who dumped me to join the Peace Corps, so for the last 16 years I been raising my daughter all by myself and then two weeks ago, she tells me that she is a bisexual and that she hates me more than any person on this planet.

2000, Gina Wendkos, Coyote Ugly (motion picture), 角色 Wendy（Ellen Cleghorne）:

I ask him why she doesn't get on methadone while she's knocked up. He says because she not only uses heroin but she's a crystal meth head and a crack head to boot. She got knocked up by a John she picked up one night hooking.

2011, Anna Young, I Hate Myself and Want to Die, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN，第 179 頁:

I walked about the streets where the best shops for ladies were, I haunted the Bazaar like an unquiet spirit, I fagged through the Park again and again, long after I was quite knocked up.

1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], 出版於 1850, →OCLC:


knocked up

knock up 的簡單過去時和過去時分詞


ggwp

gg + wp 的複合詞。

We had an amazing game with @AnonymoEsports thank you so much guys ggwp! 👑


cook up

Let me cook up some eggs and bacon before you go.

你走之前我再做点鸡蛋和培根吧。

To cook up a batch of biodiesel, scientists stir together methanol and vegetable fat.

科学家将甲醇和植物油搅拌在一起来制取生物柴油。

Owsley Stanley started cooking up those famous purple LSD tabs.

Owsley Stanley开始着手制作那些著名的紫色LSD（麦角酸二乙酰胺）片剂。

下位詞：whip up

The financiers cooked up an instrument called a collateralized debt obligation.

金融学家们创造了一种名为债务担保证券的工具。

He really cooked up a good one this time, something about an airline disaster.

他这回扯的故事真的有点东西的，说什么空难啥的。

For more than two years Thailand's ruling junta, which seized power in a coup in 2014, has been cooking up a constitution which it hopes will keep military men in control even after elections take place.

2017年January14日, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, 出自 The Economist:

"RMT will not sit back while this carve-up of the rail network is cooked up in company boardrooms. [...]".

2021年September8日, “RMT on "war footing" in response to workforce cutback threats”, 出自 RAIL, 第 939 期，第 15 頁:

仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见cook、up。


tide over

（在金钱上）帮...撑过困难

Could you lend me ten pounds to tide me over till payday?

你能借我10英镑帮我撑到发工钱吗？

Would a small snack tide you over until dinner?

吃点零食能让你撑到晚饭吗？

Each evening, it was true, when the flare of Fleet Street would have begun really to smoke, she had, in resistance to old habit, a little to hold herself; but for three successive days she tided over that crisis.

In responding, J. P. Knight, the Traffic Manager, emphasised the company's desire to meet the wants of Brighton in every way and to develop traffic, while the question of a reduction in fares would be considered as soon as they had tided over their most pressing difficulties.

1952 December, R. C. Riley, “By Rail to Kemp Town”, 出自 Railway Magazine，第 832 頁:

I will therefore suggest a way to tide over this difficulty.

2001, Swami Parmeshwaranand, Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Puranas:


rhyme or reason

仿譯自中古法語 n'y avoir ryme ne raison (Eustache Deschamps），在一个与伊丽莎白一世的谈话中被认为是埃德蒙·斯宾塞所作。 (這個詞源⁽⁺⁾能找到來源嗎？)

Prices vary considerably from one town to another with no apparent rhyme or reason.

每个城里的价格差得都好多，没什么道理。

He would often fly into an unexpected rage without rhyme or reason.

他经常无缘无故突然大发雷霆。


tee off

打第一杆，开球 （见tee）

I always check the wind direction before I tee off.

我开球前总会确认一下风向。

（为了打本垒打而）重击 （球）

Reyes teed off on a hanging curve to give the Cardinals a 3-1 lead.

雷耶斯打出了一个无效曲线球而让圣路易斯红雀3-1领先。

Boy, do his jibes ever tee me off!

天，他的嘲讽真是气死我了。


walk the beat

walks the beat
walking the beat
walked the beat

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巡逻 （多指警察或保安在工作时巡逻）


OOMF

one of my followers/friends (“我的一个粉丝/跟随者；我的一个朋友”) 之首字母縮略詞。

[Jeremy O. Harris:] One of the things I worry about is that the little gay boys and girls I’m friends with don’t meet people their age IRL. They only know people through their oomfs, right? The oomfs run the world.
[Devan Shimoyama:] What’s “oomf”?
[Jeremy O. Harris:] An oomf is an “O.O.M.F.” — “one of my friends,” as in someone you know only in a digital space, from Twitter or Tumblr.

2022年September16日, Emil Wilbekin, “What Does It Mean to Be a Young, Black Queer Artist Right Now?”, 出自 The New York Times Style Magazine:


oomf

oomph的另一種寫法。

“New beginnings, baby, you know what I'm saying?” “Yeah, Lucy.” “Good girl. Hey, do you want me to set you up? I know some very nice young men. Some of whom have a bit of oomf in their—” “Thanks, Luce, you can back off now.”

2014年November18日, Kris Ripper, The New Born Year, Kris Ripper:


oomf

OOMF的大小寫替代形式。


oomfie

OOMFie的大小寫替代形式。


sitch

源自中古英語 sich、siche，源自古英語 sīċ (“水道”)，源自原始西日耳曼語 *sīk，源自原始日耳曼語 *sīką (“涓流”)。


sitch

So here's the sitch: Bruce Banner and Betty Ross Talbot are falling from roughly eight miles high.

2005, Lois H. Gresh, Robert E. Weinberg, The science of supervillains, John Wiley and Sons，第 1 頁:

Valeska had insisted 'she' stay, sleep where it was definitely safe. Just 'til the sitch could be settled.

2007, George Bennett Fain, Pandora's Box, Lulu.com，第 159 頁:

Maybe one is more introspective and the other is more outgoing. Whatever the sitch, you two balance each other out.

2008, Editors of TEEN magazine, Teen Uncover the Real You: A Quiz Book, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.，第 2 頁:

Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Great, I'll see you back in there. Also, I wouldn't lose my mind if you decided to chew a stick of gum. Thanks for understanding the sitch, Gina, you're a china doll.

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


sitch

They stops you on the sly in the streets, and tells you to call at their house at sitch a hour of the day, and when you goes there they smuggles you quietly into some room by yourselves, and then sets to work Jewing away as hard as they can, prizing up their own things, and downcrying yourn.

1864, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor:


throw one's toys out of the pram

throws one's toys out of the pram
throwing one's toys out of the pram
threw one's toys out of the pram
thrown one's toys out of the pram

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-throw one's toys out of the pram.ogg

（得不到自己想要的东西而）大吵大闹，胡闹，闹脾气


tiff

本義為“聞”；對比冰島語中表示氣味的詞。

Something to laugh off, not make a big issue out of. We’d had a little tiff and would have forgotten about it in a couple of days.

可以一笑了之，不必大惊小怪。我们只是发生了一点小争吵，过几天就会忘掉。

1997, Haruki Murakami, 譯者 Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; 再版 New York: Vintage Books, 1998, →ISBN，第 30 頁:

At the other extreme, couples who are married with children have heavily disguised tiffs. A man saying in a slightly strained way, 'I'm going to turn the compost', is actually saying, 'And that's all you are, Jean, compost!' Of course, what happens is eventually he apologises, they cry, make love, have another child, get overtired and the tiffing continues.

2000年September30日, Guy Browning, “How to... have a tiff”, 出自 The Guardian:

“About a week ago we were sitting outside a restaurant having an intense debate about the children, and I held Nigella [Lawson]'s neck repeatedly while attempting to emphasise my point,” he said. “There was no grip, it was a playful tiff. The pictures are horrific but give a far more drastic and violent impression of what took place.[…]”

2013年June18日, Alexandra Topping, Ben Quinn, 引 Charles Saatchi, “Charles Saatchi: accepting police caution was better than the alternative”, 出自 The Guardian, →ISSN:


tiff

本義為“聞”；對比冰島語中表示氣味的詞。

She tiff'd at Tim, she ran from Ralph.


tiff

源自中古英語 tiffen、古法語 tiffer、tifer (“打扮”，→法語 attifer)，源自古法蘭克語 *tipfōn、*tippōn (“装饰”)，可能与原始日耳曼語 *tuppaz (“尖，端”)有关。对比荷蘭語 tippen (“剪发梢”)、古諾爾斯語 tippa (“尖端”)、英語 tip (名词)、中古高地德語 zipfen (“蹦跳”)。

Is the Miss under a force when she culls among her trinkets with curious toil to tiff herself out in the most engaging manner

1768-1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued:


tiff

Besides that one to which the permanent residence was attached, Mr. Augustus had several outlaying factories, which he visited from time to time, to superintend the manufacture of his indigo; at all of these he had little bungalows, or temporary abodes, where we tiffed and passed the heat of the day.

1841, The Asiatic journal and monthly register:


royally

more royally (comparative)
most royally (superlative)

Unless it was decreed royally, it never got done.

只有王室颁布才会有人实行。

He will be royally annoyed if you change his work.

你让他干别的活的话他会非常生气。


re-member

重新组合（被解体的事物）

This metaphysical flesh is the wooden phallus with which Isis re-members Osiris, it is ...

1973, Kenneth John Criqui, Dreams of the Swift Queen Turning Back on Herself Through the Gates，第 35 頁:

Eventually Isis manages to recover all but one of the pieces (the phallus, of course, being the missing part, but she magically fashions a replacement for it) and to re-member Osiris, who then becomes god of the afterworld.

1988, Christine Downing, Psyche's Sisters: Reimagining the Meaning of Sisterhood, HarperCollins:

To dismember is to tear apart; / To re-member is to put back together. / The old must be dismembered / So that which was prior to it / May be remembered. / Therefore, to re-mind is / To dismember and then re-member.

2012, Roy Melvyn, The Lost Writings of Wu Hsin: Pointers to Non Duality in Five Volumes, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

This scene re-members the Rembrandt painting The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp from 1632. The image honours the once famous Dutch physician, his contribution to medical science and a number of his contemporary surgeon colleagues who are also captured in the moment. It suggests that medicine has long depended on re-animating corpses for its own epistemological and legitimising ends.

2020, Martin O’Brien, Gianna Bouchard, “Zombie sickness: contagious ideas in performance”, 出自 Alan Bleakley 編, Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities, Routledge, →ISBN, part IV (Medicine as performance and public engagement):


I can't remember the last time

我记不得上次；我从没有过

I can’t remember the last time I was left disappointed by an action movie.

我从来没有对一个动作片那么失望过。


pudique

more pudique (comparative)
most pudique (superlative)


hoist by one's own petard

源自莎士比亚所著戏剧《哈姆雷特》。

/hˈɔ͡ɪst bˈa͡ɪ wˈʌnz ˈo͡ʊn pɛˈɾɑː͡ɹd/

/hˈɔ͡ɪst bˈa͡ɪ wˈɒnz ˈə͡ʊn pɛˈtɑːd/

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He has no one to blame but himself; he was hoisted by his own petard.

他怪不了别人，根本就是自作自受。

Unhappily, the country as well as Mr. Marples has been hoist by the Minister's petard. (Mr. Marples was the Minister concerned)

1963 June, “Second thoughts on Beeching”, 出自 Modern Railways，第 362 頁:

The danger with Trump would seem to be that, like Berlusconi, he would be hoist by his own petard, self-destructing precisely through the agent of his rise, and dragging the rest of us with him.

2015年August27日, Michael Signer, “What Happens When Donald Trump Stirs Up 'Passionate' Supporters”, 出自 The Atlantic:

At last, the opposition spoke with one voice, and Boris Johnson was hoist by his own petard. It’s hard to see how he gets out of it.

2019年September4日, Jon Henley, “'Fighting for survival': European papers maul Johnson after defeat”, 出自 The Guardian, →ISSN:


Ring of Fire

The Andes are part of the geological Ring of Fire that circles the Pacific Ocean. The Ring of Fire is a ring of active volcanoes that borders the great continental plates of the Pacific Ocean.

2003, Charles W. Maynard, The Andes, The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, →ISBN:


rizz

约2021年5月由YouTube和Twitch主播凯·塞纳特（或他的一个朋友）造出，然后在TikTok上走红。本词在2023年进一步走红，并当选牛津大学出版社的2023年年度单词。塞纳特指出这个词不是略自charisma。

negative rizz, L rizz

负数魅力（指让异性讨厌）

Wow, that guy has no rizz whatsoever.

You got her number? W rizz!

Bruh, that girl has better rizz than I do.

Baby Gronk shared that he would be focusing not on grade school or a paper route but ... his love for video games. To be fair, the purported "rizz king" of the pre-pubescent sports world is probably not the one who actually said any of the above.

2023年June26日, Lauren Mechling, “Baby Gronk, internet stardom and the Sports Dad nightmare writ large”, 出自 Katharine Viner 編, 衛報, 倫敦: 衛報媒體集團, →ISSN, →OCLC，2023-07-22歸檔自原頁面:

By now we all know how stilted and off-kilter ChatGPT sounds: blind confidence and a lack of shame can get you far in life, but could it really have more 'rizz' than even the most stilted and awkward human?

2024年January8日, James Greig, “Can AI finally help me to get some rizz? An investigation”, 出自 Dazed, London: Dazed Media, →ISSN, →OCLC，2024-01-08歸檔自原頁面:


rizz

I'm gonna go rizz one of those girls.

In one of De Tolla's videos, he says that Dunne "rizzed" Madden while convincing him to attend LSU. In another video, he jokes that Madden "rizzed up" Dunne and the 10-year-old stole the gymnastics star from her boyfriend, the "drip king." "Drip" refers to swagger and style.

2023年June8日, Kalhan Rosenblatt, “Who is Baby Gronk? Did Livvy 'rizz' him up? What does any of this really mean?”, 出自 NBC News，2023-06-22歸檔自原頁面:


rizz

Rizla+ 的截斷形式。

And I heard that the yutes are lizz
fuck it, I’m tryna put him in the rizz

2024年September2日, “Niz” (開頭起0:31，), Liz 作詞:


coinkydink

/kəʊˈɪŋkiːdɪŋk/


coinkidink

/kəʊˈɪŋkiːdɪŋk/


rizz up

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-rizz up.wav

rizz

泡，搭讪 （尤指向女性）

泡，搭讪 （尤指向女性）

Twitch streamer and YouTube personality Kai Cenat, who popularized the term, broke it all down on a recent episode of No Jumper. "Rizz is when you're talking to a girl, and at first, shit is not going your way. It's looking bad for you, until you spit game and you're rizzing them up to where shit starts to go your way," he explained. "You're so slick with your words and what you're saying, to where the girl is like, 'OK, yeah, who is this?!' After shit goes your way, you're like, 'Yeah, I rizzed her up. I've got mad rizz.'"

2022年December15日, Eric Skelton, “Rizz, Explained”, 出自 Complex, New York, N.Y.: Complex Networks, →ISSN, →OCLC，2023-03-20歸檔自原頁面:


gyatt

詞源樹
英語 God
英語 gyatt
原为God的非洲裔美国人白话英语发音，多半来自“Goddamn!”。在YouTube和Twitch主播YourRAGE的影响下普及开。这名主播在2021年6月份曾做了一个看到美女的臀部就大喊“GYATT”的恶作剧节目。在2023年的一个视频中他曾称： Everybody used to say "god damn" or "golly" but I said it weird. I'd always say "gyatt", I would never say "god damn". Chat realized that, and a way of making fun of me in 2020, they started typing "gyatt" to mock me.
大家都说“god damn”或“golly”，但是我的发音比较奇怪，我一直都说成“gyatt”，而从来不说“god damn。聊天区的观众发现以后，2020年的时候他们为了耍我，就在聊天区里开始发“gyatt”。
Kai Cenat等其他YouTube主播也做了类似的恶搞视频，导致这个词在2023年初更加普及。

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-gyatt.wav

God的發音拼寫，代表了非洲裔美國人白話英語（God damn、oh my God等叹词中的）

i say gyat dayum this coheed album is awesome!!! and im only on the 2nd track!

GYATT DAMN I'm Hungry!!!!!!!

Oh gyat. That's the worst jelly ever.

TM is like the Gyat damn secret service yo for real!!! Smh... *rolls eyes mad ratchet like*

Thank gyat fo Twitter when I'm just sittin around at work #waiting

What should I do move?? Kick out ?? Work or just stay on my damned collage this is hard! Bad very bad condition!! Oh my gyatt


gyatt

oomf looked so good today gyatt 😍

Gyatt dawg that's just mean.

Every time I see this picture I just imagine the things I would do to that body GYATT


gyatt

（多指女性的）翘臀，美臀

Do oats actually give you a gyatt?

2023年September4日, u/A, “(post title)”, 出自 Reddit, r/teenagers，於2023-10-14歸檔自原頁面:

what's he complaining for? he gets to look at gyatts for an hour or so (idk how long a volleyball game lasts)

2023年September10日, u/yeetfeetwolfie, “💀”, 出自 Reddit, r/Zoomerchanone，於2023-10-14歸檔自原頁面:

Yo mama sooo skibidi that when I told her I was the rizzler she stuck her gyatt out

We here for that gyatt, ain't nobody tryna listen to them songs

[Out:] Mega yachts [In:] Mega gyatt

2024年January1日, Maura Judkis, “The List: What is in and out for 2024”, 出自 Washington Post，第 C1 頁:


the die is cast

字面意思是「骰子已经掷出」，仿譯自拉丁語 iacta ālea est。这句话是罗马史学家苏埃托尼乌斯（约69-122年）给出的语法与语义上有讹误的拉丁语翻译，载于其著作《罗马十二帝王传》（121年成书）内。原句为古希臘語 ἀνερρίφθω κύβος (anerrhíphthō kúbos)，据称是尤利乌斯·凯撒（即凯撒大帝）在其渡过卢比孔河挑起罗马内战时说的一句话（还见cross the Rubicon）。
凯撒当时引用了米南德（约前342或341年—前290年）所著喜剧Ἀρρηφόρῳ（《圣物的持有者》）内的一个台词。该希腊语短语应翻译作“let the die be cast”（“让骰子掷出吧”，暗指让游戏开始而断了回头路），指的是某种结果由骰子决定的运气游戏。

/ðə ˌdaɪ ɪz ˈkɑːst/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-the die is cast.ogg

you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube


lost and found

Well, if you can't find your glasses, then go to lost and found and ask if anyone turned them in.

嗯，你找不到眼镜的话就去失物招领处问问有没有人捡到了。


brick and mortar

实体的，线下的 （一般用来与网上平台做对比） （自20世纪90年代中期）

Brick and mortar retail stores face online competition.

实体零售店面临网购的竞争。

E-commerce is not the kiss of death for big, traditional brick-and-mortar business.
对于大型传统实体企业来说，电子商务并不至于致命。

2000, Judy Kong, in a report on the ICE Conference, "Non Traditional Clicks and Mortar Businesses: (Dinosaurs) Learn to Fly":


brick and mortar

建筑物 （多指国内住房）

仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见brick、and、mortar。


see red

可能指的是历史上一些军队在战前升起的红旗，或指的是斗牛时使用的红布，又可能仅仅指的是一般指代愤怒或警告的红色。对比欧洲语言中类似的俗语：丹麥語 se rødt、德語 rotsehen、法語 voir rouge等。

"So help me, God," he cried, "when I think it all over I go crazy, I see red."

1901, Frank Norris, 章號 2, 出自 The Octopus:

Nothing but his temper, the lack of self-control that made him see red . . ., had kept Jerry out of a world championship.

1920, William MacLeod Raine, 章號 22, 出自 The Big-Town Round-Up:

Diop, sometimes criticized for passive play, saw red once this season when he lashed out at a foe who kicked away his legs.

2005年January26日, Rob Hughes, “Soccer: Trio from Senegal is having a ball”, 出自 New York Times, retrieved 2013-11-14:

Kalinic later saw red for a rash tackle on Paul Scharner before Gabriel Tamas was dismissed for bringing down Diouf.

2010年December28日, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, 出自 BBC:


touch grass

touches grass
touching grass
touched grass

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-touch grass.wav

远离互联网、回归现实（常用于祈使句，暗指某人脱离现实、应该多以现实角度看待问题）

仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见touch、grass。


suicide watch

Previously, Bob had mentioned that they had 14 clients on 'suicide watch' (where volunteers make regular contact with the men involved).

2021年March10日, Paul Bigland, “They can leave their problems at the gate”, 出自 RAIL, 第 926 期，第 60 頁:


troticene

(环庚三烯基)(环戊二烯基)钛


trohafcene

(环庚三烯基)(环戊二烯基)铪


trozircene

(环庚三烯基)(环戊二烯基)锆


trochrocene

(环庚三烯基)(环戊二烯基)铬


trovacene

(环庚三烯基)(环戊二烯基)钒


tromancenium

(环庚三烯基)(环戊二烯基)锰𬭩


trometcene

(环庚三烯基)(环戊二烯基)金属


eat shit

eats shit
eating shit
ate shit
eaten shit

Finally, for my 13th birthday, I got a skateboard — a Black Knight with those cool black urethane wheels. I cut my teeth on that board — and ate shit on it many, many times.

2009, Laura Thornhill, The Skateboarder's Journal - Lives on Board:

When he started insulting people's mothers, the bouncer made him eat shit.

他开始问候人母亲的时候，保镖过来打得他满地找牙。

仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见eat、shit：吃屎


eat shit

去你妈的，肏你妈的 （表达强烈不满和敌意）

"I fucked your sister!" "Eat shit!"

“我幹了你妹妹！”“你他妈去死吧！”


eat shit

仿譯自西班牙語 comer mierda (“浪费时间”)，是古巴西班牙语。


everything but the kitchen sink

字面意思是「除了厨房水槽以外的所有东西」。1944年，原为军队俚语。

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-everything but the kitchen sink.ogg

She must have brought everything but the kitchen sink along on the trip, and how she lifted her suitcase, I do not know.

她去旅行时肯定把能带的东西都带上了，我都不知道她怎么拿得动行李箱的。


everything and the kitchen sink

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-everything and the kitchen sink.ogg


just saying

I'm just saying (“我说说而已；我说着玩的”) 的缩略形式。

用于推卸说了伤人话语的责任。


Abdiel

借自希伯來語 עֲבְדִּיאֵל (“上帝的从者”)。

源自希伯来语的男性人名。

Ahi the sonne of Abdiel, the sonne of Guni, chiefe of the house of their fathers.

還有古尼的孫子、押比疊的兒子亞希；這都是作族長的。

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Chronicles 5:15:


vendange

（尤指法国的）葡萄收获，葡萄收成

For them the vendange was a feast, a ritual, a time of strange excitement, more intense by far than the harvest of the corn in the north, more religious.

1953, Patrick O'Brian, The Frozen Flame, 2007, republished as The Catalans, W. W. Norton & Company, Paperback, page 179,

‘I could, of course, stay until after the vendanges, if I wished,’ said the Prince.

“如果我愿意的话，我当然可以待到葡萄收获期结束后。”王子说道。

1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, 出版於 1992，第 534 頁:


Seville

來自(可能通過中古法語词形) 西班牙語 Sevilla，來自阿拉伯語 إِشْبِيلِيَة (ʔišbīliya)，來自拉丁語 Hispalis，最終來自腓尼基語 𐤔𐤐𐤋𐤄 (šplh /sefela/, “平原，山谷”)。對比希伯來語 שפלה (shfela, “低地”)，阿拉伯語 سافل (safil, “低的”)。

塞維利亞（首府名，位於西班牙安達盧西亞）。

塞維利亞（省名，位於西班牙安達盧西亞）。

塞維爾（人口普查指定區名，位於美國加利福尼亞圖萊里）。


git gud

get good的故意误拼，参见get (“成为”)。

They are also often cast as elitist scum who treat the larger gaming population with disdain, telling them to “git gud,” which is akin to a “put up or shut up” mentality; that is, “real” gamers overcome content through hard work and skill.

2017, Zek Valkyrie, Game Worlds Get Real: How Who We Are Online Became Who We Are Offline:

[…] showing off what he knows but more about helping out a streamer and a friend who is looking to “git gud” at this whole Twitch thing. He embodies all the best qualities of Twitch; […]

2019, Tee Morris, Twitch For Dummies，第 278 頁:


mobbed-up

more mobbed-up (comparative)
most mobbed-up (superlative)

In this way, cartels of mobbed-up outfits drove everyone else out of the business. The impact of organized crime on the union movement was ruinous.

2006, Guy Lawson, William Oldham, The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia:

The following morning a little detective work led me to Spiro's, a mobbed-up social club on Eighteenth Avenue that was Frankie Carbone's hangout.

2005, Lou Eppolito, Bob Drury, Mafia Cop，第 218 頁:


skeeve

skeevy 的逆構詞，源自意大利語。

使...厌恶，使...恶心

I asked her, one time, if it didn't maybe skeeve her to work for a crud like Duke.

1964, Lou Cameron, The Block Busters，第 186 頁:

"Those are not me — preppy jackets skeeve me! I hate those shoes."

2007, Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic, Or, The Sexual Intellectual，第 215 頁:

At twenty-three, Eric wasn't that much older than my nineteen, but that didn't mean his pseudo-comeons didn't skeeve me out. There was something almost menacing about him.

2013, Alyssa Rose Ivy, Soar (The Empire Chronicles #1):

His mother is repulsed by his uncle; he has heard her whisper it in the kitchen, "I skeeves him, Charley." She is Italian.

1993, Pete Dexter, Brotherly Love，第 16 頁:

You could put that needle in your arm? Man, I skeeve that like death.

1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, Scribner，第 727 頁:

Tony's reply: "How can I skeeve you, you're the mother of my children!" Non- Italians can easily figure out that Carmela is hurt because she thinks Tony finds her physically unappealing.

2007, George De Stefano, An Offer We Can't Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America，第 173 頁:

Indeed, when baby-voiced Teresa describes the bone-crunching finishes in her new home, a 12,000-square-foot French chateau simulacrum that’s “all granite, marble and onyx,” and avers her commitment to the brand-spanking new (“I just skeeve looking at other people’s houses,” she says.

2009年May28日, Penelope Green, “Jersey Girls, Nesting”, 出自 New York Times:

I remember Phil telling O'Maurigan after the Schuyler reading he's afraid I won't ever write a book— not because I'm lazy, or don't have the self-esteem, but because I skeeve on stealing.

1993, James McCourt, Time Remaining, →ISBN，第 67 頁:

“Beecher,” Clementine whispers, “if this is skeeving you out, let's just skip the room and—” ¶ “I'm fine. No skeeving at all,” I tell her, knowing full well that Iris would've had me leave ten minutes ago.

2011, Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle, chapter 3:


skeeve

skeevy 的逆構詞，源自意大利語。

He looked so fucking competent, for a skeeve with greasy blond hair pulled into a ponytail, a beaded headband, and callused bare feet.


Karabakh

借自俄語 Караба́х (Karabáx)，组成自突厥語族 *kara (“黑”)和波斯語 باغ (bâğ, “园”)。

/kɑːɹəˈbɑːk/

卡拉巴赫(南高加索地區名)


hit on

proposition

调情；为恋爱或性爱目的接近某人

come on

调情；为恋爱或性爱目的接近某人

pass

调情；为恋爱或性爱目的接近某人

make a pass

调情；为恋爱或性爱目的接近某人

调情；为恋爱或性爱目的接近某人

That's the third guy that has hit on her tonight.

这是今晚第三个和她调情的家伙了。

Guys are hitting on them almost all the time.

男生们总是跟她们眉来眼去的。

He hit on a great idea for improving the design.

他想到一个改进设计的好主意。

I think you've just hit right on the solution.

我想你刚好想到了解决的办法。

仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见hit、on。


at stake

What is at stake in these next 20 minutes is the championship.

接下来二十分钟是能不能赢得冠军的关键。

Doesn't he realize that all of our lives are at stake here too?

他不明白我们在这里是在豁出性命吗？


pass the hat

源自用帽子在一群人之间收钱的做法。

passes the hat
passing the hat
passed the hat

（尤指在一群人间）讨钱，要钱，请求捐赠

Then somebody sings out, "Take up a collection for him, take up a collection!" Well, a half a dozen made a jump to do it, but somebody sings out, "Let HIM pass the hat around!"

1885, Mark Twain, 章號 20, 出自 Huckleberry Finn:

The institutions are opening development offices, hiring professional fund raisers, investing in slick billion-dollar campaigns, and trotting out their presidents to pass the hat.

2008年December5日, Martha Ann Overland, “In Asia, American-Style Fund Raising Takes Off”, 出自 Chronicle of Higher Education, retrieved 2008-12-11:


EFIGS

English, French, Italian, German, Spanish (“英语、法语、意大利语、德语、西班牙语”)之首字母縮略詞。

Although the original game was EFIGS – English, French, Italian, Spanish, German – the game itself uses about twenty-three thousand words, which is a lot, and all localisations combined, uncompressed, were about nine hundred and fifty kilobytes, which is also a lot, and so I could have of course cut that up and paged in and paged out the localisations from the hard drive, but that still kind of didn't save me from the floppy disk, in trying to get it down to 1.44 megs, so I made it English only unfortunately.

2016, Brian Provinciano, Porting Retro City Rampage to MS-DOS: From PS4 to 1.44MB Floppy, Game Developers Conference:


give way

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The mother gave way to her crying child.

After years of neglect, the rusty old bridge could give way at any time.

锈迹斑斑老桥年久失修，随时都可能会垮塌。

During the day conditions worsened quickly—for example, a 2-6-0 on the Uckfield line suddenly encountered flood water high enough to enter its ashpan and extinguish its fire—until lock gates up-river at Barcombe gave way and a tidal wave rolled down the valley meeting head-on a spring tide rolling up from the coast.

1961 January, “Talking of Trains: Flooding at Lewes”, 出自 Trains Illustrated，第 5 頁:

'Cause I'm praying for rain
I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way
I wanna watch it all go down

Winter gave way to spring.

At the crossing, cars must give way to pedestrians.

在十字路口车辆必须礼让行人。

（在演讲时）请...讲话，容许...打断


raw-boned

more raw-boned (comparative)
most raw-boned (superlative)

A young nurse, a big raw-boned country lass, plodder her way down to the building.

1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie，第 194 頁:


in a cleft stick

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/EN-AU ck1 in a cleft stick.ogg

Such a solution only puts the humanist in a cleft stick by trading the problem of malnutrition for that of over-population.

1964 September 3, H. Fullerton, Letters: Survival of the wild, New Scientist, Volume 23, No. 407, page 579:

But considerations in drafting Sonia Gandhi apart, the Congress leadership is clearly caught in a cleft stick, with or without the services of Rajiv Gandhi′s widow.

1991, Attar Chand, Rajiv Gandhi: His Mind and Ideology，第 214 頁:

仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见in、cleft、stick。

Hence when a Huichol woman is about to weave or embroider, her husband catches a large serpent and holds it in a cleft stick, while the woman strokes the reptile with one hand down the whole length of its back; …

1922, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, Forgotten Books, Easy Reading Series, page 31:


Chewsday

反映了/j/同化的发音拼写。


iykyk

其他形式：IYKYK

"Eras attire, friendship bracelets, singing and dancing encouraged 🫶 1, 2, 3 LGB^([sic，意為let's go, bitch])!!!! (iykyk)," Tay closed off her post, referencing the iconic chant that the crowd breaks into during her performance of "Delicate."

2023年October3日, Samantha Olson, “Attn, Swifties: You Can Still Buy Tickets for Taylor Swift's ‘Eras Tour’ Movie”, 出自 Cosmopolitan:


IYKYK

其他形式：iykyk


machinima

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-machinima.wav

使用低端（实时）的三维引擎（常见于电子游戏）而非专业人士使用的高端、复杂的三位引擎渲染

Fiona's been off at some kind of anime camp in New Jersey – Quake movies and machinima workshops, Japanese staff who claim not to know a word of English beyond ‘awesome’ and ‘sucks’, which for a vast range of human endeavor, actually, is more than enough…

2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, 出版於 2014，第 135 頁:

使用此等技术制作的视频，又称“机造视频”、“引擎电影”


pull rank

对持有不同意见的下属显示权威；倚老卖老 [接 on ‘某人’]