01 Flashcards
something of a dish
an attractive person, especially a female:
“His wife is quite a dish”. Slang.
Limber
=eğilir bükülür, oynak (özellikle kol ve bacaklar)
1: having a supple and resilient quality (as of mind or body): AGILE, NIMBLE
2: capable of being shaped: FLEXIBLE
backflip
Geriye doğru perende
a total reversal in policy or opinion
PM predicts water
raconteur
About Clerks - A documentary on the career and life of filmmaker and raconteur Kevin Smith.
iyi hikaye anlatan kimse
A storyteller, especially a person noted for telling stories with skill and wit
interplay
“It’s just that you owe the willpower you’re so proud of to the interplay between your genes and environment.”
The Art of the Good Life
Rolf Dobelli
Karşıklı etkileşim
“It’s just that you owe the willpower you’re so proud of to the interplay between your genes and environment.”
The Art of the Good Life
Rolf Dobelli
Things are looking up
İşler iyiye gidiyor
Talk to the hand
Külahıma anlat, seni dinlemiyorum
What am I, chopped liver?
Biz neciyiz / bizim başımız kel mi?
Grow apart
Ayrı düşmek
Set apart
Bir tarafa koymak, diğerlerinden ayırmak
“Set apart from the rest of the kids”
Cheesy
Bayağı, sıradan
a. Of poor quality; shoddy:
“a movie with cheesy special effects.”
b. Vulgarly pretentious or sentimental:
“a cheesy romantic comedy.”
Don’t ditch me
Beni ekme, satma
You reckon
Sen öyle san
Cheese it
Toz ol
Tell me about it
Bir de bana sor
I’m on a roll
Şanslı günümdeyim
Hop to it
Haydi acele et
Think nothing of it
Rica ederim - Dert etme
No ifs, ands, or buts
Aması maması yok, Lamı cimi yok!
self-own
“Swearing on the occasion, amid rich vocabulary, is costly signaling that you are self-owned.” - Nassim Taleb
: a statement or an act in which you unintentionally embarrass yourself or harm yourself in some way :
“Theattemptedsmear, oneuserwrote, was the “bestself-own of 2020.”
“How much does thehumiliationof a self-own reallymatterin therealworldofpolitics?”
“Naming thebookin this way hasbecometheultimateself-own.”
brittle
“We favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt, and we let our beliefs get brittle long before our bones. “
Adam Grant
Kırılgan, kolayca kırılan
= Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending
= Inflexible, may break or snap easily under stress or pressure
scalding
“if you drop a frog in a pot of scalding hot water, it will immediately leap out.
Haşlayıcı, kaynayan
= Hot enough to burn
Scald = kaynatmak = To burn with hot liquid
To heat almost to boiling
“Scald the milk, stop when little bubbles form.”
off putting
Disconcerting,annoyingorrepulsive;tendingtoputoff
“His habit of picking his nose is quite off-putting.”
There’s a Catch
“Scientists Found a Healthier Way to Cook Broccoli, But There’s a Catch”
Dikkat edilmesi gereken bir husus
If someone tells you there’s a catch, it means there is a complication, but if a person is a catch, he or she makes a good romantic partner.
pan out
“You mention Gandhi, Fanon, and Sankara. These very different figures of the anti-colonial struggle all saw decolonisation as an opportunity to live and develop differently. But it didn’t really pan out.”
başarmak
= başarıya ulaşmak
= altın çıkarmak (toprağı yıkayarak)
= To succeed; to proceed according to plan; to result or end up
“The China market is finally panning out, thanks to the voracious consumerism of the middle class.”
Serves you right
Oh olsun
Count your blessings
Haline şükret
Never would have guessed
Hiç aklıma gelmezdi
: One never thought that something could possibly be the case. Often used sarcastically to point out something one thinks is very obvious.
“I never would have guessed Mary could do something so unscrupulous.”
if any
“The close-up shows very little if any locale and concentrates on a relatively small object—an animal’s face”
= Çok az, pek nâdir
“Few if any pianists have performed the Grieg concerto with such sensitivity.”
= Not many and possibly none
Nuts to you!
Defol! Kaybol!
