02 Flashcards
Rather you than me
Yerinde olmak istemezdim
Through and through
“My mother is Irish through and through.”
Tepeden tırnağa
= in every aspect; thoroughly or completely.
“Harriet was a political animal through and through”
The floor is yours
Söz senin
Drop the L-bomb
Açılmak, sevdiğini söylemek
ballpark figure
“I know you can’t tell me the exact cost; just give me a ballpark figure. “
= roughly accurate approximation
Let someone (it) ride
“Don’t panic about the low sales - let it ride for a while and see if business picks up.”
Oluruna bırakmak
= take no immediate action over something.
“as far as I can find out, the police have let it ride for the moment”
come around
“He came around to our point of view”
Change your opinion
= change one’s position or opinion;
“He came around to our point of view”
Are you an item?
“I saw Darren and Emma there. Are they an item?”
Sevgili misiniz?
= If two people are an item, they are having a romantic relationship:
Go easy on something
“The doctor told me to go easy on the spicy food for a while.”
Abartmadan/Ölçülü (ye, iç, kullan vb)
= to not take or use too much of something:
imbibe
“I had grown up imbibing some of the reverential Zionism of my family of upper-caste Hindu nationalists in India. Both Zionism and Hindu nationalism emerged in the late 19th century out of an experience of humiliation”
Pankaj Mishra
Özümsemek
İçine çekmek,
1a: DRINK
b: to take in or up
“a sponge imbibes moisture”
2a: to receive into the mind and retain
“imbibe moral principles”
b: to assimilate or take into solution
I can’t place you
“I recognize her face, but I can’t quite place her.”
Seni çıkaramadım
= to not be able to remember who someone is or where you have met them:
“I recognize her face, but I can’t quite place her.”
What’s the scoop?
- Bob: Did you hear about Tom?
- Mary: No, what’s the scoop? “Hi, you guys!” beamed John’s little brother. “What’s the scoop?”
Olay nedir?
= What is the news?; What’s new with you?
” Bob: Did you hear about Tom? Mary: No, what’s the scoop? “Hi, you guys!” beamed John’s little brother. “What’s the scoop?”
This just in
Son dakika
Flaş flaş
= a phrase used by news anchors when an important piece of news has just arrived while on the air.
It may also refer to: This Just In: What I Couldn’t Tell You on TV, a 2003 book written by Bob Schieffer. T
any day now
“The baby’s due any day now.”
eli kulağında
oldu olacak
= very soon.
“we’ll get them back any day now”
We are playing hooky
Okulu asıyoruz
You are off the hook
Paçayı kurtardın
Busted
Yakalandın
Basıldın
I’ve had enough
Gına geldi
Bıktım
I’m fed up with…
Bir şeyden gına geldi
giddy
“Yes, abundance makes you giddy, but there is a limit. When it is exceeded, a surfeit of choices destroys quality of life. The technical term for this is the paradox of choice.”
The Art of Thinking Clearly
Rolf Dobelli
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Başı dönmüş, sersemlemiş
1 a : DIZZY
“giddy from the unaccustomed exercise”
b : causing dizziness
“a giddy height”
c : whirling rapidly
intransigent
“Saul Levi Morteira, the intransigent rabbi who would be Spinoza’s nemesis, lived on the other side of the street.”
Spinoza
Ian Buruma;
Uzlaşmaz
= characterized by refusal to compromise or to abandon an often extreme position or attitude : UNCOMPROMISING
//intransigent in their opposition
//an intransigent attitude
haughty
“The poet Daniel Levi de Barrios (pen name Miguel de Barrios) wrote about his coreligionists that they were “generally so haughty that even the poorest would not condescend to serve the rich, since he would regard himself as just as noble.”
Spinoza
Ian Buruma;
Mağrur
Kendini beğenmiş
Kibirli
= arrogantly superior and disdainful.
“a look of haughty disdain”
demeanor
Tutum
Davranış
Hal ve tavır
= a way of looking and behaving
“The boss has a calm, reassuring demeanor.”
= outward behaviour or bearing.
“his happy demeanour”
innocuous
“Sometimes an initial decision or event may seem innocuous at first, but it turns out to strongly influence or limit your possible outcomes in the long run.”
Super Thinking
Gabriel Weinberg
Zararsız
= not harmful or offensive.
“it was an innocuous question”
