03 Flashcards
You feel me?
Beni anlıyor musun?
Come in handy
“The money will come in handy when I want to travel.”
İşe yaramak
= to be useful for a particular purpose:
Oh, that spanner will come in handy for fixing the plumbing.
Brolly
Şemsiye (British)
Colander
Kevgir
Süzgeç
Ladle
Kepçe
rolling pin
merdane
oklava
sive
süzgeç
get past something
“Nobody likes to be rejected, but I got past it.”
= to be able to stop something from affecting you, upsetting you, or influencing you:
“Nobody likes to be rejected, but I got past it.”
” If you can get past the old-fashioned photos, this is a great cookbook”
Where are you off to?
“Brian : Sure, no problem. Where are you off to?”
Where are you going?
Where are you heading to?
In which direction are you going?
be running on fumes
= to have almost reached a point where you are unable to continue, because you have almost no energy, money, etc. left:
Pili bitmek, mecali kalmamak
“The hurricane destroyed his home and left him and his family running on fumes.”
“She is determined to play in today’s game, even if she is running on fumes by the end of it.”
What’s eating you?
“Jack’s in a strange mood - I wonder what’s eating him?”
Ne derdin var?
Canını sıkan nedir?
= What isannoying or bothering you?
come down with something
” I think I may be coming down with a cold.”
= to begin to have or suffer from (an illness)
” She came down with measles.”
” I think I may be coming down with a cold.”
spotty
” of uneven quality; patchy.
“his spotty record on the environment”
= ancak ara sıra iyi olan; ancak yer yer iyi olan:
” Her performance was spotty. Performansı ancak yer yer iyiydi”
Let’s get down to it
Hadi işe koyulalım
implacability
Acımasızlık, amansız
implacable = unable to be changed, satisfied, or stopped:
“an implacable enemy”
subterfuge
Using tactics and subterfuge, they persuaded the chieftains to tell them of a great Inca ruler in the mountains where gold was plentiful.
Dalavere
= deceit used in order to achieve one’s goal.
“he had to use subterfuge and bluff on many occasions”
contrite
pişman
suçluluk duyan
nedamet
- full of guilt or regret; remorseful
- arising from a sense of shame or guilt: “contrite promises.”
- (Theology) Christianity remorseful for past sin and resolved to avoid future sin
a man/woman/person of substance
“That Michael was even asked to guarantee other people’s debts shows that he was a man of substance in the Jewish community of Amsterdam. He had a seat among the parnassim, the lay directors who took care of taxes,”
Spinoza
Ian Buruma;
= : a person who is rich and powerful
He accepted the semi-political duties of a man of substance in his county.
Cyber-flashing
“There has been a huge increase in the number of women falling victim to cyber-flashing”
Cyber-flashing is when someone sends an unwanted sexual image or video to another person, usually by social media, text
=the act of someone using the internet to send an image of their naked body, especially the genitals (= sexual organs), to someone that they do not know and who has not asked them to do this:
no mean feat
“It’s no mean feat living in Turkey”
herkesin harcı değil
= to be a great achievement:
“Getting the job finished in under a week was no mean feat.”
feckless
“Thatcher positioned on the same side as his mother, who firmly overrules his feckless father. It’s brilliant visual storytelling…:
About Citizen Kane
: WEAK, INEFFECTIVE
//She can’t rely on her feckless son.
2: WORTHLESS, IRRESPONSIBLE
//a feckless maneuver that could only serve to strengthen the enemy
— Simon Schama
unerring
Welles’s instinct for spatial composition and blocking of his actors was unerring.
Şaşmaz, hatasız
pendant
Ancient Egypt
{i} sallantılı süs (kolye vb.)
{i} pandantif
{i} asılı şey
{s} sarkık
1: something suspended: such as
a: an ornament (as on a necklace) allowed to hang free
//A turquoise pendant hung on her necklace.
b: an electrical fixture suspended from the ceiling
//hung an incandescent light pendant from the ceiling over the reading area
2: a hanging ornament of roofs or ceilings much used in the later styles of Gothic architecture
Bangle
Bangle of King Shoshonk I from Tanis
Bilezik
