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Puddle
Su birikintisi
:a very small pool of usually dirty or muddy water
To get ahead of yourself
Too excited
Too confident
Too worried
To scrape the barrel
= be reduced to using things or people of the poorest quality because there is nothing else available.
“the party was scraping the barrel for competent politicians
the end of one’s tether
:a state in which one is not able to deal with a problem, difficult situation, etc., any longer.
” I’ve been dealing with their lies for too long. I’m at the end of my tether.”
stoop
(öne) eğilmek
f}omuzlarıçökük/düşükolmak/durmak, hafif kambur olmak: “He stoops.”
Omuzları düşmek
öne eğmek
sahanlık
to give benefit of the doubt
= to decide that you will believe someone, even though you are not sure that what the person is saying is true:
” She said she was late because her flight was canceled, and we gave her the benefit of the doubt.”
Brassy
“Brassy yet vulnerable, tough but tender, equally adept at drama, comedy, and romance: Barbara Stanwyck had an edgy, refreshingly naturalistic screen presence that made her a perfect star for the early sound era, when sex and sin were as yet unrestrained by the Hays Code.”
Cazgır
= {s} yüzsüz, gürültücü ve kaba (kadın)
= tastelessly showy or loud in appearance or manner (typically used of a woman).
“her brassy, audacious exterior”
scoff
“Six hours’ sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool,” Napoleon famously prescribed. (He would have scoffed at Einstein, then, who was known to require ten hours of sleep for optimal performance.) This perceived superiority of those who can get by on less sleep isn’t just something Napoleon shared with dictators like Hitler and Stalin, it’s an enduring attitude woven into our social norms and expectations, from proverbs about early birds to the basic scheduling structure of education and the workplace.
{f} alay etmek
” The irreligious scoffed at the bishop’s interpretation. = Dinsiz, piskoposun yorumuyla alay etti.”
: to show contempt by derisive acts or language
“scoffed at the idea”
frustrate
“Although bludgeoning the shop assistant does, for example, serve the goal of getting beer for the party, it frustrates the more pressing and underlying desire to stay out of prison.”
You have more in common with a psychopath than you realise – Heidi Maibom | Aeon Essays
{f} engel olmak
{f} boşa çıkarmak
{f} işini bozmak
Kösteklemek
= prevent (a plan or attempted action) from progressing, succeeding, or being fulfilled.
“the rescue attempt was frustrated by bad weather
Hyperbolic
“Toni Morrison was unparalleled. She will always be so. A novelist, essayist, woman and sage, she was a genius of uncommon grace. This is not hyperbolic. It is, simply, fact.”
(sıfat) abartılı
the likes of
benzerleri
-…the likes of Ireland, Austria and Costa Rica: …. gibileri (gibi ülkeler).
-I’ve never seen the likes of it. Bunun gibisini/Bir benzerini ömrümde görmedim.
Fit as a fiddle
Turp gibi
Sapasağlam
Neşeli
One things leads another
Aksilikler hep üst üste gelir
Beat a dead horse
Havanda su dövmek
Boşa kürek çekmek
Boşa uğraşmak
