09 Flashcards
trepidation
Thanks @aeonmag for sharing my latest article! I felt some trepidation sharing my journey. But I hope it helps with seeing the value of self-care! 🥰
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1: a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : APPREHENSION
//trepidation about starting a new job
get my head around it
“It was a bombshell. I’m shocked. I’m still trying to get my head around it,” Atwood, multi-award-winning author of The Handmaid’s Tale and many other novels, told The Daily Beast.
= to succeed in understanding or accepting something such as a new idea. We began to get our heads around what we were facing and how we would fight it.
bombshell
The novelist Margaret Atwood has revealed her shock at the revelation that her fellow Canadian author Alice Munro knew that her daughter was sexually abused by her husband—and stayed with him after finding out the dark secret.
“It was a bombshell. I’m shocked. I’m still trying to get my head around it,” Atwood,
- an unexpected and surprising event, especially an unpleasant one.
“the news came as a bombshell” - a very attractive person (typically used of a woman).
“a twenty-year-old blonde bombshell”
Do me a solid
Bana bir iyilik/güzellik yap
Just play along
Sadece bana ayak uydur
add up
“Watson claimed he was at home at the time of the murder, but police said his story didn’t add up.”
To make sense, to be logical
= to seem reasonable or likely:
“Watson claimed he was at home at the time of the murder, but police said his story didn’t add up.”
I haven’t the foggiest
En ufak bir fikrim yok
dispassionate
“Unless you buy a stock at the exact bottom (which is next to impossible), you will be down at some point after you make every investment. Your success entirely depends on how dispassionate you are towards short-term stock price fluctuations. Behavior matters.”
— Joel Greenblatt
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: not influenced by strong feeling
especially
: not affected by personal or emotional involvement
//a dispassionate critic
//a dispassionate approach to an issue
by virtue of
“they achieved pre-eminence by virtue of superior military strength”
…den dolayı
= because or as a result of.
clutch at straws
Some Chinese are rooting for Gavin Newsom to become the Democratic candidate in the hope that he would boost relations between the two countries. They may be clutching at straws econ.st/3xQoqWN 👇
= be in such a desperate situation as to resort to even the most unlikely means of salvation.
Don’t beat yourself up
Kendini hırpalama
I get that a lot
Bunu bana çok söylüyorlar
You’re something else
Sen başkasın
It is what it is
Aman neyse ne
Hit me up
Ara beni