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Here’s the deal
まあ聞きなさい
Blip
Market unexpected deviation
Complacent
Self satisfaction
自惚れ 生意気
feeling so satisfied with your own abilities or situation that you feel you do not need to try any harder:
a complacent smile/attitude
We can’t afford to become complacent about any of our products.
Head and shoulders
If you say that someone or something stands head and shoulders above other people or things, you mean that they are a lot better than them. The two candidates stood head and shoulders above the rest.
head and shoulders above は「～よりはるかに抜きんでている」「ずっと良い」という意味
It’s not helpful
為にはならんぞ
Broken
Damaged
What’s a rush
最高だぜ
Rush
Slang pleasurable feelungs
Or what?
出なかったら？？どうなるの？？
Rock your world
Profound effect in satisfaction
I’ll sit tight
Remain firmly
I’ll see what I can come up with
Think of idea, plan
How are you settling in with everything?
落ち着いた？
Lend oneself to something
To be adaptable to sth
Breakwater
Barrier to protect harbour
Rampant
Uncontrollable
Dire
of a situation or event) extremely serious or urgent:
“dire consequences”
SIMILAR:
terrible
dreadful
appalling
(of a warning or threat) presaging disaster:
“dire warnings about breathing the fumes”
SIMILAR:
ominous
portentous
Suck it up and get it done
Accept hardship and efficient completion of a task within a specified time
= Pull it off
Thrill to
Become greatly excited
Neat freak
Always want things to be orderly, clean
But now I kind of see —
I can only see —
Tip top
ほんに先っちょ
Let’s dive in
Let’s begin
Stay out
Without moving
人に構うな
Stay out of me!
Do not put me on the spot
困らせないで
Out of the picture
no longer involved; irrelevant.
“hostages were better left out of the picture”
Be your own kind of beautiful
自分らしくあれ
あなた独自の美しさで在りなさい。（他人が言う美しさじゃなく、誰かみたいな美しさでもなく、誰かのための美しさでもなく、あなた自身の為の、あなたらしい、自由な美しさでいい）”
Clawback
retrieving money already paid out, typically by taxation.
“a clawback of tax relief”
Thick-skinned
Someone who is thick-skinned does not appear to be easily hurt by criticism:
You do need to be thick-skinned to survive as a politician here.
Forthcoming
happening soon:
We have just received the information about the forthcoming conference.
Put on airs
Pompous self important
a person who acts superior, or one who behaves as if they are more important than others. It is derived from the French word “air”, meaning appearance, and was first used in the 1500s.
Mock
not real but appearing or pretending to be exactly like something:
to laugh at someone, often by copying them in a funny but unkind way:
They were mocking him because he kept falling off his bike.
On the horizon
Become apparent
Slouch over
Lean to one side bend うつむく
to stand, sit, or walk with the shoulders hanging forward and the head bent slightly over so that you look tired and bored
Someone’s two cents
someone’s opinion about something, esp. when it was not asked for or wanted:
If the changes are going to affect me, then I want to put my two cents in. Opinion
Rooting for
Support
Tacky
- marked by cheap showiness : gaudy. a tacky publicity stunt. a tacky outfit. b. : marked by lack of style : dowdy.
2.Sticky wet gluey
Get after it
To do it
to get it done. This could be housework or a employer requesting you to do a task. In other words, “Just do it!”
Bubble up
Increase and become visible
Tail off
Weaken decline languish
Fruitation
Point of plan is realized
Colossal
Massive
Empathize
Understand feelings of another
Without a hitch
As planned
Don’t get me started
When someone bring up topic about a lot to say about in a negative way
A: “How’s school been?”
B: “Oh, don’t get me started. My students don’t listen to me, for one.”
その話をし出したら興奮して話が止まらないような内容を振られて
「その話をし出したら話が止まらないからその話を私に振らないで」
という意味のフレーズです。
Analogy
Comparison between two things
Fancy schmancy
Extremely fancy
My take
My conclusuon
Hold off
to not do something immediately:
[ + -ing verb ] Let’s hold off making a decision until next week.
Biopsy
Examine tissues
Bog down
Stuck、行き詰まる
to become stuck in wet ground. The car bogged down in the mud. often used figuratively. The story bogs down after the second chapter.
Crackerjack
Exceptionally good
Get you the way
お任せします
Run the number
Do the calculations
Broil
Grill
Luck out (-Out of luck)
Achieve successfully luck( - bad luck)
Bread and butter
Salary
a person’s livelihood or main source of income.
“their bread and butter is reporting local events”
Off lord
Unload
Fire off
To hastily write and send
Spell
Sign
At your beck and call
always willing and able to do whatever someone asks:
Go and get it yourself! I’m not at your beck and call, you know.
Lethargic
Fatigue
having little energy; feeling unwilling and unable to do anything:
I was feeling tired and lethargic.
Grimace
Frown
to make an expression of pain, strong dislike, etc. in which the face twists in an ugly way:
grimace with He tried to stand and grimaced with pain.
Stink eye
Express annoyance
Lye
灰汁
Laisse faire
Free trade
Other
Treat different
Squabble
an argument over something that is not important:
Polly and Susie were having a squabble about who was going to hold the dog’s lead.
Whisker
ヒゲ
Bogland
Marshy land
Far flung
distant or remote.
“the far-flung corners of the world”
widely distributed.
“newsletters provided an important link to a far-flung membership”
Feedback
Squish
押し潰す
One of the boys
a man who is an accepted or integral member of a male social group.
“he wants to stay one of the boys”
All weather friend
Good time and bad time friend
Stratosphere
Layer of earth’s atmosphere
Weathered
風雨にさらされて擦り切れた
Sequester
1.
isolate or hide away.
“she is sequestered in deepest Dorset”
I’m having a brain holiday
頭おやすみ
Lock away
Put in a locked container
Over time
Gradually
To the tune of
Amounting to
In the limelight
Public attention
It’s something like you’re onto something..
良いことに気づいたみたいだね
Jubilee
the celebration of) the day on which an important event happened many years ago:
the Queen’s diamond jubilee
Battery gate issue
Appleが、バッテリーが古くなり劣化したiPhoneの性能を意図的に落していた「バッテリーゲート」問題で、合計1億1300万ドル(約117億4849万円)を支払うことに合意したことが発表されました。この和解金は、Appleが2020年7月から申請を受け付けていた「iPhone1台あたり約2700円の和解金」とは別に、今後の消費者保護調査などの資金としてアメリカの複数の州に対して支払われるものです。
Barbacoa
in Mexican cooking) beef, lamb, or other meat that has been slowly cooked with seasonings, typically shredded as a filling in tacos, burritos, etc.
“a burrito stuffed with barbacoa”
Test a boundaries
ギリまでやる
Pivot away
) to change direction; to change the way in which something is done. pivot (to/towards something) (away from something) The company is pivoting towards mobile and away from social media.
expedient
helpful or useful in a particular situation, but sometimes not morally acceptable:
It might be expedient not to pay him until the work is finished.
名詞】【可算名詞】 (とりあえずある目的のためにとる)手段，便法，(臨機の)処置. a temporary expedient 間に合わせ策, 一時しのぎの便法
Take some beating
If something takes some beating, it is so good that it is hard to improve on it:
His new world record will take some beating.
The lion’s share
the largest part of something.
“William was appointed editor, which meant that he did the lion’s share of the work”
Similar:
most
the majority
Far out
strange and unusual:
I’ve seen the video - it’s pretty far out.
give someone a shout
call for someone’s attention.
call on or get in touch with someone.
Heat spell
A (usually) short period of hot weather. Sometimes a heat wave
Spell
a period of time for which an activity or condition lasts continuously:
for a spell I lived in Cairo for a spell.
have a spell as She had a brief spell as captain of the team.
dizzy spell I keep having/getting dizzy spells (= periods of feeling as if I’m turning around).
Beck
a small river
Cuddle
a prolonged and affectionate hug.
“he just wanted a comforting kiss and a cuddle”
Hug
put your arms around someone and hold them in a loving way, or (of two people) to hold each other close to show love or for comfort:
She cuddled the baby and eventually it stopped crying.
Prankster
a person fond of playing pranks.
jump someone’s bones
have sex with someone.
