10 Flashcards
Lowkey
Gösterişten uzak, sade
I’m gonna sit this one out
Bu sefer buna (bu etkinliğe) katılmayacağım
bounce back
“After losing the first three games of the series, they bounced back to win their next eight games.”
(Yenilgi sonrası) toparlanma
: to return quickly to a normal condition after a difficult situation or event.
“She bounced back easily from her surgery.”
Do things by halves
Yarım yamalak yapmak
Üstün körü yapmak
I gotta take a leak
Tuvalete gitmem gerek
hunky-dory
If events or situations are hunky-dory, they are very satisfactory and pleasant:
“everything is hunky-dory You can’t lose your temper one minute and then expect everything to be hunky-dory again the next.”
Good call
İyi fikir
Straight away
Derhal, hemen
= right away
Dusk
Alacakaranlık
Gün batımı
the darker stage of twilight.
“dusk was falling rapidly”
tank
“The problem is that to do so, one is usually buying into a tanking stock market and for most people that is a very difficult thing to do. Why? Because they see other investors losing money and it frightens them, so they become timid.”
Tao of Charlie Munger:
INFORMAL•US
fail completely, especially at great financial cost.
“the previous movie had tanked at the box office”
“So the market tanks, the fund manager panics, and even if he did want to buy, he doesn’t have the cash to do it.”
Tao of Charlie Munger:
Loose cannon
“most of the cop heroes in contemporary films are loners and loose cannons”
Sağı solu belli olmayan
= an unpredictable or uncontrolled person who is liable to cause unintentional damage.
still less
“I’m not one of them, alas, because I do have a secret that I’ll never be able to tell a living soul, still less to those who have since died.”
Javier Marias
= used to make a negative statement stronger:
“At the age of 14 I had never even been on a train, much less an aircraft.”
My mind went blank
Beynim durdu
devotion
“Spinoza has had the virtue of inspiring devotions,” Jorge Luis Borges remarked to me one morning in 1978.
- Ardent, often selfless affection and dedication, as to a person or principle.
“Among modern Spinozist devotions, few are comparable to that of the English historian Jonathan I. Israel.”
- Religious ardor or zeal; piety.
3.
a. often devotions An act of religious observance or prayer, especially when private.
b. A religious text presenting a prayer, frequently accompanied by an introductory scriptural passage and a homiletic gloss.
Manhole
Rögar kapağı
Have beef with someone
Biriyle anlaşmazlığa düşmek, çatışmak
= you are arguing or you have a dispute with someone
Examples:
Yes, I have a beef with him. At some point he just started laughing off my ideas.
My beef with this app is that everybody there pretends to be someone they are not.
wilted
maroslamış
solmuş
: to lose turgor from lack of water
//the plants wilted in the heat
rancid
Kokmuş
Bozulmuş
: having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition
//rancid butter
//rancid breath
2: distinctly unpleasant or distasteful : OFFENSIVE
//a rancid sexual scandal
//Without free speech, even in its most rancid forms, we may have nothing to choose at night but old movies and “Heeeeeeeere’s Johnny!”
— Richard Corliss
be bound to
“You’re bound to forget people’s names occasionally.”
Böyle olacağı belli, kaçınılmaz son
= certain or extremely likely to happen: [ + to infinitive ]
You’re bound to feel nervous about your interview.
Speak your mind
Aklındakini söyle
As with
“As with all tenses in English, the speaker’s attitude is as important as the time of the action or event. When someone uses the present continuous, they are thinking about something that is unfinished or incomplete”
- de olduğu gibi
= in the same way as:
“As with his earlier movies, the special effects in his latest film are brilliant.”
Wacko
adjective
mad; insane.
“his wacko conspiracy theories”
noun
a crazy person.
“a trailer park peopled by exotic wackos and misfits”
Nutcase
:It doesn’t take long for her to realize she’s married to a nutcase.”
someone who behaves in an extremely silly way:
Only complete nutcases like myself swim in the sea in winter.
offensive:
an offensive word for a person who has a mental illness
I can’t even
Diyecek bir şey bulamıyorum
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