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Question 1

Lowkey

Answer 1

Gösterişten uzak, sade

Question 2

I’m gonna sit this one out

Answer 2

Bu sefer buna (bu etkinliğe) katılmayacağım

Question 3

bounce back

“After losing the first three games of the series, they bounced back to win their next eight games.”

Answer 3

(Yenilgi sonrası) toparlanma

: to return quickly to a normal condition after a difficult situation or event.

“She bounced back easily from her surgery.”

Question 4

Do things by halves

Answer 4

Yarım yamalak yapmak

Üstün körü yapmak

Question 5

I gotta take a leak

Answer 5

Tuvalete gitmem gerek

Question 6

hunky-dory

Answer 6

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.”

Question 7

Good call

Answer 7

İyi fikir

Question 8

Straight away

Answer 8

Derhal, hemen

= right away

Question 9

Dusk

Answer 9

Alacakaranlık
Gün batımı

the darker stage of twilight.
“dusk was falling rapidly”

Question 10

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:

Answer 10

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:

Question 11

Loose cannon

“most of the cop heroes in contemporary films are loners and loose cannons”

Answer 11

Sağı solu belli olmayan

= an unpredictable or uncontrolled person who is liable to cause unintentional damage.

Question 12

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

Answer 12

= used to make a negative statement stronger:

“At the age of 14 I had never even been on a train, much less an aircraft.”

Question 13

My mind went blank

Answer 13

Beynim durdu

Question 14

devotion

“Spinoza has had the virtue of inspiring devotions,” Jorge Luis Borges remarked to me one morning in 1978.

Answer 14

1. 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.”

2. 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.

Question 15

Manhole

Answer 15

Rögar kapağı

Question 16

Have beef with someone

Answer 16

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.

Question 17

wilted

Answer 17

maroslamış
solmuş

: to lose turgor from lack of water

//the plants wilted in the heat

Question 18

rancid

Answer 18

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

Question 19

be bound to

“You’re bound to forget people’s names occasionally.”

Answer 19

Böyle olacağı belli, kaçınılmaz son

= certain or extremely likely to happen: [ + to infinitive ]

You’re bound to feel nervous about your interview.

Question 20

Speak your mind

Answer 20

Aklındakini söyle

Question 21

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”

Answer 21

• de olduğu gibi

= in the same way as:

“As with his earlier movies, the special effects in his latest film are brilliant.”

Question 22

Wacko

Answer 22

adjective
mad; insane.
“his wacko conspiracy theories”

noun
a crazy person.
“a trailer park peopled by exotic wackos and misfits”

Question 23

Nutcase

:It doesn’t take long for her to realize she’s married to a nutcase.”

Answer 23

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

Question 24

I can’t even

Answer 24

Diyecek bir şey bulamıyorum
(Kendimizi ifade edemediğimizde)

Question 25

Word

Answer 25

Söz mü, Söz

Birinin söylediği şeye katıldığımızda

Question 26

Unwittingly

Answer 26

{s} ne yaptığının farkında olmayan:

“an unwitting helper” yardımcı olduğunun farkında olmayan bir yardımcı
farkında olmadan

Farkında olmadan ona bilmek istediğinin hepsini anlattı. - Unwittingly he told her all that she wanted to know.

Question 27

par for the course

Answer 27

It’s typical
Beklendiği gibi
Olağan

= An average or normal amount; just what one might expect.

For example, I missed three questions, but that’s par for the course . This term comes from golf, where it refers to the number of strokes needed by an expert golfer to finish the entire course.

Question 28

bilk

Answer 28

Aldatmak, kandırmak

Kurnazca kaçmak

= obtain or withhold money from (someone) unfairly or by deceit; cheat or defraud.

“an apparently benevolent elderly gentleman bilked me of twenty dollars”

2. evade; elude.

Question 29

heartthrob

BREAKING: French actor and heartthrob Alain Delon dies at the age of 88, French media report.

Answer 29

kâlbi deli gibi attıran erkek

also : a usually renowned man (such as an entertainer) noted for his sex appeal
//teen heartthrobs

Question 30

go ballistic

Seyedi’s show has nothing to do with warfare, but it does focus on the human breaking point, the point at which a reasonable and decent man can go ballistic. It’s not an ode to a noble rebel or a tragedy about a misguided terrorist.

Answer 30

= fly into a rage.

“he will go ballistic if bureaucrats attempt to meddle in his decisions”