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Question 1

Won’t fly

“I tried to feed my parents a story about where I’d been all night, but it didn’t fly.”

Answer 1

= won’t work

= won’t be acceptable

= To not be considered acceptable or appropriate; to not gain approval or acceptance.

“They’ll set this mistake down to your inexperience, but that excuse won’t fly for long.”

“However logical their explanation might be, the decision is simply not going to fly with customers.”

Question 2

Take it away

Answer 2

Sendeyiz
Sahne senin

Question 3

Cross my heart, hope to die

“I did lock the door—cross my heart and hope to die!”

Answer 3

Yemin ederim, valla billa

= Attest to the truth of something; solemnly assure someone that the truth has been spoken

= used to emphasize the truthfulness and sincerity of what one is saying.

“I’m deadly serious—cross my heart”

Question 4

Charley horse

“he had a charley horse that night and limped getting out of the car”

Answer 4

Kramp

= a cramp or feeling of stiffness in an arm or leg.

Question 5

a monkey on one’s back

“the issue of her absence from the tournament last year remains the monkey on her back”

Answer 5

= a burdensome problem.

“the issue of her absence from the tournament last year remains the monkey on her back”

= a problem that someone cannot easily get rid of or solve : a problem or situation that makes someone unhappy and that lasts for a long time

“His drug addiction has been a monkey on his back for years.”

= a dependence on drugs.

“she returned to her family with the heroin monkey on her back”

Question 6

Take it from the top

Answer 6

Baştan alalım

Question 7

Sow

“One man—half drunk—spoke loudly of the pregnant sow he’d shot out of season. It is a generally accepted rule among hunters that you don’t shoot pregnant animals, and a silence fell over the room. Then the voices rose again and overwhelmed the bragging man, who was taken outside and beaten severely.”

The Tiger
John Vaillant

Answer 7

Dişi domuz

Question 8

hubcap

Answer 8

Jant kapağı

Question 9

wedge

Answer 9

Kama
Takoz

Question 10

Freak off

Diddy

Answer 10

sokak ağzında mastürbasyon yapmak, boşalmak yahut alışılagelmişin dışında vahşice seks yapmak anlamına geliyormuş.

Question 11

Cold comfort

“he told me that time heals all wounds but that was cold comfort to me”

Answer 11

Züğürt tesellisi

= very limited consolation or empathy;

Question 12

eaves

Answer 12

Saçak

Question 13

tray

Answer 13

tepsi

Question 14

pinecone

Answer 14

çam kozalak

Question 15

I shit you not

Answer 15

I’m not kidding

is used to accentuate the absurdity of what you’re saying.

Question 16

illustrious

“He called Petrarch his “revered teacher, father, and master,” and said that he was so illustrious that he ought to be counted more as an ancient than as a modern.”

Humanly Possible
Sarah Bakewell

Answer 16

Şanlı, şerefli

= well known, respected, and admired for past achievements.

“his illustrious predecessor”

= famous, well respected, and admired:

“She comes from an illustrious political family that includes two former Cabinet ministers.”

Question 17

I’m chuffed

Answer 17

Çok mutluyum

Question 18

I’m skint

Answer 18

Beş parasızım

Question 19

by all accounts

“I don’t know how they survived that plane crash. By all accounts, they should be dead right now!”

Answer 19

= according to all available accounts or reports

= According to the information that is available; based on what people are saying.

= according everything that people have said

= without a doubt, indisputably, according to all opinions

Question 20

Scab

“The scabs Mao chose to pick at were more than a century old, but they served his purpose well.”

The Tiger
John Vaillant

Answer 20

Yara kabuğu

Grev kırıcı

Question 21

belie

“He spoke roughly in order to belie his air of gentility” (James Joyce).

Answer 21

maskelemek
gerçek olduğunu gizlemek

1. To give a false representation to; misrepresent:

“He spoke roughly in order to belie his air of gentility” (James Joyce).

2. To show to be false; contradict: Their laughter belied their outward grief.

Question 22

sweet tooth

Answer 22

Tatlıya düşkünlük

Question 23

pull an all-nighter

“He pulled an all-nighter to study for the exam.”

Answer 23

= to stay up all night.

Question 24

Take french leave

Answer 24

Zengin kalkışı yapmak

Question 25

Take it from me

“It won’t work - take it from me.”

Answer 25

Tecrübelerime dayanarak söylüyorum

= accept that what I say is true, because I know or have experienced it:

Question 26

with all due respect

Answer 26

affınıza sığınarak söylüyorum

Question 27

salt of the earth.

“It’s a community with a great sense of pride, full of salt of the earth people.”

Answer 27

= very good, honest, and reasonable, and not thinking you are special in any way:

” They were such a lovely couple. They really were the salt of the earth.”

“He was the sort of person referred to as salt of the earth: very friendly and straightforward.”

Question 28

To each his own

Answer 28

Herkesin zevki kendine

Question 29

Talk some sense into someone

“She won’t listen to me - can you try to talk some sense into her”

Answer 29

Akıl versene, mantıklı davransın

= to help someone to think about a situation in a reasonable way:

: to cause (someone) to stop thinking or behaving foolishly

“I couldn’t talk sense to him.”

“He talked (some) sense into her and she promised to get rid of that dangerous car”

Question 30

runway

Answer 30

Uçak pisti