15 Flashcards
guise
“Guiding the reader through the many guises of global economic history, this book uncovers its key issues, debates and subjects. “
- Outward appearance or aspect; semblance.
- False appearance; pretense: “spoke to me under the guise of friendship.”
- Mode of dress; garb: “huddled on the street in the guise of beggars.”
- Obsolete Custom; habit.
parsley
“She didn’t tell her customers that, the day before, when she was cutting parsley for an herb and cheese focaccia, she had to pause to stop tears from falling into the parsley. How the half-cut stems and greens transported her to a kitchen in Gaza City’s al-Rimal neighborhood, nearly 10 years before, when her grandmother showed her how to make rice and parsley soup. ”
maydanoz
facile
“This is so dumb. The reason Americans are fleeing cities obviously isn’t “courtyards”; that’s facile. The reason is that their areas have been flooded with the mentally ill, homeless, druggies, and thugs”
1a(1): easily accomplished or attained
//a facile victory
(2): shallow, simplistic
//I am not concerned … with offering any facile solution for so complex a problem
— T. S. Eliot
patrol
1a: the action of traversing a district or beat or of going the rounds along a chain of guards for observation or the maintenance of security
b: the person performing such an action
c: a unit of persons or vehicles employed for reconnaissance, security, or combat
I can’t be bothered
“Most evenings I can’t be bothered cooking.”
Uğraşamam
= If you can’t be bothered doing/to do something, you are too lazy or tired to do it:
“I can’t be bothered to iron my clothes.”
“Most people surveyed said they were too busy or couldn’t be bothered filling out forms.”
Go, jump in a lake!
Git başımdan, defol!
I don’t feel like it
Canım istemiyor
out on a limb
“I wouldn’t go out on a limb like this if I didn’t have the data to justify it”
= having an opinion that is different from most people’s and is unpopular:
“She’s going out on a limb in criticizing her own party leadership.”
- in or into a position where one is not joined or supported by anyone else.
- isolated.
“Aberdeen is rather out on a limb
tuckered out
“He had to find a bench to sit on, the poor, tuckered little guy.”
extremely tired:
“After two hours she was all tuckered out and ready for bed.”
Wus
Damian, you’re such a wuss!”
a coward disapproving (= person who is not brave):
Cougar
an older woman who has sexual relationships with younger men
to pull strings
“Tony is sure he can pull a few strings and get you in.”
If you pull strings, you use your influence with other people in order to get something done, often unfairly.
throw shade
“I get annoyed when people throw shade on his recent work.”
= to express contempt or disrespect for someone publicly especially by subtle or indirect insults or criticisms
= to criticize someone or something publicly and show that you do not respect them:
“This isn’t the first time that the actress has thrown shade at her ex-husband.”
“She can throw shade like no other and has feuded with some of the biggest names in the entertainment world.”
Let up
“When the rain lets up we’ll go for a walk.”
= If bad weather or an unpleasant situation lets up, it stops or improves:
= to stop doing something that you have been doing continuously or in a determined way:
“Neil spent the entire evening moaning about his job - he just wouldn’t let up.”
“The police insist that they are not letting up on their campaign against drugs.”
heart-to-heart
“In heart-to-hearts with my best friend, I confessed that I hated the way I had behaved.”
Dertleşmek, samimi bir şekilde sohbet etmek
= (of a conversation) candid, intimate, and personal.
“a heart-to-heart chat”
= a serious conversation between two people, usually close friends, in which they talk honestly about their feelings:
