16 Flashcards
scaredy-cat
“we contemptuously called them scaredy-cats”
= a timid person.
have a prayer
“With that giant supermarket opening up across the street, our little grocery store won’t have a prayer of staying open.”
To not have any chance at all of doing or achieving something. Almost always used in the negative.
up and running
“The engineer soon got the air-conditioning up and running again”
If something, especially a system or a machine, is up and running it is operating:
go through
“the country is going through a period of economic instability”
= undergo a difficult period or experience.
“the country is going through a period of economic instability”
- search through or examine something, especially methodically.
“she started to go through the bundle of letters”
go through with
“he bravely went through with the ceremony”
= perform an action to completion despite difficulty or unwillingness.
get off on something
“Dave likes power - he gets off on it.”
= to become excited by something:
“He really gets off on those little porcelain figurines.”
to find something exciting, especially in a sexual way:
“Dave likes power - he gets off on it.”
not give (someone) the time of day
” I asked them for directions, but they wouldn’t give me the time of day.”
: to not give (someone) any attention or help.
Your call
Sen bilirsin
just in a nick of time
= If you say that something happens in the nick of time, you are emphasizing that it happens at the last possible moment.
have it out with someone
“She’d been late for work every morning and I thought I’d better have it out with her.”
= to talk to someone about something they have done that makes you angry, in order to try to solve the problem:
Lark
The Song of the Lark (painting), an 1884 painting by Jules Breton
Tarlakuşu
in the weeds
“The cooks were so deep in the weeds, they were threatening to walk out.”
= with so many problems or so much work that you are finding it difficult to deal with something:
“We’re down in the weeds here with customer service.”
What’s brought this on?
Nerden çıktı bu?
I’ve been stood up
Ekildim
(Something) doesn’t sit right
Kafama yatmıyor
go to the stake
Ölümü göze almak
forty winks
hafif uyku, kestirme
get hung up on
“Why are you so hung up on getting everything right?”
Bir şey hakkında çok kaygılanmak
= to be extremely interested in or worried by a particular subject and spend an unreasonably large amount of time thinking about it:
Off the beaten track/path
Ücra/ sapa bir yerde
It never occured to me
Aklımdan bile geçmedi
Hiç fark etmedim
One and done
Bir seferlik
fall of the wagon
“When her husband died, she fell off the wagon”
= to start drinking alcohol, after a period when you have drunk none:
swore off
“After years of addiction, he swore off drugs completely. “
tövbe etmek
= to make a decision to stop doing, using, or being involved with something harmful, such as drugs or alcohol, or something that is not good or helpful:
pick on someone
“no one is picking on you—we’re trying to help”
Bana sataşma
Benimle uğraşmayı bırak
= repeatedly single someone out for criticism or unkind treatment in a way perceived to be unfair.
“no one is picking on you—we’re trying to help”
