18 Flashcards
Something came up
Bir işim çıktı
If something comes up,it happens unexpectedly.
” I was delayed–something came up at home.”
To be upfront
Dürüst olmak gerekirse
Time and again
Bir çok kez, defalarca
is that so?
Öyle mi?
For days on end
Günlerce
Dur durak bilmeden
Not that much
O kadar da değil
Thanks anyway
Yine de teşekkürler
fancy seeing you here
Kimleri görüyorum
= An informal greeting, expressing that one did not expect to see that person at this location.
There is nothing to it!
“Once they have tried growing orchids, they will see there is really nothing to it.
Bunda bir şey yok (kolay?)
If yousay’There’s nothing to it’, ‘There’s not much to it’, or ‘That’s all there is to it’, you areemphasizinghow simple youthinksomething is.
“She’s going through a difficult time. That’s all there is to it.”
No such thing
Yok öyle bir şey
Walk the talk
Konuştuğun gibi davran
Is a piece of management jargon that has become a cliché. It means putting your words into action—showing that you mean what you say by actively doing it yourself. It is a version of the everyday phrase ‘practise what you preach’.
He’s all talk
Anca laf
Laf var icraat yok
talking about doing things but never actually doing them.
Go about one’s day
live your everyday life
Proceed with your day as normal
Look the other way
Görmezden gelme
Deliberately overlook something, especially something of an illicit nature.
” They’re not really entitled to a discount but the sales manager decided to look the other way.”
This expression uses the other way in the sense of “away from what is normal or expected.”
Just so you know
Bil diye söylüyorum
Along the same lines
Aynı doğrultuda
Benzer şekilde
rack one’s brain
Kafa yormak
= make a great effort to think of or remember something.
“Meg racked her brain for inspiration”
I gotta hand it to you
Hakkını vermeliyim
(Valla) helal olsun
Yousaythings such as ‘You have to hand it to her’ or ‘You’ve got to hand it to them’ when youadmiresomeone for their skills orachievementsand you think theydeservealotofpraise.
No can do
Yapamam
Hayatta olmaz
Spit it out
Çıkar ağzından baklayı
Don’t get your hopes up
Hemen umutlanma
Down the road
İleride, gelecekte
in the future.
“they couldn’t predict the disastrous war looming a few years down the road”
Hope for the best
Hayırlısı
going on + number
How old is she? She is going on 20
Neredeyse, hemen hemen
Neredeyse 20 yaşında
Bye felicia
Hadi naş naş
Felicia isa slang way of dismissing someone. Sometimes formatted as bye, Felicia and based on movie character whose name is spelled Felisha, bye Felicia often appears in memes, GIFs, and hashtags online to express disregard or indifference to someone, as if to say, “That’s it. I’m done putting up with you.
No cap
Ne yalanı, yalan yok
means thatyou aren’t lying, or if you say someone is “capping,” then you are saying they are lying. Examples: “I’m actually going to be productive today, no cap.” “You actually got tickets to the Bad Bunny concert? You’re capping.”
Louse
The disease was caused by a bacillus bacteria, Yersinia pestis, and carried by fleas on rodents, although recent studies suggest human parasites like lice may well have been the carriers.
Bit
Çoğulu : Lice
Snap at
Çemkirmek
= Speak irritably or abruptly to someone, as in “This teacher was always snapping at the children.”
pecuniary
“Soros insisted that the US and western Europe give the countries of eastern Europe a substantial amount of pecuniary aid, provide them with access to the European Common Market”
Parasal
1 : consisting of or measured in money
//pecuniary aid
//pecuniary gifts
2 : of or relating to money
//pecuniary needs
//pecuniary rewards
high stakes
a)if thestakesare high when you are trying to do something, yourisklosinga lot or it will bedangerousif youfail
“Climbing is a dangerous sport andthe stakes are high.”
b)if the stakes are high when you are doing something such as playing acardgame, you risk losing a lot of money
“We’replaying for high stakeshere.”
