25 Flashcards
when the going gets tough
the tough get going
= when the situation becomes difficult, strong people are able to step up and handle it”. Attributed to both John F. Kennedy’s father and the American coach K. Rockne, it was also popularised by Billy Ocean’s homonymous song.
Probation period
Deneme süresi
What is your sign?
Burcun ne?
Hit on someone
Birine asılmak
Foxy
Sexy
for crying out loud
(deyim)Eyvahlarolsun,
For crying out loud, what I see .
Canınayandığımın
(deyim)allahrızasıiçin
bırakallahaşkına
= used to express one’sirritationorimpatience.
“why do you have to take everything so personally, for crying out loud?”
It’s a breeze
Çok basit
It’s a cinch
Çantada keklik
The penny dropped!
Jeton düştü
Mutt
Melez
Kırma (köpek)
Odd number
Tek sayılar
X = even number
push someone’s buttons
= arouse or provoke a reaction in someone.
“don’t allow co-workers to push your buttons”
Let’s get off the subject
Konuyu kapatalım
Shy away from
“I’ve never shied away from hard work.
Yapmaktan çekinmek
= to avoid something that you dislike, fear, or do not feel confident about:
Bring forward
(Bir randevu vs.yi) daha yakın bir tarihe almak
Zıttı = Push back
deadbeat
:LOAFER
2:one who persistently fails to pay personal debts or expenses
the Great Beyond
The afterlife
“It’s such a shame that Tom has passed on to the Great Beyond. When is his funeral?”
= The afterlife; where one is said to go after dying.
= life after death
“The fortuneteller claimed to get messages from the great beyond.”
To get turned around
Kaybolmak
= to lose one’s way.
Mint
Darphane
Para basmak
Nane
Kernel
Tane
Çekirdek
Nüve
“Corn kernel” = mısır tanesi
Cob
Mısır koçanı
Eddy
Anafor yapmak
Girdap
Fırıl fırıl dönmek
Vet
“All our requests for documents were vetted by a woman from the KGB”
.—Orlando Figes
= to evaluate for possible approval or acceptance
“vet the candidates for a position”
Headboard
Yatak başlığı
Wetwork
“The Romanovs invented modern secretpolice. They crushed rebellions but rarely assassinated enemies.Lenin & Stalin disdained their softness. NKVD/KGB prided themselves on WetWork. Their heirs FSB SVR GU share their enthusiasm even if they lost their finesse”
Montefiore
= is a euphemism for murder or assassination that alludes to spilling blood. The expression and the. similar wet job, wet affair, or wet operation are all calques of Russian terms for such activities and can be traced to criminal slang from at least the 19th century and originally meant robbery that involved murder, or spilling blood.
The operations are reputed to have been handled by theCIAand by theKGB’s SpecBureau 13 (Spets Byuro 13), known as the “Department of Wet Affairs”
Doormat
Paspas
Kendisini ezdiren ve şikayetçi olmayan kimse
comeuppance
“Very few were taken aback by Yevgeny Prigozhin’s presumed death, even if the means — plunging from the sky in a plane crash — were undeniably dramatic,” writes @Stanovaya. “To many, it was only a matter of time until he got his comeuppance.”
Hak edilen ceza
= a deserved rebuke or penalty: DESERTS
“One of these days, he’ll get his comeuppance for treating people so arrogantly.”
Skint
Züğürt
Beş parasız
What’s shaking?
Ne var ne yok?
Chock-a-block
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