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Question 1

What took you so long?

Answer 1

Nerede kaldın?

Question 2

Do you mind?

Answer 2

Sakıncası var mı?

Question 3

It’s the least I can do

Answer 3

Elimden gelen bu kadar

Question 4

Go to extra mile

Answer 4

Gerekenden fazlasını yapmak

Question 5

In the blink of an eye

Answer 5

Göz açıp kapayıncaya kadar

Question 6

So to speak

Answer 6

Öyle de denebilir
Lafın gelişi?

Question 7

Take a raincheck

Answer 7

Bir dahaki sefere

Question 8

Bearer of bad news

Answer 8

Felaket tellalı

Question 9

Lay low

Answer 9

Dikkat çekmemek

Question 10

Out with it

Answer 10

Dökül bakalım

Question 11

Shake it off

Answer 11

Takma kafana

Question 12

Here goes nothing

Answer 12

Hadi hayırlısı

Question 13

Gotcha

Answer 13

Seni anladım

Question 14

I hear you

Answer 14

Anlıyorum

Question 15

I kid you not

Answer 15

Şaka yapmıyorum, şaka değil

(k) = I shit you not

= I’m not even kidding

Question 16

Button it

Answer 16

Ağzını kapa (sus) artık

Question 17

Do time

Answer 17

Hapse girmek

Question 18

It never occured to me.

Answer 18

Hiç fark etmedim.

Question 19

Will wonder never cease

“Lynda actually managed to get up before ten o’clock. Wonders never cease!”

Answer 19

Bak sen şu işe
Bir yaşıma daha girdim

= anexpressionofsurpriseused when somethingunusualorunexpectedhappens:

“Lyndaactuallymanagedto get up before ten o’clock. Wonders nevercease!”

Question 20

once bitten, twice shy

Answer 20

Sütten ağzı yanan yoğurdu üfleyerek yer

= said when you arefrightenedto do something again because you had anunpleasantexperiencedoing it the firsttime

Question 21

Chock-a-block

Answer 21

Tıklım tıklım

Question 22

by any chance

Answer 22

acaba, bir ihtimal

Question 23

happen to

Answer 23

Tesadüfen yapmak
Tesadüfen oldu

2. find or come across by chance.

“I happened on a street with a few modest restaurants”

Question 24

It’s the other way around

Answer 24

Tam tersi

Question 25

Bear in mind

Answer 25

Aklına kazı

Question 26

No strings attached

Answer 26

Şartsız şurtsuz

Question 27

To each his own

“I’m not personally a fan of model trains, but each to their own”

Answer 27

Zevkler ve renkler tartışılmaz

= One has a right to one’s personal preferences, as in I’d never pick that color, but to each his own.

Question 28

can’t make heads or tails of something

“I couldn’t make heads or tails of her reaction.”

“His handwriting was so bad that wecouldn’t make heads or tails out ofit.”

Answer 28

Hiç anlamıyorum, aklım almıyor

= to not beabletounderstandsomething:

“I can’t makeheadnortailof theseinstructionson thepacket.”

Question 29

Suave

“Before his Aids diagnosis, he had been so many other things: A-list hunk, suave romcom star and all-round Mr America.”

Answer 29

hoş tavırlı ve rahat, kendinden emin

= charming, confident, and elegant (typically used of a man).

“all the waiters were suave and deferential”

Question 30

Hunk

“Before his Aids diagnosis, he had been so many other things: A-list hunk, suave romcom star and all-round Mr America.”

Answer 30

boylu boslu, yakışıklı adam

= a large, strong, sexually attractive man.

“a Hollywood hunk”