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Question 1

consummate

“He - R. Hudson- was the consummate movie star and matinee idol,” says Griffin. “A devastatingly handsome 6ft 4in Adonis with a gleam in his eye, a winning quality about him and that indefinable something that makes a star.”

Answer 1

Eksiksiz, mükemmel

= perfect, or complete in every way:

“a life of consummate happiness”

“He’s a consummate athlete/gentleman/liar.”

(evliliği) cinsel ilişkiyle tamamlamak

Question 2

I’m not messing around

Answer 2

Dalga geçmiyorum

Question 3

Yikes

Answer 3

Eyvah

Question 4

What are you driving at?

Answer 4

Nereye varmaya çalışıyorsun?
Ne demeye istiyorsun?

Question 5

Don’t you dare

Answer 5

Sakın ha
Aklından bile geçirme

Question 6

Don’t kid yourself

Answer 6

Kendini kandırma

Question 7

over (your/my) head

“the discussion was over my head”

Answer 7

= beyond your understanding or competence

1. beyond someone’s ability to understand.

“the discussion was over my head”

2. without someone’s knowledge or involvement, especially when they have a right to it.

“the deal was struck over the heads of the regions concerned”

Question 8

fortuitous

“Ironically or fortuitously, this was precisely the story Hollywood was seeking to tell. Adapted from David Grann’s bestselling nonfiction book, Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese’s film lays out this grim true story in epic, authentic detail.”

Answer 8

Şans eseri

= occurring by chance

Question 9

coroner

“The whole white population seems to have been in on it, from the doctors who prescribed poisoned insulin under the guise of diabetes treatment to the coroners who covered up murders to the federally ordained Bureau of Indian Affairs.”

Answer 9

Adlı tabip

Question 10

None of your beeswax

Answer 10

Seni ilgilendirmez

Question 11

Pull some strings

Answer 11

Torpil yapmak

Question 12

crustaceans

“We are a specific kind of hominid primate, after all, not insects or crustaceans or even apes.”

Answer 12

Kabuklular

crustacean = kabuklu hayvan

Question 13

gristle

” I am not a ghost in a machine. I am meat and gristle and osseous tissue.”

Answer 13

Kıkırdak

Question 14

osseous

” I am not a ghost in a machine. I am meat and gristle and osseous tissue.”

Answer 14

Kemiksel, kemikle ilgili

= consisting of or turned into bone;ossified.

Question 15

stand-up guy

Answer 15

Sözünün eri biri

= (informal)Anhonestandstraightforwardman of goodcharacter

Question 16

To get the ball rolling

Answer 16

= to start a meeting

Question 17

To be in red

Answer 17

To not have any money

Question 18

sign off on

Answer 18

To give approval

Question 19

to be ahead of a curve

“He was ahead of the curve in the early 1960s when he started promoting running for health.”

Answer 19

= to be one of the first to change to a new idea or way of doing something that later becomes generally popular:

“In equipping its vehicles with mobile WiFi, the company wasahead of the curve.”

Question 20

to corner the market

Answer 20

To take control of the market

Question 21

from the ground up

Answer 21

from the very beginning

Question 22

to brush up on

“these private lessons will give them a chance to brush up on their technique”

Answer 22

to improve your skils or your ability in your job

= improve one’s existing knowledge or skill in a particular area.

“these private lessons will give them a chance tobrush up ontheir technique”

Question 23

barmy

“I thought I was going barmy at first”

Answer 23

çılgınca

= mad; crazy.

“I thought I was going barmy at first”

= extremely foolish.

“this is a barmy decision”

Question 24

quaint

“a quaint old cottage”

Answer 24

eskiye ait, antika

= attractive because of being unusual and especially old-fashioned

“a quaintoldcottage”

Question 25

naff

“His haircut was a bit naff.”

Answer 25

eski, demode

= not stylish or fashionable:

“His haircut was a bit naff.”

Question 26

manky

“manky old carpets”

Answer 26

kirli,

= dirty, filthy, or bad

= used to describe an objectthat is unpleasantly dirty, usually because it is oldor has been used a lot:

“a manky tissue”

“manky old carpets”

Question 27

Money is no object

Answer 27

Para sorun değil

Question 28

Cut loose

“He himself didn’t do most of that; his fiction was where he streamed into other consciousnesses and cut loose, fell apart, ambled like a shepherd, or strode like a wife on her way to or from an assignation.”

Answer 28

= distance or free oneself from a person, group, or system.

“he was a young teenager, already cutting loose from his family”

= begin to act without restraint.

“when Mannion cut loose the home side collapsed to 127 all out”

Question 29

weigh in

“Katy Perry weighs in on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s rumoured romance”

Answer 29

= (Slang) To join in a discussion; utter a remark:

” She weighed in with some pertinent facts.”

Question 30

This is a lot to take in

Answer 30

Hazmetmesi güç/zor bir durum