29 Flashcards
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.”
Eksiksiz, mükemmel
= perfect, or complete in every way:
“a life of consummate happiness”
“He’s a consummate athlete/gentleman/liar.”
(evliliği) cinsel ilişkiyle tamamlamak
I’m not messing around
Dalga geçmiyorum
Yikes
Eyvah
What are you driving at?
Nereye varmaya çalışıyorsun?
Ne demeye istiyorsun?
Don’t you dare
Sakın ha
Aklından bile geçirme
Don’t kid yourself
Kendini kandırma
over (your/my) head
“the discussion was over my head”
= beyond your understanding or competence
- beyond someone’s ability to understand.
“the discussion was over my head”
- 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”
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.”
Şans eseri
= occurring by chance
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.”
Adlı tabip
None of your beeswax
Seni ilgilendirmez
Pull some strings
Torpil yapmak
crustaceans
“We are a specific kind of hominid primate, after all, not insects or crustaceans or even apes.”
Kabuklular
crustacean = kabuklu hayvan
gristle
” I am not a ghost in a machine. I am meat and gristle and osseous tissue.”
Kıkırdak
osseous
” I am not a ghost in a machine. I am meat and gristle and osseous tissue.”
Kemiksel, kemikle ilgili
= consisting of or turned into bone;ossified.
stand-up guy
Sözünün eri biri
= (informal)Anhonestandstraightforwardman of goodcharacter
To get the ball rolling
= to start a meeting
To be in red
To not have any money
sign off on
To give approval
to be ahead of a curve
“He was ahead of the curve in the early 1960s when he started promoting running for health.”
= 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.”
to corner the market
To take control of the market
from the ground up
from the very beginning
to brush up on
“these private lessons will give them a chance to brush up on their technique”
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”
barmy
“I thought I was going barmy at first”
çılgınca
= mad; crazy.
“I thought I was going barmy at first”
= extremely foolish.
“this is a barmy decision”
quaint
“a quaint old cottage”
eskiye ait, antika
= attractive because of being unusual and especially old-fashioned
“a quaintoldcottage”
naff
“His haircut was a bit naff.”
eski, demode
= not stylish or fashionable:
“His haircut was a bit naff.”
manky
“manky old carpets”
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”
Money is no object
Para sorun değil
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.”
= 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”
weigh in
“Katy Perry weighs in on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s rumoured romance”
= (Slang) To join in a discussion; utter a remark:
” She weighed in with some pertinent facts.”
This is a lot to take in
Hazmetmesi güç/zor bir durum
