Collection 3 Flashcards
All of the workers walked out on Friday night.
to stop working as a way of protesting about something; to go on strike.
Also, walk out means to suddenly leave a place or situation, especially the one that requires you.
- Her husband had walked out on her a year before.
Members of the Irish delegation staged a walk-out.
walk-out is a noun
it means an occasion when people stop working or leave a meeting as a protest
Traders Bailed Out of Nasdaq ETF Just as It Started Falling
- To bail out the boat with buckets
It also means EJECT from an airplane
Here it means to leave
- Investors bailed out of high-tech stocks as prices plunged.
(If a value or price plunges, it suddenly becomes less: [ I ] Rumors on Wall Street have caused stock prices to plunge.)
It’s time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that rarely has been more profitable, and double-down on a clean energy industry that never has been more promising.
increase one’s efforts or focus
- Fed Chair Jerome Powell doubled down on his view on Thursday that more rate increases are needed to temper inflation, joining a global chorus of hawkish central banks.
A culture of equality and togetherness that came out of the 1950s–1970s innocently morphs into a Keeping Up With The Joneses effect.
the comparison to one’s neighbor as a benchmark for social class or the accumulation of material goods. To fail to “keep up with the Joneses” is perceived as demonstrating socio-economic or cultural inferiority.
Tesla added more manufacturing capacity, and ramped up production at its assembly plant in Austin, Texas.
If a business ramps up its activity, it increases it
- The company announced plans to ramp up production to 10,000 units per month.
- To stay competitive, they’ll have to ramp up product development as well as cut prices.
This report is more evidence that inflation continues to simmer down.
to become calm again after you have been very angry
- We decided she needed some time to simmer down.
As Musk put it on the earnings call, “Demand is so – so far, off the hook, you can’t even see the hook.”
If you are off the hook, you have escaped from a difficult situation
But, here it means extremely good:
- That party was off the hook!
- The next series is going to be off the hook.
John’s agreed to go to the meeting in my place so that gets/lets me off the hook.
If you are off the hook, you have escaped from a difficult situation:
Also means extremely good.
I am sorry if I said something that got to you.
Get to someone
To affect or upset someone deeply
To annoy
This traffic is really getting to me.
I can’t stand it anymore.
He is a gold digger; he only looks for people who have deep pockets, and money is not object for them. If I were in his shoes, I wouldn’t do that.
rich
If money were no object, where would you go for vacation?
A hush fell over the audience.
a sudden, calm silence: There was a deathly hush after she made the announcement. A hush fell over the room.
hush money
to pay someone off to stay quiet about something you do.
Drug cartels pay people to look the other way and not say something about what they are doing. They are paying for people to not rat them out.
Why did he rat out his best friend?
To say to the police or authority that someone did something wrong.
He ratted him out.
She has vowed to stand by her husband during his trial.
stand by someone
to continue to support or help someone who is in a difficult situation
- She stood by him through his troubled career.
- He stood by her through the difficult times.
remain/be loyal to
stand up for
support
give one’s support to
be supportive of
