Daisy Flashcards
Amped (a)
[excited, especially because of an event]
I’m pretty amped and hyper when I’m working.
Suffice it to say
I won’t go into all the details. Suffice it to say that the whole event was a complete disaster.
Press charges
[kien]
Once it was straightened out, they weren’t going to press charges
Sober(a)
[Not drunk]
I stayed sober so I could drive us home.
C-section
[Delivery through an incision]
She just had to have a C-section
Flop down
[to sit or lie down in a heavy and sudden way because you are very tired]
Exhausted, he flopped down into a chair.
Irk (v)
[Annoy]
Daisy was sitting on the sofa with her feet up on the coffee table, which irked me
Pop on over
[visit]
If you’re free this Saturday, why don’t you pop over for a visit?
Half in the bag (idiom)
[mildly drink]
Fiddle (v)
[fiddle (with something) to keep touching or moving something with your hands, especially because you are bored or nervous]
He was fiddling with his keys while he talked to me.
weasel out (phrasal verb)
/ˈwiːzl/
[to avoid doing something that you ought to do or have promised to do]
He’s now trying to weasel out of our agreement.
spartan (a)
/ˈspɑːrtn/
luxurious
[simple or severe]
the spartan life of the training camp
Congested (a)
[crowded]
Many of Europe’s airports are heavily congested.
interpretation (n)
[the particular way in which something is understood or explained]
1. Her evidence suggests a different interpretation of the events.
2. Dreams are open to interpretation (= they can be explained in different ways).
Off-key (a)
[Not in tune]
You won’t have to cringe when your voice breaks or you veer off-key
inhibition (n)
[shy or nervous feeling]
The children were shy at first, but soon lost their inhibitions.
Take your thing on the road
Start doing sth
Get down off
[stop doing sth]
Rat on
[mach leo]
Where I came from, you don’t rat on your friends
camaraderie (n)
/ˌkɑːməˈrɑːdəri/
Friendship
Back off
[stop annoying sb]
The press agreed to back off and leave the couple alone
Take it down a notch
Calm down
Fly by the seat of your pants
[Tu nhien ma co]
I had no idea how to do it - it was just flying by the seat of your pants
Slink off
Walk away quitely
All the same (idiom)
[despite what has been said]
It rained every day of our holiday but we had a good time all the same
Flashes before your eyes
[Crisis near-death event]
My life flashed before my eyes
Have(got) sth licked
[have succeeded in dealing with a difficult problem]
~every time you think you’ve got something licked, it keeps rearing its head.
Slack off
[to do something with less effort or energy than before]
> I was exercising regularly last summer, but I’ve been slacking off recently
Vouch (v)
[Prove]
I heard this secondhand, from Teddy. So I can’t vouch for how true it is.
Decompress (v)
[to calm down and relax]
-> For some people, yoga is a way of decompressing after a long day.
stir-crazy (a)
-> Some passengers go a little stir-crazy on long-haul flights.
bare your soul (to somebody)
[to tell somebody your deepest and most private feelings]
-> I bare my soul to him
Rickety (a)
[not strong or well made; likely to break]
-> rickety chair/ bus
Bombed (a)
[drunk]
-> He got completely bombed last night.
Bounce sth off of s.one
He would have bounced the idea off of me.
Ban luan y kien voi ai do
hindsight /ˈhaɪndsaɪt/
Sau khi moi chuyen xay ra va le ra ko nen lam nhu vay
-> With hindsight it is easy to say they should not have released him.
integral (a) /ˈɪntɪɡrəl/
[essential ]
-> Music is an integral part of the school’s curriculum.
subjective
[chu quan]
-> Everyone’s opinion is bound to be subjective.
Inklings of grief
Hint of sorrow
Come down to (phrasal verb)
Depend on a single important point
-> What it comes down to is either I get more money or I leave.
-> If it comes down to his opinion or my opinion, we go with his opinion
Floored (v)
[surprised]
-> his reply completely floored me
Water under the bridge
Thoi ke di
It was water under the bridge
chalk sth up to sth
[to consider that something is caused by something]
-> We can chalk that win up to a lot of luck.
Downtime
[Everyone needs a little downtime.]
Smarmy (a)
Thao mai, ninh hot
-> a smarmy salesman
Formidable (a)
[Powerful]
-> The task was a formidable one.
On pins and needles
[Ngoi tren dong lua]
-> My friend has been on pins and needles for days waiting for the result of her test for COVID-19
Seamlessly
[smoothly]
-> they’re working together seamlessly
level with somebody
(Idiom)
(informal) to tell somebody the truth and not hide any unpleasant facts from them
-> level with me. Something’s up here
allude to
(formal) to mention something in an indirect way | noi bong gio
-> The problem had been alluded to briefly in earlier discussions.
Eloquent (a)
Hoat ngon
Loathe (v)
Detest
-> they loathe each other
Incline to (v)
[tend to think]
-> The government is more effective than we incline to think.
mend (your) fences (with somebody)
[to find a solution when you disagree with somebody]
-> Is it too late to mend fences with your ex-wife?
High ground
[the advantage in a discussion or an argument, etc.]
-> you can’t claim the high ground when you go around throwing other people and their families under the bus
pipe up (phrasal verb)
[(informal) to begin to speak]
-> The person next to me piped up with a silly comment.
impenetrable
[impossible to understand]
-> an impenetrable mystery
Her expression was impenetrable.
Gracious
[kind, polite and generous, especially to somebody of a lower social position]
-> Billy is handling it great, being really gracious
enigmatic
[mysterious and difficult to understand]
-> an enigmatic smile
dicey (a)
[dangerous and uncertain]
-> The fog made driving pretty dicey.
unfazed
(informal)
[not worried or surprised by something unexpected that happens]
-> She was totally unfazed by the news.
Self-actualized
the fact of using your skills and abilities and achieving as much as you can possibly achieve
-> she was fully self-actualized
Muster (v)
[to find as much support, courage, etc. as you can]
-> He could muster only 154 votes at the election.
I could muster the energy to step out
Blurt out
[to say something suddenly and without thinking carefully enough]
-> She blurted it out before I could stop her.
Blurt out
[to say something suddenly and without thinking carefully enough]
-> She blurted it out before I could stop her.
Blurt out
[to say something suddenly and without thinking carefully enough]
-> She blurted it out before I could stop her.
Ache (v) for
(formal) to have a strong desire for somebody/something or to do something
-> I was aching for home.
unnerve
/ˌʌnˈnɜːv/
[unnerve somebody to make somebody feel nervous or frightened or lose confidence]
-> His silence unnerved us.
fly off the handle
(informal) to suddenly become very angry
He seems to fly off the handle about the slightest thing these days.
make/lose money hand over fist
to make/lose money very fast and in large quantities
