Gd11 Flashcards
I would like to go powder
my nose/fix my face
Go freshen
up
To drain the
lizard/snake
Piss like a
race horse
Grant on-arrival
travel permits
To string out the
process
The stalwarts of the
Labour Party
A coquettish
grin
Wish I could take credit for this but big
props to him for finding it
The kids could be such a
handful
I will sound out
parliament first
A huge bear was gaining
on him with every stride
A fudge
cake
It is going to hit the high
street soon
A 600-calorie fry
up
I am absolutely
pooped
Students bumming
around at university
Her trainer was on hand to
give advice
It’s not for the faint
hearted
A hearty
meal
Bangers and
mash
Pure
indulgence
A mid morning
treat
To tip the
balance in the right direction
He chortled at his
own execrable pun
Feast your
eyes
I am worried
sick
Tart and
gamey
They described seeing distraught staff with heads
in their hands
He heard a blood-curdling
scream
They basically say the president campaigned on that notion and we won the election
fair and square
A hoax
999 call
It’s really funny when Dad tries to be
hip
Yes, we deliberately chose people who were high profile, and also yes, quite cool and
quite hip and quite witty
It tugged at my
heartstrings to give her a zero score for the assignment
She was honourably
adamant her zero score should stand
This pretty girl dropping the f-bomb now and again on our date was a
real turn-off
I see a critic panned it, but I found it
quite amusing
He is happy with the way the deal
panned out
Harold’s idea had been a good one even if it hadn’t
panned out
Swarthy men with gleaming
teeth
Recently I happened upon
a row of green Gobee bikes in Tai Po Waterfront Park. “Pay HK$5”, a sticker on the rear mudguard of each said, “and ride for 30 minutes.”
Solids can sometimes go
down much easier than liquids
I had demeaned the
profession
No one demeaned himself so
honourably
They will buckle down to
negotiations over the next few months
Here are five
takeaways from the interviews
The entrepreneur knows this the
hard way
They say that pioneers often come back with
arrows in their backs
The company bled
funds quickly amid tough competition
We gonna raise the
bar once again
He attempted an atrocious
imitation of my English accent
It also signifies fugitives and runaways, including known criminals who are
at large such as escaped convicts
It’s my family business.
Nose out of it
A stubbornly insular
farming people
People living restricted and sometimes
insular existence
What does it take to make the grade
as a top golfer
To judge which practices need to be given
precedence over others
A deaf or
hard-of-hearing viewer
We are joined at the hip in this business, and one guy can’t wave
a magic wand
Applause drowns
speech
I arrived at the store a harrowing thirty minutes later,
no thanks to the driver in front of me
We achieve little by
brute force
The yoga studio is a likely
draw for bankers, lawyers and other white collar workers when it opens in August
You’re kind and generous to
a fault
It was a return to an old
stomping ground
One MP appeared to be having a whale of a
time as he flicked through some racy pictures on his smartphone
John Terry lifts the
lid on his future
Oh poor! Don’t be such a
spoilsport
It generated incredulity and derision and was not taken seriously. But were the naysayers
too quick to pooh-pooh?
It is only when the vested interests are unable to rig the market one last time that the virtuous
cycle turns vicious
That leads to forced sales at
distressed prices
Two events had precipitated this
change in course
It is often more of a hindrance than
an asset
No need to give me the needle just because
someone has given it to you
The right of all workers to strike was
enshrined in the new constitution
I was shocked that he already dropped the
L-bomb on me after knowing each other for a day
Re-enact the
accident
Jack was not averse to an occasional
dalliance with a pretty girl
The iPad 2017 has the same chassis design as the 9.7-inch iPad Pro, with the same elegantly
chamfered edges curving gently to the back of the device
Dirty low-down
tricks
A taxi driver has been filmed launching a loquacious,
expletive-ridden take-down of a pedestrian on the streets of Hong Kong
It is unclear how the altercation escalated, though the driver concluded the interaction by showering the man with a
string of obscenities and exclamations
The sickly sight of
loved-up couples on Valentine’s Day
Film of her poolside
frolics
She is my little
pumpkin
Falling pregnant is not something you can
take for granted
Easy-peasy
questions
She could see that her remark had
hit home
British people, as a rule, still disapprove of loud or
demonstrative behaviour, except in very informal situations
The movie looks like tasty
eye candy
Shower
praise on sb
Speaking on the tarmac just after
stepping out of his Air China plane, Xi said …
Catch/get some
Z’s
His stand-up comedy was so R-rated that no wonder the teens in the audience were
having such belly laughs
A by-product of crass
consumerism
A nicer-sounding
“compensated dating”
It may seem more innocuous with every iteration of the term, but the song
remains the same
When a man basically rents a woman for company and companionship on the face of it but coitus as the underlying intention,
the world’s oldest profession comes into play
All the Disneyfication with soft-focus
selfies and shy social messaging does not change the facts
Consenting
adults
Jo is apparently trying to save HK$40,000, courtesy of her
sugar daddies, to buy a clarinet
Working stiffs pay for the company of young girls with
designer goods and other luxury gifts
Sexual exploitation can be just a
wink and another LV handbag away
In reality, these paid girlfriends will, by definition, attract insecure,
emotionally-stunted, stalker-y, deeply misogynist males
Every TV spot is drilling into these young minds the importance of designer goods and
overpriced bling in their lives
Oh, lordy. And that, too, on the
front page
Perhaps a little off tangent, but worth sharing, here’s another reader’s
take to wrap things up: …
Despite the way I sometimes
rag her, she is my sister
There is nothing
to it
I was champing at the
bit to investigate the shops
You are killing
it
Well, if it isn’t my old
buddy, Doug
Megan Fox is even sexier in the
flesh than in the movies
I can’t get the ruddy
car to start
A happy man who loved life
to the full
I tried to, for want of a better word, coerce them
into reading reference materials by giving them tests, but without success
If this group is indicative of BTB students,
there is indeed a cause for concern
The comforting, and sad
as well, response from some of them is that they don’t want to work as a translator
I worked them
very hard
Of particular
note is that …
The users of any language must constantly invent to adapt to
fresh circumstances, and when invention flags they must borrow
Grammatically incomplete sentences, frowned upon in formal usage, are occasionally
permissible and even valuable in informal composition
While some punctuation is cut-and-dried, much of it falls into the
province of usage and style
Style is less reducible to
rule, and more open to argument
As a free agent, I had some criteria to meet and this team
fitted the bill perfectly
Not entirely without surprise, serendipity had its way
with me and I stumbled on one of my much-loved poems, by Henry Reed, that fitted the bill perfectly
That said, you still have plenty of scope to
fashion sentences of almost any size and shape
Apart from its length it is also a skillfully
wrought passage: clear, supple, flowing and ultimately riveting
Our attention has been ambushed by two
extraneous thoughts
Brusque is my friend Jeremy’s
response to pushy salesmen
The number of people who can survive on six hours of sleep or less and show no impairment, rounded
to a whole number and expressed as a per cent, is zero
When the sun sets, temperature drops dramatically and when the sun rises it starts to pick back up. Our bodies expect that
beautiful thermal lull
The Polish president’s wife inadvertently
snubbed the US president in favour of Melania
Maddened by the limp rag doll banging
against his legs, he veered to the left
This rag doll treatment of our things is great
fun for him
He grabbed her collar, dragging her clear and
across the mud like a life-size rag doll
He was unceremoniously kicked
out of the door
The hat Rita bought is a total
disaster
A laugh which jarred on
the ears
A lethal cocktail of
painkillers and whisky
The book contains a powerful
cocktail of romance, family crises, and big business
In Victorian times, when life was simpler, so,
apparently, was grammar
This is not a decision we arrived at
lightly
They can’t afford to sit
on that
I am really excited to know
what lies in store
I’m not trying to drive a
wedge between you and your father
God bless you. I am forever in
your debt
Incredible heights and
great depths
His rigid body, clenched fists, and head drawn between his shoulders, all attested to
a fierce hate breathing from every pore
Both striking and affluent, Justin turned the
heads of many women and never wanted for anything
Their wealth had been stashed
away in Swiss banks
That adds a whole new
complexion to the game
Abusers get away as animal protection laws
lack bite
It stood in the middle of the road now, its gray fur
bristling and its yellowed teeth bared
The tall, dark stranger strode towards Alita as the wolf
bristled and growled
Built to last, they bristle with every
modern convenience
He never merely asserts: every paragraph bristles
with footnotes and quiet exposition
The new songs bristle with an
excitement and immediacy that demand attention
It is not a gesture of
charity, but an act of justice
Lam grant soothes
sting of exam
There is a chronic housing shortage which has been in part responsible for the
runaway property price inflation of recent years
The Nomura analysts are among the few
flagging the dangers
The financial meltdown touched off a six-year property slump in Hong Kong that shaved more than two-thirds off prices and
saddled the city with a stagnant economy and deflation
The kind of property buying fervour that
preceded the last bust seems to have returned
The world’s second-largest economy, to which the rest of Asia is very exposed, is flashing
several signs of vulnerability
Mild-mannered, cultured, gently spoken - even timid - Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo’s public persona
belied his stubborn resilience and steadfastness of belief
Liu was granted medical
parole on June 26
He recalls a brief telephone conversation with Liu - which was
to be their last - shortly before Liu’s arrest in December
He delivered lengthy speeches in a
vain attempt to calm the restive students
Gao, well aware the Hongkonger would cover the bill, carefully
ordered dishes and calculated their prices
Liu first gained fame in the world of literature as a
maverick willing to challenge the status quo
Hong Kong stocks fell Friday morning, paring
previous days’ gains, but still poised to book their best weekly advance in over a year
He was brutally cynical and hardened
to every sob story under the sun
It is generally considered rude, though, to crosspost
a notice about your product to every forsale newsgroup, even ones on the opposite side of the country or world
Sit up and
take notice
He was under the impression that they had
become friends
A billowing
skirt
Conjugal
rights
Ask yourself if you need this job badly
enough to endure daily humiliation
Don’t be afraid to respond gracefully but
firmly if you are bullied
This doesn’t give anyone the right to scold their loved ones for
missing the mark
Any demands will only get more
absurd over time
Viscous
lava
Knock it off
= stop doing something
I kid you
not
The victim of a
carjacking
I earned my living as a freelance writer, ranging very far from economics when the need or the occasion
presented itself
Between freelance assignments and further studies, I produced the first three chapters and with some
trepidation showed them to Professor Lowe
The key is to ensure a neutral spine throughout (no arching
of the back; core is engaged) and to focus on the muscles around the knees as you move
It’s warm and friendly, but also a home in which an exile could easily
bunker down in bitter isolation
We were too hammered to run anywhere, so we just bunkered
down against the bank and laughed about it
Unlike its Scottish namesake,
Leven is not by the sea
The literary scene during his creative heyday was querulous and faction-ridden, but despite ideological rifts, most authors back then were fairly
civil with each other, and friendships often crossed ideological divides
To many of them he was an old writer,
passé
Taiwan loosened up and allowed the aboveground
distribution of his works
Literary scholars were bent on overturning
old values and rewriting Chinese literary history
Shen Congwen no longer seemed a nonentity or a sympathiser with class enemies, as communist textbooks had made him
out to be if they mentioned him at all
He was a great writer on a
par with Lu Xun
In materially
primitive surroundings
They find his stories uplifting and spiritually challenging. These stories are also filled with
hints of pathos
He gained a devoted
following for his lyrical cricket writing
Far from a smutty provocation, the painting is
unexpectedly lyrical
He could also spin a
good tale
The event had political repercussions which are beyond the
compass of this book
The matter is totally within the
compass of the jury’s jurisdiction to determine
He adopted patently
modernist styles
His resistance to conformism required
backbone
Even barbaric violence had its place in his ethic, if it were properly
atoned for, as in the opening story of this collection
She cried, tears coursing down her cheeks,
mingled with the rain
Exultation coursed
through him
Power coursed like liquid fire through my veins, as my adrenaline
spiked and I screamed in pain
The idea that other animals experience similar emotions to us is not
anthropomorphism; it is based on sound scientific evidence
Death itself takes on a subjective anthropomorphism; as if it were
a willed activity
But sheer chance – or fate – save Sansan from marriage to the decadent and older sick man, she begins to be
allured, however ambivalently, by the prospect of marrying him
He is landless and utterly dependent on his landlord; he wears the landlord’s
castoffs for his clothing
It is not only the landlords who are decadent, wasting their prosperity on
whoring and gambling and honouring superstitions that end up hurting other people
He is also in thrall to an absurd
superstition: that the date and hour of her birth predispose her to shorten the life of anyone she might marry
The beefy addition gives the fries an extra
kick of flavour
It seems that starchy old Goldman Sachs is planning to
edge itself into the glorious world of casual dress
The rest of the workforce is still expected to turn up for
work in attire that differs little from that worn by the fine folk who work as undertakers
They will carry on being shrouded in business attire that probably works okay in New York for most of the year, but cause make employees to sweat and female employees to
glow as they plough their way through the city’s humid maze
Mind you, I’ve spotted some real self-imagined mavericks who daringly release the top button of their starched shirts, allowing ties to
dangle at half mast, and I’ve even spotted female staff members bold enough to free themselves from the agony of high heels, which are replaced by sturdy but stylish mid-heel footwear
The thing she was looking forward to most about her retirement was the sheer joy of throwing away her entire
stock of agonising high heel shoes
The idea was bandied around and
apparently dropped
Incivilities were bandied about and
spread to the government
The observant eye will quickly spot variations in the quality of the cloth, gradations in the
sophistication of the cut and so on
Companies worry that individualism nurtures unruly
behaviour and the possibility of discordance
Weaning big organisations from their fussing
over attire is hard to achieve
Wide lapels are a no-no, alongside a strict ban on the colour yellow, which
rarely works in clothing but, frankly, what do I know?
Slowly they grow estranged from their country villages, and slowly they learn the
vices that are useful only to city folk
Seventh Maid remains loyal to her husband in every
way but sexual
The rural husband gets his
gumption and takes his wife home
It is the wife who shows more
presence of mind and courage
One passage schematically relates the dissolution of rural society after its division into
propertied and unpropertied classes
A group of idle and
swaggering bandits and henchmen
The powers that be, though, are the ones to attempt to right these wrongs but
nothing is being done
The powers that be will probably have their own side of the story to
relate
True rural innocence is banished even from his nostalgic, if
slightly fantastic, memory
A health/sex/chocolate
fiend
Kids who feel so
entitled and think the world will revolve around them
His pompous,
entitled attitude
Anyone who is actually involved will be well aware of his oafish and
entitled behaviour
My heart skipped
a beat when …
The restaurant is a bloody
rip-off
Not
again!
With friends like these, who needs
enemies
William is a young man who is definitely
going places
I’m so jelly that you were at
the show
You don’t really have to be such an
arse to make your point, you know?
To the relief of many, the Court of Appeal in Hong Kong ruled that getting a
boner while in a consensual embrace with the girl of your dream does not amount to indecent assault
He slipped into a food
coma after consuming three giant cha siu buns all by himself
A pair of
manboobs
It’s a steal/
bargain
It’s gonna be a bit chilly today, so
bundle up before you go out
He is such a
cheapskate
Sometimes, very regrettably, I have to admit that human stupidity really
knows no bounds
Stop making an arse
of yourself for God’s sake
Liang will go down in
history as the first person to have translated the complete works of Shakespeare into Chinese
These essays, which deal with familiar and timeless topics and in which social satire is
tempered with light humour, met with instant and wide acclaim
His morbid
fear of dogs
These are things that endear
him to his writers
A careful observer may discern in the later volumes a steady increase in
depth and subtle shift from poignant sarcasm to benign humour as he mellowed
The popularity of the Sketchbook has not been affected
appreciably by changing tastes
“Smart” is savvy, whereas
“clever” is swotty
One source has come to dominate: America, thanks to its cultural, technological and
political heft
Contrary to the doleful prophecies of superannuated Jeremiahs, pop is in
rude health
The footballer is in rude health and
definitely on form
The war came as a very rude
awakening
Before dawn broke, drug crime suspects had a rude awakening as officers with battering
rams smashed down doors around the town in an operation to target dealers
They should be able to venture into any industry that may capture
their imagination
The tartar sauce had a zippy, homemade taste to it, and both our plates were rounded
out well with green salads and ample servings of perfectly nice fries
There is also a subtle humour to the film that
rounds it out nicely
He is on the slippery slope towards
a life of crime
They are offering an argument that, should you accept it, drops you on a slippery
slope leading down to veganism
The programme appreciates the
merits of brevity
He would badger him about anything, often hitting him on the
least pretext
Often the result of one partner badgering the other into
making a bit of a show
You should clean up
your act
Ear-
duster
The social services washed their
hands of his daughter
Water was cascading
down the stairs
Blonde hair cascaded
down her back
The judge recused himself from
the case because he knew a member of the family
Chasing down delinquent
accounts is no fun either
Loan delinquencies have steadily risen in the past 24 months, to the point where nearly 1 in 20 home
loans is delinquent
At least 16 per cent are delinquent or
in foreclosure
I couldn’t put my hand on my
heart and say I’d never looked at another man
The person born into this combination has a forceful and
magnetic personality
Underneath that cool image is a very intense,
forceful and determined individual
She had a remarkable sense of colour that could be both gentle and
forceful at the same time
The results were presented to shareholders as a
fait accompli
Nimbleness of
mind
I am both honoured and
humbled to be part of the team
I’m so screwed for this final.
I haven’t studied all semester
This binary way of thinking, seeing retirement as a cliff
edge over which workers and consumers suddenly tumble, bears little relation to the real world
Spotty, awkward 15-year-olds predated the 1940s, but only then did mystified
adults coin the label “teenagers”, fuelling all sorts of products and services, from bobby socks to the music industry
Marking out youthful old age as a distinct phase of life might have a similar effect, prodding
employers and policymakers to think differently about how to keep the young old active
As life becomes longer, the word “retirement”, which literally means withdrawal to a place of
seclusion, has become misleading
At 65 you are not clapped out, but pre-tired. So as they embark on the next stage, here’s
to all those pre-tirees
Donald Trump’s new communications director has launched an extraordinary, foul-mouthed
tirade against two senior colleagues, raising the prospect of all-out civil war in the White House
The profane language was shocking even by
the standards of the Trump era and suggested a major staff shake-up is imminent
He was getting more and more worked up, and he eventually convinced
himself that Priebus was my source
They agreed to paper over the
cracks
The brasserie attracts discerning
customers
A small-time
gangster
You have taken your eye
off the ball
Mike as good as knows that he has passed his exam. He saw his professor and he gave him a broad smile and a wink
him a broad smile and a wink
Steve is as good as his
word. If he said he would help you, then he will
I failed my driving test yesterday. ; Oh well, you’re in
good company – so did I last week
Sheila said a woman in the accounts department is always rude to her, but knowing Sheila I’m sure she
gives her as good as she gets
