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
