Gd13 Flashcards
His unique brand of droll
self-mockery
You like to play things pretty close
to your chest
To poison it and eat it
at leisure
We had to double
back to collect them
In the dim light it was difficult to make
out the illustration
I can’t make
her out—
The woman looks mildly amused as she explains that it would require steely
patience and ample luck to spot an animal at this time of year
I haven’t the
faintest what it means
Iago’s final silence was a speaking one; I don’t have the faintest
idea how to read Hermione’s silence
My neck has a crick in
it when I jerk awake
I handed a half-smashed
sandwich to Miles
To ensure that you are not reinventing
the wheel
That should be enough. Use others
sparingly, if at all
But the real reason the market’s utopian, unblemished
uptrend got marred?
High interest rates have a wet blanket effect on bull markets and economic expansion by choking
off the flow of credit and weighing on financial asset prices generally
Copywriters have been seen as just a
cog in the big advertising machine
After stealing your ring, he didn’t even know how to
fence it
I could use
another cup of coffee
Patch me through
to the commissioner
Her hair was severely pulled
back into a bun
It was just a bit of rough
and tumble
She enjoys the rough and
tumble of politics
I ignored him and cinched the
drawstring on my shorts
He jutted his
neck toward me
He gripped her arm and marched
her through the door
There is only a scintilla of
hope for the cubs to win this match
I was scared/bored
shitless
Insulting words are thrown around like daggers in a circus act
daggers in a circus act
Anything outside the script uniformly
meets with an apology
The journey is at breakneck speed on the rutted
roads through shanty villages or hotel-lined luxury
I jerked
awake from my dream
Beneath this repressed young woman who dresses severely in black, carries herself with a stiff, wooden, military
bearing, and snaps out her words “like an officer giving orders”, Lavina appears longing to emerge
Those who caused great torment to others rarely got their
just deserts
The press are embarrassingly
fulsome in their appreciation
Keegan has been effusive and
fulsome in his praise of Pearce’s contribution both on and off the field
From her, it seemed perfectly proper, and not even fulsome,
just a nice compliment
Seeing an evocative picture of my friends brought backl
fond memories of schoo
His hair was cut short with a
cowlick dropping over at the front
We just need five minutes. Don’t
sweat it
Screw
it
Let’s dumb it
down
To be visually arresting as well as
mentally arresting
I know how gutted the
players must feel
He had a reputation for being a useless
layabout who felt the world owed him something
He had even confided
in Gerry about his feelings
I will sort him
out
He had a very cavalier
attitude to personal hygiene
Their faces register relief as they spotted Conor holding
aloft the welcome card bearing the tour operator’s name and logo
She was fit and healthy, her hair cut in a flatteringly soft style that framed
her face
Drop by for a taste of Hong Kong’s living culture — ancient traditions alive and
kicking
Chin up, shoulders
squared, she stepped into the room
Go for the
burn
She is foster-mother to various
waifs and strays
Skimpily clad waifs
pranced down the catwalk
Humph! I suppose I’d better
take him
No good will come
of it
Skills to do comes
of doing
Every record falls
in the end
A burglar jemmied into his
patio doors
That was the rub—she had not
cared enough
The rain continued to beat
down on him
Mechanisms and procedures are in place for the receipt of comments, suggestions and redress
of grievances
I suppose if you are sipping champagne in business class, you don’t really want to know what goes on
in coach
In the diamond shaped living room, toys and storybooks were
strewn all over the old parquet floor
Toddlers should be potty
trained by age of three
The course gives students something to get their
teeth into
She loathed him on
sight
In Africa, paramilitary game wardens shoot
poachers on sight
Once you leave the first world, then all bets
are off
Any signs of a full blown conflict there and all bets
are off, he said
I’m unable to make it out to the party. I have the girl
flu
I decided to go for
broke and turn professional and see how I got on
Wedding hazing is a practice originally meant to expel evil spirits that has
devolved into assault
The prima-donna
behaviour of some of the stars
Prince Harry: Stars were
aligned when I met Meghan
They often slipped
up when it came to spelling
He seemed forever on
edge, worried about slipping up or uttering something to upset the assembled crowd
Modern style guides seem intent on banishing
its usage to history
Despite protests, the official decision
stood
My offer of help still
stands
External troubles were superadded
to their internal problems
She had taken an instant
liking to his girlfriend
Savers, long accustomed to anaemic
rates of return on their savings, will see a slight pick up
That’s a big
ask for a four-year-old
A morning of rough and
tumble in the playground
There is thin line between assertion and
aggression
They are also the friendliest and most unabashedly
contrite with ‘Aww, shucks!’
He adds a characteristically awe-shucks
postscript: ‘I have no way of justifying what I do, no temporal defence at all’
Anyone who knew him will remember that he always wore a smile and had aw-shucks, down-to-earth personality that masked one of the finest competitors and clutch
performers the game has ever seen
Aw shucks, you’re making
me blush!
He is tough, a fine leader despite his youth and
aw-shucks grin
The dots, strokes and squiggles may appear physically insignificant on a page of print and evanescent in our speech
evanescent in our speech
Blimey, isn’t the beach
crowded!
My hobby, trainspotting, is to many a bit
of a joke
George Orwell wrote a book without a single semicolon in it. Actually, three crept in, only
to be removed in later editions
Let us mop our brows and try to fathom what the poor,
befuddled author intended to say
The language of prudery also surprisingly invades the
sanctum of directness, the doctor’s surgery
If you have been eliminating euphemism, jettisoning jargon, cutting out cliches and showing the gate to
gobblegook, your writing should be looking leaner and meaner
The student was torpid and generally
uninvolved in discussions
His position in the office is a sinecure; she does nothing all day yet she draws the same
salary as everyone does
The peaceful petitioning for redress of
wrongs is a right enshrined in our country’s founding document
Though the professor is considered one of the greats of his discipline, lately his lecture have
verged on arrant nonsense
It was heartbreaking to watch the butterfly struggle in vain to
extricate itself from the spider web
There is no cause
worthier than to expose and correct the injustices done to others
I like to listen to the
patter of rain
MI5 foiled Islamist terror
plot to kill the Prime Minister
I had strolled into a genuine
stick-up
Some comments to the effect that my essay was a little
light on analysis
There was no time to mount a
defense
The issue demanded most of the government’s
attention
They were hatching a different
plan behind the door
There were some amazing
feats of bravery
It was just a drop in the
bucket
They flew into the
fray and shot down six aircraft
Davis beat his old
adversary in the quarter-finals
And here, I would like to point out that dictionary definitions, helpful and illuminating as
they can be, are not equal to the task
He always has a cuddly
toy In tow
Cravat
A
Officials arrived to sound out public
opinion at meetings in factories
With words we sugarcoat our
nastiest motives and our worst behavior, but with words we can also formulate our highest ideals and aspirations
Before breaking camp at the base of the Root, your guide will give you pointers on
crampon use and safe route-finding
While animals use only a few limited cries, however, human beings use extremely complicated systems of sputtering, hissing,
gurgling, clucking, and cooing noises called language
Oblige me by not being
sorry for yourself
Photos of interest would be most welcome so if you can
oblige please do
“If you wish to embrace me, Maria, you know I will be only too
pleased to oblige you,” replied James, his voice low and teasing
In any literate culture of a few centuries’ e
standing, human beings accumulate vast stores of knowledge
From the warning cry of the savage to the latest scientific
monograph or news bulletin, language is social
Over us all hangs the perpetual
fear of another war even more unthinkably horrible than the last
Cathay Pacific Airways will continue giving large housing benefits to pilots for a year, in a setbacks to its cost-cutting attempts during an
impasse with the aircrew union over cuts to pay and perks
An alfresco
supper
In the unlikely event of some sunshine you can even dine
al fresco
You bet
I do
