Gd14 Flashcards
Peanut brittle
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It is traditional that you haggle over/ about the price of things in the market
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Punch the light out of me = punch sb’s lights out
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I will take lessons from you
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You are pulling a prank on me
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Act cool and all
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He dotes on the new baby
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Ride on sb’s coat-tail
托… 之福
The newspapers milked the story dry
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The directors milked the company of several million pounds
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The children watch with rapt attention
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Cut in in front of us in line
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Stand with our legs apart, arms thrust out, taking up space
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He ironed the a crease down the front of each trouser leg
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A creased blouse
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Pirouette
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To wake up natural
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The examiner will try to catch you out, so stay calm and think carefully before you speak (=try to trick sb into making mistake)
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Leave without a stain on his character
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He slipped the hook
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He cocked his rifle and took aim
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Britain has suffered a huge brain drain in recent years
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Be a slam dunk = be a certain winner
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The disaster is indelibly seared into the villagers’ memory
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Fast rope
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It took casualties at close quarters/range
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His remarks stirred up a (real) hornet’s net
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I’ve got to change jobs - after 15 years here I feel I’m (stuck) in a rut. (I’m bored)
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We were moved to tears
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Its all-too-brief life
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A moot point/question
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Door knob
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They come in waves
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A love/magic potion
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I hold you in high regard
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Corny jokes
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For six years his championship record was unblemished
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Drum up business
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Don’t playing dumb
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Turn me down flat
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Don’t read too much into her leaving so suddenly - she probably just had a train to catch
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Protruding tummy
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My learned friend/ brother
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Lean barbecued pork
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The article portrayed her as domineering by dropping quotes from her context
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Get my hair permed
燙頭髮
Phone+Snubbing = Phubbing
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We only received the signature at the eleventh hour
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A bungled robbery
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Charm offensive
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Cloth wedged in the cracks failed to block out the drafts
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I was wedged in between Tim and Amy on the back seat
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“This tastes horrible,” said Tom, pulling a face at his glass
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I was pulling silly faces to make the baby laugh
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This is an argument that seems to fly in the face of common sense
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Mr Smith came striding towards us with a face like thunder
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Sb’s face falls
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Judging from her blank face, I’d say she didn’t know what we are talking about
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What’s the long face for
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His face lit up when I mentioned her name
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The disappointment was written all over his face
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Tony stared at me in stony-faced silence
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It looks, on the face of it, like a minor change in the regulations
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He seems to have vanished off the face of the earth
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She was scarlet in the face and perspiring profusely
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She scattered a deck of cards face down
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The house faces due east
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He climbed atop a tank to face down a coup
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The external basement walls were faced with granite slabs
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If your face didn’t fit they could get rid of you within twelve months
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He was putting a brave face on it but she knew he was shattered
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He had set his face against the idea = resist with determination
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Local newspapers tend to be very parochial
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The Air Force conducted a surgical strike on the enemies by bombing their hideouts in the forest
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First past the post = winning a race by being the first to reach the finishing line
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Obama poked fun at himself
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Entrepreneurs of all stripes are joining in the offensive
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Even when the days seem darkest, we have seen humanity shine at its brightest
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Law enforcement officers lived their oath to serve and to protect
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Journalists take the time to wade upstream through the torrent of digital rumours to chase down leads and verify facts and painstakingly put the pieces together
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He was vilified by the press as a monster of perversity
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Beijing is a huge ship. It takes time to turn
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Reputable charities spend a lion’s share of donation on aid and a tiny fraction on administration
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We must find ways of keeping our expenditure in check
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A wild boar/ hog
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Anything but that
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Something beyond comprehension happened
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You don’t believe in horoscopes and all that mumbo jumbo, do you?
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When it comes to parenting, it is all about being fair but firm
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It’s easy to be flippant, but we have a serious problem to deal with here
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His poetry is imbued with deep, religious meaning
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Empathy is the natural enemy of egocentricity, a disease that eats away at our society
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Cheap fast food in no-frills surroundings
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Skewered meat and fish
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Shoddy experiments
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Success can breed complacency
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The obligation to “publish or perish” has come to rule over academic life
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The most enlightened journals are already becoming less averse to humdrum papers
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Forget dated ideas about left and right hemispheres
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The left brain/right brain story may be the mother of all urban legends: It sounds good and seems to make sense - but just isn’t true
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East or west, home is best
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The master bedroom commands a view of rolling green hills
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It is whether Hong Kong has a level playing field
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It takes eyeballs away from other TV channels
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He made use of the knowledge gleaned from economics class he audited (=attend informally, without working for credit)
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