Gd8 Flashcards
Hourglass
figures
Release a cocktail of
chemicals
Get on the same
wavelength
We are attracted to people whom they perceive as being on the
same wavelength
The researchers highlight the importance of attunement and resonance in
attachment and relational closeness
We are attracted to people who dance together with us,
psychologically speaking
Only a 30-minute
layover
Cat-skill
performance
May I make a suggestion
by all means
Humanity will be brought to
its knees
I peeked out of the corner of my eye and saw her
smirking with an almost uncontainable joy
A keepsake from her earlier days as a
professional dominatrix
The sign outside her building says “Clinic”. She greets me in yoga pants and fluffy
animal slippers, cradling a Pekingese dog whom she introduces as Marilyn Monroe
A bedroom with no furniture except a
double futon
Although there has long been a pragmatic separation of love and sex in Japan – a country mostly free of
religious morals – sex fares no better
The pressure to conform to Japan’s anachronistic family model of salaryman husband and
stay-at-home wife remains
Official alarmism doesn’t
help
Adult incontinence pants outsold baby
nappies in Japan for the first time
The demographic crisis is so serious that Japan might
eventually perish into extinction
Japan’s under-40s won’t go forth and multiply out of duty, as postwar
generations did
Its already nuclear-destruction-scarred
psyche
Marriage has become a minefield of
unattractive choices
Japanese men have become less career-driven, and less solvent, as
lifetime job security has waned
Cohabiting or unmarried parenthood is still unusual,
dogged by bureaucratic disapproval
Or else they’re opting out altogether and replacing love and sex with
other urban pastimes
Aversion to marriage and intimacy in modern life is not
unique to Japan
Procreation-shy
youth
This is
distasteful
A man 13 years her
senior
From chunky to
hunky
Forty weeks come down to a mother’s first moment, and everything changes. Crying keeps her awake, but silence is deafening. She will teach him to walk only to chase him out of the street, out of a tree, and out of harm’s way. Then suddenly time stands still, long days and endless nights turn morph into years, and as other mothers are chasing their babies, her baby is driving away. The mathematics of motherhood:
Days that last forever add up to years that pass in the blink of an eye
Aussie opens new business to give vent to
stress, sorrow by smashing things
A wizened, weather-beaten
old man
I am going to give it
a miss
A very prim and
proper lady
My asthma is
acting up
I was waking up in the middle of the night and
coughing and hacking for hours
The elephant in the
room
Count yourself lucky, for it
could have been worse
He had a face like a wet
weekend all day
You sit in this office like the cat that got the cream and
expect the world to revolve around you
Johnny feels like the cat that’s
got the cream
Leicester’s Cinderella
season
I was bristling with
anticipation
He tugged the ends of his shirt out of his waistband and started to
swiftly work the buttons loose
The driver was a buff
blond named March
That happens. That
happens
Stop it. Stop
it
The results cannot be extrapolated to other
patient groups
It is always dangerous to extrapolate
from a sample
The figures were extrapolated from
past trends
Wonky trolley
wheels
In wet weather stout boots or
wellingtons/wellies are essential
Some civil servant earning twenty-eight thousand a year,
tops
I slept for maybe three hours
tops
The food was served by women in turquoise, nylon uniform, their hair tucked up under
hairnets and plastic shower caps
You learn a lot by active engaging than
passive listening
Why one painting grips us by the
collar and another leaves us cold
The language of the eye stubbornly
resists the language of words
A grim and
forbidding building
Ignorance is
bliss?
As if anyone is going to be taken by this lame
publicity stunt
How to get a better
read on people
She called at a most
inconvenient time
She telephoned frequently, mostly at
inconvenient times
My husband has resigned himself to my
hobby and accept it
It is extremely difficult to find a decent house either for rent or purchase at affordable rates and many people have resigned
themselves to accepting anything called shelter
Have you resigned yourself to a lower
salary after graduation
The insertion of the intentionally designed segment showing dress-up artistes consuming fried chicken at the award ceremony was gratuitous, not justified
editorially and obtrusive to viewing pleasure
Even if the writing is excellent, I don’t usually excuse
errors with verbs
Blame a lack of sex education from school or parents who were too embarrassed to discuss
the birds and the bees - but it seems that not everyone knows how babies are made
One man copped a feel of his partner’s breast while on a log flume ride. Thankfully the children sitting in front
remained oblivious
Similarly, this guy also found himself third-wheeling
a couple before class was due to start
To iron out
snags
Tender meat mixed with salad, smothered in sauce and wrapped in a warm carb cocoon: the tasty kebab ticks
all the boxes for a tasty booze sponge after a night on the town
A good corner spot with a buzzy vibe and kiosk-style
layout are the best qualities of this place
We discovered a significant thread of gristle
running through the lamb
It was loosely wrapped, spilling ingredients. The saving
grace was the generous amount of fresh salad
The sauce was barely
evident
Just the right amount of juicy, tender lamb in a
flavourful sauce, and expertly wrapped
Despite its rather rough-and-ready
interior, it delivered where it mattered: taste
Just enough spicy sauce to
tingle the taste buds
It is a good shout for a post-pint
nibble
I sit next to the quickest, the brightest, most well-read,
most entertaining, most brilliant man
Some familiar notions are communicated from a fresh viewpoint, which may be of
benefit even to well-read players
The text is largely a reiteration of what any
well-read designer already knows
Nervous bird Beijing waits for the pluck of
the Fed’s bow
As a Chinese proverb goes, the mere twang of a
bow-string is sufficient to scare a bird
An unguarded
moment
An unguarded
slip
Kate Middleton had a little and adorable slip of the tongue today. The duchess accidentally revealed her sweet
pet name for her husband Prince William
That is indefinitely
more adorabe
Put the layers
on
MTR services finally back to normal after rogue
dog causes extensive commenter delays
