PHRASE (1--15) Flashcards
AT TIMES
মাঝে মাঝে
Occasionally,
Now and Then,
😖At times,he loses his temper.
🏖️ Her attitude is imperiousat times.
🥝Life is sadat times, but it is up to you to make your own life happy.
🌐These two aims are not always mutually complementary:at timesthey conflict.
A PIECE OF CAKE
A task that can be accomplished very easily.
❤Getting tickets to the game will bea piece of cake.
🏵The exam wasa piece of cake.
🌻Landing this type of aircraft isa piece of cakefor an experienced pilot.
ALL BUT
প্রায়,
Nearly,
Almost,
🌺Sheall butfainted when she heard the news
🦀His left arm wasall butuseless.
🐠The party wasall butover when we arrived
CAT’S PAW
অন্যের হাতিয়ার হিসেবে ব্যবহৃত ব্যক্তি
🐶Politicians often use students as cat’s paw.
🏵He served as acat’s paw.
🍅She’s actually acat’s pawfor her boyfriend, poor girl.
DOG DAYS
Hot weather
CALL A SPADE A SPADE
স্পষ্টাস্পষ্টি কথা বলা,
উচিত কথা বলা,
Speak Plainly.
🍄I believe in calling a spade a spade.
🎂Why don’t youcall a spade a spade? He’s a rude, uncaring, selfish man!
🍔I’m pretty good at calling a spade a spade.
🏺Let’scall a spade a spade. This man is a swindler.
CALL IT A DAY
Stop Work,
🏟Let’scall it a day.
⌛I think I’llcall it a dayand go home.
🚦So he agreed tocall it a day.
TAKEN TO TASK
তিরস্কার করা,
🏟He was taken to task.
🎁He was taken to task for not reporting the problem earlier.
TAKE FOR GRANTED
স্বাক্ষ্যপ্রমাণ ছাড়া না ভেবে কোন কিছুকে সত্য বলে ধরে নেয়া।
accept without verification or proof.
🎁You shouldn’t take for granted.
🎖There are many things Itake for grantedand don’t even realize.
⚽I came into adult life clueless about a lot of things that most peopletake for granted.
SIT ON THE FENCE
বিবাদের সময় নিরপেক্ষ থাকা,
🎱You can’tsit on the fenceany longer - you have decide whose side you’re on.
🏀He tends tosit on the fenceat meetings.
🎯They are sitting on the fence and refusing to commit themselves.
AT LARGE
মুক্ত,
🤲The anti socials are still at large
🌿The soldier reported that a prisoner wasat large.
🦄The escaped prisoners are stillat large.
AT SIXES AND SEVENS
এলোমেলো অবস্থা,
In confusion,
🐅The Boy made the roomat sixes and sevens
🌻I’m reallyat sixes and sevensover taking the new job.
🐻Things happened so fast that Mary wasat sixes and sevens.
⚽My room isat sixes and sevens.
A SOPORIFIC SPEECH
Put one to sleep
⚽After hissoporific speechfor an hour, the speaker received no applause from the audience.
AT THE OUTSET
শুরুতে,
প্রারম্ভে,
🐻I warned youat the outsetnot to trust him, and you wouldn’t listen to me.
🌻You made a mistakeat the outset.
🐼He was not hereat the outsetof the experiment.
AT LENGTH
অবশেষে,
Finally,
🐹’I’m still not sure,’ he saidat length.
🌳At lengththe young lady raised her head and looked steadily at his intelligent face.
🐌He told meat lengthabout his new job.
🌾At lengththe bus arrived, forty minutes late.