Popular Sayings

Question 1

It’s only a matter of time before it’s all over the company

Answer 1

Nil

Question 2

We explored every avenue but to no avail (buy in vain)

Answer 2

Nil

Question 3

I’m writing this in hurry before I go to work.

Answer 3

I’ll have to go now or I’ll be late for work. Write soon and let me know how you’re getting on at work.

Question 4

With the benefit of hindsight I should have realized that there was something wrong

Answer 4

Nil

Question 5

Most of us were gobsmacked.

Answer 5

Nil

Question 6

They had seemed to be jointed at the hip in recently weeks

Answer 6

Nil

Question 7

Make an honest woman of someone

Answer 7

John decided to make an honest woman of Mary; He proposed to her last night

Question 8

It will all end in tears

Answer 8

Something unfortunate is going to happen

Question 9

John is a confirmed bachelor

Answer 9

A man who seems unlikely to marry

Question 10

You should tried to put the past behind.

Answer 10

Nil

Question 11

Time is a great healer

Answer 11

Nil

Question 12

Belching

Answer 12

Gas from stomach

Question 12

It’s time to move on

Answer 12

Nil

Question 13

the slowness/freezing have subsided

Answer 13

less strong or extreme

Question 13

I will swing by on my way back.

Answer 13

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Question 15

The bad news of something came out the blue

Answer 15

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Question 16

You must not simply throw in the towel and think that you have no chance of success

Answer 16

Give up

Question 17

Put something off until tmr

Answer 17

Postpone

Question 18

The survival of the fittest

Answer 18

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Question 19

I need some Dutch courage

Answer 19

Alcoholic drink, the artificial sense of courage which you can get from drinking alcohol.

Question 20

I do not want to hear the gory details of ….

Answer 20

The unpleasant particulars connected with something

Question 21

in the strongest possible term

Answer 21

I am writing to complain in the strongest possible terms about the non-arrival of the two sofa beds which I ordered from your firm

Question 22

The buck stops there

Answer 22

You are the CEO of the firm and the buck stops there.

Question 23

left no stone unturned

Answer 23

I have left no stone unturned

Question 24

pie in the sky

Answer 24

refer to the promise of some kind of advantage or success which will never actually happended

Question 25

Stampede

Answer 25

Shanghai authorities said large crowds started to stampede at the Bund’s Chen Yi Square just before midnight, in the city’s worst disaster since 58 died in an apartment building fire in 2010.

Question 26

recount, fluttering

Answer 26

Others recounted seeing fake US$100 bills fluttering down “like snow” from a nearby building, Bund 18, which led to a chaotic scramble.

Question 27

crush

Answer 27

China on Friday mourned the 36 dead from a New Year’s Eve crush on Shanghai’s famed waterfront, as the city government revealed the victims were mainly young women.

Question 28

crowd

Answer 28

Authorities at first removed flowers after the incident but later set up crowd barriers to allow them to be laid in a controlled area

Question 29

Roll her eyes

Answer 29

翻白眼

Question 30

She used the diamond to frame the apprentice

Answer 30

陷害