Sayings Flashcards
Cold shoulder
Means to ignore someone.
- I went to talk to my wife, but she gave me the cold shoulder
Why do you keep sending me on a wild goose chase?
Something that is pointless - coisa inutiul,
Stabbed in the back
It is a form of betrayal
Costs an arm and a leg
Expensive
Up in the air
When are we going to have that meeting? It is still up in the air.
Break a leg
Good luck
Bite the bullet
To get something over with - - I had to bite the bullet and get it fixed.
Straight from the horse’s mouth
getting it straight from the main source
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth
cavalo dado não se olha os dentes
Pulling someone’s leg
Just kidding I am pulling your leg
Wolf in sheep’s clothing
Lobo em pele de cordeiro
Hands down
Hands down it was the best meeting we have ever had
Barking up the wrong tree
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Let the cat out of the bag
. I mistakenly told a secret.
works like hell
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all boils down
If you say that a situation or problem boils down to a particular thing or can be boiled down to a particular thing, you mean that this is the most important or the most basic aspect of it.
go down that road
to take a particular course of action
bias
preconceito
back and forth
Back-and-forth is a noun that means an argument or discussion in which little gets resolved. Back-and-forth is also used to describe something having a movement pattern in which it repeatedly moves somewhere and returns to where it started.
spoil food
comida estrago
It boils down to
isso se resume a
It have a teste for junk food
going to doctor offices
going to doctor clinic
Fisical exames
exame de rotina
They didn’t hand them out yet
Eles não os entregaram ainda
eat away at me
The recession is eating away at their revenues.
A recessão está corroendo a receita deles.
leave no stone unturned
We will leave no stone unturned to find the offender.
Nós vamos fazer tudo que for possível para achar o infrator.
Tell us about a made-up competition. Looking for embellishment/exaggeration.)
These silos, that everyone is working in, are not helping innovation
The silos that development is working in don’t allow collaboration
don’t kid yourself -
nao se engane