Suits Flashcards
Patronize
If you patronize a business, you shop there regularly. But if someone patronizes you, it’s not so pleasant — they talk to you as if you were inferior or not very intelligent.
Arrogant
Too proud and look down on others
Self absorbed
Your self-absorbed acquaintance Isn’t likely to ask you sincerely how you’re doing today, because he’s too busy thinking about himself. And a self-absorbed driver who gets in a fender bender might rush to see if her car is scratched rather than checking to make sure her passenger is okay. Self-absorbed dates from the late 18th century, from self and absorbed, “engrossed mentally.”
Brags and boasting about oneself.
Blowhard
Compassion
If someone shows kindness, caring, and a willingness to help others, they’re showing compassion.
Shove it down the throat
Force someone to accept or like
Fraught
Fraught means filled with something — often something bad. Your Thanksgiving was fraught with awkward moments when your family saw your blue hair, and it only got worse when you told them you’d quit law school to join the circus.
Pedigree
Genetic background
Pedigree
Descendants of one individual
Proponent
Supports something - I’m not a huge proponent of longevity, if you want to address issues that happen to you when you are older like dementia and so forth those are pretty important
Self absorbed.
If you’re overly concerned with yourself, including your own feelings and thoughts, you’re self-absorbed. Self-absorbed people don’t think much about how others are feeling.
Acquaintance
An acquaintance is someone you know a little about, but they’re not your best friend or anything. Acquaintance is also having knowledge about something specific, like horror films or the farming techniques of Chinese peasants.
Rein
Rein is both a noun and a verb for guiding and restraining. You can use the long strap, or rein, on a horse to control its speed and direction, and you can rein in your own tongue by closing your mouth.
Fluke
Good fortune
Writhe
Reserved to be used when in pain/ discomfort causes you to twist and turn.
Writhe in agony.
Acute pain. Agony
Egocentric / egoistic
Self absorbed
Emeliorate
Make better
Mitigate
Make less bad
Reticent
Reluctant to draw attention to yourself.
Puberty
The time in life when the sex organs start working like an adult.
Stakeout
When police officers watch a suspect’s house, keeping an eye on who’s coming and going, they call it a stakeout. Most stakeouts are done stealthily, with the officers trying to avoid being seen.
Bellhops
A bellhop is a person whose job involves carrying people’s luggage in a hotel. When you check into a fancy inn, the bellhop will take your suitcase up to your room for you.
Hotshot
Master / genius/ expert
Attorney
Lawyer
Dickhead
a stupid, irritating, or ridiculous person, particularly a man.
Fascinating
Extremely interesting
Prudent
It’s the wise thing to do under existing circumstances
A wise and well thought through decision can be thought as prudent
Prudent
Restraint
Under control
If you are angry and don’t want to show it, you may speak in a restrained manner
Restrained - under control
Prudent, restrained, quiet -
Discreet
Subtle
Difficult to detect/ rub your mind around/ not obvious
Professional food taster, might be able to perceive subtle differences in flavor that the most people don’t notice.
Subtle
Perceive
Sense
Blown away
Is to be very impressed by something
Flap
Move their wings up and down.
Discrete
Separate and divided
A crankshaft is a discrete part of the engine
Discrete example
Dazzling
Stunning - when something is stunning it impresses enormously.
Enormously
Extremely.
Hugely, staggeringly, tremendously.
He was enormously popular.
When something extremely impresses you it’s stunning. Or dazzling.
Dazzling/ stunning.
Sovereign
Not controlled by external forces
Sovereign state.
Solidarity
United behind a common goal or purpose
Adversely
Harmful and negative
For those who have been adversely affected by this war.
We express our solidarity and support for the people.
Freshman orientation
Starts you off in a good direction.
It’s about the direction you are facing.
East side orientation
Democrat - his political orientation.
Bank
An store that stores and invests money
Complex
Opposite.
Not simple.
Symmetry
Balanced with each side reflecting the other.
Exemplary
Exemplary people excel at what they do and are excellent examples to others. Something exemplary is so good that it is an example for others to follow
Feat
Notable achievement
Smugglers
Import goods illegally
Pirate
Folks who rob at sea/oceans
Unsavory
Call something unsavory if it’s unappetizing, tasteless, or morally offensive
A myriad is a lot of something. If you’re talking about Ancient Greece, a myriad is ten thousand, but today you can use the word in myriad other ways.
Novice
Someone new in the field
Appreciate
Gain value/ recognize something its value.
Intimidate
Frighten / or pull back from something
Timid
Frighten or pull back from something
Learn the ropes
You are learning how a particular job is done.
Obliterated
Demolished/ reduced to nothing
Reliable
Dependable
You call something reliable that you can count on to come through when you need it.
Amortize
Gradually paying off debt.
When you respect someone you admire them and treat them well.
Respect.
In a awe of someone
you have a lot of respect for them and are slightly afraid of them
People are in a awe of him
Retaliate
Action taken in return of injury or attack
Contiguous
Next to each other
Arbitrary
Something that’s arbitrary seems like it’s chosen at random instead of following a consistent rule. Team members would dislike their coach using a totally arbitrary method to pick starting players.
Similar but not identical
Quality of being fair
Equity is the state or quality of being fair. In classrooms, it’s important to establish equity as any hint of unfairness turns everyone against the teacher.
Outlandish
If something is outlandish it’s bizarre or unfamiliar, far outside the boundaries of expected or normal behavior. Driving around the city in a golf cart and eating spaghetti with pineapple sauce are both examples of outlandish behavior.
Appease
Appease means to make or preserve peace with a nation, group, or person by giving in to their demands, or to relieve a problem, as in “the cold drink appeased his thirst.”
Vain
characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
Enthusiasm
Full of excitement
Praise
Praise means “admiration or approval,” and when you’re on the receiving end of it, you feel great.
Glowing
Lit up / full of praise and enthusiasm.
Plathora
Extreme excess
On a boat , anchor is a heavy object attached to a rope.
You toss it overboard to prevent the boat from moving. / it sinks and your vessel doesn’t move.
Anchor
Has a sense of holding something in place.
Anchor - to be the main part is sth.
Wings of a building is a section of it.
Big stores at the end are the anchor
Rip off
Shenanigans
Use of tricks to deceive someone- usually to extract money
Ream
There is ream paper.
Informal us
To tell someone off
Tell off - scold - criticize someone / point out fault/ error often angrily.
If you forget to clean your room , your mom might scold you.
Reprimand
Pass off
Pass it off
to get rid of something deceptively by giving or selling it to someone as something else
Courtesy
Showing of politeness in one’s attitude and behavior towards each other.
Prosecution
Jury
Lawyers who are trying to convince the jury that the guy on trial actually committed the crimes he/she/they accused of.
Impeachment
A formal document accusing a public official of misconduct.
Misconduct - bad, unethical, illegal
Ethics
Moral characters
Truthful, fair, honest.
Ethical
Honest and follows good moral standards.
Conforming to accepted standards of social and professional behavior.
Subpoena
Document that requires the recipient to appear in court as a witness.
Rookie
Beginner, new recruit
Charm
Please
Attract them
Assert
a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)
Fraudulent
Criminal deception
Inseam
Length of pants.
Play footsie
Melted
Emotionally softened/ touched
Pawn off
dispose of something unwanted by inducing someone else to accept it.
Face the music
When you have to face the music, you’re confronted with the consequences of something bad you’ve done. If your boss catches you lying about what time you got to work, you’ll have to face the music.
Meticulous
Extreme attention to detail
Diligent
Works hard and carefully
Obnoxious
Annoying and unpleasant
Yelling and stomping is obnoxious
Prickly
Sharp and spiky
Prickly things are sharp and spiky, while prickly people are quick to be offended or irritated. Ouch!
Affluent
Wealthy/ a great deal of money
Injunction
An official order issued by a judge
Requiring someone to do or stop doing something
Have it in for me
To be determined to harm or criticize someone
Ridiculous
Preposterous. Absurd
Absurd
Inconsistent with logic, reason and co
Fall all over yourself
To be very eager to do something
Make a pass
: to do or say something that clearly shows one wants to begin a romantic or sexual relationship with (someone)
He made a pass at his wife’s friend.
Lure
Entice / bait someone
Entice
Persuade with a promise of something
Come to a head
The situation reaches a point where something has to be done about it.
Culminate
End
Canonical
An equation reduced to its most basic form - mathematics.
It Follows principles or rule.
Orthodox
Commonly accepted
Accepted as true/ correct
Fraternity
Sorority oppo. Fraternity
Go Down the tubes
To fail completely
Litigation
Litigation is what goes on in court; it is the name for the process of suing someone or trying them for a crime. When families fight over their inheritance, the assets they want may end up being tied up for decades in litigation.
Quid pro quo
You do this for me and I’ll do that for you
Scratch my back I scratch yours
Blackmail
Dispute
Conflict/ disagreement
Proclivities
A natural tendency to like something.
Someone of his generation and shares the same proclivities
Stuffed - filled with something
Stuffed rabbit you won at the country fair.
I feel stuffed
Preposterous
Absurd
Ridiculous
Ludicrous
Non sensical
Visionary
Have big ideas, crazy ideas. Forward loooking, the ideas that might change the way the world works.
Whiff - take a sniff
Sniff
Reek
Stink / smell badly.
Pervade
To be present through out. Exists in every part of.
Feeling of doom pervaded the army as the caught the sight of oppositions superior forces.
Reek
Reek of the cows dung
Abject
Absolutely miserable
Abject poverty, absolutely the worst, most hopeless situation you’ve ever seen
Barge
Rudely interrupt someone when they are doing something else
Put someone up to
Convince someone to do something stupid / foolish
Cut to the chase
Get right to the point without wasting time
Ape-shit
Very excepted or angry
Devious
Devious describes someone who tends to lie and to trick other people. Devious credit card companies lure younger and younger people into debt with offers of low interest rates and even just free t-shirts.
Stalled
Stop running/ stop making process
Devastated
Destroyed / ruined
Anxious
Very concerned / worried
Quite interested in something
He is very anxious to meet you
Going out on a limb
Doing something that you believe in but risky, or likely to be criticized by others
Knock yourself out
Used to tell someone to go ahead and do something
Show up
Arrive
Appear
Utterly
Utterly is an intensifying word: something utterly delicious is very, very delicious.
Perplexed
Surprised and confused
Perplexed / baffled / befuddled / confound/ bewildered
Indispensable
Essential/ depict something that you wouldn’t do without.
Acquaint
When you acquaint yourself with something, you familiarize yourself with it. When you visit a new city, you should acquaint yourself with the layout of the streets so you don’t get lost.
Put a face to the name
You’ve met a person for the first time who you knew only by name.
Flagship
The chief one of related group.
The ship that’s carries the commander of the fleet.
Forfeit
Lose / Giving something up usually as a penalty
Forfeit - you’ll forfeit your right to watch tv if you don’t finish your homework.
Let someone in on
Share a secret/ let them
Know something that is concealed
Due diligence
Due diligence is the investigation or exercise of care that a reasonable business or person is normally expected to take before entering into an agreement
Headhunter
Employed by a firm to recruit an individual who nets specific requirements/ has required qualifications.
Commiserate
Sympathize
Behind the eight ball
A difficult situation / in a worse situation than others.
Many families in this country are behind the eight ball, they do not enjoy the same living standards as others do.
Lose vs loose - lus- not fixed
Rat out
Inform on someone
Precede
Come before
Apace
Happens quickly
Preclude
Prevent something from happening
Gunslinger
Professional killer who uses a gun
Pinnacle
The highest
Seize
Enjoy life. Make use of the day to the fullest.
Take hold of, grab.
Take possession by force.
Gloat
If you gloat, you express great satisfaction at the misfortune of others. If your team scores a big win, it would be better not to gloat. Be happy for your win, but don’t laugh at the other team’s loss.
You just not have to suck at it
Busting my ass on this for two hours
If you are not happy with my progress why don’t you get the hell out.
Good lawyer bad lawyer baby, worked like a charm
Squid
A sea animal that has a long thin soft body and 10 long arms
Loaded
We are loaded
Ratify
To ratify a treaty or contract is to officially approve it by signing or voting for it.
Torpedo
Missile / explodes upon impact
Trumps
To trump is to outrank or defeat someone or something, often in a highly public way. Safety might trump appearance when you’re buying a car, or your desires may trump your brother’s when it comes to making weekend plans.
Hedge to bets
Protecting yourself against a loss by supporting more than possible result/ both sides in competition.
Plausible
Reason / believable . Could easily happen
Pay the piper
Bear the consequences of an action or activity that one has enjoyed
I took the liberty
Doing something without asking for permission to do it
Take something with a grain of salt
To not completely believe something that you are told because you think it’s unlikely to be true.
Doubtful/ skepticism.
Occluded
Obstruction
Bum out
Informal - upset / disappointed.
Insult
To offend someone either intentionally or/ unintentionally through words or actions.
Contempt - extreme lack of respect
Pathetic - inspires pity or contempt.
To the victor belong the spoils means that the person who wins or succeeds beyond all others is entitled to the benefits or rewards associated with that success.
Devious - tend to lie and trick other people
Going steady
When two people are going steady they are about to start a long serious romantic relationship
Grateful
Thankful
Allegation
Accusations
Character
Distinctive qualities. Politeness.
Moral qualities
Hamstring
Muscle
And
Making something ineffective or powerless.
Looking over the shoulder
Anticipating that something bad is about to happen/ or that someone may cause you harm.
Imminent - close to happen.
Interfere
Stop something from happening.
Intervene
Come between so as to be a hindrance.
Your talking interferes with my work.
Become an obstacle.
Crux
Important point of the matter / problem
Punitive
Inflict punishment.
Unpleasant result in a large scale. Like the punitive effect taxes will have on middle class.
Outrageous
Beyond reasonable limits
Libelous
Harmful and often untrue , tending to discredit.
Extortion
Extortion means forcing someone into giving you something through threats. A bully who tells kids he’ll beat them up if they don’t give him their lunch money is guilty of extortion.
a lawyer who specializes in bringing cases seeking damages for personal injury.
Ambulance chaser.
Pick on
Repeatedly single out someone for blame, victimize or unkind treatment in a way perceived as unfair.
Rattle
Repeated sounds
Informal - nervous, worried or irritated
Abatement
If you start to bluntly tell people what you think of them you might see abatement in their friendliness towards you.
Reduction / lessen.
Pertinent
Something pertinent is relevant and on-point. If you give your best friend pertinent advice, that means the advice is appropriate for the situation.
Abate
Fewer or less intense
Niche ideal position
Comfortable position in life or employment.
Miraculous
Peculiarly fortunate as if by divine intervention.
Peculiar - notably unusual, deviating from the usual or expected.
Divine. - coming from God
Verocious
Very eager approach to an activity.
Insatiable - wanting, devouring great quantity of food.
Harp
Instrument
to talk about (a subject) constantly or repeatedly in an annoying way. She’s always harping on the importance of a good diet. He seems to enjoy harping on my shortcomings
Teeter
Sway back and forth. Balance unsteadily
Principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or group.
Ethics
Take it up with someone
Talk it out
Adhoc
Created as necessary
Immaculate
Completely clean & neat
Subpar
Lower than average
Blabbing to someone
Reveal secret.
I shouldn’t feel mad that he went blabbing to you about our relationships.
Imminent
About to happen
Solicit
Ask for something
He request a meeting to solicit their views.
Exact - precise and completely accurate
Exact also means to demand or obtain something from someone.
Protracted battle
Lasting for a long time , longer than expected.
Protracted and bitter dispute. Example.
Plaintiff
A person who brings a case against another.
Feisty
Touchy and aggressive
Coerced, intimidated, forced by threat
Sandbag
Jeopardize
Put at risk
Upside
Positive aspect of something
Liable
Legally responsible for fixing it.
Water under the bridge ,
Throw someone under the bus.
Blame/ criticize/ punish them.
Past event aside
There is no way to spin this to save your ass.
We’ve got work to do, where are you. I see you right now in conference room C.
You should hear the stories they will break your heart. That’s if you had a heart.
A push over
Someone easy to overcome or influence.
You better have some cold hard facts to back it up. Because Tanaka is not a push over.
Steal someone’s thunder
to prevent someone from having success or getting attention, praise, etc., by doing or saying whatever that person was planning to do or sa
Outpouring
Flow in large numbers
Outpouring
Large flow
In over your head
Be involved a difficult situation that you can’t get out of.
Take your bag and run, your are way over your head.
Amusing
Something that makes you laugh.
It’s amusing.
Vandalism
Action involving deliberate destruction of public/ private property.
Assault
Make physical attack
Perjury
Act of making false statements under auth
Decency
polite, moral, and honest behavior and attitudes that show respect for other people. Decency, not fear of punishment, caused them to do the right thing.
Overturned
Airtight
Completely sealed so that there are no leaks
Having no weakness
Fall apart
Things started to fall apart, and I realized I needed to make a change.
Scold
When you scold someone, you point out and criticize some fault or error. If you forget again to clean your room your mom scold you for it.
Find what’s wrong with something/ criticize
Protege
A protégé is a person who receives special protection and promotion from someone more established in a field
Gushing
expressing a positive feeling, especially praise, in such a strong way that it does not sound sincere
A pop can a slang for each / apiece
Butler
Man servant of the house
Doggie bag
a bag used by a restaurant customer or party guest to take home leftover food, supposedly for their dog.
When inspiration hits you out of the blue, call it an epiphany.
Epiphany
Clean slate. Wrote it off
Write off
Cancel a record of bad debt.
Frivolous
Frivolous things are silly or unnecessary
This goes against every fiber of my being.
Exquisite,
Has anyone ever told you you have exquisite sopranos.
What do you want Harvey.
Use exquisite to mean finely or delicately made or done. When you say someone has exquisite taste, you mean that they are able to make fine distinctions.
Privy
In privy to all communications between you and the court.
If you’re privy to something, you’ve been let in on a secret or know about something that most people don’t. Not many people are privy to what those top secret documents are all about, for example.
Hallmark of America.
The hallmark of America get to see justice done.
That’s why of all the countries in the world I chose to come here.
Vicarious
experienced at secondhand
“read about mountain climbing and felt vicarious excitement”
You are getting a good kick out of this.
To really like or enjoy something
Merits
You better bring your A game because he has a legitimate claims.
Be all over it
Be involved / interest in
Blowing off
You have been blowing off joys deal all week.
Fail to keep an appointment with someone.
Ignore or dismiss something
Glamours
Appealing/ attractive
Scrimp
Thrifty and economize.
Your chances are going up in smoke.
Flaky
Breaking
Take something out on someone
to treat someone badly because you are upset or angry, even if they have done nothing wrong:
You planted that story, be a man enough to own it.
Attrition
Attrition is a gradual process of wearing down, weakening, or destroying something.
Tabloid
A tabloid is a newspaper, especially one that’s smaller than a traditional daily paper and focuses on sensational news items. If you’re lucky, you might read some juicy tabloid headlines when you pass the corner newsstand.
Traffic
Another meaning.
a
: communication or dealings especially between individuals or groups
b
: EXCHANGE
Amusing
Makes you laugh.
Endowed
Provided/ supplied/ equipped
Opposite
Deprived
Lofty
Something above the ground
Mocking
When you talk to or about someone in a mocking tone, you’re making fun of them in a nasty, mean way.
Restitution
The act of making up for damages
If you are confident in your self, and you see someone who has potential you want them to be better.
Obtuse
Slow to learn
Peculiar
Strange /odd unusual
Sheepishly
in an embarrassed manner due to shame or a lack of self-confidence.
Excruciating
intensely painful.
Blanched
Cause shock
Gory details
Novelty
Novelty is a newness or refreshing quality. Many college freshmen enjoy the novelty of living on their own — until it comes time to do that first load of laundry.
pro·mis·cu·ous
Sleep around
Segregated
Separated
Loved up
Cordial
Nice and friendly
Bleak
Gloomy and depressing
Magnificent
Very good / excellent.
Impressively beautiful, splendid,
Perp a person who committed a crime.
This is informal and used in North America.
Blow someone’s cover
Reveal someone’s secret
An allegation by the way.
That tainted the reputation.
And yet the DOJ looked into into it and found nothing
Of your my own accord
Voluntary without outside intervention.
Bunk
Also bunkmate.
Narrow shelflike bed
Wound up
When someone is little wound up, they are nervous, angry and tense.
Move toward
Gravitate
Impetuous
Someone impetuous acts too hastily or carelessly. Hotheaded, impulsive folks are impetuous.
Bottled up
Lee instead of revealing them
Inadvertently
Inadvertently is an adverb that means “without knowledge or intent,” like when you inadvertently take someone else’s coat from the coatroom because it looks just like yours.
Incumbent
As a black man, it’s incumbent upon you to establish the precedence of excellence.
Current person in office.
Necessary as a duty or responsibility
Shaken up
Makes you shocked / upset
Idioms. sink/stoop to a new/an all-time low. to behave in a worse way than ever before.
Fidelity
Faithful
Or accuracy of reproduction of input image /sound signal.
Presumptuous
a person or their behavior) failing to observe the limits of what is permitted or appropriate.
Frivolous
Frivolous things are silly or unnecessary. If something is frivolous, then you don’t need it.
Wreck
Something that has been destroyed
In the wind
When something is in the wind, people are talking about it happening but no one is sure.
Wind someone up
To say things that’s annoy someone.
Annoy
Rattling the cages again
Make someone worrried or upset
I’m on board
They agree and support what you are doing
Above board
Legitimate, honest and open.
Look down you nose / one’s nose
to think of or treat (someone or something) as unimportant or not worthy of respect
Stonewall
To stonewall is to deliberately hold something up or delay it, especially by refusing to cooperate or answer questions
Wipe that grin off your face
Wipe that smile off your face,
Because without those trades, your little girlfriend will rot in jail.
Flaunt
Display proudly
If someone is in drag, they are wearing clothes usually worn by people of the opposite sex, especially as part of an entertainment.
Shithoused
Extremely Drunk
Begging for scraps
a situation in which someone is in desperate need of resources and is willing to take whatever they can get
Take it off someone possession
no longer in one’s possession or no longer one’s responsibility
the people or companies involved all want success and do not care if they harm each other in getting it
Cut.throat world
Shoddy
Badly made or done
Drag his feet
Do something slowly or not starting it, because you don’t wanna do it.
Foot the bill
Paying the bill.
Dreadful
Extremely bad.
It’s a dreadful defending by Chelsea.
Appalling
Something that is appalling is awful or horrible, causing dismay or disgust. It’s definitely not appealing.
Beard
Whiskers
Whiskers wide / by a whiskers
if you succeed in doing something by a whisker, you almost fail
Down in the dumps
Depressed and unhappy
Skirt
Attempt to ignore or avoid dealing with
Petty
When you’re spiteful, you act in a mean way, with a desire to hurt someone. If your little brother was driving you crazy, you could calmly ignore him — or you could give him a spiteful pinch.
Petty
Small and shouldn’t matter
Recant
Retract
Revulsion
Revulsion means an intense, violent, sometimes physical dislike of something
Recollection
Recall
Elusive
Skillful at evading capture
Renege
To renege is to go back on your word or fail to keep a promise.
Attribute to
Ascribe: chalk up
Chalked up his failure to inexperience
Credit to
Chalk up
Attribute
Exuberant
Joyful enthusiasm
Ponder
Reflect deeply on a subject / muse
High horse ex. get off your high horse.
talking or behaving in a way that shows that you think you are better than other people or that you know more about something than other people do.
Drilling a hole in my brain.
Giving me a hard time
Astute
Cleaver and has good judgment
Comprise your principles
Phony
Fraudulent/ misleading appearance
Prejudice
If you have a negative attitude towards someone based on race or ethnicity rather than personal experience, you might be accused of prejudice.
Unsavory
Morally offensive
Dashing
Stylish, lively with bold attractive spirit
If push comes to shove.
If something can be done if push comes to shove, it can be done if the situation becomes so bad that you have to do it:
Fleeting
Come and go
Vindictive
Strong and unreasonable desire to revenge
Keep your fingers on the pulse
Keep up to date.
Keep up with what is happening.
Complacent
Self satisfied
Complacent
Unconcerned
Frisk
Search someone for something
Benevolent
Someone who does good deeds and shows good will.
Jiggle
Move back and forth
Repulsive
Disgusting you don’t want to be near it.
Vileness
Repulsiveness
Innuendo
Saying something indirectly without mentioning it it’s innuendo.
Innuendo can an insunuation
It’s about time to start painting outside the lines
Not follow the rules, to think creatively,go behave in unconventional way.
Study up on
Make a careful study of
Fatalism
Belief that events are predetermined and therefore inevitable
High rate of learning, adaptability, resilience
Condone
Allow something to happen that could otherwise shouldn’t
Emphatic
Forcefull & clearly
Immensely
Remorseful
Pampered
Spoil
Treat with excessive indulgence
Grey brown - taupe
Napalm
Jelly like gasoline.
Dangerous and stick to stick like glue
Without further ado
Immediately, without wasting time / delay.
This isn’t my first rodeo
I’m not novice to the situation
Fungible
Exchangeable
Recess
Break from doing something like work or school.
Nuisance
Something that causes small annoyances
Free caviar
The best of its kind
Off the hook
Out of trouble / difficult situation
Dazed
Unable to think or react properly.
Be wildered / very confused / perplexed and very puzzled
Bashed
Strike hard and violently
Roam
Wander
Crosshairs
Idiom
In Someone’s crosshairs
They intend to catch you , arrest you or stop you.
Leverage
omniscient
To know everything
Self loving / narcissistic/ vain
Crumb
Small fragment of something that’s baked
Sycophant
Pious
If someone is deeply religious and visibly follows all the moral and ethical codes of his religion, he is pious.
Imbecile
Stupid
Unscrupulous
Use the adjective unscrupulous to describe someone who behaves in a dishonest or unethical way.
Dubious
Something filed with doubts and uncertainty
Budge
Move very slightly
Exasperated
Make furious.
Also
Make worse. Exacerbated
Thrilled
Excited
Cut it
Come up to expectations/ meet requirements
Swoon
Faint.
Also. To be very excited/ emotional about something/someone that one admires.
Tutelage
Guardianship
Extend an olive branch
Make an offer of peace and reconciliation
They’ll Cave
They give in.
Give in
Surrender / end conflict
Barbaric
Unsophisticated, primitive, exceedingly brutal.
Tenacious
Not easily giving up or letting go
Beating them away with stick
Fend off the intense persistent pursuit or advance of someone
Fend off
Defend from attack
Embezzlement
Fraudulent appropriation of funds that you are put in position to take care of not owned by someone else.
Confront
Deal with head on
Welch / welsh
Avoid paying the debt of gambling
Jurisdiction
Legal right over something
Puffery
Overdo a praise to flatter someone.
Untoward
unexpected and inappropriate or inconvenient.
Lippy
Speak to other people in a way that shows no respect
Fondling
Caressing
Besmirch
Dirty particularly someone’s reputation
Meek
Too humble / willing to do whatever other people are willing to do.
Don’t be meek/ going along with the rest/ know yourself/ be full/ be the absolute best.
Squirm
Twist your body from side to side.
Wriggling movement
Tumultuous
Disorderly/ trouble/ disruptive.
Tumultuous
State of unrest
Unbecoming
When someone does something awkward and inappropriate
Sentimental
Led by emotions rather than reason
In a bind
If you’re in a bind, you have been hindered by some situation. You’ll find yourself in a bind if you agree to bring dessert to a party, only to realize that you’re out of fruit, sugar, and chocolate chips.
Quash
Extinguish
Objection
Say no to something.
The thing you oppose you object
Withdrawn
Flick
Sudden sharp movement
Crumpled
Crushed into the ground.
Crumpled
Collapsed
Ferocious
Marked with extreme and violent energy.
Savage
Attack ferociously
Poison the well
cause harm to the reputation or credibility of someone or something,
Sabotage
Deliberate act of destruction
Stuck on someone
Strongly attracted to someone
Take sth under advisement
to consider something such as advice or information carefully
Spider parts are tingling
Urban. Getting a boner.
Spider sense are tingling - have a sense / intuition that something wrong or dangerous might happen.
Privy
If you are privy to something, you have been let to know the secret that most people don’t.
Whiff
A whiff can mean the hint of something you smell.
Orchestrate
Design and organize
Scintillating
Spark brightly
brilliantly and excitingly clever or skillful.
Pay the piper
bear the consequences of an action or activity that one has enjoyed.
Fickle
changing frequently, especially as regards one’s loyalties, interests, or affection.
So fickle the heart
Ludicrous
So foolish, unreasonable
Bullseye
Center of the target in sports etc
Fetching
Attractive
Kinky
Unusual things
Satire
Witty language used to convey insults .
Read some examples
Farce
Something that is supposed to be serious but has turned ridiculous
Pageant
Pageants aren’t just for beauty queens — any richly decorated spectacle or ceremony could be considered a pageant.
Phenom
Incredibly talented person
Cusp
A transition between two states
Solicit
Request / ask
Rain on your parade
Prevent someone from enjoying the an event / occasion / spoil someone’s plans.
Poke the bear
Deliberately provoke someone especially someone who is powerful than you
Cattle prod
A device shaped like a stick long enough to be used to direct cattle.
Air ones dirty laundry
Make ones problem known
Elegant
refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style
Stuffed up
A difficult breathing through your nose because of illness or allergy.
Ready to roll
Ready to move
Emancipate
Set them free from something
Prodigy
A prodigy is someone who is so naturally talented at something that they become a master of that particular skill as a child — you can be a musical prodigy or a math prodigy.
Releve
a movement in which the dancer rises on the tips of the toe
Schematic
Drawing that is very simple and symbolic
Viable
Grow and function properly.
Rebel
Glide
Move smoothly and effortlessly.
Ruthless
Without mercy or pity.
Mean
Lack of generosity. Characterized by lack of*
Repartee
Conversation characterized by repartee, quick, witty comments or replies.
Dinner guest noted for repartee
Have a chip in one’s shoulder
to have an angry or unpleasant attitude or way of behaving caused by a belief that one has been treated unfairly in the past.
On tilt
In a game, it’s a state of severe mental and frustration.
Burst your bubble
Shatter Simone’s illusions
Budge
Throw under the bus
Criticize , punish or blame
Devious
Insincere and deceit
Concealing
Lap dog
Small dog as a pet
Remedy / rectify
Let’s stop playing tiptoe through the tulips around elephant is in the room
Evasive
Coy
Pretends to be shy in a modest way
Concoct
Mix sth using different ingredients
Dissension
Disagreement , differences in opinion
Fester
Grow and spread not in a good way
Tip the scale
to give an advantage to one possible outcome over another
Crush and burn
Fail completely.
Head will roll
People will be dismissed / forced to resign
Schmuck
Flinch
Rub off
Become part of the person’s character as a result of spending time with them
Suffice
I’ll be enough
Decorum
Proper and polite behavior
Clean as a whistle
Slew
A slew of sth large amount of something
Dispel
Emasculate
Rain on someone’s parade
Spoil someone’s pleasure
Floating temp
Not permanent
Tattle
Report another wrongdoing
Bashing
Violent physical assault
Doping
Unlawful use of drugs
Literary
Poetic
Make a dent
Plausible
Seem reasonable, believable
Reputation intact
Take the defeat in stride
Deal with a difficult situation in a calm way
Sullen
Bad tempted / gloomy person
Pout
Show displeasure by thrusting out your lips or wearing a sullen expression.
To delude is to trick or fool, often in relation to yourself
Delute
Fiduciary
Quorum
Minimum number of people required to make a proceeding of a given meeting valid
Ambushed
Surprise attack
Unequivocally
In a way that leaves no doubt
I’m not the one robbing the cradle here . Rob the cradle
Have a romantic/ sexual relationship relationship with someone much younger than oneself.
Rib the bandaid off
Do something quickly that is painful or unpleasant, typically intense do that it is short lived.
Sit this one out
Not going to participate in an activity,
Jump the gun
Start something too soon, act too hastily.
I know I jumped the gun, one wrong question and I’m out.
Baller
A wealthy and successful person who lives lavishly.
Waltz
Walk quickly and confidently often in a way that annoys other people.
The nerve , you have the nerve. You have the audacity, you get the gall.
Devastated
Cause severe and overwhelming shock and grief.
Aphrodisiac
Food, drink that simulates sexual desires
Accoutrement
An accessory, item for clothing or equipment.
All aboard
Telling passenger to get on a ship that is about to depart.
Slippers
Vagina - slang.
Flip flop - sandals
Dignity
State of being worthy of respect
run circles around. as in excel. to be greater, better, or stronger than When it came to cooking, he ran circles around the rest of his family.
Is the gift that keeps on giving.
Rescind it. - take it back.
Punitive
Inflicting punishment
Cryptic
having a secret or hidden meaning
Prowess
Superior skill
Stellar
Wonderful / outstanding.
She was a stellar candidate.
Blockbuster
A very successful project/ film that make a lot of money
Preeminent
Truly outstanding or better than everyone else.
Preemptively
before other people can act, especially to prevent them from doing something else
Banter
Repartee
Tech head
Someone very interested in technology
Oblivious
If you say you have it on good authority that something is true, you mean that you believe it is true because you trust the person who told you about it.
Heads up/ didn’t come here to blame you. I came here to give you a heads up.
Chew up and spit out
Defeat badly.
Chew on sth
Spit out
Think about something.
You wanna spit out what you are chewing on.
Imbecile
Stupid person
I’m offended you are questioning my motives
Nuisance
law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive
Cut someone some slack
to make things slightly easier for someone than you normally would, because of their special circumstances or situation
Kicking the dog
Oppressive, aggressive often displaced behavior toward others.
Exacerbate
Worsen
Magnanimous
generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or less powerful person.
Savant
Intellectual person particularly distinguished in the field of sciences and art
Sniveling
Whiner in a tearful manner.
radically distinctive and without equal
Unparalleled
Meadow
Piece of grassland
Despise
Look down on / dislike/ disdain
Beaten to a pulp
Very badly beaten.
Indictment
a formal charge or accusation of a serious crime.
Whence
from what place or source.
Jump ship
To leave an
Eviscerate
Stunt
an exciting action, usually in a movie, that is dangerous or appears dangerous and usually needs to be done by someone skilled:.
Orchestrate
Badgering , pathetic,
Fortitude
Strength of mind
Liege
My king/ lord
Uncharted territory
Unfamiliar area or situation, especially one that doesn’t seem to have maps or guidelines.
Caddie
Helper in a good match
Client caved
Be scared shitless
Be extremely frightened
Accosted
To accost is to approach someone aggressively or confront them in an inappropriate way.
Salutatorian
Ranks second in a graduating class
Amicable, amiable , friendly, cordial
Smug
Excessive pride in one’s achievements/ self satisfied
Buffoon
Idiot
Frame
Call a truce
Agreement to end a disagreement/ fight
to squelch or humiliate (a person) suddenly and thoroughly. The speaker cut the heckler off at the knees.
Cut someone off at the knees
Snooker
Trick, entice or trap.
Intimate
Verb - suggest / employ the possibility of sth/ insinuate
Incest / incestuous
Invent a false accusation or excuse.
Trumped up
Virtuoso
A person with skill knowledge / interest in working of arts
Must stick in your craw
Be hard / difficult/ impossible to accept
Feed the frenzy
a situation in which a lot of people become very excited about something, often in a destructive or negative way.
Deprivity
Moral corruption
Amicable
Dissuade
Spill my guts
Confess . Divulge secrets . Divulge make known.
Valiant
Possessing or showing courage and determination.
Riddles
Puzzled question that is posed as a problem to be solved. Enigma
Pragmatic
dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.
Curve out
Remove from a larger whole
Residual
remaining after the greater part or quantity has gone.
Skulk
Skulking is cowardly. It means hiding out, either because you’re trying to pull something off in secret, or because you’re trying to get out of doing something …
Dock my pay
to dock (one’s pay): to remove part of, to reduce (one’s salary)
A foot in both camps
Support or have good relations with two opposing sides
Precluded
Prevent from happen
Bottom feeding
Someone who uses other people’s troubles/ predicaments as an opportunity to make money.
Tread lightly
Careful and cautious
I beg to differ
Capitulating
The act of surrendering or giving up.
Maneuver backfired
Ran you out of dodge
leaving a place with an uncomfortable or dire circumstance
Rebuffed
Rejected
Revulsion
Intense, violent, sometimes physical dislike about something.
Revulsion
Repulsion, repugnance,
Indignation
Anger, annoyance, provoked by what is perceived as unfair treatment.
None of contention
a subject or issue over which there is continuing disagreement.
Rake in
Make a lot if money
Nice to put a face on all of this and a lovely face it turns out.
Nice to finally see you for the first time,
Detonate
Explode
Dispatch
Send to destination.
Can’t be a casualty of your misplaced anger.
Reap what you sow
you eventually have to face up to the consequences of your actions.
Doubts
Qualm
Crimson/ color: red/ has another meaning when you refer someone as crimson.
When you say someone is crimson, or your face has turned crimson, it means, that, you are very angry or embarrassed.
We have to fight the wrong the woman is crimson.
I put my tie over the line, you obliterated it.
Obliterated. Destroy completely/ wipe out.
Jumped the gun
Act before the proper time.
Adversary
Opponent
Charisma
Attractive energy that helps to influence other people and attain their attention
Loathe
Feel intense dislike.
Snooty
Arrogant, snobby, conceited
Fathom
Understand
Impugn
Dispute the truth, honesty, validity or honesty.
Life affirming
Makes you feel positive about life.
a very steep rock face or cliff, especially a tall one.
Precipice
Knock up
Informal
Make pregnant.
Embrace
Accept
Without reservation
Completely, without limitation
Work out the kinks
Helps me work out the kinks since I got stabbed in the back.
Resolve problems associate with it.
You made your bed, and now you gonna sleep in it alone.
They have chosen actions and now they must embrace the consequences/ repercussions without reservation.
They have taken some actions and now, they must accept the results that come dith it.
Fending off attack.
Terrible - very bad.
Spectacular
Beautiful in a dramatic and eye catching way.
Outpost
A camp / station that is somewhat isolated
Lean over
Stoop, bend over.
Underlings
A person with lower status / rank.
Inextricably
in a way that is impossible to disentangle or separate.
Those two things are inextricably linked.
Hearsay
Rumor/ unsubstantiated claim/ accusation.
Go over someone’s head.
Discuss sth with a higher ranked person than someone, bypass a person
Choking those funding
To have an opponent in their shot hairs
You’ve gotten them in the right spot and now they are at your mercy.
Malicious
Malice, causes / intend to cause harm.
Baited someone
Reprieve
postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution
Inadmissible
Not accepted / valid
In the ballpark
Approximately correct/ close.
My answer was not even in the ballpark of being correct.
Cut it.
Does not come close to the expectations.
Sub in
Take someone else’s place.
Lurk around
Hide out,
Sandbag
Coerce / intimidate someone with threats.
Intimidate
Terrify, frighten.
Stakes
Making someone stomach turn
Makes someone feel ill, uncomfortable because it’s offensive/ disgusting.
Cagey
Characterized with great caution.
Stipulates
Demand that a condition , requirement be part of the contract.
I’m here to bury the hatched / resolve a past conflict.
What prompted that ?
Petrified
Frighten that one is unable to move.
Knock him down a peg
Make someone feel less important / proud.
He was given undoable workload/ unwinnable case.
Fortress
Large building / complex building used as a military stronghold.
Bamboozled
Conceal one’s true motive.
Banishment
Send away
Senior soldiers who supervises the barracks - quartermaster
Perquisite
Perks enjoyed for being in a given position
Vendetta
Blood feud, quest for revenge.
Mint
To mint can mean to produce / create
Billigerent
Eager to fight.
Be after ones scalp.
Seek vengeance
Shrewd
If you are shrewd in your spending, you can make a small salary go a long way. Use the adjective shrewd to describe a person or thing that is smart or clever in a practical sort of way.
Writing implements
Nourishments of choice
Animate
Living
Distract
Sneak
Giant Leap
Breakthrough / advancement of some kind.
Dictaphone
Erase/ favor meaning
Sanitary
Recuse
Excuse oneself from a case because of potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.
Extortion vs blackmail.
411
Knock your self out
Give permission/ encouragement
Knock one’s socks off
Impress/ amaze someone
A chink in the armor
An area of vulnerability.
Brazen
Bold and without shame.
Withholding
Keep it to yourself/ refuse to give
Sanction
Formal/ legal permission
Or impose a sanction / penalty/ punish
Stash
Save for future use.
Don’t harp on that
Keep talking about something in a boring and annoying way.
A ran at him
Ran toward in an attempt to attack or knock out someone.
Stumped check meaning
Perplexed/ confused
Too hard to do.
Connoisseur
Expert judge of [ in matter of taste].
Dangling
Hanging or swinging loosely.
Dangling the carrot
Give an incentive or reward to someone in order to motivate them to do something.
Abeyance
State of temporary inactivity
Suspension
give a wide berth
Steer the ship clear
Hefty gratuity
Heavy tip
Horn in
Join in something
Took to the shed
To reprimand or discipline someone especially in private.
Reprimanded
If you’re reprimanded, someone in authority speaks to you in an angry way because you’ve done something wrong.
Affliated
Officially attach or connect to an organization
In the trenches
A place / situation in which people do very difficult work.
Harass or pressure to do something
Hassle
Wind beneath our wings
Help others keep going
Loll sit, stand lie in a lazy relaxed way
Perky
Cheerful and lively
Clog up
Instructed
Flare up
Suddenly outburst or intensification
Confidant
A person with whom one shares a secret or private matter.
Stave off
Defend against , fight off.
Fizzles out
Pool the wool over someone’s eye
They are trying to deceive you in order to have an advantage over you.
Gridlock
Traffic jam affecting the whole network of intersections
Treacherous
Abstain
Refrain from sth
Abstain
Decline to vote in support of a law
Partial
Favoring one side is the dispute. Biased
Latrine
Toilet
Lye
Poppycock
Empty talk, writing / nonsense.
Jammed up
Too busy to do anything else.
Duplicitous
Deceitful
Amputate
Divest
Get rid of it.
True
Agreement to stop fighting
Touch up
Make small improvements to the appearance or finish of something
Bunt
Go kick the ball in a slowly deliberate way without swinging - baseball.
Banter
Speak in a witty and teasing manner.
Double entendre
Word or remark that has a hidden naughty meaning.
Left holding the bag
Be in a situation where you are responsible for sth, often in unfair way because other people gave fail or refuse take responsibility for it.
Often in unfair
Black swan
Unpredictable event that is beyond what is normally expected of a situation and has the potential severe consequences.
Put a crimp
: to prevent (something) from happening or proceeding in the usual or desired way :
Ritual
Pat in the back
Approval
Batting cages
Baseball practice area
Consignment
Good are left with the third party to sell.
Bolting
Can mean a lot of things depending on the context.
Move very quickly
Stroke of lightning
Etc.
Penance
Voluntary self punishment.
Viper
Venomous snake
Recoup
Regain
Read between the lines
Ascot
An ascot is a wide necktie that resembles a small scarf
We got bigger fish to fly.
Rejuvenated
Give new energy, restore new energy.
Shitting the bed.
Impediments
Hindrances
Valiantly
possessing or acting with bravery or boldness : courageous
Aloof
When someone is aloof they are not warm or friendly, they are distant and reserved.
Aloof
Standoffish.
Listless
Lack of energy, interest or spirit.
Deplorable
Very poor quality and condition.
Proverbial
Widely known or spoken off
Sadism
Taking pleasure hurting other people
That. Man isn’t what he portrays himself to be.
You need to pick yourself up and dust yourself off
Tell him I’ll exclude the payment and owner our deal.
Foster
Bring up . Usually not your own child
Hat in hand
Humbly asking for a favor
Hat in hand?? No like a wolf in sheep’s clothing
Upper hand
Have advantage
Mercy from a position of strong, vulnerable, it’s from a position of weakness.
Right the ship
Correct a problem
Amicably
Friendly and pleasant way to
Sanction
Impose a penalty
In the cross hairs
In a challenging situation
Muddles
Bring into a disorderly confused state
It muddles my mind I need to focus
Backfire
Reverse of the desired or expected result
Orchestrated
Feisty
Lively determined courageous
Touchy and aggressive
Beat the odds
Torrid
Characterized by intense emotion
Roofie
Drug that is put in a drink to make your unconscious.
You are regular mother Teressa.
Conjecture
Opinions based on incomplete information.
That are utter conjecture
Spurn
Refuse to have something / someone because you feel it’s not worthy having.
Come down the pike
Come to notice, appear on the scene
Relied on.
Labored over every word for that
Work very difficult to achieve something.
Time of words are over time for deeds is now.
Knock the song of a bitch out the park
Farce
Something that is supposed to be serious but has turned ridiculous.
Have someone on the run
To be in a stronger position than your opponent.
Boil down - literal boil sth until very little left.
Boil down- be the essential element.
It boil down to hard work and self discipline.
Conundrum
Confusing and difficult problem or question.
Pristine
Clean and fresh as if new.
He is been peeing directly into a pristine pool of eliteness.
Elite
Superior in terms of of quality
I actually wanted to believe that sob story about being reformed. You don’t actually bully the little guy anymore you just try to capitalize on him.
Pull the plug
Prevent something from happening or continuing
Stent
A tiny tube that your doctor can insert into passageway to keep it open.
Contributory negligence
Gallant
Adj. brave & heroic
Noun
A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.
Salvage
To save it before it’s too late.
Turnover
The rate at which employees leave a workforce and are replaced
Can also mean
Income/ revenue
Helicopter tailspin
Bring out of control when used as a verb.
Sell sb out
Betrayal
Front can mean
For instance I fronted your buy in
Give the money needed to do something.
Intestate
Adj.
not having made a will before one dies.
Noun.
Person who dies before having a will.
Punt on something
Decide not to include it / do it.
Shake off
Pompous
Arrogant and conceited
Conceit
Always boasting and can’t stop talking about yourself.
Probate
The act of proving the legal validity of a will.
Oblivion. - noun
the state of being unaware or unconscious of what is happening.
Conciliatory
Making or willing to make concessions.
Pounce
Attack suddenly by leaping onto your prey.
Flash in pan
Happens one for a short time
Yanked
Pull or move suddenly and sharply
Siren wailing
Acupuncture
Flunking
Fail to reach the required standard
Full bore
To the greatest extent or degree.
Fine tooth comb
an attitude or system of thorough searching or scrutinizing.
Exonerated
To declare him not guilty of criminal charges
Carbo load
Interrogation lamp pretty damn fast.
Call in chit
Cash in a favor
Renege
Go back on a promise
Get juices flowing
Inspire creativity and thought.
Presumptuous
It means taking for granted your access to someone or power to do something
Bites the dust
Fail or come to an end
Chump
Foolish / stupid
What the hell is wrong with you, you gave me a map to escape and told the guard where I’ll be
Hang out your shingle
Begin one’s profession
Beckon
Physical gesture to to call someone.
Beck - beckoning gesture.
You must be scraping the bottom of the barrel if you are coming to me.
Use something of the lowest quality because that’s all it’s that’s left.
Residual anger
Anger covers the hurt
Stick your head in the sand
Refuse to accept truth about something unpleasant
Come to be bearing the gifts
Shove
To push along or away in a tough and careless way.
Convoluted
Extremely difficult and complex to follow.
Dangling
hanging or swinging loosely.
Bangs - hairs that falls down the scalp -
Freak out
Cause someone become extremely emotional.
Lose their cool.
Out of the blue
Completely unexpected
When are you gonna stop holding that over my head.
Use it as leverage.
Impulsive decision
Acting or done without forethought.
Smack
Strike
Sharp slap or blow typically given by a palm of a hand.
Make a deal with someone and held my end of the bargain.
I did what I promised to do in that deal, you hold your end of the bargain.
Haul
Pull or drag with effort or force.
Throw under the bus
Allow someone to suffer to save yourself or gain personal advantage.
This is informal.
Overwhelming
Very intense and hard to deal with.
So strong as to be irresistible.
Overwhelming majority.
Vey intense.
Rehash
When you rehash something you use it again without altering or changing much.
Go back over.
Present or use over with few or no changes.
I don’t want to rehash it. Right now he is in jail and we need to get him out.
Left out of the loop
Not being part of the group that makes important decisions or know what these decisions are.
Not bat an eye
Show concern or surprise.
Contaminate / pollute
Make it impure or poisonous/ hazardous.
Hazardous - involve danger/ risk.
Perseverance
Continued effort to do something despite difficult, failure or opposition.
Devote
Give all or a large part part of time / resources.
Dedicate.
Dedication and perseverance is required for success.
Frizzy
Curl tightly
Combative
Poison bill
It’s a strategy it tactics of a company faced with unwanted/ unwelcome takeover aim at making themselves unattractive to the bidder.
Flinch
Pull away suddenly because or recoil when something frightens or hurts you.
Virtue
Behavior showing high moral standards.
I have thought tooth and nail to keep together.
Those are both things that are not going to happen.
Slump
Fall heavily.
You saying you didn’t mean to buy that stock.
Then it skyrocketed and didn’t think to tell anyone that …
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The story was too ridiculous it just might be true.
He got you by the ropes.
When someone is on the ropes, you mean they are nearly giving up or being defeated.
He got you by the ropes.
You don’t seem to have the courage to rip off the arm to save the body.
Sacrifice one thing to save another.
Why don’t you pack up your shit and crawl out of here with a tail between your legs.
A tail between your legs.
Be ashamed or embarrassed because you lost or defeated.
Downgrade
Lesser in quality
Sometimes bitter memory become bitter sweet when you share it with a friend.
The guy we are up against. He is proving to be much tougher than everyone expected.
Batten down the hatches
Prepare for a difficult situation
Knick your block off
Threatening to hit them very hard especially in the head.
Ambient
Exacting
Making great demands in one’s skill, attention or resources.
Living up in such exacting standards.
From the horses mouth
From the person directly concerned or authoritative source.
Sidestep
Avoid by stepping on the side.
Justification
Juggling
Doing a couple of things at the same time.
Bite my head off
To yell at someone or to be very critical
Villain
Feign
Pretend to be affected by
Feign ignorance
Feign outrage
Sometimes to deal with disappointment in arena is to accomplish something else
Hoarse
Sounding rough or harsh.
Soften the blow
Make it easier to deal with a difficult situation
It’s a nice surprise
I’m i shuttering your illusions about the guy
Shatter - broke into pieces.
Shatter someone illusions.
Make someone belief their beliefs are wrong
You helped overcome my stage flight can put price on that.
Will never see the light of day
Will never occur
Impromptu
Done with being planned, organized or rehearsed.
You impromptu is exactly what the doctor ordered.
Patch it up
To deal with
Pull strings
Use one’s influence or contact to gain advantage
Give someone something in a silver platter
Make it easy for something to get something without having earned it.
Everyone is bearing gifts
Obsequious
Attempting to win a favor from an influential person through flattery.
Insurmountable
Too great to overcome.
Whenever I deem appropriate
When I see fit.
Throw in the towel
Give up
Infidelity
Unfaithful
Euphoria
Well being and happiness
Vicinity
Area surrounding a particular place.
Crux
The most important point at issue.
Gloat
Expressing great satisfaction at the misfortune of others
It’s not worth gloating over.
Fell off the turnip truck
Someone who is easily fooled and naive.
Take the plunge
A decision to do something after thinking about it for a long time.
They are finally taking the plunge and getting married.
Laborious
Arduous.
Request a a lot of energy/ effort and time.
Perpetuated
Keep alive, keep going
Inherent
Describe things that are part of the essential natural of something.
Sap
Make something weaker, or weaken the strength.
Astonishing
Surprise or impress greatly
Dignify
Make something seem dignified or worthy/ impressive.
Take someone breath away
Very exciting, surprising or beautiful.
Imposing
Impressive in the sense that they are large and serious.
Commiserate
Sympathize
Indiscernible
Impossible to see or clearly distinguish.
Uncanny
Strange, mysterious or unfamiliar that it’s seems supernatural.
Detour
Gather / muster
Contemplate
Ponder
Muster
Gather
I had it coming
Pomp and circumstance
Formal and impressive ceremony
Unveiling
Release to the public/
Onslaught
Fierce and destructive attack.
Ringing the bell
Make someone remember something
Judiciousness
Good judgement.
Pummeled
Strike repeatedly with a fist.
Can be used, figuratively.
Capsule
Small container.
Olive branch
Offer of conciliation and goodwill.
Insidious
Proceeding gradual , subtle way, but with harmful effects.
At first they frowned at the idea but after a few minutes it was hard to get the to leave.
Patently
Clearly, without a doubt.
Sandbagging
Lowering the expectation in order to produce relatively greater than anticipated results.
Screw the pooch
Make a big humiliating mistake.
I need your story to line up
Pit against
To cause to fight or compete against each other.
Gumption
Determined and full of courage; and common sense too.
Sentiment
View / opinion
Chauffeur
Drive someone in the car.
Pretext
Something used to conceal a plan.
and she says she was just tidying up, cleaning was her pretext for snooping.
Stalking horse
Pretext / used to conceal one’s true intentions.
Embellish
Make a story more attractive by adding details that are not true.
Adjoin
Join with or next to.
Patio
Sweat it out
Doing hard physical exercises
Stunted
Having been prevented from growing or developing properly.
Geniality
The quality of having a friendly and cheerful manner.
Exonerated
Acquit
Graffiti
Taking something in stride
To handle a difficult situation or a problem with calm and not to allow it influence what you are doing.
Rip of the band aid
Do something unpleasant that is pain or intense quickly, while the pain is typically more intense is short lived.
Leave any stone unturned
Try all possible course of action to solve a problem
Do someone in
Kill someone
Pucker up
Contracts one lips in preparation to kiss someone.
Stodgy
Excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull.
Lewd
Sexually inappropriate
Unsavory
Morally offensive
Forfeit
Lose or give up something.
Under the gun
Under great pressure.
Pay homage
Honor/ respect publicly.
Concocted
Devised/ created.
Interrogatory
Formal question or inquiry.
Requisition
An official form on which the request is made.
Morally reprehensible.
Vile, despicable.
Deserving blame or strong criticism.
Defile
Sully
Conniving
Calculating, scheme and shrewd and in other words sneaky and up to no good.
Bluster
Talk in a loud, aggressive way with little effect.
Tipped out me know.
Was wondering when you gonna pay me a visit
Reproach
Beyond reproach -
Perfect/ such that no criticism can be made.
We don’t see eye for eye on your priorities
Meteoric
Fast
Grin
Broad smile
Adorn
Make more beautiful and attractive
Matador
Bullfighter who kills the bull at the end of the fight
Bent out of shape
Angry or agitated.
Strongman
Use violence or force
Matriculated
Enrolled in college or university.
Coerced this professor into signing this deal.
So our exhibits are fabricated but yours are squeak clean.
Squeak clean - completely good and honest.
Because you are mother Teresa.
I’m not mother Teressa, but I certainly don’t resort to coercion to get my evidence.
The chances of you winning this case just took a mighty big turn for the worse.
Our reputation is taking a beating and we need to rehabilitate it and you know it.
Unscathed
Completely unharmed
Spurious
Plausible but fake.
Intended to deceive
Derelict
Abandon
Delirious
Excited uncontrollably and a bit crazy
Encore
Extra repeated performance usually given in response to audience demand.
Uncertain belief
Supposition
Chum up
Be friends
Intermission
Break or a pause
Bite my head off
Yell at someone or criticize them especially very suddenly and without good reason
Pry them from my cold dead hands
Teetering
Waver or sway a bit from lack of balance.
Carrying his water
Do his bidding - assignments
Spite
The desire to hurt, offend or annoy someone.
Sometime you have to bench your quarterback to show him who is running the team, whether you take a loss or not.
Stick the head in the sand
To avoid a particular situation as if it does not exist.
Ostensible
Appears true but not necessarily so.
Frivolous
Not having any serious purpose or value.
Burning a hole in your pocket
Spend large sums of money for unnecessary reason.
Full disclosure
It’s your ass on the line
It’s your reputation, livelihood and well being at stake.
If you don’t disrespect yourself you go looking for signs of disrespect in others.
Grit
Fortitude and determination.
Fortitude - strength when faced with difficult or adversity.
Strength in.
Nostalgia
Long for good old days.
