PB Thành ngữ, tục ngữ

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APB

All Point's Bulletin - used by the police when looking for a criminal The police put out an APB on the men who had robbed the bank.

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Cupboard love

(UK) To show love to gain something from someone

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Get on your soapbox

If someone on their soapbox, they hold forth (talk a lot) about a subject they feel strongly about.

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On your soapbox

If someone is up on their soapbox about something, they are very overtly and verbally passionate about the topic.

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have a skeleton in the cupboard|have a skeleton in

have an unpleasant secret: "There are a lot of skeletons in their cupboard."

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cupboard is bare, the

cupboard is bare, the
The desired resources are not available, as in The schools are asking for a budget increase but the cupboard is bare. This metaphoric expression may have come from the nursery rhyme: “Old Mother Hubbard, went to the cupboard, to fetch her poor dog a bone, And when she went there, the cupboard was bare, and so the poor dog had none” (Sarah Catherine Martin, The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard, 1805).

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on one's soapbox

on one's soapbox
Expressing one's views passionately or self-importantly, as in Dexter can't resist getting on his soapbox about school expenditures. This expression comes from the literal use of a soapbox as an improvised platform for a speaker, usually outdoors. [Mid-1600s]

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soapbox

soapbox
on (one's) soapbox
Speaking one's views passionately or self-importantly.