ages Thành ngữ, tục ngữ

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for ages

for a very long time.

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freeze wages

keep wages the same, not increase wages, dig in their heels To control spending, the board is going to freeze our wages - no salary increases for one year.

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law of averages|averages|law

n. phr. The idea that you can't win all the time or lose all the time. The Celtics have won 10 games in a row but the law of averages will catch up with them soon.

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stagestruck

adj. Desirous of becoming an actor or actress; enamored of the acting profession. Milly is so stagestruck that she waits for actresses at the stage door after each performance to get their signatures.

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law of averages

law of averages
The idea that probability will influence all occurrences in the long term, that one will neither win nor lose all of the time. For example, If it rains every day this week, by the law of averages we're bound to get a sunny day soon. This colloquial term is a popular interpretation of a statistical principle, Bernoulli's theorem, formulated in the late 1600s.

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wages of sin, the

wages of sin, the
The results or consequences of evildoing, as in She ate all of the strawberries and ended up with a terrible stomachache—the wages of sin, no doubt. This expression comes from the New Testament, where Paul writes to the Romans (6:23): “The wages of sin is death.” Today it is often used more lightly, as in the example.