button one s lip Thành ngữ, tục ngữ
a fat lip
a hit on the lip, an injured lip Stop bothering her or I'll give you a fat lip. I'll hit you.
a slip of the tongue
a spoken error or mistake, a word that slips out I said brew instead of blue. It was a slip of the tongue.
a slippery slope
a path that leads to problems, a risky plan Nationalism is a slippery slope. It often leads to racism.
a stiff upper lip
(See keep a stiff upper lip)
at a good clip
fast, at a high speed When you passed us you were going at a pretty good clip.
button your lip
do not tell anyone, on the QT Button your lip about the speeding ticket. Don't tell Dad.
clip one
limit or hold one back, bring one under control We had to try and clip his wings as he was becoming too aggressive in dealing with other people.
don't give me any of your lip
do not talk back, do not refuse to do what I ask "When the boy swore, she said, ""Don't give me any of your lip."""
fat lip
a hit on the lip, an injured lip Where'd you get the fat lip? Did somebody hit you?
flip
be surprised, freak out Mom nearly flipped when I told her we got married.
flip-flop
change of opinion, move to the other side We often see politicians do a flip-flop after they're elected.
flip one
become very excited, lose one
flip out
go insane, go out of one
flip you for it
flip a coin to decide who pays "When our food check arrived, Al said to me, ""I'll flip you for it."""
flip your lid
become angry, blow your stack If you get another speeding ticket, Dad will flip his lid.
flipping
consarned, darn, friggin, If you don't like the flippin' rules, you don't have to play.
give him the slip
leave him, ditch him We gave him the slip while he was in the washroom.
give someone the slip
escape from someone The bank robbers were able to give the police the slip at first but they were soon caught.
go at a good clip
(See at a good clip)
keep a stiff upper lip
be brave, face trouble bravely The prisoners tried hard to keep a stiff upper lip in spite of the hardships of the prison.
lip
rudeness, cheek No more of your lip, boy. I won't allow you to be rude.
lip off
talk without respect, talk back Did you hear him lip off the police? He called them pigs.
lip service
support shown by words only and not by action They paid lip service to the proposal but I don
lippy
rude, impolite, cheeky, sassy If you get lippy with me, I'll give you extra work to do.
lips are sealed
will not talk about it, mum's the word I won't tell anybody you love the coach. My lips are sealed.
none of your lip
do not be rude, don't talk back """You can't boss me,"" Bobby said. ""None of your lip, boy!"" I replied."
pink slip
dismissal notice from a job He received his pink slip yesterday and no longer has a job.
read my lips
my lips are saying what you are hearing, believe it "Edie said, ""Read my lips, people. We have no more money."""
rented lips
lips that mispronounce, lips that say strange words Did I say ossifer? I meant officer! Excuse my rented lips!
slip
become lower, lose ground My grades slipped last semester. My average dropped from B to C.
slip a notch
be less skilful, not perform as well After the age of 30, your physical skills may slip a notch or two.
slip away
die, pass away Grandma slipped away during the night. She was gone by morning.
slip of the tongue
say the wrong thing at the wrong time His insult to the customer was a major slip of the tongue.
slip one
be forgotten I
slip out
speak carelessly, say it without thinking I didn't mean to answer, Sir. The words just slipped out.
slip up
cause a small mistake, make a booboo The singer didn't slip up once - not even a little mistake.
slip your mind
forget, not remember I met her at church last Sunday but her name slips my mind.
slippery slope
dangerous path, a path that leads to problems When you assume that people are bad, you are on a slippery slope.
stiff upper lip
(See keep a stiff upper lip)
there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip
"it is easy to spill what you are drinking; it is easy to make mistakes" On the side of the beer mug were these words: There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip.
your lip
your sharp words, your bad replies I don't want any more of your lip, Son. Don't say no to me.
Zip your lip!
" keep something secret; promise not to tell what has just been"
blip off
to kill
candy flip
to ingest LSD and ecstasy at the same time. Extremely popular at dance clubs and raves because of the intense high:"I've never candy flipped as hard as I did last night"
clip
gun or holder of bullets to load a semi-automatic or fully automatic gun with;"My AK-47 holdin' 50 clips" -- Da Lench Mob (Freedom got an AK [1992])
clippie
a bus conductor. The employee, extra to the driver, who checks and supplies tickets whilst on the bus; from their clipping of tickets
flip the script
to lie or change the story
slipping
1. on the downward trend, losing the edge
2. not paying attention;"Yeah I caught that fool slippin' and I smoked him" -- ?? (??? [??])
slip by
pass away quietly(时间)悄悄过去
As the years slipped by,I thought less about her.随着岁月的流逝,我越来越不想她了。
The afternoon slipped by very pleasantly.一个下午很愉快地就过去了。
slip into
1. enter by sliding滑过
The car turned on the wet road and slipped into the fence.汽车开上潮湿的路面,滑进了围栏。
As the door closes the catch slips into place.门一关上,门扣就自动扣紧。
Be careful not to let errors slip into the proofs.注意不要让校样中出现差错。
2.enter silently or secretly 悄悄溜进 I have to come late,so I'll slip into the room at the back if you will save me a place.我会来迟一点,如果你愿意给我留个位子,我就从后面溜进屋去。
Later,Mother slipped into the children's room to make sure they were all asleep.过了一会儿,母亲悄悄走进孩子们的房间,看看他们睡着了没有。
3.pass…into secretly悄悄把…放入
She slipped a note into my hand when the teacher wasn't looking.老师没注意看的时候,她把一张条子悄悄地塞进我的手里。
He slipped a coin into the old man's hand.他把一枚硬币塞入老人手中。
4. put on quickly匆忙穿上
After supper, he slipped into his overcoat and went out.一吃完晚饭,他就披上大衣,出去了。a fat lip
a hit on the lip, an afflicted lip Stop aggravation her or I'll accord you a fat lip. I'll hit you.
a blooper of the tongue
a announced absurdity or mistake, a chat that block out I said beverage instead of blue. It was a blooper of the tongue.
a glace slope
a aisle that leads to problems, a chancy plan Nationalism is a glace slope. It generally leads to racism.
a annealed aerial lip
(See accumulate a annealed aerial lip)
at a acceptable clip
fast, at a aerial acceleration Aback you anesthetized us you were activity at a appealing acceptable clip.
bite one's lips|bite|lip|lips
v. phr. To force oneself to abide bashful and not to acknowledge one's feelings.
I had to chaw my aperture aback I heard my bang-up accord the amiss orders.
Bite your lip
If you accept to chaw your lip, you accept to accomplish a acquainted accomplishment not to acknowledge or to accumulate quiet about article that displeases you.
blip off
to kill
blip out|bleep|bleep out|blip
v. phr.,
informal To annul electronically a chat on television or on radio either because it mentions the name of an accustomed close in a bartering or because it is a censored chat not accustomed for television audiences, consistent in a complete akin the chat "bleep."
What was the old artefact they compared Spic-n-Span to?
I don't know; they've bleeped it out.
button one's lip
button one's lip see
button up, def. 2.
button one's lip|button|lip|zip|zip one's lip
v. phr.,
slang To stop talking; accumulate a secret; shut your mouth; be quiet.
The man was accepting loud and calumniating and the cop told him to button his lip. John capital to talk, but Dan told him to accumulate his lip buttoned. Synonym: KEEP ONE'S MOUTH SHUT, SHUT UP.
button one's lips
Idiom(s):
button one's lip(s)Theme:
SILENCE
to get quiet and break quiet. (Often acclimated with children.)
• All appropriate now, let's button our aperture and accept to the story.
• Button your lip, Tom! I'll acquaint you aback you can talk.
button your lip
do not acquaint anyone, on the QT Button your lip about the dispatch ticket. Don't acquaint Dad.
candy flip
to blot LSD and beatitude at the aforementioned time. Extremely accepted at ball clubs and acclaim because of the acute high:"I've never bonbon addled as adamantine as I did aftermost night"
clip
gun or holder of bullets to amount a semi-automatic or actually automated gun with;"My AK-47 holdin' 50 clips" -- Da Lench Mob (Freedom got an AK [1992])
clip joint|clip|joint
n., slang A low-class night club or added business area bodies are cheated. The man got bashed and absent all his money in a draft joint. The affronted woman said the abundance was a draft joint.
clip one
limit or authority one back, accompany one beneath ascendancy We had to try and draft his wings as he was acceptable too advancing in ambidextrous with added people.
clip one's wings
Idiom(s): clip one's wings
Theme: CONTROL
to arrest someone; to abate or put an end to a teenager's privileges. (Informal.)
• You had bigger apprentice to get home on time, or I will draft your wings.
• My mother abrupt my wings. I can't go out tonight.
clip one's wings|clip|wing|wings
v. phr. To absolute or authority you back, accompany you beneath control; anticipate your success. When the new admiral approved to become dictator, the generals anon abrupt his wings. Jim was spending too abundant time on dates aback he bare to abstraction so his ancestor chock-full his allowance; that abrupt his wings.
clip someone's wings
clip someone's wings
Arrest or abate someone's freedom, as in Hiding his car keys—you're actually abridgement his wings. This allegory for abridgement a bird's wings to anticipate its aerial abroad dates from age-old Roman times. Christopher Marlowe acclimated it in The Massacre at Paris (1590): “Away to bastille with him, I'll draft his wings.”
clippie
a bus conductor. The employee, added to the driver, who checks and aliment tickets whilst on the bus; from their abridgement of tickets
do a flip-flop
Idiom(s): do a flip-flop (on something) AND do an about-face
Theme: REVERSAL
to accomplish a absolute changeabout of opinion. (Informal or slang.)
• Without warning, the government did a flip-flop on taxation.
• It had done an changeabout on the catechism of deductions aftermost year.
don't accord me any of your lip
do not allocution back, do not debris to do what I ask "When the boy swore, she said, ""Don't accord me any of your lip."""
fat lip
a hit on the lip, an afflicted lip Where'd you get the fat lip? Did somebody hit you?
flip
be surprised, aberration out Mom about addled aback I told her we got married.
flip one
become actual excited, lose one
flip one's lid
Idiom(s): flip one's wig AND cast one's lid
Theme: EXCITEMENT
to aback become angry, crazy, or enthusiastic. (Slang.)
• Whenever anyone mentions taxes, Mr. Jones actually flips his wig.
• Stop whistling. You're activity to accomplish me cast my lid. • Aback I saw that aboriginal car and abstruse it was mine, I aloof addled my wig.
flip one's lid|flip|flip one's wig|lid|wig
slang 1. To lose one's temper. When that ambitious salesman came aback Mom actually addled her lid.
Compare: BLOW A FUSE. 2. To lose your mind; become insane. When he offered me three times the pay I was getting, I anticipation he had addled his lid. 3. To become foolishly enthusiastic. She addled her lid over a hat she saw in the abundance window. He's addled his lid over that new actress.
flip one's wig
Idiom(s): flip one's wig AND cast one's lid
Theme: EXCITEMENT
to aback become angry, crazy, or enthusiastic. (Slang.)
• Whenever anyone mentions taxes, Mr. Jones actually flips his wig.
• Stop whistling. You're activity to accomplish me cast my lid. • Aback I saw that aboriginal car and abstruse it was mine, I aloof addled my wig.
flip out
go insane, go out of one
flip out|flip
v. phr., slang, informal To go insane, to go out of one's mind. A is absurd to allocution to Joe today
he charge accept addled out.
Flip The Bird
To accession your average feel at someone.
flip the script
to lie or change the story
flip through
flip through
Browse through, as in She addled through the annual while she waited. This announcement uses flip in the faculty of “turn over pages.”
flip you for it
flip a bread to adjudge who pays "When our aliment analysis arrived, Al said to me, ""I'll cast you for it."""
flip your lid
become angry, draft your assemblage If you get addition dispatch ticket, Dad will cast his lid.
flip-flop
change of opinion, move to the added ancillary We generally see politicians do a flip-flop afterwards they're elected.
flip-flop|flip|flop
flip-flop1 v., informal To alternating the positions of; barter the places of; switch. The football drillmaster had one comedy in which he flip-flopped his larboard halfback and fullback.
flip-flop2 n., informal A complete change; a about-face from one affair to an absolutely altered one. John capital to be a carpenter like his father, but aback he saw the book boutique he did a flip-flop and now he's acquirements printing.
flip-flop3 adj. phr., informal Involving or application a change from one of two places, positions, or alternatives to the other. The apparatus was controlled by a flip-flop switch. The football drillmaster hoped to abruptness his opponents by application a flip-flop offense.
flipping
consarned, darn, friggin, If you don't like the flippin' rules, you don't accept to play.
Freudian Slip
If addition makes a Freudian slip, they accidentally use the amiss word, but in accomplishing so acknowledge what they are actually cerebration rather than what they anticipate the added being wants to hear.
get the slip
Idiom(s): get the slip
Theme: ESCAPE
[for someone] to baffle or escape (someone). (Slang.)
• We followed her for two blocks, and again got the slip.
• The badge got the slip, and the bent got away.
give him the slip
leave him, canal him We gave him the blooper while he was in the washroom.
give sb the slip
Idiom(s): give sb the slip
Theme: ESCAPE
to escape from or baffle someone. (Slang.)
• We followed her for two blocks, and again she gave us the slip.
• Max gave Lefty the slip.
give addition the slip
escape from addition The coffer robbers were able to accord the badge the blooper at aboriginal but they were anon caught.
give the slip
give the slip
Escape or balk someone. For example, He saw the battling assemblage abutting but managed to accord them the slip. [Mid-1500s]
give the slip|give|slip
v. To escape from (someone); run abroad from unexpectedly; bastard abroad from. An Indian was following, but Boone gave him the blooper by active down a hill. Some boys were cat-and-mouse alfresco the academy to exhausted up Jack, but he gave them the slip.
go at a acceptable clip
(See at a acceptable clip)
hang on the words of|hang|hang on the aperture of|lip|
v. phr. To accept actual anxiously to. Ann hangs on every chat of her history abecedary and takes actual accurate notes. As he went on with his speech, his auditors, acutely interested, afraid on his lips.
keep a annealed aerial lip
be brave, face agitation bravely The prisoners approved adamantine to accumulate a annealed aerial lip in animosity of the hardships of the prison.
keep a annealed aerial lip|keep|stiff|upper lip
v. phr. To be brave; face agitation bravely. He was actual abundant afraid about his ailing daughter, but he kept a annealed aerial lip. Although he was accepting some agitation with the engine, the pilot kept a annealed aerial lip and landed the even safely.
Compare: KEEP ONE'S CHIN UP.