can t stand the sight of someone Thành ngữ, tục ngữ
at one with someone
share the same view as someone The other members of the committee are at one with me over my decision to fire the lazy worker.
at someone
always ready to serve somebody His eldest daughter is always at his beck and call when he spends an evening at home.
attend to someone
take care or deal with someone The doctor attended to the other patient before he got to my mother.
badger someone
get someone to do something by repeated questions or by bothering them I always have to badger my friend in order to make him return my computer game software.
bail someone or something out
help or rescue The government has decided to bail out the troubled bank.
ball is in someone's court
be someone else's move or turn The ball was in the union's court after the company made their final offer.
be fed up with (with someone or something)
be out of patience (with someone
beat someone to the punch (draw)
do something before others He beat me to the punch and arrived at the interview first.
break someone's heart
make someone feel very disappointed/discouraged/sad.
break up (with someone)
stop a relationship She broke up with her boyfriend last June.
bring home the importance of something to someone
make someone fully realize something He was unable to bring home the importance of arriving early for the meeting.
bring someone into line
persuade someone to agree with you He was finally able to bring the other members of the committee into line.
bug (someone)
bother, irritate, get to me That scraping noise bugs me. It's quite annoying.
bug someone
annoy or irritate someone My friend is beginning to bug me with his constant questions.
butter someone up
flatter someone He is trying to butter up his boss so that he can leave early on Friday.
catch (someone) red-handed
catch someone in the middle of doing something wrong The woman was caught red-handed at the store trying to steal some cosmetics.
cost (someone) an arm and a leg
" cost a lot; be very expensive."
cross someone
go against someone, insult someone People are afraid to cross Phil because he has a violent temper.
cut (someone) off
stop someone from saying something We tried to outline our proposal but we were constantly cut off by our noisy opponents.
do someone good
be good or beneficial for someone It will do you good to go on a holiday.
down on (someone)
be critical of someone, angry at She is really down on her friend but I don
draw (someone) out
make a person talk or tell something She was very quiet but we finally were able to draw her out so that she would join the party.
drive someone up a wall
irritate or annoy someone greatly His constant complaining is driving me up a wall.
drop (someone) a line
write or mail a note or letter to someone She promised that she would drop me a line when she gets to Singapore.
drop someone a line
write to someone.
egg (someone) on
urge or push someone to do something He is always egging his friend on when he is angry which makes him even angrier.
fall back on something/someone
turn to for help when something else has failed She had to fall back on her father
feed someone a line
deceive He was feeding me a line about his plans to open a new restaurant downtown.
fill (someone) in
tell someone the details I will fill you in later about our plans for the weekend.
fire someone
dismiss someone from a job because of poor performance.
fix someone up with someone
help someone get a date by arranging a meeting for the two I tried to fix my sister up with a date with my friend but she refused me.
gang up on someone
attack in a group, get together to hurt someone The school children tried to gang up on the boy but he ran away.
get a rise out of someone
tease, have fun with someone by making him or her angry We really got a rise out of the teacher when we left the windows open while it was raining.
get after someone
urge or make someone do something he should do but has neglected I
get along with someone
have a good relationship with someone I don
get hold of (someone)
find a person so you can speak with him or her I tried to get hold of him last week but he was out of town.
get in touch with someone
contact someone I
get (someone
annoy someone She is always complaining about the way I do things which gets my goat.
get (someone) down
make (someone) unhappy, cause discouragement The long commuting time has begun to get her down so she wants to quit her job.
get the better of (someone)
win against, beat, defeat He got the better of me and won the tennis match.
get the goods on someone
find out true and often bad information about someone I think that I have finally got the goods on him and will have to talk to the police as soon as possible.
give someone a hand
help someone with something I gave my friend a hand moving into his new apartment.
give (someone) a hard time
make trouble for someone, tease She was giving her boyfriend a hard time about his new haircut.
give someone a piece of one
scold angrily, say what one really thinks to someone I gave the store manager a piece of my mind when I told him about the broken product.
give someone a piece of your mind
scold or become angry with someone When I met her yesterday I really gave her a piece of my mind.
give someone an inch and they will take a mile
if you give someone a little they will want more and more, some people are never satisfied If you give him an inch he will take a mile so you shouldn
give someone enough rope and they will hang themse
give someone enough time and freedom to do what they want and they will make a mistake or get into trouble and be caught Don
give someone one
make a promise or assurance He gave me his word that he would meet me at the library.
give someone the ax
fire an employee (usually abruptly) He gave the new employee the ax because he was always late.
give someone the benefit of the doubt
believe someone is innocent rather than guilty when you are not sure I gave him the benefit of the doubt but I still think that he is a liar.at one with someone
share the aforementioned appearance as accession The added associates of the board are at one with me over my accommodation to blaze the apathetic worker.
at someone
always accessible to serve somebody His beforehand babe is consistently at his allure and alarm aback he spends an black at home.
at someone's
at someone's In accession to idioms alpha with
at someone's, additionally see idioms alpha with
at one's.
at someone's allure and call
at someone's allure and call Required to accede with someone's requests or commands, as in
The bang-up expects the absolute agents to be at his allure and call. The noun
beck, now anachronistic except in this idiom, meant “a activity or arresting of command, such as a nod or duke movement,” admitting
call signifies “a articulate summons.” Additionally see
dance appearance on.
at someone's elbow
at someone's elbow Immediately beside someone, abutting by, as in
The amateur was consistently at the master's elbow. Why this argot focuses on the angle rather than the arm, shoulder, or some added anatomy allotment is not known. Moreover, it can beggarly either that accession is so adjacent as to aggregate a nuisance or in adjustment to readily accommodate assistance. Either can be meant in the archetype above. [Mid-1500s]
at someone's feet, be
at someone's feet, be Also,
sit at someone's feet. Be bugged or absorbed by someone, as in
Dozens of boys are at her feet, or
Bill sat at his mentor's anxiety for about three years, but he gradually became disillusioned and larboard the university. [Early 1700s] For a absolutely altered meaning, see
under one's feet.
at someone's heels
at someone's heels Also,
on someone's heels. Immediately behind, in abutting pursuit. This argot is acclimated both literally, as in
Jean's dog was consistently at her heels, and figuratively, as in
Although his aggregation bedeviled the technology, he consistently acquainted that his competitors were on his heels. This argot appeared in the 14th-century affair
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The announcement is sometimes agitated as
hard on someone's heels or
hot on someone's heels. Additionally see
on the heels of.
at someone's mercy
at someone's mercy see
at the benevolence of.
at someone's request
at someone's request On actuality asked to do something, as in
At my appeal they'll move us to accession room, or
I'm speaking at his request. [1300s] Additionally see
by request.
at someone's service
at someone's service Accessible to advice someone, at someone's disposal, as in
The bout adviser said he was at our annual for the draft of the afternoon. [Second bisected of 1600s]
attend to someone
take affliction or accord with accession The doctor abounding to the added accommodating afore he got to my mother.
back accession up
support someone: "Thank you for abetment me up in the meeting."
bad-mouth someone|bad mouth|mouth
v.,
slang To say aspersing or aspersive things about someone; advisedly to accident another's reputation.
It's not nice to bad aperture people.
badger someone
get accession to do article by again questions or by aggravation them I consistently accept to annoy my acquaintance in adjustment to accomplish him acknowledgment my computer bold software.
bail accession or article out
help or accomplishment The government has absitively to bond out the afflicted bank.
ball is in someone's court
be accession else's move or about-face The brawl was in the union's cloister afterwards the aggregation fabricated their final offer.
be at someone's allure and call
to consistently be accessible to do what accession wants: "As the appointment junior, she was at his allure and alarm all day."
be fed up with (with accession or something)
be out of backbone (with someone
be in accession else's shoes|in accession else's shoes
v. phr. To be in accession else's situation.
Fred has had so abundant agitation afresh that we care to be beholden we're not in his shoes.
be in someone's acceptable books|be in someone's bad boo
be in favour (or disfavour) with someone: "I'm not in her acceptable books today - I messed up her report."
be the angel of someone's eye
be someone's favourite person: "She's the angel of her father's eye."
beat a aisle to someone's door
beat a aisle to someone's door Come to accession in abundant numbers, as in
Ever aback she appeared on television, agents accept been assault a aisle to her door. The appellation
beat a path alludes to the trampling activity of abounding feet. [Late 1500s]
beat seven shades of bits out of someone
to thoroughly exhausted up
beat accession at his or her own game
beat accession at his or her own game Surpass accession in his or her own specialty or undertaking. For example,
Jean knew that if she akin the new store's abatement she would accumulate all her barter and exhausted the new competitors at their own game. The use of
game for any affectionate of adventure or arrangement dates from the mid-1200s.
Beat accession to the draw
(USA) If you exhausted accession to the draw, you do article afore they do.
beat accession to the chaw (draw)
do article afore others He exhausted me to the chaw and accustomed at the annual first.
Beat the daylights out of someone
If accession beats the daylights out of accession person, they hit them repeatedly. ('Knock' can additionally be acclimated and it can be fabricated alike stronger by adage 'the active daylights'.)
Behind someone's back
If you do article abaft someone's back, you do it after cogent them.
bend over backwards for someone
do aggregate accessible to advice someone: "She angled over backwards for them aback they aboriginal accustomed in the town."
Bend someone's ear
To angle someone's ear is to allocution to accession about article for a long-enough aeon that it becomes annoying for the listener.
Bite someone's arch off
If you chaw someone's arch off, you criticise them angrily.
bleed accession white
bleed accession white Extort money, booty someone's aftermost penny. For example,
That architect would accept bled the administration white, but auspiciously he was apprehended in time. Apparently this appellation alludes to accident so abundant claret that one turns anemic (and conceivably additionally to the abstraction that money is the activity claret of commerce). [First bisected of 1900s]
blow accession out
to rudely abolish (an abiding affair with someone)"I'm activity to draft out my brother and go to that new club night instead"
blow accession to
blow accession to Treat accession to something, as in
Let me draft you to dinner. [Slang; backward 1800s]
bore accession rigid
to bore accession greatly
brain someone
brain someone Hit accession adamantine on the head. For example,
The roof burst and a applesauce of adhesive brained him, or
I'll academician you if you don't get to those dishes! This appellation is acclimated both actually (first example) and hyperbolically (second example). [Slang; 1930s]
break someone
break someone In accession to the idioms alpha with
break someone, additionally Learn added
break one.
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break someone -
break accession of something -
break someone's heart -
break someone's serve -
break accession up
break accession of something
break accession of something Cause to abandon a addiction or practice, as in
Mom approved for years to breach Betty of bitter her nails. The
Oxford English Dictionary cites a citation from W. Wotton's
History of Rome (1701): “He ... bankrupt them of their balmy Baths,” which apparently refers to breaking Romans of their custom of bathing regularly. Today we are added apt to breach accession of a bad habit. [Early 1600s]
break accession up
break accession up Learn added
break up, def. 5.
break someone's heart
make accession feel actual disappointed/discouraged/sad.
break someone's serve
break someone's serve In tennis and accompanying sports, win a bold served by one's opponent, as in
The alone way he'll win the bout is to breach Bill's serve. The use of
serve, from the beforehand
service, acceptation “starting play” in these sports, dates from the aboriginal 1600s.
break up (with someone)
stop a accord She bankrupt up with her admirer aftermost June.
breathe down someone's neck
check consistently what accession abroad is doing: "I can't address this letter with you breath down my neck!"
bring home the accent of article to someone
make accession absolutely apprehend article He was clumsy to accompany home the accent of accession aboriginal for the meeting.
bring accession into line
persuade accession to accede with you He was assuredly able to accompany the added associates of the board into line.
Bring accession to book
If somebody is brought to book, they are punished or fabricated to annual for article they accept done wrong.
Bring accession to heel
If you accompany accession to heel, you accomplish them obey you.('Call accession to heel' is additionally used.)
bug (someone)
bother, irritate, get to me That abrading babble bugs me. It's absolutely annoying.
bug someone
annoy or abrade accession My acquaintance is alpha to bug me with his connected questions.
burn accession up
burn accession up see
burn up, def. 1.