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catch (one) on the hop Thành ngữ, tục ngữ

a bull in a China shop

"a big, reckless person in a room full of fragile things; cramp your style" Imagine a 300-pound football player at a tea party, and you have a bull in a China shop.

bar hop

drink at many bars in one evening, pub crawl Our wives were out late last night. They were bar hopping.

bull in a China shop

(See a bull in a China shop)

chops

lips and teeth, mouth You need big chops to play the tuba, eh.

cross my heart and hope to die

promise sincerely I'll pay you back on Friday, cross my heart and hope to die.

get your hopes up

cause you to be hopeful, pin your hopes on Now don't get your hopes up, but I plan to appeal your conviction.

Great White Hope

(See The Great White Hope)

haven't got a hope

do not have a good chance of succeeding If you don't study for exams, you haven't got a hope.

haven't got a hope in hell

have no chance to win or succeed or survive etc. If the parachute doesn't open, I haven't got a hope in hell.

high hopes

expecting the best, hoping for success Todd has high hopes for his son, including a college education.

hop to it

get started, start a job, get going We must hop to it and try to get this job done before dinner.

hop up

increase the power, supercharge, tweak """What are you driving?"" ""A hopped-up Ford. It flies!"""

hope against hope

continue to hope when things look very bad The rescue team were hoping against hope that the lost hikers would be found alive.

hopes dashed

plans ruined, dreams lost Her hopes were dashed when she failed the entrance exam.

hopped up

high on a drug or on alcohol The man who tried to rob the store was hopped up on some kind of drug.

hopping mad

very angry, hot She was hopping mad when you laughed at her wig.

knee high to a grasshopper

small or short, the size of a child When we lived in Oslo, you were just knee high to a grasshopper.

pin your hopes on

hope for one big chance, hope without planning, all your eggs... If you pin your hopes on some horse winning a race, you will probably be disappointed.

set up shop

organize a place to do business, buy a store You could set up shop and sell this pizza. It's delicious!

shop around

go to various stores to look for something We shopped around for a month before we bought a new stereo system.

shop talk

(See inside joke)

shoplifting

stealing products from a store while you shop He's charged with shoplifting. He stole some cigarettes.

talk shop

talk about jobs, talk about what we do at work I don't like to talk shop when we have visitors. It's too boring.

The Great White Hope

caucasian boxer who could win the heavyweight title In the 1970s, George Chuvallo was The Great White Hope.

all over the shop

1. in a mess, out of order, disorganized
2. everywhere:"I've been all over the shop this morning"

as the actress said to the bishop

a jocular catch phrase that draws attention to an otherwise innocent statement, by imbuing sexual innuendo

awning over the toy shop

male beer belly

bash the bishop

to masturbate. Jocular male terminology. Derived from the similarity of the head of the penis with a bishop's mitre

chopper

1. a helicopter
2. the penis
3. a blow to the face
4. to drink

Chopper City

New Orleans

choppers

1. teeth
2. see AK

chubbychops

jocular and affectionate term of address for a podgy person

clodhopper

a large heavy shoe

cop shop

a police station

hip-hop

in Jamaican ska era, 60's, a DJ would spin and cut the wax and a MC would sing or shout or dub poetry over it. That's the roots of hiphop which were brought to New York City by Kool DJ Herc, but hip-hop or rap was created in New York City

hop on the side

to get on the passenger side of a car

hops

vertical jump, usually related to basketball

whopperjawed

out of place, crooked: "That looks whopperjawed"

hope for

expect and desire 希望
The men have been hoping for a rise.工人们一直希望增加工资。
In this we hope for your help．在这件事上，我们希望得到你的帮助。
Let's hope for the best and prepare for the worst．让我们作最好的打算，作最坏的准备。

pin one's hope on

expect寄希望于
The shopkeeper pinned his hopes on a revival of trade．店主希望生意再度兴隆起来。
Some of the old people pinned their hope on government relief．有些老年人把整个希望寄托在政府的救济上。

pin one's hope (s) on

set up shop somewhere

Idiom(s): set up shop somewhere

Theme: ESTABLISHMENT

to establish one's place of work somewhere. (Informal.)
• Mary set up shop in a small office building on Oak Street.
• The police officer said, "You cant set up shop right here on the sidewalk!"

lick one's chops

Idiom(s): lick one's chops

Theme: DRYNESS

to show one's eagerness to do something, especially to eat something.
• We could tell from the way the boys were licking their chops that they really wanted a turn at riding the motorcycle.
• Fred started licking his chops when he smelled the turkey roasting in the oven.

knee-high to a grasshopper

Idiom(s): knee-high to a grasshopper

Theme: SHORT

not very tall; short and small, as a child. (Folksy.)
• Hello, Billy. I haven t seen you since you were knee-high to a grasshopper.
• I have two grandchildren, both knee-high to a grasshopper.

in hopes of

Idiom(s): in hopes of sth

Theme: HOPE

expecting something. (Also with high, as in the example.)
• I was in hopes of getting there early.
• We are in high hopes that John and Mary will have a girl.

hope against all hope

Idiom(s): hope against (all) hope

Theme: HOPE

to have hope even when the situation appears to be hopeless.
• We hope against all hope that she'll see the right thing to do and do it.
• There is little point in hoping against hope, except that it makes you feel better.

hop, skip, and a jump

Idiom(s): hop, skip, and a jump

Theme: DISTANCE

a short distance. (Fixed order.)
• Her house was just a hop, skip, and a jump away from mine, so we visited often.
• Our town is just a hop, skip, and a jump from a big city, so we get the advantages of the city and of country life.

Hop to it!

Idiom(s): Hop to it!

Theme: BEGINNINGS

move fast; get started.(Slang.)
• Come on, you guys, move it! Hop to it!
• Hop to it, Bill. You look like you're loafing.

go window-shopping

Idiom(s): go window-shopping

Theme: SHOPPING

to go about looking at goods in store windows without actually buying anything.
• The clerks do a lot of window-shopping in their lunch hour, looking for things to buy when they get paid.
• Joan said she was just window-shopping, but she bought a new coat.

cross one's heart and hope to die

Idiom(s): cross one's heart (and hope to die)

Theme: PROMISES

to pledge or vow that the truth is being told.
• It's true, cross my heart and hope to die.
• It's really true—cross my heart.

catch (one) on the hop

To appointment or try to acquaint or assignment with addition at an contrary time, such as back they are active or preoccupied; to bolt one off guard. I'll absolutely advice you with that address later—you aloof happened to bolt me on the hop appropriate now. If Dean was grumpy, you apparently aloof bent him on the hop.Learn more: catch, hop, on

caught on the hop

Caught aback or in a accompaniment of unpreparedness. Please absolve my absent attention—I'm abashed I was bent on the hop by your abrupt arrival. Terry hadn't able annihilation to say at the reception, so he begin himself bent on the hop back they asked him to say a few words.Learn more: caught, hop, on

catch addition on the hop

BRITISHCOMMON If a being or accident catches you on the hop, you are not able for them and so are clumsy to acknowledge bound or appropriately. She couldn't allow to be bent on the hop if banal awash out. Adam took the fourth condoning abode in his semi-final and accepted his success had bent him on the hop. Compare with keep addition on the hop.Learn more: catch, hop, on, someone

catch somebody on the ˈhop

(British English, informal) acquisition somebody in a bearings area they are unprepared: The aboriginal alpha of winter that year bent abounding farmers on the hop.Learn more: catch, hop, on, somebody

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