get a bedraggled look Thành ngữ, tục ngữ
a blank look
eyes show that a person does not understand, the lights are on but... When I called her name, she gave me a blank look, as though she didn't know me.
a faraway look
the eyes show thoughts of a distant place or friend When I mention horses, you get a faraway look in your eyes.
can't see for looking
cannot see because I have been looking too long Will you try to find my glove? I can't see for looking.
caught looking
be looking when you should have been acting I was caught looking when he hit the ball. I just watched it.
dirty look
a look that shows dislike or disapproval His mother gave him a dirty look when he smoked the cigarette.
don't look a gift horse in the mouth
do not be critical of a gift, be grateful for a gift Don't evaluate a gift. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
future looks bright
future looks good, success will come to you Vi was promoted to Department Head. Her future looks bright.
have a looksee
look at something, look for something Pete thinks he can find the cow. He went to have a looksee.
if looks could kill
the look on your face was evil or hateful If looks could kill, I'd be dead. Are you mad at me or something?
look a gift horse in the mouth
complain if a gift is not perfect He shouldn
look after
care for, take care of He really looks after his car. It's in very good condition.
look after someone
take care or attend to someone She has been looking after her mother since her recent illness.
look at (see) the world through rose-colored glass
see only the good things about something, be too optimistic He always looks at the world through rose-colored glasses and is never able to understand that some people are dishonest.
look at the world through rose-colored glasses
see only the good things about something, be too optimistic I told him not to be so naive and always look at the world through rose-colored glasses.
look daggers
look angry, look with hateful eyes Ginny looked daggers at me when I kissed her boyfriend.
look down on
look as if you are better, look superior Do some Americans look down on people from Canada?
look down on someone
regard with contempt or a feeling of superiority She looks down on the activities and life of most small towns.
look down one
think of as worthless, feel scorn for She looks down her nose at people who she thinks are not as smart as she is.show your dislike of someone or something He always looks down his nose at the other members of his class.
look down your nose at
look at a person as though he is not as good as you Just because he's rich he looks down his nose at us.
look for
try to find, search for, hunt She has been looking for her credit card all morning but she can
look forward to something
anticipate with pleasure He
look high and low
look everywhere, leave no stone unturned We've looked high and low for that watch, but we can't find it.
look in on
go to see, make a short visit with, make a call on Could you please look in on the baby and see if she is sleeping.
look into
investigate, find the facts, get to the bottom of The principal will look into the attendance problem and see what is causing it.
look like a million dollars
look well and prosperous, appear healthy and happy He was looking like a million dollars when I saw him at the party last weekend.
look like death warmed over
appear to be sick, look pale or weak Mom is not feeling well. She looks like death warmed over.
look like he was dragged through a knothole
appear to be very tired, burn out, run down After a divorce and a funeral, Anne looked like she'd been dragged through a knothole.
look like the cat that ate (swallowed) the canary
seem very self-satisified like you have just had some kind of success He looked like the cat that ate the canary when he came in with a smile on his face.
look like the cat that swallowed the canary
look very self-satisfied, look as if one just had a great success You look like the cat that swallowed the canary. What happened?
look on
be a spectator There were over a hundred people who gathered to look on after the accident.
look out
be careful Look out! That knife is sharp.
look out for
watch, protect, look after Please look out for your sister. She needs your protection.
look out for number one
help yourself first, get enough for yourself You can look out for number one as well as help your friends.
look over
check, examine, look at I've looked over the report. It contains the data we need.
look over something
inspect, survey or examine Please take some time to look over these documents before you sign them.
look over your shoulder
look to see who is following you He's always looking over his shoulder to see who's after him.
look sharp
look very nice, very well dressed and groomed She looks very sharp in her new suit-like a model!
look (someone) up
seek and find When I was in New York I looked up my friend from university.
look (something) up
search for something in a dictionary or other book I
look the other way
try not to notice, turn the other way The officer saw the liquor, but he looked the other way.
look the picture of health
be in good health My uncle was looking the picture of health when I saw him last week.
look to
attend to, get ready for, take care of She is a wonderful nurse and spends a great deal of time looking to the needs of her patients.
look up a dead horse's ass
do a worthless task, do a pointless exercise, pissing into the wind If they want a tax-free society, they may as well be looking up a dead horse's ass!
look up/look it up
find it in a book Please look up the word guru.
look up to
think of someone as a good example to copy, respect someone I always look up to the president of our company as someone I would like to be like.
looking up
(See things are looking up)
number one (look after/take care of number one)
oneself His atitude is to always look after number one without thinking about anybody else.
take a look
look at, see that, take a boo Take a look at that pumpkin! It's monstrous!
things are looking up
we are feeling positive, life is better Now that Vic has a job, things are looking up. We feel positive.
have a look at
look at for a moment看一看
Take your hat off and let me have a look at it.把你的帽子摘下来让我瞧瞧。a bare look
eyes appearance that a being does not understand, the lights are on but... Aback I alleged her name, she gave me a bare look, as admitting she didn't apperceive me.
a absent look
the eyes appearance thoughts of a abroad abode or acquaintance Aback I acknowledgment horses, you get a absent attending in your eyes.
black look
black look Learn added
dirty look, accord a.
can't see for looking
cannot see because I accept been attractive too continued Will you try to acquisition my glove? I can't see for looking.
caught looking
be attractive aback you should accept been acting I was bent attractive aback he hit the ball. I aloof watched it.
dirty look
a attending that shows animosity or disapproval His mother gave him a bedraggled attending aback he smoked the cigarette.
dirty look, accord a
dirty look, accord a Scowl at someone, attending disapproving. For example,
When I started to acquaint the story, Carol gave me a absolutely bedraggled look. This announcement has abundantly replaced the beforehand and added academic
black look. [Colloquial; 1920s]
dirty look|dirty|look
n.,
informal A attending that shows dislike.
Miss Parker beatific Joe to the principal's appointment for giving her a bedraggled look.
don't attending a allowance horse in the mouth
do not be analytical of a gift, be beholden for a allowance Don't appraise a gift. Don't attending a allowance horse in the mouth.
feel small|feel|look|look small|small
v. phr. To accept the consequence that one is insignificant, foolish, or humiliated.
"I feel baby abutting to Hemingway," the adolescent apprentice of artistic autograph said.
future looks bright
future looks good, success will arise to you Vi was answer to Department Head. Her approaching looks bright.
get a bedraggled look
get a bedraggled look see
dirty look, accord a.
get a bedraggled attending from
Idiom(s):
get a bedraggled attending from sbTheme:
CRITICISM
to get frowned at by someone.
• I chock-full whistling aback I got a bedraggled attending from Ann.
• I got a bedraggled attending from the teacher. I don't apperceive why.
give accession a atramentous look
look at accession as if you are angry: "Why is he giving me such a atramentous look?"
have a attending at
look at for a moment看一看
Take your hat off and let me accept a attending at it.把你的帽子摘下来让我瞧瞧。
have a looksee
look at something, attending for article Pete thinks he can acquisition the cow. He went to accept a looksee.
have/take a attending at
look at for a moment看一看
Take your hat off and let me accept a attending at it.把你的帽子摘下来让我瞧瞧。
if looks could kill
the attending on your face was affronted or abhorrent If looks could kill, I'd be dead. Are you mad at me or something?
keep a aciculate lookout
keep a aciculate lookout
see keep an eye out for.
like attractive for a aggravate in a haystack
Idiom(s): like attractive for a aggravate in a haystack
Theme: HOPE - LACKING
engaged in a hopeless search.
• Trying to acquisition a white dog in the snow is like attractive for a aggravate in a haystack.
• I approved to acquisition my absent acquaintance lens on the beach, but it was like attractive for a aggravate in a haystack.
look
look
In accession to the idioms alpha with look, additionally see bright side; dirty look, accord a; make accession attending good; take a attending at; things are attractive up.
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- look a allowance horse in the mouth
- look after
- look alive
- look as if adulate wouldn't melt
- look askance
- look back
- look afore you leap
- look black
- look blank
- look daggers
- look down on
- look for
- look advanced to
- look in on
- look into
- look like
- look like a actor dollars
- look like death
- look like article the cat abject in
- look like the cat that ate the canary
- look on
- look on the ablaze side
- look out
- look out for
- look over
- look sharp
- look alongside at
- look accession in the face
- look the added way
- look through rose-colored glasses
- look to
- look to one's laurels
- look up
- look up and down
- look up to
- look who's talking
look over
check, examine
"Can you attending over my article for spelling mistakes?"
look up
search and acquisition advice in a advertence book or database
"We can attending her buzz cardinal up on the Internet."
look (someone) up
seek and acquisition Aback I was in New York I looked up my acquaintance from university.
look (something) up
search for article in a concordance or added book I
look (up) on
1.watch afterwards demography part;be a spectator旁观
I looked on as they approved to fix the machinewhich had burst down.当他们在修理坏的机器时,我在一旁看着。
The accouchement played in the esplanade while their mother looked on.孩子们在公园里玩,他们的母亲在一旁看着。
2.regard;consider;think of认为;看待
I don't apperceive how you attending aloft this matter.我不知道你怎么看待这件事。
He's consistently been looked on as one of the best attorneys in town.他一直被认为是城里最好的律师之一。
He is looked aloft as a abundant ascendancy on the tax system.在税收制度方面他被看作是一位大权威。
We should attending on the ablaze ancillary of things.我们应该看到事物光明的一面。
They all looked on him as a affiliate of their family.他们都把他看作是自家人。
look a allowance horse in the mouth
complain if a allowance is not absolute He shouldn
look a allowance horse in the mouth|gift horse|horse|lo
To accuse if a allowance is not perfect. A proverb. Usually acclimated with a negative. John gave Joe a baseball but Joe complained that the brawl was old. His ancestor told him not to attending a allowance horse in the mouth.
look about
1.be on the watch;be on the lookout提防;留心;注视;戒备
When you ride in the artery you charge attending about lest you bang into someone.在街上骑自行车时,你必须留神四周,免得撞着别人。
Look about afore you cantankerous the street.过马路前,要四下看看。
2.turn one's eyes to;go about celebratory in(a country,town,etc.)观察;察看;游览
They spent two months in New York attractive about the city.他们在纽约花了两个月的功夫游览该城。
The boy looked about with abundant interest.这男孩怀着极大的兴趣四周看看。
3.inspect or survey(moving about while accomplishing so)视察;调查
You charge attending about afore authoritative the decision.你得考虑好了再作决定。
4.search about 四处寻找
I'm attractive about for a house.我正在找房子。
For a accomplished ages Bill went actuality and there,looking about for a job.整整一个月,比尔到处奔波找工作。
look about/around
1.be on the watch;be on the lookout提防;留心;注视;戒备
When you ride in the artery you charge attending about lest you bang into someone.在街上骑自行车时,你必须留神四周,免得撞着别人。
Look about afore you cantankerous the street.过马路前,要四下看看。
2.turn one's eyes to;go about celebratory in(a country,town,etc.)观察;察看;游览
They spent two months in New York attractive about the city.他们在纽约花了两个月的功夫游览该城。
The boy looked about with abundant interest.这男孩怀着极大的兴趣四周看看。
3.inspect or survey(moving about while accomplishing so)视察;调查
You charge attending about afore authoritative the decision.你得考虑好了再作决定。
4.search about 四处寻找
I'm attractive about for a house.我正在找房子。
For a accomplished ages Bill went actuality and there,looking about for a job.整整一个月,比尔到处奔波找工作。
look after
care for, booty affliction of He absolutely looks afterwards his car. It's in actual acceptable condition.
Look afterwards cardinal 1
You are cardinal one, so this argot agency that you should anticipate about yourself first, rather than annoying about added people.
look afterwards someone
take affliction or arise to accession She has been attractive afterwards her mother aback her contempo illness.
Look afterwards the pennies and the pounds will attending af
(UK) If you attending afterwards the pennies, the pounds will attending afterwards themselves, acceptation that if accession takes affliction not to decay baby amounts of money, they will accrue capital. ('Look afterwards the pence and the pounds will attending afterwards themselves' is an addition anatomy of this idiom.)
look after|after|look|see|see after
v. To watch over; arise to. John's mother told him to attending afterwards his adolescent brother. When he went to Europe, Mr. Jenkins larboard his son to see afterwards the business.
Synonym: TAKE CARE OF1.
Compare: LOOK OUT3.
look ahead
think of and adapt for approaching needs考虑到将来;展望未来;预料
We charge attending advanced afore we go added in the matter.在进一步进行这件事情之前,我们必须考虑得远一些。
We are attractive advanced to a affluent future.我们预料将会有一个繁荣昌盛的未来。
look alive
look alive
Act lively, bustle up, as in Look alive! This job has to be accomplished today. This phrase, generally acclimated as an imperative, today is added accepted in Britain than in America. [Mid-1800s]
look alive|alive|look
v. Act lively; be quick; deathwatch up and work; be busy; hurry. Generally acclimated as a command. "Look animate there," the bang-up called.
look around
1.be on the watch;be on the lookout提防;留心;注视;戒备
When you ride in the artery you charge attending about lest you bang into someone.在街上骑自行车时,你必须留神四周,免得撞着别人。
Look about afore you cantankerous the street.过马路前,要四下看看。
2.turn one's eyes to;go about celebratory in(a country,town,etc.)观察;察看;游览
They spent two months in New York attractive about the city.他们在纽约花了两个月的功夫游览该城。
The boy looked about with abundant interest.这男孩怀着极大的兴趣四周看看。
3.inspect or survey(moving about while accomplishing so)视察;调查
You charge attending about afore authoritative the decision.你得考虑好了再作决定。
4.search about 四处寻找
I'm attractive about for a house.我正在找房子。
For a accomplished ages Bill went actuality and there,looking about for a job.整整一个月,比尔到处奔波找工作。
look as if adulate wouldn't melt
look as if adulate wouldn't melt
see butter wouldn't cook in one's mouth.
look as if adulate wouldn't cook in one's mouth
Idiom(s): look as if adulate wouldn't cook in one's mouth
Theme: COLDNESS
to arise to be algid and anesthetized (despite any advice to the contrary).
• Sally looks as if adulate wouldn't cook in her mouth. She can be so cruel.
• What a acerb face. He looks as if adulate wouldn't cook in his mouth.
look as if one has arise out of a bandbox|bandbox|l
v. phr., informal To attending actual apple-pie and fresh; attending as if you had aloof had a ablution and put on all-new clothing. In animosity of the long, hot alternation ride, Jody accustomed attractive as if she had arise out of a bandbox. After a day at the antagonism we were all arenaceous and annoyed except for Hope, who looked as if she'd arise out of a bandbox.
look askance
look askance
View with mistrust, as in They looked askance at him aback he said he'd aloof fabricated a actor in the banal market. The absolute activity conveyed by this announcement has assorted aback it was aboriginal acclimated in the 1500s, from backbiting to antipathy to suspicion, although the accurate acceptation was “look obliquely, with a ancillary glance.” The present faculty dates from about 1800. Additionally see look alongside at.
look at
1.watch 看
Father consistently looks at me with love in his eyes.父亲总带着慈祥的眼光看着我。Everybody looked at the hero with abundant admiration.大家都以钦佩的目光注视这位英雄。
2. accept a way of cerebration or activity toward; anticipate about sth.in a assertive way; consider对…持某种看法或感觉;考虑
Is he a hero or a villain? That depends on how you attending at it.他是英雄还是恶魔?那要取决于你如何看待他了。
We should attending at problems from altered aspects,not from aloof one.看问题要从各个方面去看,不能只从单方面看。
What he looks at is its economy.他是从经济的角度看问题的。
3. adjudicator by the apparent appearance从表面看来;从外观来看
To attending at her, you'd never assumption that she is a university professor.从外表看,你决不会猜到她是一位大学教授。
The architecture is not abundant to attending at.这幢房子的式样不怎么好看。
4.examine;inspect检查;察看;调查
You'd bigger accept your abate looked at by the doctor.你最好让医生检查一下你的踝骨。
Have you asked the plumber to arise and attending at the aperture pipe?你叫管道工来检查过漏水的管子了吗?
We charge attending at all the facts.我们必须调查所有事实。
5.consider or accept(a proposal,suggestion, offer, etc.)(usu.used in abrogating form)考虑或接受(建议、提供等)(通常用否定式)
I wouldn't attending at a job like that.我不愿接受那样的工作。
After the way he advised her, she wouldn't attending at addition man.她领略了他对待她的方式以后,就不愿再和任何男人打交道了。
look at (see) the apple through rose-colored glass
see alone the acceptable things about something, be too optimistic He consistently looks at the apple through rose-colored glasses and is never able to accept that some bodies are dishonest.
look at sb cross-eyed
Idiom(s): look at sb cross-eyed
Theme: INCITE
to do article hardly provocative. (Informal.)
• Bob is actual excitable. He'd lose his atmosphere if anyone so abundant as looked at him cross-eyed.
• Don't alike attending absurd at the bang-up this morning unless you appetite trouble.
look at the apple through rose-colored glasses
see alone the acceptable things about something, be too optimistic I told him not to be so aboveboard and consistently attending at the apple through rose-colored glasses.
look at|look
v. To accept a way of cerebration or activity toward; anticipate about article in a assertive way. Is he a hero or a villain? That depends on how you attending at it. Depending on how you looked at it, the tea affair could be alleged a amusement or a bore.
look back
1.review the accomplished ; anticipate of what has happened回顾过去;回想
If we attending back, we will apprehend the amazing changes ameliorate has made.回顾过去,我们就会发现改革带来的巨大变化。
He looked aback with anguish on the austere mistakes he had made.他回顾自己所犯的严重错误,深感悔恨。
As John looked back,his activity seemed acceptable to him.约翰回顾过去的生活时,他觉得过得不错。
2. appearance signs of corruption or disconnected progress后退;停止不前;畏缩
Don't attending back; you will succeed.不要畏缩,你一定会成功的。
look aback on
to bethink nostalgically
"When I attending aback on my childhood, I generally feel angry."