Nghĩa là gì: someone

someone /'sʌmwʌn/

đại từ
- một người nào đó, có người ((cũng) somebody)

get one's hooks into 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.