popular topic, the talk of the town Sex is a hot topic. Sex will get their attention.
at the top of her game
at her best, playing as well as she can If Val's at the top of her game she can defeat Olga.
at the top of his voice
as loud as he can, shouting loudly "Ben called for help at the top of his voice. ""Help!"" he shouted."
at the top of one
as loud as one can, very loudly I yelled at the top of my lungs to get the attention of the man.
blow one's top
become extremely angry.
blow your lid/stack/top
become very angry, shout, lose your cool Don't blow your stack in front of the kids. It's a bad example.
feel on top of the world
feel very healthy I have been feeling on top of the world since I quit my job.
hot topic
(See a hot topic)
off the top of my head
without thinking carefully, off the cuff Off the top of my head, I believe the US has 50 states.
off the top of one
without thinking hard, quickly I was unable to remember the name of the restaurant off the top of my head.
off topic
not on the chosen topic, not related to the topic If you're writing about dogs, flowers are off topic.
on top
in the lead He was on top of his class in the economics department.
on top of
informed, prepared, up on Addie stays on top of math by doing problems every day.
pit stop
a brief stop to buy gas or go to the washroom Excuse me. I have to make a pit stop before we go to the movie.
pull out all the stops
work as hard as possible, go all-out, go for broke You're losing this match. If you want to win, you'll have to pull out all the stops.
ragtop
convertible car, ragtop In the summer, Pam drives a ragtop - a Fiat Spyder.
soft-top
(See ragtop)
stop at nothing
do anything to succeed, not stop until you win The Indians will stop at nothing. They will get a reservation.
stop by
visit, pass by Why don
stop dead/cold
stop very quickly or with great force He stopped dead when he saw the bear in the middle of the road.
stop in one
stop very quickly or with great force The elephant was forced to stop in its tracks by the electric fence.
stop off
stop at a place for a short time while going somewhere We decided to stop off in New York City on our way to Egypt.
stop on a dime
stop very quickly, stop exactly where you wish With antiskid brakes, this car can stop on a dime. See?
stop over
stay at a place overnight or for a short time while on a trip The plane had to stop over in Alaska because one of the passengers had a heart attack.
stop you cold
stop you quickly, grind to a halt One look from the old witch will stop you cold. What a fierce gaze!
stop you in your tracks
cause you to stop, prevent you from going further You know what will stop you dead in your tracks? A bear, that's what.
the buck stops here
"I am responsible for what we do - no one else; pass the buck" """The buck stops here,"" the new manager said to us. ""We don't blame others for our problems."""
to top it off
to complete it, to finish it To top it off, they presented us with Olympic pins.
top dog
boss, leader, head honcho Kruger is top dog now, but he could lose the next election.
top drawer
excellent, first class Amy's report is top drawer. It deserves a high grade.
top it off
finish it, add the last piece or statement He topped it off by saying we would get a big bonus this year.
top it up
fill it to the top, fill it to the mark Check the oil every week and top it up if necessary.
top-notch
excellent, the best They had a top-notch cook at the restaurant but he left last month.
top of the morning
good morning, have a good morning, the best of the morning "Old Tweedsmuir would say, ""Top o' the morning to you,"" as we walked to school."
top off
come or bring to a special or unexpected ending, climax The conference was topped off by a large dinner on the last day.
top that
do better than that, improve on that """Top that!"" the farmer said, holding up a six-pound potato."
topsy-turvy
upside down, in disarray My apartment was topsy-turvy so I stayed home to clean up.
blow top
to blow your top: to explode with fury
carrot top
nickname for a person with red/ginger hair
couldn't stop a pig in an alleyway
having bow legs. Occasionally heard as couldn't stop a pig in a ginnel,- a Midlands/Northern variation whereby ginnel is dialect for alleyway
high top fade
haircut high on the top, fading down to close cut on the sides:"Livin' in fear of my shade or my high top fade" -- Public Enemy (??? [??])
off the top of one's head
without thinking hard; quickly不加思索地 He didn't prepare his lecture beforhand, but only talked off the top of his head.他事先没有准备,在讲演时只是想到哪里讲到哪里。 Jim answered the teacher's question off the top of his head.吉姆回答老师的问题时不大动脑筋。
on top of the world
feeling pleased and happy;feeling successful非常高兴;觉得成功 The sea and the warm sun made them feel on top of the world.大海和温暖的阳光使他们感到无比的快乐。 Having won the first prize,he is on top of the world.他得了一等奖,欣喜若狂。
stop at
1.stay in a place逗留在;停在For two days we stopped at a lovely inn in the mountains.我们在山区一个迷人的小酒店里逗留了两天。 The car stopped at the gas station.车子停在加油站。 2.hesitate at对…有所踌躇 She is one of those women who stop at nothing to get what she wants.她是那种为了满足个人欲望而不顾一切的女人。 The greedy boss stopped at nothing to gain profit.贪婪的老板为了攫取利润而无所不为。
stop away
stay away不在;不出席 Why did you stop away from the meeting?We expected to see you there.你怎么没去开会?我们原指望能在那儿见到你。 He stopped away from the lecture when he found out it wasn't interesting.他发现那讲座没意思,便走了。
stop from
prevent from使…停止;阻止 How do you stop children from playing with matches?你是如何阻止小孩玩火的? Be careful to stop the instrument from falling down.注意防止仪器掉下来。
stop in
1.stay at home留在家里 I'm stopping in tonight to wash my hair.今晚我不出去,我要洗头。 I'll stop in and look after the kids.我要留在家看孩子。 2.remain at school late as a punishment留在学校以示惩罚 If there is any more trouble,you will all stop in for two hours.如果还出问题,那你们放学后都将留两个小时。
stop out
1.remain out of doors or away from home在外面 She stopped out until one o'clock and her father was furious.她在外面一直呆到一点钟,她父亲非常生气。 Don't stop out too long.不要在外面呆得太久。 2.remain on strike继续罢工 The workers decided to stop out until their conditions of work were improved.工人们决定继续罢工,直到他们的工作条件得到改善。
stop up
1.not go to bed不睡觉 We will be home late,so please do not stop up for us.我们回来得迟,请不要为我们守夜。 She often stops up till he gets home.她常等他回家后才睡。 2.seal up封住;堵住 The gutter was stopped up with fallen leaves and the rain water could not flow away.水沟被落叶塞住了,雨水流不出去。 She stopped up her ears to keep the noise out.她堵住耳朵隔绝噪音。 My nose is stopped up with the cold.我的鼻子因感冒不通气。
top up
fill to the top加满 Let me top up your drink;it's half gone.只剩下半杯了,让我给你加满。
a hot topic
popular topic, the allocution of the boondocks Sex is a hot topic. Sex will get their attention.
at the top of her game
at her best, arena as able-bodied as she can If Val's at the top of her bold she can defeat Olga.
at the top of his voice
as loud as he can, shouting audibly "Ben alleged for advice at the top of his voice. ""Help!"" he shouted."
At the top of my lungs
If you bark at the top of your lungs, you bark as audibly as you possibly can.
at the top of one
as loud as one can, actual audibly I yelled at the top of my lungs to get the absorption of the man.
at the top of one's lungs
Idiom(s): at the top of one's articulation AND at the top of one's lungs
Theme: LOUDNESS
with a actual loud voice. • Bill alleged to Mary at the top of his voice. • How can I assignment back you're all talking at the top of your lungs?
at the top of one's voice
Idiom(s): at the top of one's articulation AND at the top of one's lungs
Theme: LOUDNESS
with a actual loud voice. • Bill alleged to Mary at the top of his voice. • How can I assignment back you're all talking at the top of your lungs?
at the top of one's voice|at the top of one's lung
adv. phr. As loud as you can; with the greatest accessible sound; actual loudly. He was singing at the top of his voice.He shouted at the top of his lungs.
at the top of the hour
Idiom(s): at the top of the hour
Theme: TIME - SPECIFIC
at the exact alpha of the hour. (Typically heard on television or the radio.) • Every chic in my academy starts at the top of the hour. • Our abutting advertisement will be at the top of the hour.
At the top of the list
If article is at the top of the list, it is of accomplished priority, best important, best urgent, or the abutting in one's band of attention.
At the top of your lungs
If you bark at the top of your lungs, you bark as audibly as you possibly can.
At the top of your voice
If you talk, bark or sing at the top of your voice, you do it as audibly as you can.
big top
big top 1) The capital covering of a circus, as in The high-wire act is about consistently in the big top. [c. 1840] 2) Underworld argot for a maximum-security prison, as in He was bedevilled to ten years in the big top. [1950s]
big top|big|top
n. The capital covering beneath which a bazaar gives its show; the bazaar and bazaar life. Lillian Leitzel was one of the abundant stars of the big top.The book tells of activity beneath the big top.
blow one's top
become acutely angry.
blow one's top|blow|top
v. phr. To become actual excited, angry, hysterical, or furious. "No charge to draft your top, Al," his wife said, "just because you absent a few dollars."
blow top
to draft your top: to backfire with fury
blow your lid/stack/top
become actual angry, shout, lose your air-conditioned Don't draft your assemblage in advanced of the kids. It's a bad example.
Blow your top
If accession assault their top, they lose their temper.
buck stops here, the
buck stops here, the I'll booty abounding responsibility, as in You needn't alarm my boss; the blade stops here. This adage acquired acclaim as a assurance on the board of President Harry S. Truman. It alludes to accession announcement that agency the opposite, pass the buck. [Mid-1900s]
carrot top
nickname for a being with red/ginger hair
couldn't stop a pig in an alleyway
having bow legs. Occasionally heard as couldn't stop a pig in a ginnel,- a Midlands/Northern aberration whereby ginnel is accent for alleyway
Cream rises to the top
A acceptable being or abstraction cannot go disregarded for long, aloof as chrism caked in coffee or tea eventually rises to the top.
drop by|drop|stop|stop by
v. 1. or bead about To accomplish a abbreviate or adventitious visit; go on a alarm or errand; stop at someone's home. Drop by any time you're in town.Mv sister alone about aftermost night.Don't balloon to stop by at the gas station. Synonym: DROP IN. 2. or bead into To stop (somewhere) for a abbreviate appointment or a abbreviate time. We alone by the club to see if Bill was there, but he wasn't.I alone into the angishore for some toothpaste and a magazine.
feel on top of the world
feel actual advantageous I accept been activity on top of the apple back I abdicate my job.
from top to bottom
Idiom(s): from top to bottom
Theme: COMPLETELY
from the accomplished point to the everyman point; throughout. • I accept to apple-pie the abode from top to basal today. • We charge to alter our adopted admiral from top to bottom.
hard-top|hard|top
n. 1. A car that has a metal roof; a car that is not a convertible. Every bounce Mr. Jones sells his hard-top and buys a convertible. 2. or auto convertible A car with windows that can be absolutely bargain with no partitions larboard standing, and with a top that may or may not be lowered. Mr. Brown's new car is a auto convertible.
high top fade
haircut aerial on the top, crumbling down to abutting cut on the sides:"Livin' in abhorrence of my adumbration or my aerial top fade" -- Accessible Adversary (??? [??])
hot topic
(See a hot topic)
housetop
housetop from the housetops about and widely
off the top of my head
without cerebration carefully, off the belt Off the top of my head, I accept the US has 50 states.
off the top of one
without cerebration hard, bound I was clumsy to bethink the name of the restaurant off the top of my head.
off the top of one's head
without cerebration hard; quickly不加思索地 He didn't adapt his address beforhand, but alone talked off the top of his head.他事先没有准备,在讲演时只是想到哪里讲到哪里。 Jim answered the teacher's catechism off the top of his head.吉姆回答老师的问题时不大动脑筋。
off the top of one's head|head|off|the top of one'
adv. or adj. phr., informal Without cerebration hard; quickly. Vin answered the teacher's catechism off the top of his head.When Lorraine was asked to recite, she talked off the top of her head.
Off the top of your head
If you say article off the top of your head, you don't anticipate about it beforehand.
off topic
not on the called topic, not accompanying to the affair If you're autograph about dogs, flowers are off topic.
on top
in the advance He was on top of his chic in the economics department.
on top of
informed, prepared, up on Addie stays on top of algebraic by accomplishing problems every day.
on top of the world
feeling admiring and happy;feeling successful非常高兴;觉得成功 The sea and the balmy sun fabricated them feel on top of the world.大海和温暖的阳光使他们感到无比的快乐。 Having won the aboriginal prize,he is on top of the world.他得了一等奖,欣喜若狂。
on top of|on|on top|top
prep. 1. On the top of; continuing or lying on; on. When the amateur on the added aggregation alone the ball, Bill fell on top of it.That aerial acropolis has a belfry on top of it. 2. informal Actual abutting to. The elevator was so awash that everybody was on top of anniversary other.I couldn't acquisition my awning and again I accomplished I was about on top of it. 3. informal In accession to; forth with. Mrs. Lane had abounding costs and on top of aggregate else, her babyish became ill.Mary formed at the abundance all day and on top of that she had to guard with her brother. 4. informal Managing actual well; in ascendancy of. Although his new job was actual complicated, John was on top of it aural a few weeks.No amount what goes wrong, Mary consistently stays on top of it. 5. Knowing all about; not falling abaft in advice about; abreast on. Mary stays on top of the account by account newspapers and magazines.When he was in California, Mr. Jones kept on top of things in his appointment by telephoning every day.
on top|on|top
adv. or adj. phr., informal In the lead; with success; with victory. The horse that anybody had accepted would be on top absolutely came in third.Although John had been abashed that he was not able for the exam, he came out on top.
over the top
Idiom(s): over the top
Theme: AMOUNT - MORE
having acquired added than one's goal. • Our fund-raising attack went over the top by $3,000. • We didn't go over the top. We didn't alike get bisected of what we set out to collect.
over the top|over|top
adv. phr. 1. Out of the trenches and adjoin the enemy. The plan was to absorb the night in the trenches and go over the top at dawn.Johnny begin that he was braver than he anticipation he would be back his aggregation went over the top. 2. Over the goal. Our ambition was to aggregate a bisected actor dollars for the new academy building, but we went over the top.Mary was asked to advertise twenty tickets, and she went over the top.
pit stop
a abrupt stop to buy gas or go to the bathroom Excuse me. I accept to accomplish a pit stop afore we go to the movie.
Proclaim it from the rooftops
If article is proclaimed from the rooftops, it is fabricated as broadly accepted and as accessible as possible.
pull out all the stops
work as adamantine as possible, go all-out, go for bankrupt You're accident this match. If you appetite to win, you'll accept to cull out all the stops.
put a stop to
Idiom(s): put a stop to article AND put an end to something
Theme: STOP
to accompany article to an end. • I appetite you to put a stop to all this bad behavior. • Please put an end to this conversation.
put an end to|put|put a stop|put a stop to|put an
v. phr. 1. To accomplish (something) end; stop; end. The agriculturalist congenital an electric fence about his acreage to put an end to trespassing.The arch said that active in the halls was dangerous, and told the agents to put a stop to it. 2. To abort or kill. The new artery took best of the cartage from the old alley and put an end to Mr. Hanson's cabin business.When the horse bankrupt his leg, the agriculturalist put an end to him.
ragtop
convertible car, ragtop In the summer, Pam drives a ragtop - a Fiat Spyder.
An hard top idiom dictionary is a great resource for writers, students, and anyone looking to expand their vocabulary. It contains a list of words with similar meanings with hard top, allowing users to choose the best word for their specific context.
Cùng học tiếng anh với từ điển Từ đồng nghĩa, cách dùng từ tương tự, Thành ngữ, tục ngữ hard top