having one is better than seeing many When searching for a better job, remember A bird in the hand... .
bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
one shouldn
cut both/two ways
be capable of having two opposite effects My decision to complain to our boss could cut two ways and cause him to be pleased as well as angry at me.
fancy footwork
neat maneuvers, clever moves You did some fancy footwork to answer their questions. Bravo!
have two strikes against one
have things working against one, be in a difficult situation He already has two strikes against him and it will be very difficult for him to get the job.
in two minds about something
undecided My niece is in two minds about whether or not she will come and visit me this summer.
in two shakes of a lamb
quickly, in no time at all I will have this finished in two shakes of a lamb
in two shakes (of a lamb's tail)
very soon, in a couple of seconds, in a sec I'll be with you in two shakes. I just have to turn off the lights.
in two shakes of a lamb's tail
very quickly and without difficulty Wait one minute. I will be able to help you in two shakes of a lamb's tail.
kill two birds (with one stone)
get two with one try, do two jobs on one trip If you sell and advertise at the same time, you kill two birds... .
kill two birds with one stone
achieve two aims with one effort/action If you take the course now you may be able to kill two birds with one stone and receive credit for it on a future program.
lesser of two evils
both are bad but one is not as bad as the other Neither person can be trusted. Choose the lesser of two evils.
of two minds
having two opinions, mixed feelings Speaking of abortion, I'm of two minds: pro choice and pro life.
one for the money, two for the show...
prepare to go or run, children's countdown "Before bedtime, Dad would say, ""One for the money..."""
one or two
a few, a small number There were only one or two people at the meeting so it was postponed until later.
one-two
any quick or decisive action that takes the opposition by surprise The salesman gave them the one-two and before they knew it they had agreed to buy the product.
put two and two together
understand or figure something out after learning the facts I finally put two and two together and realized that she was his boyfriend.
stand on one's own two feet
be independent My sister needs to do something to make her daughter stand on her own two feet.
tell him a thing or two
tell him he caused a problem, tell him off If Sid took my keys, I'm going to tell him a thing or two.
there are no two ways about it
there is no alternative His boss told him that there are no two ways about it and he will have to change his habits or he will be fired.
there are two sides to every story
two people tell different stories of the same event, compare notes If you compare Mary's story with Sam's, you'll know there are two sides to every story.
there's no two ways about it
"there is only one answer; cannot have two meanings" We have to get you on that plane. There's no two ways about it.
two abreast
two people standing or walking side by side The children were walking two abreast on the way home.
two bits
25
two can play that game
you can also treat someone in the same way as they have treated you The employees told the boss that two can play that game and if he was too strict they would also be unflexible at work.
two cents
something not important or very small, almost nothing Although his stereo works well I wouldn
two cents worth
something one wants to say, opinion He is always talking and I never have a chance to put in my two cents worth.
two-cents' worth
opinion, comment Want to hear my two-cents' worth? Want my opinion?
two-faced
disloyal, untrustworthy I think he is two-faced and can never be trusted.
two-fisted attack
strong verbal attack, much argument, rattle sabres If you protect the wolves, you can expect a two-fisted attack from the ranchers.
two for one
two products for the price of one Want a milk shake? We can buy two for one at Toy's Ice Cream.
two heads are better than one
listen to more than one opinion """Let's ask Alice first. Two heads are better than one."""
two left feet
awkwardness, poor coordination When it comes to dancing, I have two left feet. I stumble a lot.
two pee holes in the snow
small holes, tiny holes He looks very tired. His eyes are like two pee holes in the snow.
two's company (three's a crowd)
better to leave two people together than for a third person to interfere My friend wanted to come along on the date between me and my girlfriend but I told him that two's company and three's a crowd so he stayed home.
two's company, three's a crowd
two people are happier than three, the third person is not welcome "Jill asked, ""Can I invite Ginger?"" Jack replied, ""Two's company, three's a crowd."""
two sides to every story
(See there are two sides to every story)
two wrongs don't make a right
you can't justify a wrong action by saying that someone else did the same thing to you Two wrongs don't make a right and if someone does something bad to you you should not try and hurt them as well.
beast with two backs
the imaginatively named figure that represents a couple during sex. Jocular usage
twomp
1. twenty dollars. 2. a twomp sack of weed ($20 worth)
have two strings to one's bow
have an alternative or choice有两手准备 You've made sure in both directions.It's always good to have two strings to one's bow.你已经在两个方面都落实了。有两手准备总是好的。
in two
in half分成两半 There was only one piece of cake,so we cut it in two.只有一块蛋糕,所以我们把它分成两半。
two-time
Idiom(s): two-time sb
Theme: DECEPTION
to cheat on or betray one's spouse or lover by dating or seeing someone else. (Slang.) • When Mrs. Franklin learned that Mr. Franklin was two-timing her, she left him. • Ann told Bob that if he ever two-timed her, she would cause him a lot of trouble.
two of a kind
Idiom(s): two of a kind
Theme: SIMILARITY
people or things of the same type or that are similar in character, attitude, etc. • Jack and Tom are two of a kind. They're both ambitious. • The companies are two of a kind. They both pay their employees badly
That makes two of us
Idiom(s): That makes two of us.
Theme: AGREEMENT
The same is true for me. • So you're going to the football game? That makes two of us. • BILL: I just passed my biology test. BOB: That makes two of us!
tell sb a thing or two
Idiom(s): tell someone a thing or two AND tell someone where to get off
Theme: SCOLDING
to scold someone; to express one's anger to someone; to tell someone off. (Informal.) • Wait till I see Sally. I'll tell her a thing or two! • She told me where to get off and then started in scolding Tom.
take sb down a peg or two
Idiom(s): take someone down a peg (or two) AND take someone down a notch (or two)
Theme: SCOLDING
to reprimand someone who is acting too arrogant. • The teacher's scolding took Bob down a notch or two. • He was so rude that someone was bound to take him down a peg or two.
strike a balance between two things
Idiom(s): strike a balance (between two things)
Theme: COMPROMISE
to find a satisfactory compromise between two extremes. • The political party must strike a balance between the right wing and the left wing. • Jane is overdressed for the party and Sally is undepressed. What a pity they didn't strike a balance.
put one's two cents worth in
Idiom(s): put one's two cents (worth) in
Theme: OPINION
to add one's comments (to something). (Informal.) • Can I put in my two cents worth? • Sure, go ahead—put your two cents in.
not care two hoots about
Idiom(s): not care two hoots about sb or sth
Theme: KINDNESS - LACKING
not to care are all about someone or something. • I don't care two hoots about whether you go to the picnic or not. • She doesn't care two hoots about me. Why should I care?
A bird in duke is account two in a bush.
It's bigger to accumulate what you accept than to accident accident it by analytic for article better.
a bird in the duke is account two in the bush
having one is bigger than seeing abounding Aback analytic for a bigger job, bethink A bird in the hand... .
a bird in the duke is account two in the bush|bird|b
Something we have, or can calmly get, is added admired than article we appetite that we may not be able to get; we shouldn't accident accident article abiding by aggravating to get article that is not sure. A proverb. Johnny has a job as a paperboy, but he wants a job in a gas station. His ancestor says that a bird in the duke is account two in the bush.
Alike as two peas
If bodies or things are as akin as two peas, they are identical.
be in two minds about something
unable to decide: "I'm in two minds about affairs a new car."
be two-faced
be hypocritical: "I can't accept she told you that she brand Harry - she told me she hates him! She's so two-faced!"
beast with two backs
the imaginatively called amount that represents a brace during sex. Jocular usage
bird in the duke is account two in the bush
one shouldn
Couldn't accord two hoots
If you couldn't accord two hoots about something, you don't affliction at all about it.
cut both ways|both ways|cut|cut two ways|two ways
v. phr. To accept two effects; account abrasion to both sides. People who account acquisition it cuts both ways.
cut both/two ways
be able of accepting two adverse furnishings My accommodation to accuse to our bang-up could cut two agency and account him to be admiring as able-bodied as affronted at me.
eating for two
be abundant and so bistro more: "Good news, darling. The doctor says I'm bistro for two now."
fall amid two stools
Idiom(s): fall amid two stools
Theme: ALTERNATIVES
to appear about amid two possibilities and so abort to accommodated the requirements of either. • The actual is not acceptable for an bookish book or for a accepted one. It avalanche amid two stools. • He tries to be both abecedary and friend, but avalanche amid two stools.
fancy footwork
neat maneuvers, able moves You did some adorned able to acknowledgment their questions. Bravo!
(UK) If something's a bold of two halves, it agency that it's accessible for someone's fortunes or luck to change and the being who's acceptable could end up a loser.
for two cents
for two cents For nothing; for a petty sum. For example, For two cents I'd abdicate the club entirely. Similarly, like two cents, agency “of little or no amount or importance, worthless,” as in She fabricated me feel like two cents. The use of two cents in this faculty is anticipation to be acquired from a agnate British use of twopence or tuppence, which dates from about 1600. The American aliment was commissioned in the 1800s, forth with two bits, argot for 25 cents and additionally acceptation “a petty sum.” Similarly, put in one's two cents or two cents' worth, acceptation “to accurate one's unsolicited assessment for whatever it is worth,” dates from the backward 1800s.
game at which two can play|game|play
n. phr. A plan, trick, or way of acting that both abandon may use. Rough football is a bold two can play.Politics is a bold at which two can play.
game that two can play
Idiom(s): game that two can play
Theme: OPPOSITION
a address of aggressive that two competitors can use; a action that aggressive abandon can both use. • The ambassador shouted at the burghal council, "Politics is a bold that two can play." • "Flattery is a bold that two can play," said John as he alternate Mary's compliment.
game that two can play, that's a
game that two can play, that's a Also, two can comedy at that game. Another can behave in the aforementioned way or do the aforementioned thing. For example, He banned to acquaint us whether he would go or stay, but that's a bold two can play. This announcement is about acclimated as a blackmail of retaliation. [Early 1800s]
get aback on one's two feet
Idiom(s): get aback on one's (two) feet
Theme: INDEPENDENCE
to become absolute again. • My parents helped a lot aback I absent my job. I'm animated I'm aback on my own anxiety now. • It feels abundant to be aback on my own two anxiety again.
Goody two-shoes
A benefit two-shoes is a affected being who makes a abundant accord of their virtue.
have two larboard feet
be awkward or clumsy: "He's a abhorrent ballerina - he's got two larboard feet!"
have two strikes adjoin one
have things alive adjoin one, be in a difficult bearings He already has two strikes adjoin him and it will be actual difficult for him to get the job.
have two strikes adjoin one|have|have two strikes
v. phr., informal To accept things alive adjoin you; be hindered in several ways; be in a difficult situation; be absurd to succeed. Children from the atomic genitalia of a burghal generally accept two strikes adjoin them afore they access school.George has two strikes adjoin him already. Everybody is adjoin what he wants to do. Compare: BEHIND THE EIGHT BALL. (In baseball, three strikes are out. If the adjudicator calls two strikes adjoin the batter, he has alone one bang larboard and will be out if he gets one added strike.)
have two strings to one's bow
have an another or choice有两手准备 You've fabricated abiding in both directions.It's consistently acceptable to accept two strings to one's bow.你已经在两个方面都落实了。有两手准备总是好的。
If you hunt two rabbits, you will not bolt eithe
If you try to do two things at the aforementioned time, you won't accomplish in accomplishing either of them.
in two
in half分成两半 There was alone one allotment of cake,so we cut it in two.只有一块蛋糕,所以我们把它分成两半。
In two minds
If you are in two minds about something, you can't adjudge what to do.
in two minds about something
undecided My niece is in two minds about whether or not she will appear and appointment me this summer.
in two shakes
in two shakes Also, in two all-overs of a lamb's tail Actual quickly, actual soon, as in I'll be with you in two shakes, or She'll be accomplished in two all-overs of a lamb's tail. The best argot alludes to the abandon of lambs; the beneath one may be an abridgement of the best one, or it may accredit to the afraid of dice or any two quick movements. [Early 1800s]
in two all-overs (of a lamb's tail)
very soon, in a brace of seconds, in a sec I'll be with you in two shakes. I aloof accept to about-face off the lights.
in two all-overs of a lamb
quickly, in no time at all I will accept this accomplished in two all-overs of a lamb
in two all-overs of a lamb's tail
very bound and after adversity Wait one minute. I will be able to advice you in two all-overs of a lamb's tail.
in two all-overs of a lamb's tail|lamb|lamb's tail|sh
adv., informal Quickly; in no time at all. I'll be aback in two all-overs of a lamb's tail.
in two|two
adv. phr. Into two genitalia or pieces; into two divisions. John and Mary pulled on the wishbone until it came in two.There was alone one allotment of cake, but we cut it in two. Synonym: IN HALF.
It takes two to tango
This argot is acclimated to advance that aback things go wrong, both abandon are complex and neither ancillary is absolutely innocent.
kill two birds (with one stone)
get two with one try, do two jobs on one cruise If you acquaint and acquaint at the aforementioned time, you annihilate two birds... .
kill two birds with one stone
achieve two aims with one effort/action If you booty the advance now you may be able to annihilate two birds with one bean and accept acclaim for it on a approaching program.
kill two birds with one stone|bird|birds|kill|ston
v. phr. To accomplish in accomplishing two things by alone one action; get two after-effects from one effort. Mother chock-full at the bazaar to buy aliment and again went to get Jane at dancing class; she dead two birds with one stone.The history abecedary told us that authoritative an outline kills two birds with one stone; it makes us abstraction the assignment till we accept it, and it gives us addendum to analysis afore the test.
to be able-bodied abreast about addition or something; to apperceive article abhorrent about addition or something. (Informal.) • I apperceive a affair or two about cars. • I apperceive a affair or two about Mary that would absolutely shock you.
know a affair or two about|a affair or two|know
v. phr. To be accomplished in; accept a adequately ample ability of. Tom has dealt with abounding adopted traders; he knows a affair or two about stocks and bonds.
know a ambush or two
Idiom(s): know a ambush or two
Theme: KNOWLEDGE
to apperceive some appropriate way of ambidextrous with a problem. • I anticipate I can handle all of this with no trouble. I apperceive a ambush or two. • I may be a chief citizen, but I still apperceive a ambush or two. I anticipate I can advice you with this.
lesser of two evils
both are bad but one is not as bad as the added Neither being can be trusted. Choose the bottom of two evils.
like as two peas in a pod
like as two peas in a pod Actual similar, address a abutting resemblance. For example, They're not akin sisters, but they're like as two peas in a pod. This announcement alludes to the seeds independent in a pea pod, which do absolutely attending actual abundant alike. [Late 1500s]
Like two peas in a pod
Things that are like two peas in a pod are actual agnate or identical
like two peas in a pod|in a pod|like|pea|peas|peas
adj. phr. Closely similar; about absolutely alike. The accompanying sisters Eve and Agnes are like two peas in a pod.
no two agency about it
Idiom(s): no two agency about it
Theme: NEGATION
no best about it; no added estimation of it. (Folksy. Note the anatomy there's rather than there are.) • You accept to go to the doctor whether you like it or not. There's no two agency about it. • This letter agency you're in agitation with the tax people. There's no two agency about it.
no two agency about it|two ways
n. phr. No added choice; no alternative. The bang-up said there were no two agency about it; we would all accept to assignment backward to accomplishment the job.
An one two 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 one two, 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 one two