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back to the salt mines
Your guess is as good as mine
Idiom(s): Your guess is as good as mine.Theme: CERTAINTY - LACKING
Your answer is likely to be as correct as mine. (Informal.)
• I don't know where the scissors are. Your guess is as good as mine.
• Your guess is as good as mine as to when the train will arrive.
gold mine of information
Idiom(s): gold mine of informationTheme: KNOWLEDGE
someone or something that is full of information.
• Grandfather is a gold mine of information about World War I.
• The new encyclopedia is a positive gold mine of useful information.
either feast or famine
Idiom(s): either feast or famineTheme: AMOUNT
either too much (of something) or not enough (of something). (Also without either. Fixed order.)
• This month is very dry, and last month it rained almost every day. Our weather is either feast or famine.
• Sometimes we are busy, and sometimes we have nothing to do. It's feast or famine.
cross-examine
Idiom(s): cross-examine sbTheme: LEGAL - COURTROOM
to ask someone questions in great detail; to question a suspect or a witness at great length.
• The police cross-examined the suspect for three hours.
• The lawyer plans to cross-examine the witness tomorrow morning.
bound and determined
Idiom(s): bound and determinedTheme: DETERMINATION
determined. (Fixed order.)
• We were bound and determined to get there on time.
• I'm bound and determined that this wont happen again.
Back to the salt mine
If someone says they have to go back to the salt mine, they have to return to work.Canary in a coal mine
(UK) A canary in a coal mine is an early warning of danger.Feast today, famine tomorrow
If you indulge yourself with all that you have today, you may have to go without tomorrow.back to the salt mines|back|mine|mines|salt|salt m
informal Back to the job; back to work; back to work that is as hard or as unpleasant as working in a salt mine would be.
An overworked phrase, used humorously. The lunch hour is over, boys. Back to the salt mines! "Vacation is over," said Billy. "Back to the salt mines."feast or a famine|a feast or a famine|either a fea
n. phr. Plenty or very little; big success or bad failure. In this business it's either a feast or a famine. He is very careless with his money, it is always a feast or a famine with him.mine of information|information|mine
n. phr. A person, a book, etc., that is a valuable source of information. A dictionary can be a mine of information. He is a mine of information on the stock market.bound and determined to
bound and determined toFirmly resolved to, as in He was bound and determined to finish the assignment before taking on another. This phrase is a redundancy used for emphasis, as bound and determined here both mean “resolved to.” Also see bound to, be.
determine
determinesee bound and determined to.
famine
faminesee feast or famine.
feast or famine
feast or famineAlso, either feast or famine. Either too much or too little, too many or too few. For example, Free-lancers generally find it's feast or famine—too many assignments or too few, or Yesterday two hundred showed up at the fair, today two dozen—it's either feast or famine. This expression, which transfers an overabundance or shortage of food to numerous other undertakings, was first recorded in 1732 as feast or fast, the noun famine being substituted in the early 1900s.
get one's head examined
get one's head examinedAlso, have one's head examined. One is crazy or absolutely wrong. For example, You like this food? Go get your head examined, or If you believe that story, you should have your head examined. This hyperbolic and usually jocular expression of disagreement may, thought Eric Partridge, allude to the now discredited field of phrenology, which holds that the configurations of the skull reveal mental and emotional characteristics. [Early 1900s]
gold mine
gold mineA rich, plentiful source of wealth or some other desirable thing, as in That business proved to be a gold mine, or She's a gold mine of information about the industry. [First half of 1800s]
mine
minesee back to the salt mines; gold mine; your guess is as good as mine.
muối mỏ
1. Để làm cho một mỏ có vẻ sinh lời bằng cách lấp đầy nó bằng quặng có chứa nguyên liệu mong muốn. Hóa ra là họ vừa ướp muối mỏ cũ bị bỏ hoang bằng trước gửi vàng cấp thấp để thuyết phục chúng tui mua, sau đó bỏ qua thị trấn với số trước này.2. Đưa thông tin sai lệch về một thứ gì đó nhằm tăng giá trị, hiệu lực hoặc tiềm năng mong muốn của nó một cách gian dối. Sau khi hồ sơ lan truyền trên các phương tiện truyền thông, gần đến đỉnh điểm là tổng thống bị luận tội, người ta vừa đưa ra ánh sáng rằng chiến dịch của thượng nghị sĩ vừa "muối bỏ bể" bằng các tài khoản giả mạo của các nhân chứng vừa được trả trước để hợp tác ... Xem thêm: mine, alkalimuối mỏ
gian lận làm cho một mỏ khai thác có vẻ là một mỏ trả trước bằng cách cho quặng giàu vào đó. bất chính thức. Xem thêm: mỏ, muối. Xem thêm:
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