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carrot and stick
full throttle
rot gut
rotten to the core
rotter
something is rotten...
that's all she wrote
there's something rotten in the state of Denmark
too many cooks spoil the broth
air the diced carrots
bogtrotter
brother
2. African-American male
carrot top
crotch-rocket
on the trot
I could do with a rest for a while；I've been on the trot all the morning．我真想休息一会儿，整个上午我一直在忙个不停。
The job kept me on the trot most of the week．我大半个星期都在忙着这件工作。
2．one after another接连地；一个接一个
They have won three races on the trot．他们在赛跑中接连赢了3次。
She didn't sleep well for four
nights on the trot．她已连续4个晚上没睡好觉了。
protect against
May God protect you from harm tonight．愿上帝保佑你今夜平安。
protect from
May God protect you from harm tonight．愿上帝保佑你今夜平安。
protect from/against
May God protect you from harm tonight．愿上帝保佑你今夜平安。
protest against
We protest against the big country's intervention in the internal affairs of other countries．我们抗议那个大国干涉别国内政。
I protest against being treated in this way．我抗议受到这样的待遇。
wrote the book on
Idiom(s): wrote the book on sthTheme: KNOWLEDGE
to be very authoritative about something; to know enough about something to write the definitive book on it. (Always in past tense.)
• Ted wrote the book on unemployment. He's been looking for work in three states for two years.
• Do I know about misery? I wrote the book on misery!
trot sth out
Idiom(s): trot sth outTheme: COMMUNICATION
to mention something regularly or habitually, without giving it much thought. (Informal.)
• Jack always trots the same excuses out for being late.
• When James disagreed with Mary, she simply trotted out her same old political arguments.
one's brother's keeper
Idiom(s): be one's brother's keeperTheme: RESPONSIBILITY
to be responsible for someone else.
• I can't force these kids to go to school and get an education so they can get jobs. I am not my brother's keeper.
• You can't expect me to be my brother's keeper. Each of us should be responsible!
learn sth by rote
Idiom(s): learn sth by roteTheme: LEARNING
to learn something without giving any thought to what is being learned.
• I learned history by rote; then I couldn't pass the test that required me to think.
• If you learn things by rote, you'll never understand them.
A rotten apple spoils the barrel.
A dishonest or immoral person can have a bad influence on a group.Too many cooks spoil the broth.
If too many people are involved in something, it will not be done properly.Hot to trot
If someone is hot to trot, they are sexually aroused or eager to do something.Parrot fashion
If you learn something parrot fashion, you learn it word for word. A parrot is a bird from South America that can talk.Sick as a parrot
If someone's sick as a parrot about something, they are unhappy, disappointed or depressed about it.carrot and stick|carrot|stick
n. phr. The promise of reward and threat of punishment, both at the same time. John's father used the carrot and stick when he talked about his low grades.globe-trotter|globe|trotter
n. One who has travelled far and wide. Tim and Nancy are regular globe-trotters; there are few countries they haven't been to.learn by rote|learn|rote
v. phr. To blindly memorize what was taught without thinking about it. If you learn a subject by rote, it will be difficult to say anything original about it.parrot-fashion|fashion|parrot
adv. Like a parrot; by rote memorization and without any understanding. The candidate delivered a speech that was prepared for him and he read it parrot-fashion.rotten egg|egg|rotten
n., informal A person whose character or way of acting is not good. His friends have all learned he is a rotten egg. Often used by children in fun, as of someone who is slow in doing something. The boys ran to the river to go swimming and Dick cried, "Last one in is a rotten egg!"rotten to the core|core|rotten|to the core
adj. phr. 1. Thoroughly decayed or spoiled. This apple is inedible; it is brown and soft and rotten to the core. 2. In total moral collapse. The Communist government of Cuba is rotten to the core.scotch broth|broth|scotch
n. A thick barley soup with vegetables and mutton or beef. Mother cooked a hearty scotch broth for dinner.talk rot|rot|talk
v. phr. To say silly things; talk nonsense. He's talking rot when he says that our company is almost bankrupt.too many cooks spoil the broth|broth|cooks|spoil|s
A project is likely to go bad if managed by a multiplicity of primary movers.
A proverb. When several people acted all at once in trying to reshape the company's investment policy, Tom spoke up and said, "Let me do this by myself! Don't you know that too many cooks spoil the broth?"trot out|trot
v. phr. To bring out for inspection; display. Don't mention compact disks to Joe, or he'll trot out his entire collection and we'll be stuck here all night.under protest|protest|under
adv. phr. Against one's wish; unwillingly. "I'll go with you all right," she said to the kidnapper, "but I want it clearly understood that I do so under protest."broth
brothsee too many cooks spoil the broth.
carrot
carrotcarrot and stick
pleasant inducements or promised rewards coupled with threats
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the Proterozoic Eon or its rocks
protest
protestunder protest
while expressing one's objections; unwillingly
rote
rotesee by heart.
rotten apple
rotten appleA bad individual among many good ones, especially one that spoils the group. For example, The roommates are having problems with Edith—she's the one rotten apple of the bunch. This expression is a shortening of the proverb a rotten apple spoils the barrel, coming from a 14th-century Latin proverb translated as “The rotten apple injures its neighbors.” The allusion in this idiom is to the spread of mold or other diseases from one apple to the rest. In English the first recorded use was in Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack (1736).
rotten egg
rotten eggsee under bad egg.
trot
trotIn addition to the idiom beginning with trot, also see hot to trot.
trot out
trot outBring out and show for inspection and admiration, as in He trotted out all his old war medals. This expression alludes to leading out a horse to show off its various paces, including the trot. [Colloquial; first half of 1800s]
stop the rot
To anticipate added damage, loss, abrogating effects, etc., during a ambiguous situation. If we don't stop the rot now, the aggregation ability be in accident of collapsing. We don't accept time to amount out a abiding solution. For now, we aloof accept to stop the rot.Learn more: rot, stopstop the ˈrot
stop article accepting worse, abnormally in backroom or business: Our company’s profits were falling, so a new administrator was appointed to stop the rot.Learn more: rot, stop
More Idioms/Phrases
triple threat triplicate Trojan trolley troop trooper trot trot out trouble trouble one's head with trouble someone for trowel truck true stop on stop on (something) stop on a dime stop one dead in tracks stop out stop over stop payment stop press stop short stop short of (something) stop short of a place stop short of doing stop sleeping on (someone or something) stop someone in their tracks stop someone's clock stop someone's mouth stop something in its tracks stop the bleeding stop the clock stop the lights stop the music Stop the music! Stop the music! Hold everything! Stop the presses! Stop the presses! Hold everything! stop the rot stop the show stop the world, I want to get off stop to smell the roses stop up stop your ears stop, look, and listen stop/halt somebody in their tracks stopper stop-watch critic storage store store (something) in (something or some place) store away store in store up store up trouble for (oneself) store up trouble, etc. for yourself storey stork storked storm storm around storm at storm at (someone or something) storm clouds
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