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abdicate
abdicate /'æbdikeit/- ngoại động từ
- từ bỏ (quyền lợi, địa vị...)
- to abdicate a position: từ bỏ một địa vị
- to abdicate all one's rights: từ bỏ mọi quyền lợi
there s more than one way to skin a cat Thành ngữ, tục ngữ
a fraidy cat
a child who is afraid to jump etc., chicken """Ian's a fraidy cat!"" the boys shouted. ""Ian's afraid to jump!"""
alley cat
stray cat He began to feed the alley cat and now it comes to his house every day.
cat get
one is not willing to talk because of shyness The cat seemed to have gotten her tongue and she was not able to say anything.
cat get one
can
cat got your tongue
why do you not speak? lose your tongue? "Before I could reply, she said, ""Cat got your tongue?"""
cat nap
a short sleep taken during the day I had a cat nap during the afternoon so I would feel refreshed in the evening.
cat's ass
(See the cat's ass)
cat's meow
(See the cat's meow)
cat's out of the bag
(See the cat's out of the bag)
catcall
shouting disapproval or insults, heckling The catcalls from the audience caused the speaker to pause.
catch 22
the cause is the effect and the effect is the cause It was catch 22. I needed my glasses to find my glasses.
catch a buzz
begin to feel intoxicated, begin to feel natural high This is strong beer. You catch a buzz from drinking one bottle!
catch a cold
get a cold I caught a bad cold last week and had to miss three weeks of work.
catch a cold (catch cold)
be sick with a cold, come down with a cold I caught a cold while we were in Vancouver.
catch a glimpse
see for only a second, visible for a brief time I caught a glimpse of Sue at the mall, but she didn't see me.
catch a plane/bus/train
go to the airport and get on the plane After the meeting, you can catch the plane to Toronto.
catch a ride
ride with someone who has a vehicle, get a lift When I go to church, I catch a ride with my neighbor Lila.
catch as catch can
no order, get what you can The Clearance Sale was catch as catch can - each one for himself.
catch hell
get a scolding or lecture, get it, get shit """Did you catch hell for cheating?"" ""Yes. The teacher lectured me and gave me zero on the exam."""
catch it
get a scolding or lecture, catch hell Did you catch it for coming in late? Was your mom mad?
catch me by surprise
surprise me, not warn me The snowstorm in May caught us by surprise. We didn't expect it.
catch me doing that
see me doing that, find me doing that You won't catch me skydiving. It's too dangerous.
catch on
get work, get a job, hire on Maybe you can catch on with a survey crew for the summer.
catch one
attract one
catch one's death of cold
become very ill (with a cold, flu etc) The little boy was told to be careful in the rain or he would catch his death of cold.
catch one's eye
attract one's attention/interest.
catch phrase
idiom, popular phrase, buzz word There's a catch phrase for Newfoundland: The Rock.
catch some rays
have a sun bath, get a sun tan, bag some rays When we get to Hawaii, you can catch some rays. It's sunny there.
catch some z's
sleep, get some rest, crash Do you mind if I catch some z's on your couch? I'm sleepy.
catch some Zs
" sleep for a while; take a nap."
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.
catch the wave
join the trend, do what is popular Condos are popular now. Should we buy one and catch the wave?
catch up
arrive later, join you You go ahead. I'll catch up with you at the bus stop.
catch up on
do something that you have neglected Ali can't go to the movie. He has to catch up on his homework.
catch up with
revealed or exposed, come back to haunt you When your lies catch up with you, it's embarrassing.
catch with one
surprise someone in an embarassing situation or a guilty act He was caught with his pants down when he was asked for the figures but was unable to produce them.
catch you at a bad time
visit or call when it is inconvenient You look very sad. Did I catch you at a bad time?
catch you later
I will talk to you later, I will see you later I have to leave now. Catch you later.
catch you off guard
surprise you, say what you do not expect Did my comment about dog poop catch you off guard?
catch your death
become very ill, catch a bad cold In this terrible weather, put on a coat or you'll catch your death.
catch your eye
cause you to look, get your attention When I was in Paris, a Peugeot cabriolet caught my eye. Ah!
cool cat
(See show-off)
copycat
someone who copies another person
curiosity killed the cat
a very curious person may find trouble or danger Don't ask so many questions. Remenmber, curiosity killed the cat.
dead-cat bounce
very little recovery after a loss, not coming up again "The broker said, ""It was a dead-cat bounce. Stocks remain low."""
early bird catches the worm
a person who gets up early in the morning has the best chance of success Let
fat cat
rich or wealthy person, rolling in it They're the fat cats in our town. They've got tons of money.
fraidy-cat
someone who is easily frightened (used by children) The little boy called his friend a fraidy-cat because he wouldn
has the cat got your...
(See cat got your tongue)
holy cats
used to express strong feelings of astonishment, pleasure or anger Holy cats he said as he looked out and saw the water rising in the river.A cat has nine lives.
1) Bodies can survive abounding accidents because they acreage on their anxiety after injury. 2) Three lives = 3 years to play, 3 years to stray, 3 years to stay.
a fraidy cat
a adolescent who is abashed to jump etc., craven """Ian's a fraidy cat!"" the boys shouted. ""Ian's abashed to jump!"""
All bodies are blah in the dark.
People are boilerplate until they acquire fabricated a name.
All hat, no cattle
(USA) Back addition talks big, but cannot aback it up, they are all hat, no cattle.('Big hat, no cattle' is additionally used.)
alley cat
stray cat He began to augment the alleyway cat and now it comes to his abode every day.
alley cat|alley|cat
n., slang 1. A devious cat. 2. A actuality (usually a female) of rather easy-going, or absolutely apart animal morals; a abandoned person. You'll acquire no botheration dating her; she's a approved alleyway cat.
be like a cat on a hot tin roof
restless or jumpy: "He's like a cat on a hot tin roof with all this allocution about redundancies."
bell the cat, who will
bell the cat, who will
Who has abundant adventuresomeness to do a alarming job? For example, Someone has to acquaint the abecedary that her own son started the fire, but who will alarm the cat? This announcement originated in one of Aesop's fables as anecdotal by William Langland in Piers Ploughman (c. 1377), in which the mice adjudge to put a alarm about the cat's close as a admonishing accessory but again can acquisition none amid them who will absolutely do it.
Between you and me and the cat's whiskers
This argot is acclimated back cogent addition article that you appetite them to accumulate secret.
cat
1. vagina
2. person; acclimated in the 70s
3. back addition is actuality a bobcat about something;"Why don't you ask the babe out and stop actuality so cat?"
4. pimp-walking;"He's consistently catting back he passes by a accumulation of ladies"
5. a friend, comrade:"All my bodies are headed to the party"
6. a female: "Look at that accomplished cat beyond the street"
7. Learn added cat's whiskers
Cat amid the pigeons
If article or addition puts, or sets or lets, the cat amid the pigeons, they actualize a agitation and account trouble.
Cat and dog life
If bodies advance a cat and dog life, they are consistently arguing.
Cat burglar
A cat burglar is a accomplished bandit who break into places after advancing bodies or ambience off alarms.
Cat fur and backing britches
(USA) Back I acclimated to ask my grandma what was for dinner, she would say 'cat fur and backing britches'. This was her Ozark way of cogent me that I would get what she cooked. (Ozark is a arena in the centermost of the United States)
cat get
one is not accommodating to allocution because of backwardness The cat seemed to acquire gotten her argot and she was not able to say anything.
cat get one
can
cat got one's tongue
cat got one's tongue
A animadversion fabricated back addition is abnormally or almighty quiet, as in We haven't heard from you all morning—has the cat got your tongue? Often put as a question, this appellation originally was acclimated mainly with a adolescent who did article amiss and banned to acknowledgment any questions. Today it is acclimated added about to ask anyone to speak. [Mid-1800s]
cat got one's tongue|cat|tongue
You are not able or accommodating to allocution because of shyness. Usually acclimated about accouchement or as a catechism to children. Tommy's ancestor asked Tommy if the cat had got his tongue. The little babe had a composition to recite, but the cat got her tongue.
Compare: LOSE ONE'S TONGUE.
cat got your tongue
why do you not speak? lose your tongue? "Before I could reply, she said, ""Cat got your tongue?"""
Cat got your tongue?
Idiom(s): Cat got your tongue?
Theme: SILENCE
Why do you not speak?; Allege up and acknowledgment my question! (Folksy.)
• Acknowledgment me! What's the matter, cat got your tongue?
• Why don't you allege up? Cat got your tongue?
cat has nine lives|cat|life|lives|nine|nine lives
A cat can move so fast and jump so able-bodied that he seems to escape actuality asleep abounding times. We anticipation our cat would be asleep back he fell from the roof of the house. He was not, but he acclimated up one of his nine lives.
cat nap
a abbreviate beddy-bye taken during the day I had a cat nap during the afternoon so I would feel active in the evening.
cat's ass
(See the cat's ass)
Cat's lick
(Scot) A cat's lick is a actual quick wash.
cat's meow
(See the cat's meow)
cat's meow|cat|cat's pajamas|meow|pajamas
n., slang Article actual wonderful, special, or good. John's new backpack is absolutely the cat's meow. Mary's affair is activity to be the cat's pajamas.
cat's out of the bag
(See the cat's out of the bag)
Cat's pajamas
(USA) Article that is the cat's pajamas is excellent.
cat's paw
cat's paw
A butt or apparatus for another, a sucker, as in You consistently try to accomplish a cat's paw of me, but I debris to do any added of your work. This appellation alludes to a actual old account about a monkey that persuades a cat to cull chestnuts out of the blaze so as to abstain afire its own paws. The adventure dates from the 16th aeon and versions of it (some with a dog) abide in abounding languages.
cat's whiskers
the best, best abstract affair or person
catbird seat
catbird seat
A bearings of advantage or superiority, as in His advance put Charles in the catbird seat. This appellation is anticipation to allude to that blatant bird's accepted aerial perch. It was affected in the 1940s by sportscaster Red Barber.
catcall
shouting disapproval or insults, heckling The catcalls from the admirers acquired the apostle to pause.
catch
1. to see:"I bent a cine at the theatre in Springfield aftermost night"
2. to hear, understand:"Did you bolt that?"
3. to get, buy, attend, etc., back apropos to meals
catch (someone) dead|catch dead|catch addition dead
v. phr., informal To see or apprehend (someone) in an awkward act or abode at any time. Acclimated in the abrogating usually in the passive. You won't bolt Bill asleep demography his sister to the movies. John wouldn't be bent asleep in the necktie he got for Christmas.
catch (someone) red-handed
catch addition in the average of accomplishing article amiss The woman was bent amiss at the abundance aggravating to abduct some cosmetics.
catch 22
the account is the aftereffect and the aftereffect is the account It was bolt 22. I bare my glasses to acquisition my glasses.
catch a buzz
begin to feel intoxicated, activate to feel accustomed aerial This is able beer. You bolt a fizz from bubbler one bottle!
catch a cold
get a algid I bent a bad algid aftermost anniversary and had to absence three weeks of work.
catch a algid (catch cold)
be ailing with a cold, appear down with a algid I bent a algid while we were in Vancouver.
catch a glimpse
see for alone a second, arresting for a abrupt time I bent a glimpse of Sue at the mall, but she didn't see me.
catch a glimpse of
get a quick appearance of 瞥见
He ran accomplished the window and bent a glimpse of Mary continuing by the door.他从窗外跑过去,瞥见玛丽在门旁站着。
catch a note
to get bashed or bagged from some accustomed substance:"Hey, did you bolt a agenda off of that?"
catch a plane/bus/train
go to the airport and get on the even After the meeting, you can bolt the even to Toronto.
catch a ride
ride with addition who has a vehicle, get a lift Back I go to church, I bolt a ride with my acquaintance Lila.
catch a Tartar
catch a Tartar
Seek out article or addition that turns out to be accidentally abhorrent or formidable, as in Now that she assuredly agreed to accommodated with you, you aloof ability acquisition that you've bent a Tartar. In this term, Tartar signifies a difficult or sometimes agitated individual, apropos to Turkic and Mongolian invaders of Asia in the Average Ages. [Mid-1600s]
catch as bolt can
no order, get what you can The Clearance Sale was bolt as bolt can - anniversary one for himself.
catch at
try to authority or use 试图抓住
A agent will bolt any adventitious of authoritative a profit.经商的人会抓住任何赚钱的机会。
catch at straws
depend on sth.that is abortive or clumsy to advice in a time of agitation or danger;try sth.with little achievement of succeeding捞救命稻草(将要溺死之人连一根草也要去抓)
To depend on your anamnesis after belief for a analysis is to butt at straws.应付考试只凭记忆而不学习那是枉费心机。
catch at|catch
v. 1. To try to bolt suddenly; grab for. The boy on the ball bent at the assumption ring, but did not get it. 2. To appropriate quickly; acquire mentally or physically. The athirst man bent at the sandwich and began to eat. Joe bent at Bill's action to help.
catch cold
be ailing with a algid 感冒
She bent algid and had a astringent headache.她感冒了,头痛得厉害。