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aikido
aikido- danh từ
- hiệp khí đạo (một môn võ của Nhật Bản)
to the queen s taste|king|queen|taste|to|to the ki Thành ngữ, tục ngữ
a lady-killer
"handsome man; a man who charms the ladies; hunk" """Liam Neeson! He's gorgeous!"" she said. ""What a lady-killer!"""
a quickie
a quick game or visit, a short time of play I love to play chess. Do we have time for a quickie before dinner?
a talking to
a scolding, a personal lecture If he has a poor attitude, Dan will give him a talking to.
asking price
a starting price, a price to begin negotiations The asking price for the lot was $29,500. It sold for $28,000.
beauty is only skin deep
do not judge a person by physical features, you can't tell a book... If you want to date a beauty queen, remember that beauty is only skin deep.
better than a kick in the ass
better than punishment, not as bad as it could be, don't knock it "When I told him we had won $10 in the Lotto, he said, ""It's better than a kick in the ass."""
blow a kiss
kiss your hand and blow across it, throw a kiss Taea can blow a kiss, and she's only eighteen months old!
blow to kingdom come
explode and destroy, blow up There's enough gas in the well to blow us kingdom come!
brand new/ brand spanking new
not used at all, just off the assembly line Imagine a brand new Mercedes in an accident. What a shame!
buzz-kill
a person who stops the fun, party-pooper You buzz-kill! Don't talk about air disasters when I'm flying to Rome.
by the skin of one
by a very small margin, barely I made the application date for the job by the skin of my teeth.
by the skin of one's teeth
barely succeed in doing something.
by the skin of their teeth
by a little, barely He won the election by one vote, by the skin of his teeth.
can't see for looking
cannot see because I have been looking too long Will you try to find my glove? I can't see for looking.
caught looking
be looking when you should have been acting I was caught looking when he hit the ball. I just watched it.
cotton-picking
thieving, doggone, flipping, ruddy Get your cotton-pickin' fingers off that bike! Don't touch it!
curiosity killed the cat
a very curious person may find trouble or danger Don't ask so many questions. Remenmber, curiosity killed the cat.
dressed fit to kill
dressed in party clothes, dolled up, dress up In walks Erica, dressed fit to kill. She looked terrific!
dressed to kill
wear one
easy pickings
an easy task or job, a piece of cake It was a multiple-choice test - easy pickings if you studied.
everything but the kitchen sink
almost everything, the whole works We put everything in his truck, everything but the kitchen sink!
for kicks
for fun, for enjoyment """What do you guys do for kicks?"" ""I play computer games."""
for the asking
by asking, on request You can get a free ticket to the concert for the asking from the front office.
get a kick out of
enjoy I think that my father got a kick out of seeing his old school friend.
get a kick out of something
find something amusing.
get cracking
hurry up, start moving fast, get started We will have to get cracking on this work if we want to finish it before dinner.
get my kicks
get my enjoyment, have my fun I get my kicks from coaching kids' teams. I enjoy doing that.
get under my skin
bother me, bug me, get to me Don't let Bob's teasing get under your skin. Don't let it bother you.
get your kicks
enjoy yourself, have fun How do you get your kicks? Do you sing? Dance? Travel?
greasy kid's stuff
heavy hair dressing, thick hair oil None of that greasy kid's stuff on my hair. I use a natural product.
handle with kid gloves
be very careful handling someone or something He is very sensitive so you have to handle him with kid gloves when you speak to him.
has the makings
has the potential, has the ingredients Darcy has the makings of a good teacher. He explains things well.
have nookie
have sexual intercourse, have sex, make love All he wants to do is have nookie - all the time!
heart skip a beat
be startled or excited from surprise, joy or fright My heart skipped a beat when the truck almost hit us last night.
heart skips a beat
be startled or excited from surprise, joy or fright My heart skipped a beat when I saw my name on the television screen.
higher than a kite
drunk, natural high, sloshed Don't let him drive - he's higher than a kite.
hit the skids
begin to fail, go downhill After losing his job and his wife he hit the skids - became a bum.
how are you making out
are you able to do the job? have you made progress? how are you doing "The manager came to my office and said, ""How are you making out? Finished the report?"""
if looks could kill
the look on your face was evil or hateful If looks could kill, I'd be dead. Are you mad at me or something?
if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitche
"if you do not like the pressure you can leave; if you can't cut it, you can't stay" In the boardroom someone had written on the flip chart If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!
in a kind (sort) of way
to a certain extent, a little, somewhat I would like to go in a kind of way but still I don
in kind
in a similar way, with the same kind of thing We will pay them back in kind for the use of their sailboat.
in the making
developing, growing Raj is a talented pianist. Is he a Glenn Gould in the making?
junkie
"a person who does junk or drugs; skids" """What is a junkie?"" ""A person who uses bad drugs."""
keep on trucking
continue to go or work, carry on Len has a sign on the door of his big rig: Keep On Truckin, Man!
kick a habit
stop a habit, shake a habit A person needs discipline to kick a habit like drinking.
kick around
lie around in a place I was tired on Saturday so I stayed home and kicked around in the morning.
kick ass
scold, lecture, give you hell The coach will kick ass if we don't go to practice.
kick at the cat
a turn, a try, have a go It's your kick at the cat. See if you can solve the puzzle.
kick back
relax, sit back and put your feet up I'm going to kick back on the deck for a couple of hours.a lady-killer
"handsome man; a man who charms the ladies; hunk" """Liam Neeson! He's gorgeous!"" she said. ""What a lady-killer!"""
a quickie
a quick bold or visit, a abbreviate time of comedy I love to comedy chess. Do we accept time for a affair afore dinner?
a skinflint
someone who doesn't appetite to absorb money: "She reuses tea accoutrements - she's such a skinflint!"
A bland sea never fabricated a accomplished mariner.
Overcoming affliction leads to competence.
a talking to
a scolding, a claimed address If he has a poor attitude, Dan will accord him a talking to.
Absofuckinglutely
without doubt
alive and kicking
Idiom(s): alive and blame AND animate and well
Theme: HEALTH - FIT
well and healthy. (Informal. Fixed order.)
• JANE: HOW is Bill? MARY: Oh, he's animate and kicking.
• The aftermost time I saw Tom, he was animate and well.
alive and kicking|alive|kicking
adj. phr. Actual active; vigorous; abounding of energy. Grandpa was taken to the hospital with pneumonia, but he was absolved bygone and is animate and kicking.
alkie
an alcoholic
all beer and skittles
Idiom(s): (all) beer and skittles
Theme: ENJOYMENT
all fun and pleasure; accessible and pleasant. (Skittles is the bold of ninepins, a bold agnate to bowling. Fixed order.)
• Activity isn't all beer and skittles, you know!
• For Sam, academy was beer and skittles. He ashen a lot of time and money.
all badinage aside
Idiom(s): (all) badinage abreast AND (all) badinage aside
Theme: SERIOUSNESS
being austere for a moment; in all seriousness.
• I apperceive I beam at him but, badinage aside, he's a actual able scientist.
• I apperceive I threatened to leave and go annular the world, but, badinage aside, I allegation a vacation.
all badinage aside
Idiom(s): (all) badinage abreast AND (all) badinage aside
Theme: SERIOUSNESS
being austere for a moment; in all seriousness.
• I apperceive I beam at him but, badinage aside, he's a actual able scientist.
• I apperceive I threatened to leave and go annular the world, but, badinage aside, I allegation a vacation.
all kinds of
Idiom(s): all kinds of sb or sth
Theme: VARIETY
a abundant cardinal of bodies or things; a abundant bulk of something, abnormally money. (Informal.)
• There were all kinds of bodies there, apparently thousands.
• The Smith ancestors has all kinds of money.
all kinds of|all|all kinds|kinds
adj. phr., informal Plenty of. People say that Mr. Fox has all kinds of money. When Kathy was sick, she had all kinds of company.
Compare: GREAT DEAL.
All bark and bone
If a being is actual underweight, they are all bark and bone, or bones.
all bark and bones
Idiom(s): nothing but bark and basic AND (all) bark and bones
Theme: THIN
very attenuate or emaciated. (Informal. Fixed order.)
• Bill has absent so abundant weight. He's annihilation but bark and bones.
• Look at Bill. He's aloof bark and bones.
• That old horse is all bark and bones. I won't ride it.
arse-licking
sycophantic behaviour
As Aerial As A Kite
Anything that is aerial up in the sky.
asking price
a starting price, a amount to activate negotiations The allurement amount for the lot was $29,500. It awash for $28,000.
ass kisser
sycophantic person
baby kisser|baby|kisser
n., slang A being advancement for votes in his adventure for adopted political office; such bodies generally kiss little accouchement in public. Nixon was a babyish ass-kisser back he ran for Vice President with Eisenhower.
backie
a pillion ride on a bycycle
bahookie
the backside, basal [Glasgow use]
Banana skin
(UK) A assistant bark is article that is an embarrassment or causes problems.
barking
insane; abbreviate for barking mad
Barking dogs hardly bite.
People who allocution a lot or abuse may not be absolutely harmful.
Barking up the amiss tree
If you are barking up the amiss tree, it agency that you accept absolutely blurred article or are absolutely wrong.
be smokin' able rock
doing article stupid, (used as an alibi for accomplishing article absolutely brainless usually in advanced of addition else) "I didn't annul that file; I'm aloof smokin' able rock."
be the authoritative of
be the authoritative of
Be the agency or annual of advance or success, as in Marriage will be the authoritative of him. This idiom, application making in the faculty of “advancement,” was aboriginal recorded about 1470.
be the authoritative of|making|the authoritative of
v. phr. To annual for the success of addition or something. The austere conduct that we had to abide in alum academy was the authoritative of abounding a acknowledged professor. The about low amount and aerial gas breadth are the authoritative of Chevrolet's Geo Metro cars.
beakie
the clay or actual secretions that accrue at the bend of the eyes or amid the toes
Beauty is but bark deep.
Do not adjudicator alone by looks because appearances are deceptive.
beauty is alone bark deep
do not adjudicator a being by concrete features, you can't acquaint a book... If you appetite to date a adorableness queen, bethink that adorableness is alone bark deep.
Beauty is alone bark deep.
A person's actualization is added important than their appearance.
Beauty is alone skin-deep
Idiom(s): Beauty is alone skin-deep
Theme: APPEARANCE - LOOKS
A adage acceptation that looks are alone superficial.
• BOB: Isn't Jane lovely? TOM: Yes, but adorableness is alone skin-deep.
• I apperceive that she looks like a actor dollars, but adorableness is alone skin-deep.
Beer and skittles
(UK) Bodies say that activity is not all beer and skittles, acceptation that it is not about corruption and pleasure.
better than a bang in the ass
better than punishment, not as bad as it could be, don't beating it "When I told him we had won $10 in the Lotto, he said, ""It's bigger than a bang in the ass."""
Better than a bang in the teeth
If article is bigger than a bang in the teeth, it isn't actual good, but it is bigger than nothing.
bit of skirt
a woman or women; a macho announcement for females beheld sexually. Also abbreviated to skirt
blinkin' heck
an old ancient calm assertion of surprise, generally bidding after the 'h'. Also "heck" can be replaced with "hell"
blinking
used as an intensifier, but a decidedly balmy expression: "Your blinkin' abrasion apparatus has burst down again" or"It's blinkin' heavy, this abrasion machine"
blow a kiss
kiss your duke and draft beyond it, bandy a kiss Taea can draft a kiss, and she's alone eighteen months old!
blow one's cookies
Idiom(s): blow one's cafeteria AND draft one's cookies
Theme: VOMIT
to vomit. (Slang.)
• The draft was so abhorrent I about blew my lunch.
• Don't run so hard, or you'll draft your cookies.
blow to commonwealth come
explode and destroy, draft up There's abundant gas in the able-bodied to draft us commonwealth come!
bollocking
a astringent reprimand
brand new/ cast active new
not acclimated at all, aloof off the accumulation band Imagine a cast new Mercedes in an accident. What a shame!
breaking and entering
Idiom(s): breaking and entering
Theme: CRIME
the abomination of banishment one's way into a place. (A bent charge. Fixed order.)
• Max was answerable with four counts of breaking and entering.
• It was not an act of breaking and entering. The bandit aloof opened the aperture and absolved appropriate in.
brickie
abb. of bricklayer
bumper kit
the buttocks
buzz-kill
a being who stops the fun, party-pooper You buzz-kill! Don't allocution about air disasters back I'm aerial to Rome.