執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月03日 | Idioms
“Where’s Bob? He’s usually the first one here.” “You won’t be seeing him around here anymore. He got axed!” “Really? What happened?” “The boss found out he was brewing his own beer in the storage room.” To be axed is to be fired from a job. It compares being fired to...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年09月26日 | Idioms
Philips: Johnson, did you get that database finished yet? Johnson: No, that’s going to take at least a week. Philips: I was hoping it would be ready tomorrow. Johnson: Hey, Rome wasn’t built in a day. A big project takes time to finish. We compare any such project to...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年09月19日 | Idioms
Lisa: Mommy, buy me this toy. Mother: No, honey, we can’t afford it this month. Why don’t you ask Santa for it? Lisa: I’ll tell Daddy who killed his tulips. Mother: That’s really hitting below the belt. In some kinds of fighting, there are rules about where you can...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年09月05日 | Idioms
Son: Hurry up, Mom, let’s go! Mother: Hold your horses, I have to change clothes before we go see Grandma. “Hold your horses” means “wait a minute” or “slow down”. Before everyone had cars, people used horses to go places or carry things. Maybe we still say “hold your...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年08月29日 | Idioms
Husband: Lily, you play entirely too many video games. How much have you spent on games this year? Wife: Oh, something in the ballpark of $500. That’s not so much! The ballpark is a place to play baseball. You need a lot of space to play baseball, so it’s a wide open...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年08月22日 | Idioms
Bob: I heard you started your own company. How is it going? Fred: Terrible, actually. We are deep in the red. In a budget, the positive numbers (showing profit) are black. The negative numbers (meaning you are losing money) are red. So when someone is in debt or...
