執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月31日 | Idioms
Kevin: Come on, tell me! I told you my secret. Penny: No, I can’t tell you. You’re a big blabbermouth. You already told everyone about the time I threw up at the dentist’s office. To blab is to give away the secrets of your friends or allies. Some people are just no...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月24日 | Idioms
Ken: You’ll never guess who I saw at the grocery store. Ted: Who? Ken: My old roommate from college! Ted: But didn’t you go to college in California? Ken: Yeah! Small world, huh? We say the world is small because we keep meeting the same people by coincidence. What...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月17日 | Idioms
Bill: So, for Helen’s birthday party, I want to hire a clown, a magician, a pony ride… Karen: Hang on, Bill, let’s not go overboard. She’s only three. I think that might be too much excitement. To go overboard is to get carried away and do too much. Literally, if you...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月10日 | Idioms
(Some children are playing a game of Capture the Flag.) Billy: Oh no! Sarah has a water gun! Erica: We’ll have to fight fire with fire. Get the hose! Fighting fire with fire means using the same weapon or technique that your enemy is using. In the example above, fire...
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...
