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tart up | |||
(To dress someone up or make something fancy in a tawdry, garish way: We tarted up the apartment with a pink shag carpet. The dancers tarted themselves up in feathers and sequins.) | |||
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chip off the old block | |||
(a person (usually a male) who behaves in the same way as his father or resembles his father. John looks like his father—a real chip off the old block. Bill Jones, Jr., is a chip off the old block. He's a banker just like his father.) | |||
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bottle it | |||
(To lose one's nerve, courage, or resolve to undertake something. Primarily heard in UK. I wanted to ask Steve on a date, but I bottled it at the last minute.) | |||
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hold the fort | |||
(to take care of a place while someone who is usually there is gone, such as a store or one's home.) | |||
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walk on eggshells | |||
(1. to walk very carefully; to take steps gingerly. Since he stumbled and fell against the china cabinet, Bill has been walking on eggshells. | |||
2. to be very diplomatic and inoffensive. I was walking on eggshells trying to explain the remark to her without offending her further.) | |||
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Revision as of 22:46, 12 February 2016
English Vocabulary, Verbal Phrases and Idioms
Diaspora
Pessimistic
Reel
Bombshell
tart up (To dress someone up or make something fancy in a tawdry, garish way: We tarted up the apartment with a pink shag carpet. The dancers tarted themselves up in feathers and sequins.)
chip off the old block (a person (usually a male) who behaves in the same way as his father or resembles his father. John looks like his father—a real chip off the old block. Bill Jones, Jr., is a chip off the old block. He's a banker just like his father.)
bottle it (To lose one's nerve, courage, or resolve to undertake something. Primarily heard in UK. I wanted to ask Steve on a date, but I bottled it at the last minute.)
hold the fort (to take care of a place while someone who is usually there is gone, such as a store or one's home.)
walk on eggshells (1. to walk very carefully; to take steps gingerly. Since he stumbled and fell against the china cabinet, Bill has been walking on eggshells. 2. to be very diplomatic and inoffensive. I was walking on eggshells trying to explain the remark to her without offending her further.) ---