My Best Friend Nyssa's wedding

 

IDIOMS---2005/Dec/29

01. as blind as a bat: someone who has poor eyesight.
02. as quiet as a mouse: very silent.
03. a bookworm: someone who enjoys reading a lot.
04. a copy cat: someone who likes to imitate others.
05. chicken: coward
06. an early bird: Allan arrives at the office before everyone else.
He always does what he has decided.
07. to eat like a horse: Every time Jess goes walking in the mountains,
he comes home with a big appetite, and he eats like a horse. (to eat a lot)
08. pigheaded: Adam is so pigheaded that he never listens to anyone.
he always does what he has decided. (stubborn)
09. to smell a rat: I could smell a rat. Someone stopped me on the street
and offered to sell me a gold watch for five dollars. (to get the feeling that
something weird was going on.)
10. to talk turkey: Let's stop being polite and talking around the problem.
Let's start to talk turkey. (to talk something directly, say things straight)
11. to work like a dog: he works two jobs and goes to college. He works like
a dog because he understands the importance of education. (work hard)

IDIOMS---2005/Dec/22

01. big mouth: someone who can't keep secret.
02. By heart: to memorize
03. to cost an arm and a leg: expensive.
04. to have a sweet tooth: someone who likes to eat sweet things.
05. head over heels in love: to be in love deeply.
06. a long face: Because Judy didn't get an invitation to the party,
she's walked around with a long face since yesterday. (upset)
07. nosey: Every time I go out, I notice my nosey neighbors watching
me. They must know everything about me. (someone who likes to
discover other people's privacy.)
08. a pain in the neck: Waiting for the bus on the cold, windy corner
is a pain in the neck (troublesome)
09. to pull someone's leg: Tomorrow is not a holiday. Don't believe
Rich, He is just pulling your leg. (joking, telling a lie)
10. to see eye to eye: Lucy and Dick never argue. They see eye to
eye on almost everything. (to share the same opinions and agree
to each other)
11. to shake a leg: Shake a leg! We have to be at school in twenty
minutes. (to hurry)
12. to break a leg: Good Luck!!

IDIOMS---2005/Dec/8

01. at first sight: the first impression
02. forty winks: to take a nap / to take a short sleep
03. in seventh heaven: extremely happy
04. of two minds: face a dilemma
05. on cloud nine: extremely happy
06. on second thought: to have an idea after thinking of something
clearly. To think twice before makes decision.
07. to put two and two together: We saw our neighbors putting
suitcases into their car. So we put two and two together and
concluded that they were going away on a trip. (to use the evidence
around you, to figure out the answers.)
08. second nature: Learning to golf is second nature to some people.
They can hit the ball well with no problem the very first time.
(talent, something you are good at naturally.)
09. second to none: The food in that restaurant is second to none.
You really get the best meals there. (best)
10. six of one, half a dozen of the other: we can either stay home
or go to the movie. I don't care. For me, it's six of one, half a
dozen of the other. (doesn't matter)
11. six sense: Lisa has a sixth sense for directions. She always
knows which road to take to get where she wants to go.
(intuition, gut feeling)
12. got carried away: Over doing something

IDIOMS---2005/Sep/22

01. blow s/t out: extinguish
She was not able to blow the candles out, so I helped her.
02. become of: happen to
What has become of my pencil? I had it ten minutes ago,
but I can't find it now.
03. shut up: The students got into big trouble for telling
their teacher to shut up.
04. has got: has caught
Curtis has got a bad cold. He’s sneezing and coughing a lot.
05. has got to: must
She has got to go to Chicago today to sign the contract.
06. keep up: catch up, follow
I can't keep up with him because he walks too fast.
07. On the other hand: on the contrary
My sister takes after my father in appearance. On the other
hand, I take after my mother.
08. turned down: refuse, rejected
I've been turned down by the graduate school that I applied
to last month. I guess I will start looking for a job.
09. fifty-fifty: go dutch
Let's go fifty-fifty on the cost of a new rug for our apartment.
10. break something in: to use something carefully,
to get the thing to be fit.
It is best to break a new car in by driving it slowly for the first
few hundred miles.
11. lost cause: no use, hopeless
It seems that Charles will never listen to our advice. I suppose
it's a lost cause.
12. above all: Sheila does well in all her school subjects, but
above all in mathematics. Her math scores are always over 95%

IDIOMS---2005/Nov/17

01. the apple of one's eye: the most precious treasure.
02. baloney: a polite form of “BS(Bull Shit)”; ** to describe something or action that
makes people upset. // ** a kind of food, like sausage
03. to cream someone: to really beat up someone in a game.
04. fishy: suspicious
05. to go bananas: go crazy
06. in a pickle: in trouble
07. a lemon: a bad product
08. nuts: crazy
09. a peach: nice person
10. peanuts: very cheap
11. a piece of cake: something that's easy