English Expressions

508eb0aa anonymous 2016-02-26 11:30
>>b7711b08

When you omit where you are escaping from, you just say,
"Make it out," and the other person will have to see what you've meant
from the context.
0bc20817 anonymous 2016-02-26 11:45
watch your six: watch your back
175bd406 anonymous 2016-02-26 11:54
a rat that flies: a bat
dd545663 anonymous 2016-02-26 11:56
cut someone loose: dismiss someone from his job or position
0e952069 anonymous 2016-02-26 12:38
pink eye: conjunctivitis
bf4e4268 anonymous 2016-02-26 12:43
already packed: ready to go about carrying out a task
bd18af29 anonymous 2016-02-26 17:44
>>508eb0aa
got it!
e421c139 anonymous 2016-02-27 10:19
That is as sexy as it can get: It is as dangerous or exciting as that at most
a8a02110 anonymous 2016-02-27 10:32
a shit Carlton: a hotel that might have been gorgeous when new but now is horribly ragged
065320a5 anonymous 2016-02-28 10:27
句読法
https://www.gfd-dennou.org/arch/hiroki/homepage-old/main020.html
a1d0b511 anonymous 2016-03-09 15:11
the crap: the prisoners of war
9cf32402 anonymous 2016-03-09 15:13
>>a1d0b511
I've never seen this one before...
70e66194 anonymous 2016-03-15 15:30
redneck: a physical laborer particularly in the south of the United States
43b0f7d0 anonymous 2016-03-15 15:31
>>9cf32402

Neither had I, until I saw a movie about some men in the second world
war. It may not be used now in daily life any longer.
d93008b6 anonymous 2016-03-21 09:47
the first in the boat house: the very first experience of doing a
particular type of tasks
55a94e34 anonymous 2016-03-21 09:53
an upper hand: an advantage
95af75e4 anonymous 2016-03-21 10:20
The more I hear it, the more I don't like it. ··· Yeah, that sounds like
a mistake, but I heard it in the movie "The Bridge of Spies". It should
have been "The more I hear it, the less I like it, " or "The more I hear
it, the more I dislike it, " if they had adhered to the textbooks, but
the mistake-like expression seems to be tolerated. Well, at least, I had
no trouble understanding what was meant.
a6d0113f anonymous 2016-03-21 10:43
>>95af75e4
So-called "native speakers" make all sorts of mistakes, but they can get away with them because they don't have an accent. Oh well.
6d8f72b7 anonymous 2016-03-24 21:16
a wrinkle: a good idea 
9d299326 anonymous 2016-04-03 17:35
have something in hand: have something under control
5d309880 anonymous 2016-04-04 13:24
fuck someone over: deceive someone
a6b9078b anonymous 2016-04-06 19:52
crushing hours: boring hours
14c99587 anonymous 2016-04-06 19:58
go belly up: go bankrupt
ffe1256e anonymous 2016-04-15 10:34
low on ~: running short of ~
26b8e439 Old Timer i1b5ibip3kS 2016-04-20 21:34
maître d' : the chief of the waiters
2622119b anonymous 2016-04-23 16:01
set up shop : make oneself ready for a combat
04de5c19 anonymous 2016-04-25 09:03
join (ones') legs : have sex
3a1f34b4 anonymous 2016-04-26 10:10
floor : knock down
7e31ccad anonymous 2016-04-26 11:05
bootleg : smuggle
c6cba439 anonymous 2016-04-26 11:08
be terrible on something : not fit for something at all 
dd73a185 anonymous 2016-04-26 11:09
get back on feet : re-establish oneself economically
0ab97297 anonymous 2016-04-26 11:18
a bouncer : a guard
7e71fbfd anonymous 2016-04-26 11:25
>>0ab97297
A "bouncer" usually means somebody standing at the entrance of a bar who is responsible for checking IDs and making sure nobody would mess around. My martial arts teacher used to work as a bouncer. He was a pretty big guy and you certainly wouldn't want to mess with him.
05dbb538 anonymous 2016-04-27 22:34
under the radar : hidden
983052b6 anonymous 2016-04-28 13:45
>>7e71fbfd

Yup. And there are bouncers, perhaps of a much more dangerous sort, at offices of a mafia, according to the movie I saw, «He Never Died».
d8917855 anonymous 2016-05-01 07:32
inside an hour : within an hour (This is from the movie «The Revenant» depicting the colonial time of North America and may be an old expression.)
d0b1ea50 anonymous 2016-05-06 14:48
a shit storm : a torrent of hostile criticisms
72ae0539 anonymous 2016-05-13 20:17
kill oneself to ··· : make the greatest efforts possible to ...
c635ffd9 anonymous 2016-05-13 20:24
in days : for days (I've heard this said by some old people.)
fc2bad83 anonymous 2016-05-13 20:27
humongous : huge
ca27adfd anonymous 2016-05-13 20:38
stay-at-home husband : a househusband
3b1e55b8 anonymous 2016-05-13 21:00
transport : attract in an artistic way
68268f0c anonymous 2016-05-13 21:19
racket : something noisy or annoying
227ce57f anonymous 2016-05-14 21:18
normalish : being inherently normal and ordinary in a rather boring way
79c9b44e anonymous 2016-05-14 22:25
How do you do? : (Can you believe this? I heard this said by someone at
a funeral meeting another for the first time! It's still part of our
current English.)
f6fb8f69 anonymous 2016-05-17 21:47
resus time : an intermission
f8f9b062 anonymous 2016-05-17 21:52
I feel like abandoning all the responsibilities I have put on my shoulder.
I want to be free from any of them.
They almost have already killed me.
b22dc68c anonymous 2016-05-17 23:24
>>f8f9b062
Tell me what happened. Deadly hard works or kind of that? Bless you. 
46f75e21 anonymous 2016-05-18 18:46
>>b22dc68c
A ton of thanks!
A few words can save one from agony. I really feel it.
My load is submitting 10 pages or some of a journal paper. Still working on that.

By the way, has anyone, hopefully a native speaker of English, ever heard Cockney Rhyming Slang or its equivalent?
I'm interested in how many people speak that kind of language in these times.
903bb217 anonymous 2016-05-18 22:43
truce : a respite from a disagreeable state of affairs
afce7fe0 anonymous 2016-05-23 10:33
run down ... : look for ...
7baa21c0 anonymous 2016-05-23 13:51
stand down : step out [of some activity or business deal in the middle of it] 
66c95b13 anonymous 2016-05-25 10:21
come in ···-th : be ranked as the ···-th
7eb3ce24 anonymous 2016-05-25 15:46
go full throttle on ··· : take ··· very seriously
7017df7b anonymous 2016-05-27 21:57
jubby : obese
431ffa61 anonymous 2016-06-01 16:48
give a crap about : care about
67a52b17 anonymous 2016-06-01 17:09
>>431ffa61
That's a good one.
293d3b83 anonymous 2016-06-07 08:43
The realizing that original English songs are totally different from Japanese one extremely surprised me. We could call them either awesome or fake.Any way,you must check them if you didn't know. 
ee55b3fd anonymous 2016-06-09 14:30
>>293d3b83

It's often the same between a French original song and its English version. «Comme d'habitude» describes a timid and cowardly man who has been married to a woman who's probably beautiful and apparently too sociable for him to be comfortable with. But its English version «My Way» is all about a rather heroic man near the end of his life who looks happily back on how he has lived fully up to his own expectations.
c9dcd9cc anonymous 2016-06-09 14:31
on a part of : on behalf of (This sounds new and I wonder if it will really stick.)
5cfde06f anonymous 2016-06-09 14:35
take a different half to do something : take a different way to do something
ce12d131 anonymous 2016-06-09 14:35
collusion : a barrier in one's way of thinking, which barrier seems to prevent one from looking or reaching further on
d5cc7fb8 anonymous 2016-06-09 14:42
break cover : if a spy agent breaks cover, it means he gets out of the place or the organization being spied and gets in touch with his boss or case officer.
8a8bc6ad anonymous 2016-06-09 15:07
It's not my line : I won't dare to do it
57a1ed25 anonymous 2016-06-23 19:41
take off : get divorced (This sounds so new I wonder if it is yet to be used commonly.)
ffffce0e anonymous 2016-09-09 16:50
A Beninese insisted that people avoid the passive voice in daily conversation in English, but I strongly doubt what he said. At least, Americans say things like, "I was given a gift." And it cannot be replaced by "I received a gift."
dfccb89e anonymous 2016-10-12 21:21
>>ffffce0e

That must be Beninese English.
8bee93a3 anonymous 2016-12-02 23:38
scare the hell out of ~ : scare ~ extremely
21f18cf2 anonymous 2016-12-09 11:15
a big dog : an important person
2672aa0b anonymous 2016-12-18 12:38
(v) walk out on : abandon | dump
1b1dd409 anonymous 2017-02-08 14:54
opponent : also, someone being talked to
f1bd394a anonymous 2017-02-13 15:14
for like an hour : for about an hour
51f6f993 anonymous 2017-02-13 15:19
play the shit down : say something ridiculous or meaningless
45c5ba00 anonymous 2017-02-13 15:34
(v) play along = adjust oneself in a viable way
e63f368a anonymous 2017-02-19 13:50
for kicks : for fun

(v) be lunch : be doomed or dead
db6578ee anonymous 2017-02-22 09:43
(v) check out the ~ situation : go and see if one will be able to borrow a ~
bec6d181 anonymous 2017-02-22 09:56
would kill to ... = would do just about anything so as to ...
fa3b9681 anonymous 2017-02-22 10:00
... for the taking : ... that one can take or catch
e1c39c9a anonymous 2017-02-23 14:14
An hour or an hour and half tops. : It is an hour or an hour and half at longest.
59da3a49 anonymous 2017-02-23 15:00
a fish head : a fool
fdb3e1d3 anonymous 2017-02-23 15:04
a stoner : a drug addict
c501e0ff anonymous 2017-03-04 14:53
If you trump what someone has said or done, you beat it by saying or doing something else that seems better.
5c10ee05 anonymous 2017-03-24 17:52
"Curiosity killed the cat":warn of the dangers of "unnecessary" investigation or experimentation
c8f53459 anonymous 2017-04-28 11:55
a lead on ... : a clue or hint to ...
89c6ae84 anonymous 2017-05-19 09:20
have enough salt to ... = have enough experience to
c10b69fe anonymous i1b5ibip3kS 2017-05-19 09:21
to enlist = to volunteer to serve in the military forces
4bd6552f anonymous 2017-06-07 09:07
a stick in the mud : a very boring person
7f72ffe7 anonymous 2017-07-08 13:45
Swamped = busy
0b5270bc anonymous 2017-10-06 18:31
step out of one's position = act beyond one's qualification
d1bddf6a anonymous 2017-10-07 21:20
I heard "How do you do?" used in the movie «The Time
Traveler's Wife» published in 2009. That expression seems to
be making its inroad back into the mainstream.
27236d0b anonymous 2017-10-24 21:57
Slice of Life Anime  : "nitijoukei"
cb2d61f7 anonymous 2017-11-04 00:37
err on the side of caution: act in the least risky manner
62503b7f anonymous 2018-02-23 16:18
to force oneself upon someone = to rape someone
0b16c962 anonymous 2018-06-23 07:44
chagrin : regret
e85e37f7 anonymous 2018-11-20 07:19
flip one's gourd = be extremely upset or excited
f1c8222b anonymous 2018-12-14 16:20
ameliorate : improve
972cb785 anonymous 2019-01-28 00:04
redoubtable = awesome
6b127be4 anonymous 2019-01-29 22:35
my favorite link http://www.engslang.com/
7c403596 anonymous 2019-05-19 01:14
late dinner : 忙しくて遅刻したの言い訳
1385cbf6 anonymous 2019-08-10 16:49
this is all Greek to me:日本語でおk

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