English Expressions

f28bcc87 anonymous 2011-06-19 10:14
little girls' room: a toilet
5ad118c4 anonymous 2011-06-21 17:44
to be late: to be pregnant
41cc5a1b anonymous 2011-11-15 18:04
to cook up: to invent
b3fb23b7 anonymous 2011-12-08 13:06
cowboy: a soldier

football field: the environment
931e4ea2 anonymous 2011-12-09 14:02
toy: a weapon which one is not quite familiar with
20822a06 anonymous 2011-12-09 14:26
jump all over someone: get angry in an unreasonable way at someone
b0703995 anonymous 2011-12-10 10:47
double time: in a hurry
db584571 anonymous 2011-12-29 09:47
to go the distance: to go to the extreme
963ef589 anonymous 2012-01-04 17:28
This year want to buy a SSD
990adde1 anonymous 2012-01-05 00:42
boyfirend: ATM
298c976c anonymous 2012-01-06 20:02
want to be studied: need to be studied
bc0f4dfc anonymous 2012-01-16 10:29
to electcute: to carry out with an electric means a death penalty order
on a person 
152c0ef1 anonymous 2012-01-20 15:10
dumpster: someone that has been dumped as unnecessary, especially at a
very young age
9fd3f1c7 anonymous 2012-02-05 11:17
a bug: a virus
48d55125 anonymous 2012-02-28 06:22
paper pusher: a clerk employed to keep records, documents or accounts in an office
d213990f anonymous 2012-02-28 06:29
Hoover's boy:  an FBI agent
43ca3349 anonymous 2012-02-28 15:55
fire bug: an arsonist
7cd046fb anonymous 2012-03-01 05:57
slave driver: a very demanding boss
6262eee6 anonymous 2012-03-10 06:50
cat (used as an uncountable noun): meat of a cat
b7f851e5 anonymous 2012-03-16 10:09
temp: a worker, either part-time or full-time, hired on a temporary
basis
a3e06cfc anonymous 2012-03-20 15:59
crash: to sleep in. For example, "We are gonna have to find some place
to crash."
7eae8d8f anonymous 2012-03-22 18:30
call ~ collect: to make a collect call to ~
a123a4e9 anonymous 2012-03-24 18:42
on the count of five: counting up to five. (I am not sure if this is a
stable, widely used expression.)
88c4bbf4 anonymous 2012-04-09 08:57
to trust someone with something: to trust someone and let her or him
have something
d5915f13 anonymous 2012-04-10 18:23
a family of means: a wealthy family
8f1ac4e3 anonymous 2012-04-11 11:39
to card somone: to accept a credit card payment from someone
d478d412 anonymous 2012-05-08 14:19
random citizen: one of you ladies and gentlemen
76335a41 anonymous 2012-06-21 16:07
cash cropper: people who grow plants that are made into addictive drugs
d4aa7732 anonymous 2012-06-26 10:41
jungle cat: a tiger
250962ec anonymous 2012-06-28 14:36
sweetheart: a benevolent person
c20dcc4f anonymous 2012-08-22 10:17
in and up: busy
f5843e88 anonymous 2012-08-22 13:51
snow day: the shop is closed
717d7817 anonymous 2012-10-01 17:10
pull out: to cancel a planned participation
5f7339a0 anonymous 2012-10-18 12:43
go Joburg: to do a rough, tough, hard interrogation on someone, normally
a criminal
a755ff86 anonymous 2012-12-06 22:22
to come: have a menstruation
5e363469 anonymous 2012-12-09 10:24
a high flier: a successful elite
7aa7a123 anonymous 2012-12-28 15:44
gone into thin air: gone mysteriously to an unknown location
4708dee9 anonymous 2013-01-03 16:14
Awesome (in certain contexts): Thank you
60f6007d anonymous 2013-01-03 16:31
pig: a police officer
45de3815 anonymous 2013-01-03 18:54
ladies and gents: ladies and gentlemen
802fa1d5 anonymous 2013-01-11 06:27
bean counter: an officer in charge of financial matters.
45c27f66 anonymous 2013-01-15 17:10
revelate: the back-formed verb of "revelator", meaning to extract an important lesson from
ec335cc8 anonymous 2013-01-17 06:57
I call it tomatto; you call it tomato: It does not matter what we call
it
130b1dc2 anonymous 2013-01-19 11:14
men in blue: the police
8de865a2 anonymous 2013-01-19 18:21
a master of the universe: a genius
26b8b0b6 anonymous 2013-01-19 19:03
The Generator of Diversity: The God
9981a0f0 anonymous 2013-01-29 10:09
cock sucker: a gay
7bf93ce5 anonymous 2013-02-20 10:26
hold out on: to tell a lie to, so as to hide something
25e44734 anonymous 2013-06-14 09:42
where one is coming from: one's characteristics

have something to someone: be attracted to someone
0472ae76 anonymous 2013-06-27 14:53
get lost: go away
d14198ee anonymous 2013-08-04 11:14
make some scene: make some trouble
57d4430f anonymous 2013-08-17 10:55
break out on one's own: start an independent business
ca8c0f0f anonymous 2013-08-17 10:57
steep: expensive
09e29ecf anonymous 2013-09-01 05:46
time oneself out: commit suicide
2d25f296 anonymous 2014-01-05 22:04
wrench: to cause to suffer mental anguish
88917253 anonymous 2014-01-06 19:35
light-headed: sleepy or dizzy
9cd693d6 anonymous 2014-01-06 19:36
manifest: flight plan
c67efa71 anonymous 2014-01-07 14:37
dinosaur: an old person
4b2764a8 anonymous 2014-01-08 13:38
some kind of ...: a great ...
93e4b7fe anonymous 2014-01-08 13:39
high on boos and cokes: drunk and drugged with cocaine
7de4caac anonymous 2014-01-13 09:48
loaded: drunk
4258cde0 anonymous 2014-01-16 14:28
point seventeen: point one seven
3016ca02 anonymous 2014-03-07 10:13
propensity: a habit, usually a bad one
47c76bee anonymous 2014-03-09 19:05
a half wit: a fool
41cd4b5f anonymous 2014-05-16 16:48
a nester: someone unable to tidy things around them
f0b17797 anonymous 2014-05-22 09:49
mad house: a psychiatric hospital
5a4b3e46 anonymous 2014-06-17 13:43
procrastinator: (in a computer programming team) Someone who abides
impractically by the rules and principles and causes the project to slow
down in progress.
3df543f4 anonymous 2014-08-11 12:38
get ~ into your pants: take ~ away from here
cda81c9e anonymous 2014-10-24 19:18
push one's luck: carry something on to such an extent as to endanger oneself
283aeef3 anonymous i1b5ibip3kS 2015-02-15 16:47
hone (v): sharpen
e53159d3 anonymous 2015-02-24 15:01
on one's own hook: figure something out for onself, whithout having any help.
46d50ed7 anonymous 2015-03-01 19:26
leave something out of account <-> take something into account
dd63ae57 anonymous 2015-03-01 19:31
fertile fallacy: a flawed idea that nevertheless has produced positive results.
7111d73b anonymous 2015-04-13 15:50
get off the grid: hide oneself
f4797ac1 anonymous 2015-04-15 21:35
drop ass: fart
883ceaa0 anonymous 2015-04-20 14:56
write the shit down: resign from a position
7653cc56 anonymous 2015-11-26 03:10
I've never seen any of these expressions being used except for "get off the grid."

To get off the grid means to live without being connected to the electrical grid. It doesn't necessarily implies hiding yourself, though that might be the reason to do it.

Hello from Brasil (not a native speaker, but use the language daily).
238d4824 anonymous 2015-11-26 07:26
?!
>>7653cc56
0dad08a1 anonymous 2015-11-26 14:55
>>7653cc56
Hello there :) How did you find out about this forum?
7292bd29 anonymous 2015-11-26 18:18
>>0dad08a1
I saw this Go port of shinGETsu and clicked around until I got here: https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/3u6h6n/gou_a_clone_of_p2p_anonymous_bbs_shingetsu_in/

I'm writing a Futaba clone myself, so it got my attention. I'm also studying Japanese and thought I would try to make sense of some threads.
8b8443bf anonymous 2015-11-26 18:52
>>7292bd29
hi there!

>>I'm writing a Futaba clone myself,
good to know.
what language are you using? golang?


5b5f7c17 anonymous 2015-11-26 19:09
>>8b8443bf
It's in Python, but I might rewrite it in Go later. I don't really know Go yet, but it's the language I'm interested in learning next. Currently studying Ruby through Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/ruby-on-rails
3673016b anonymous 2015-11-26 19:17
>>5b5f7c17
yeah, Python is also a good and stable language.
Saku, orignlal of Gou , is also written in Python.

i didn't know about Coursera. I'll look into it later. thanks.
8fa13481 anonymous 2015-11-26 19:22
>>3673016b
Coursera is great. There's also edx.org, udacity.com and many others. I think it's awesome how these resources are available worldwide as long as you can understand English. It means I'm not limited to only what my own country has to offer.
f1aec701 anonymous 2015-11-26 22:17
it's good to learn widely, but
>>as long as you can understand English
😢

btw,
>I'm also studying Japanese and thought I would try to make sense of some threads.
i think i can help your understanding.
Feel free to ask any questions in English also at Japanese threads :)

61a7eab5 anonymous 2016-02-15 15:26
make it out: escape
b7711b08 anonymous 2016-02-17 07:59
make it out of: escape
make it out: understand
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