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A “hive of activity” could be a put where a parcel is happening, and everybody show is active doing something. For case: When we went to offer offer assistance, the kitchen was already a hive of movement. Moment to none This English figure of speech implies “the best; superior than everything else (in a certain bunch or category).” For illustration, The nourishment at Ali's restaurant is moment to none. I cherish that put! Worth its weight in gold When something or somebody is “worth its (or his/her) weight in gold,” it implies that it is exceptionally important and valuable. For example, We couldn't run the company without him. He's worth his weight in gold. Middle of no place This expression is utilized to depict a put that's exceptionally inaccessible, distant from any city or town. For case, The campsite was in the center of no place so I couldn't phone you. English Descriptive words Utilized to Portray Places and Locations • Ancient/historical (like Egypt) • Lively/vibrant (like Barcelona or Los Angeles) • Dull/boring • Attractive / wonderful / beautiful (like Agra) • Bustling / exceptionally swarmed and active (like New York or Mumbai) • Modern / cutting edge / up to date (like Manchester or Singapore) • Picturesque/charming (like Istanbul) • Touristy (like Niagara Falls) • Sprawling (utilized to portray a enormous city) TOWN • to go to town – to spend one's cash carelessly. 'The Howards have really gone to town on a house for their girl. They have bought her an outright beauty.' 'Go to town' is an American colloquialism alluding to the individuals who come into town from the farmland to spend their cash. It was initially utilized almost cattle rustlers and farm hands. • a man about town – a friendly man who goes to numerous in vogue parties and has a wide circle of affluent companions. 'My brother has gotten to be very a man about town; when he was youthful, he despised progressing to parties'. • a woman of the town – a lady of free ethics. • the talk of the town – someone whose conduct and wild way of life deliver rise to gossip and scandal-mongering. 'You had superior carry on yourself, Pauline. You're getting to be the conversation of the town.' / it's the conversation of the town – it's the most talked-about or fashionable place or thing. • a apparition town – a town that's not occupied. Road • to require to the lanes – to demonstrate against specialist, to create a appear of drive. 'The understudies took to the lanes in bolster of the wellbeing workers' claim for higher wages.' • to go on the streets – to work as a prostitute. • streets ahead of – distant predominant to, very much in progress of. 'You are roads ahead of us in technology.' • not within the same street – distant second rate to, in no way comparable. 'All right, I'll have a game with you, but you know very well I'm not within the same street as you.' • the man within the street – the conventional, commonplace man and lady. 'We are doing advertise investigate work, and we need the reaction of the man in the street to our suggestions.' • to go back to Civvy Street – to return to civilian life after serving within the equipped powers. “What are you progressing to do once you go back to Civvy Street?' • in Strange Road – in budgetary trouble, in obligation. 'If we go on investing cash like this, we should before long be in eccentric street.' 'Queer Street' may be a debasement of Carey Road where the Courts in Liquidation are arranged. • grub road – an second rate essayist, second rate composing. '…any cruel generation is called grubstreet' (Dr Johnson, Lexicon). Grub Road close Moorffields within the East Conclusion of London (presently Milton Street) was possessed in the seventeenth century by a bunch of second rate journalists and scholarly hacks. • right up my road – that's a subject I'm exceptionally commonplace with. 'I'll be happy to exhort Brian about his promoting. Publicizing and exposure are right up my street.' Street • one for the street – a final drink some time recently one leaves a social gathering. • to require to the street – to ended up a tramp. 'I would rather take to the street than work in an office from 9 till 5 each day. I need to be free.' • at the conclusion of the road – (1) towards the end of one's life. 'I have come to the conclusion of the road, my expensive; the specialist has given me as it were another six months.' (2) finally, last of all. • at the cross-roads – at a point in one's life when imperative choices have to be made. 'Peter and Sue are at the cross-roads; they will have to be choose exceptionally before long whether to create their domestic in Britain or emigrate.' DEAD Conclusion • a dead conclusion – leading nowhere. / a dead conclusion work – a work with no prospects or headway, comparative in meaning to a 'blind combination job'. WAY • to clear the way for – to make the fundamental conditions for…, as a rule taken after by a few occasion. 'World War II cleared the way for the freedom of India.' • to go all the way with – to be in total understanding with. 'I'm not beyond any doubt whether I would go all the way with you, but I certainly identify along with your aims.' • way out – (1) very off-base, completely mixed up. 'You are way out in your calculations. The occasion will taken a toll £300, not £200.' (2) out of the standard, strange. 'Some of the ensembles at the party were way out, particularly the outlandish night wear which would have been more reasonable for the bedroom.' • to rub somebody up the wrong way – to be thoughtless, to say the exceptionally thing that's certain to irritate somebody. 'You certainly rubbed Mrs Parker up the off-base way, telling her you do not like Sussex. She has lived there all her life and adores the county.' • to go almost something the off-base way – to utilize the off-base strategy or approach to realize an question. 'If you needed Howard to back your extend you went around it the off-base way negating him at dinner.' • at the separating of the ways – a time when it is best to partitioned. 'I am so too bad, Tim, but I'm perplexed we've come to a separating of the ways. We are as it were making each other unhappy.' From the Book of scriptures, Ezekiel XXI, 21: 'For the lord of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways…' • to go one's possess way – to take after one's slants, to depend on one's claim judgment and overlook other people's. 'All right, Tom, go your claim way, in case that's how you are feeling about it, but I wish you'd tune in to us fair once.' • to have a way with one – to have a characteristic charm, which is exceptionally powerful. 'Jenny certainly has a way with her. I found myself concurring with everything she said.' • to have come a long way – to have fulfilled a awesome bargain. 'You've come a long way since we final met. You were a receptionist at that point, and presently you possess your possess factory.' • in a enormous way – on a expansive scale. 'Ian is exceptionally driven, he does everything in a big way.' / in a little way – on a little scale, as it were to a little degree. 'If you'll offer assistance me, indeed in a little way, I ought to be most grateful.' • to discover out the hard way – to memorize the truth from one's possess agonizing involvement. 'We cautioned you that you wouldn't like boarding school but you wouldn't tune in. Presently you've found out the difficult way.' • to create way for – to yield one's position to somebody else. 'You've done a brilliant work for the Company, but we think, Sir, that at the age of seventy it is as it were reasonable you ought to make way for a more youthful man.' • to have it one's possess way – to demand on doing what one needs in spite of contentions to the opposite. 'Have it your claim way, Hugh, but in the event that things go off-base, do not fault us.' • to have it both ways – to back two contradictory contentions or courses of activity at the same time. 'If you need an completely secure venture, at that point you can't anticipate a tall rate of intrigued. You can't have it both ways.' • to cut both ways – to have preferences and impediments at the same time. 'This modern medicate will diminish your joint pain, but you must put up with the side-effects; it cuts both ways.' • set in one's ways – having settled thoughts and propensities. 'Turner is too set in his ways to embrace your thoughts; you had better look for a more youthful man.' • to see the other way – to imagine not to see, to overlook a breach of the rules or a few abnormality. 'Even a drill sergeant just like the sergeant-major has got to see the other way sometimes.' • on its way out – getting to be unfashionable. 'The mini-skirt was as of now on its way out by 1969.' • to pay one's way – to back oneself without having to borrow cash. 'Many American understudies pay their way through college by taking a part-time job.' • to patch one's ways – to alter one's behaviour or propensities, for the better. 'If you need your uncle to assist you, you'll ought to patch your ways. That will cruel cutting out night clubs and beginning to consider seriously.' • a way of life – a set of standards concurring to which one lives one's life. 'Alan before long got utilized to the Muslim way of life, but his sister found it more difficult.' • to see one's way to – to feel defended in. 'After Peter's lack of appreciation to her, his cousin didn't see her way to giving him any more help.' • to go out of one's way to – to put oneself to a few inconvenience to…, to form a special effort to… 'When we gone by London, our has went out of their way to form our remain enjoyable.' • no way (colloquial American English) – out of the address, outlandish. '”Could you if you don't mind loan me ₤50?” “No way, I haven't got that much myself.”' • by the way – unexpectedly, which reminds me. 'I'm too bad your cousin is sick. By the way, have you got his unused address? I have a few letters for him.' • there are no two ways approximately it – there's no other plausibility or clarification. 'When you're in the armed force, you have to comply orders, no matter how preposterous or inept they may be. There are no two ways around it.' • to stand in someone's way – to deter or hinder someone in his points. 'If you need to require a work overseas, do not let me stand in your way.' • in a awful way – physically or rationally in a genuine condition. 'Your brother has had an accident. Will you go to the clinic at once; he's in a bad way.' • not to know which way to turn – to be in frantic troubles. 'I was stranded in Unused York one winter without cash or friends; I didn't know which way to turn until the British Department made a difference me out.' • to put commerce someone's way – to be the implies of setting custom or orders with somebody. 'If you're interested, I can put a few business your way.' • to fall by the wayside – to fall flat to realize one's point, since of sluggishness, need of strength or diversions. This express is for the most part utilized humorously. 'My father put me into accountancy, but I am too bad to say I was one of those who fell by the wayside.' The inference is to Luke VIII, 5: 'A Sower went out to sow his seed, and as he sowed, a few fell by the wayside; and it was trodden down and the fowls of the discuss eaten up it'. Path • to go down memory path – to restore ancient recollections. 'Let's be nostalgic, Joan, and go down memory path this afternoon.' Waterway • to offer down the stream – to sell out, to act deceitfully towards. 'When we went back to the bookie's office to gather our rewards, he had as of now run off with the stakes; he had sold us down the river.' The express was to begin with utilized by the dark slaves who were sold by their proprietors to ranch proprietors assist down the Mississippi, where conditions were more often than not much harsher. BRIDGE • to cross one's bridges some time recently one comes to them – to worry unnecessarily almost something which will never happen. 'I do not know why you're stressing almost Father catching one of those tropical maladies in Africa. His company hasn't chosen however whether to send him to Africa. Do not cross your bridges some time recently you come to them.' • that's (all) water beneath the bridge – that's all past presently, and there's nothing that can be done around it. 'Yes, it's a feel sorry for you didn't acknowledge Fred's offer, but it's futile to rebuke yourself presently. It's all water beneath the bridge.' • to drag up the drawbridge – to keep guests out in arrange to guarantee security for oneself and one's family. 'We appreciate engaging, but at Christmas we like to drag up the drawbridge and be on our own.' Road • to investigate each avenue – to form the foremost careful request. 'We are investigating each road to get the data you're inquiring for.' TOWER • an ivory tower – a sanctuary from the unforgiving substances of life. 'Living in your ivory tower at Oxford, you can't envision, can you, what it's like to go hungry?' The term 'tour d'ivoire' (ivory tower) was first used by Sainte-Beuve (1837) to depict the withdraw of the French writer, Vigny. • a tower of quality – a individual one can continuously turn to for sensitivity and back in times of inconvenience. 'When my parents' marriage broke up, my eldest sister was a tower of strength to the children. We couldn't have overseen without her.' Presentation • to create an show of oneself – to welcome open mock or scorn by one's conduct. 'I wish Henry wouldn't make an show of himself yelling at the server like that. It is so embarrassing.' Gallery • exhibition hall piece – something outdated or worn-out. 'We can't go to Scotland in that historical center piece. Without a doubt the car-hire company can do way better than that.' The strict meaning may be a specimen of an prior civilisation shown in a historical center. Open HOUSE • to have somebody over a barrel – to have a individual in one's control, so that he can be constrained to do anything is inquired of him. 'The boss has got you over a barrel. In the event that you do not pull back your allegations, be will take you to court, and on the off chance that you are doing withdraw, you may lose the regard of the staff.' • to rub the foot of the barrel – to substance oneself with destitute quality when all other conceivable outcomes have been depleted. 'Dorothy must have scratched the foot of the barrel to have hitched a man like that!' Showcase • a captive showcase – a imposing business model of an fundamental item or benefit which the shopper is obliged to acknowledge without working out his typical flexibility of choice. 'We can inquire any cost we like for our water supply; we have a captive market.' • to be a sedate on the advertise – to discover no clients, something for which there's no request. 'Gramophone records have gotten to be a sedate on the showcase since cassettes were introduced.' • to be in the showcase for – to be interested in obtaining or buying something. 'We are not within the market for precious stones at present.' • to play the advertise – to conjecture within the buying and offering of stocks and offers or commodities. 'Herbert calls it playing the showcase; I call it gambling.' • to put something on the market – to offer something for deal. 'We have chosen to leave London, so we are putting our house on the market.' / to come on the advertise – to be advertised for deal. • to corner the showcase – to get a restraining infrastructure of the supply of specific products or services. 'Once a government has cornered the market, as for instance in gas or power, there's continuously a gigantic rise in prices.' • a rising/falling showcase – a rising/falling request for products or administrations which is able be reflected in their costs. • to cost oneself out of the showcase – to inquire so much more cash for one's administrations or items that clients go elsewhere. 'The school expenses you're charging are so high that you simply are in threat of estimating yourself out of the market.' • to ruin the market for – to diminish the request for services or items by bringing down their quality or putting as well numerous on offer. 'The unscrupulous promoting organizations will ruin the showcase for the great ones.' • to surge the advertise – to offer administrations or merchandise distant in abundance of the demand for them. • to drive a difficult deal – to come to an agreement on one's claim terms without making any beneficial concessions. 'You drive a difficult deal, but I assume I'll have to be acknowledge your offer.' • beneath the counter – of goods illicitly sold in shops, secretly, without the knowledge of the specialists. 'Johnson continuously sold the stolen adornments beneath the counter to clients who could be trusted not to go to the police.' • to have no truck with – to have no dealings with, not to endure. 'I'll have no truck with their requests for the next wage.' 'Truck' initially implied to trade products for administrations, to trade, to have dishonest dealings with somebody. HILL • up slope and down dale – all over. Informally, this express is only used with verbs like search for, search for, hunt for. 'Wherever have you been all this time“? We have been trying to find you up slope and down dale.' • as ancient as the hills – exceptionally ancient undoubtedly. 'That car of yours is as ancient as the slopes. Do not you think you need to purchase a new one?' • to go downhill – to endure a decline in one's wellbeing or fortunes. “Poor Charge, he has gone relentlessly downhill since he misplaced his job.” / to go down – to endure a decay in its notoriety, quality or appearance. This can be as it were utilized of things, not individuals, particularly of neighbourhoods and locale. 'This was one of the foremost elegant locale in London, but it has gone right down in the final ten years.' TRACK • to be on the right/wrong track – to form / not to form advance in one's look for… 'The police accept that they are at last on the battle track in their look for the murderers.' 'If you think I had anything to do with it, you're on the off-base track.' • to keep track of – to keep oneself educated of someone's movements, activities, etc. 'I try to keep track of all my ancient school companions, but it isn't easy.' / to lose track of – not to be educated of the developments, etc., of somebody. 'Joyce has been hitched so numerous times that I've very misplaced track.' / to lose (all) track of time – not to be aware of the passage of time. • to create tracks for – to take off rapidly for. 'It's getting late. We had better make tracks for home.' • a track record – a record of one's successes/failures. 'I think we ought to consider Holmes for the head-mastership. His track record for getting his pupils into the colleges is very good.' • in one's tracks – within the exceptionally place where one is standing at a particular moment. 'Hugh was on the point of hitting his child when his spouse entered the room; that halted him in his tracks!' • to cover one's tracks – to conceal follows of one's movements. 'The bank burglars have secured their tracks exceptionally cleverly. ' Way • to keep to the straight and contract (way) – to resist enticement and lead a ethical life. 'As a clergyman, I am actually anticipated to keep to the straight and narrow path, but it hasn't always been easy.' The express comes from the Bible (Matthew VII, 14): 'Because strait is the gate, and limit is the way which leadeth into life, and few there be that find it!' • to defeat a way to a put – to visit in large numbers. 'Now that Vivien has become famous, all sorts of individuals will be beating a way to her door.' The way to a place is beaten flat by the feet of so numerous individuals. • to cross someone's way – (1) to meet somebody incidentally. 'Since I cleared out school, I haven't crossed Smith's path, and I can't say I have any wish to.' (2) to foil somebody. 'If Jones crosses your way once more, let me know and I'll put a stop to his interference.' PITCH • to eccentric someone's pitch – to thwart or ruin someone's plans. 'The War Office queered our pitch by posting me abroad twenty-four hours some time recently our wedding day.' 'Queer' is used as a verb as it were in this phrase. The pitch alludes to the pitching of a tent in which a road merchant might carry on his business or a circus entertainer could entertain the public. Now and then the police would arrange these tented structures to be taken down, in this way 'queering someone's pitch'. TRANSPORT AND Activity • to be a moderate coach – to be very slow in one's actions, to keep one's companions holding up anxiously. 'What a moderate coach you are! Do hurry up; everyone is waiting for you.” • to hop the line – to try to seize an advantage without holding up one's turn. 'Everyone queues up in Britain. You'd make yourself very disagreeable in case you bounced the queue.' • to miss the transport – to lose an opportunity. 'I am fifty a long time ancient but I still haven't been advanced. Now it's too late; I've missed the bus.' cf. 'to miss' the boat'. • to tell somebody where to get off – to deliver somebody a strict censure. 'When Joe begun lecturing me on how to paint, I soon told him where to urge off. He seemed to disregard that I've had a long time of encounter at it and he is as it were a beginner.' The state refers to the bus-conductor's right to arrange any traveler off a bus if he makes inconvenience. • to fall off the back of a lorry – a code word for 'to be stolen'. 'I wonder where Philip got that carton of exceptionally costly wine. Did it drop off the back of a lorry?' • a rearward sitting arrangement driver – somebody who offers undesirable exhortation to the person in charge, while having no responsibility himself for the way a errand is performed. 'We'd manage much better without the assistance of backseat drivers like Williams.' The phrase refers to the traveler in the back of a car, who is continuously telling the driver what to do. Download 35.55 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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