地道英语表达

2021年1月26日发(作者：尼龙刷)
1
a tissue of lies
British
English
a
story
or
account
that
is
completely
untrue.
2click
your
tongue
to
make
a
sharp
noise
with
your
tongue
to
show
that
youare annoyed or disappointed:
She clicked her tongue and shook her head.

3sharp
tongue
if
you
have
a
sharp
tongue,
you
often
talk
in
a
way
that
shows you are angry:
Gina’
s sharp tongue will get her into trouble one day.


4silver
tongue
literary
if
you
have
a
silver
tongue,
you
can
talk
in
a
way
that makes people like you or persuades them that you are right

5sharp-tongued/silver-tongued etc
able to talk in a very angry or pleasant
way:
a sharp-tongued young teacher

6with
(your)
tongue
in
(your)
cheek
if
you
say
something
with
your
tongue
in
your
cheek,
you
say
it
as
a
joke,
not
seriously
→

TONGUE
-
IN
-
CHEEK


7slip of the tongue
a small mistake in something you say:
Did I say $$100? It must have been a slip of the tongue.

8bite your tongue
to stop yourself saying something because you know it
would
not
be
sensible
to
say
it:
I
wanted
to
argue,
but
I
had
to
bite
my
tongue.

9Cat
got
your
tongue?
(
also
Lost
your
tongue?
)
spoken
used
to
ask
someone why they are not talking

10get your tongue around something
informal
to be able to say a difficult
word or phrase:
I couldn’t get my tongue around the names of the villages we’d visited
.

11trip/roll off the tongue
informal
if a name or phrase trips or rolls off your
tongue, it is easy or pleasant to say:
Their names trip off the tongue very
easily.

12
loosen
sb’s
tongue
informal
if
something
such
as
alcohol
loosens
your
tongue, it makes you talk a lot:
The wine had certainly loosened her tongue.

13find your tongue
informal
to say something after you have been silent for
a time because you were afraid or shy:
Polly found her tongue at last and told them about the attack.

14set
tongues
wagging
to
do
something
that
people
will
talk
about
in
an
unkind way:
Angela’
s
divorce will certainly set tongues wagging.

15keep
a
civil
tongue
in
your
head
old-fashioned spoken
used
to
tell
someone that they should talk politely to people

16speak
with
forked
tongue
to
say
things
that
are
not
true
–

used
humorously

17speak
in
tongues
to
talk
using
strange
words
as
part
of
a
religious
experience

18
LANGUAGE
literary
a language:
Anton
lapsed
into
his
own
tongue
when
he
was
excited.
mother/native
tongue
(=the language you learn as a child)
She felt more comfortable talking in her native tongue.

19
FOOD
[uncountable]
the tongue of a cow or sheep, cooked and eaten cold

20
SHAPE
[countable]
something
that
has
a
long
thin
shape
tongue
of
Huge tongues of fire were licking the side of the building.

log in/on
phrasal verb
to do the necessary actions on a computer system that
will allow you to begin using it
log
off/out
phrasal
verb
to
stop
using
a
computer
system
by
giving
it
particular instructions

hack (away) at something

She hacked away at the ice, trying to make a hole.

hack something off/down etc
Whole forests have been hacked down.

hack your way through/into something
He hacked his way through the men had been
hacked to
death
(=killed using large knives)
.
4a dirty/rotten/mean trick
an unkind or unfair thing to do:
He didn’t turn up? What a dirty trick!


5do
the
trick
spoken
if
something
does
the
trick,
it
solves
a
problem
or
provides what is needed to get a good result:
A bit more flour should do the trick

.
6
MAGIC
a
skilful
set
of
actions
that
seem
like
magic,
done
to
entertain
people:
My uncle was always showing me
card tricks
when I was a kid.a
magic trick

7
CLEVER METHOD
a way of doing something that works very well but may
not be easy to notice:
The trick is to bend your knees as you catch the ball.a salesman who knew
all
the tricks of the trade

(=clever methods used in a particular job)

8use/try every trick in the book
to use every method that you know, even
dishonest ones, to achieve what you want

9teach/show somebody a trick or two
informal
used to say that someone
knows more than someone else or can do something better than them:
Experienced teachers can show new teachers a trick or two.

10somebody
is
up
to
their
(old)
tricks
informal
to
be
doing
the
same
dishonest things that you have often done before

11
CARDS
the cards played or won in one part of a game of cards:
He won the first three tricks easily.

12
HABIT
have a trick of doing something
British English
to have a habit of
using a particular expression or of moving your face or body in a particular
way:
She had this trick of raising her eyebrows at the end of a question.

13never
miss
a
trick
spoken
to
always
know
exactly
what
is
happening
even if it does not concern you:
Dave’
s found out. He never misses a trick, does he?.


14
how’s
tricks?
old-fashioned spoken
used
to
greet
someone
in
a
friendly
way:
Hello, Bill! How’
s tricks?


15
SEX
American
English old-fashioned informal
someone
who
pays
a
PROSTITUTE
to
have
sex
turn
a
trick
(=to
have
sex
with
someone
for