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2015년 7월 1일 수요일

PE 6/22 In Bed with a Cold

* to no avail: without having success
ex> We kept trying to start the car to no avail: it was out of gas.

* abhor: to hate or detest; regard with disgust
ex> I abhor the way some people throw their trash on the ground.

* back in the saddle: resuming an activity that one had stopped doing
ex> Having recovered from his ankle injury, the center fielder is back in the saddle again.

* up to one’s eyeballs: receiving an excessive amount of something
ex> We’ve been up to our eyeballs with new orders ever since our website was launched.
Note> Some variations of this phrase are “up to one’s neck” or “up to one’s ears” in something.

* berate: to scold or criticize someone angrily
ex> My mom berated me for not taking out the trash when she asked me to.
ex> A bad boss berates new employees for making mistakes; a good one encourages and guides them.

* a few bricks short of a load: not intelligent; showing signs of flawed reasoning
ex> His behavior after our breakup made me realize he was a few bricks short of a load.

* pick up: “Pick up” has many meanings in English. As well as “responding to an incoming phone call,” it can mean to buy or gather something in a quick or casual way. The hyphenated form, “pick-up,” means something that improves one’s health or spirits. This spelling was also formerly used to describe a small truck with an open back, but now the more common spelling for that is “pickup.”
ex> I’ve been trying to reach you for an hour. Why didn’t you pick up?



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