Vivien! What on earth
happened to you?
* What
on earth…?: a way of expressing surprise when asking why or what
ex> What on earth is he doing
to that cat?
Tell me exactly what happened. Give me
the play-by-play.
* play-by-play:
a very detailed description of an event
ex> The sports commentators gave a play-by-play
analysis of the soccer game.
That was a really stupid move! He could’ve killed somebody and
himself.
* (Adj.+) move: a critique of something one did
ex> The gymnast’s front handspring
off the pommel horse was a really good move.
ex> When the teenager tripped and
fell in front of the pretty girls, his friends shouted, “Smooth move,
Mikey!”
Wow, that was really big of you. There isn’t a chance in hell I would’ve done
the same.
* big
of someone: to do something honorable or extraordinarily kind
ex> It was really big of the
wrongly-convicted man to forgive the family of the victim when he was found
innocent.
* not
a chance in hell: unlikely; nearly impossible
ex> We don’t have a chance
in hell of catching up to the rest of the cyclists now!
ex> You think you can run faster than
me? Not a chance in hell!
Note> Some variations of this
expression are “no chance in hell,”
or “a snowball’s chance in hell.”
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