* hammer away at: to work at something
intensely until it is finished
ex>
They decided to hammer away at the landscaping project before the
weather changed.
* delusion: an unusual belief that is
contradicted by reality
ex>
The drug was removed from the market because it was found to cause delusions
in some people.
Note>
This word is often used in the phrase delusions
of grandeur, which expresses the belief that unattainable goals are well
within reach, like a terrible actress’s delusions of grandeur that she won’t
just land her first role in a movie, it also will make her an Academy Award
winner.
* financial hole: a large debt
ex>
When applying for a student loan, think about the size of the financial hole
you may be digging for yourself.
* emigrate: to leave one’s country to
settle permanently in another
ex>
More and more people are emigrating to find a greater range of opportunities.
Note>
When a person immigrates, he or she moves to a new country. During the great
wave of immigration between 1880 and 1924, over 25 million Europeans immigrated
to the United States.
* clumsy: awkward; uncoordinated;
difficult to use
ex>
Many teenage boys go through a clumsy stage where they’re always bumping
into walls, falling down, and dropping things.
ex>
Those clumsy folding chairs always take too long to set up.
* passable: acceptable
ex>
You only did a passable job of washing my car, so I won’t pay you the
full amount we agreed on.
* drive one
(a)round the bend: (짜증나는 일을 하여) 누군가를 화나게(미치게) 만들다
This
expression takes different forms depending on where in the English speaking
world it is used. The above form is used in the US and Canada, but in Britain
and Australia it is more common to hear, drive
one round the twist.
ex>
She was trying to have a nap, and the sound was driving her around the bend.
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