Idioms and Sayings经典英文版谚语大全ppt.ppt

close but no cigar almost but not quite correct hung out to dry To abandon someone who is in need or in danger, especially a colleague or one dependent put through the wringer over my head pleased as punch Call a spade a spade better dead than red over the top take a rain check sounds like a broken record drop the other shoe tied to your mother’s apron strings Turn out his lights World’s smallest violin The pot calling the kettle black Take it for granted Laid-backEasy-going tomboy Let downbreak even Threw you into the deep end.Sink or swim Learn as you go by just starting in doing it. Up to you to succeed or fail by your own efforts. Jump in with both feet Make a big ‘splash’ or impression; really get into your work with a full effort. It’s all pretty much up in the air. No decision has been made and there is uncertainty about it. Out of the frying pan (into the fire), Between a rock and a hard place, From one hard situation to another, or caught between two hard choices. Throw/Toss your hat into the ring Announce that you want to take part in a competition or contest.? School of hard knocks Learn lessons from life the hard way, not just through school learning. Let off some steam to release ones pent-up emotions, such as anger, usually verbally Last one out, turn out the lights. the place or situation is so bad everyone will leave, and I’m getting out now, ahead of you Light at the end of the tunnel we’re almost out of this dark situation, so hold on Where there’s a will, there’s a way. If you want something badly enough, you’ll find a way to make it happen. Flash in the pan Something which disappoints by failing to deliver anything of value, despite a showy beginning. Set in cement/concrete Written in stone no longer changeable Take it with a grain of salt to accept it but to maintain a degree of skepticism about its truth. Pie in the sky bye and bye. A promise of heaven, while continuing to suffer in this life Bend over backwards to help to try very hard