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1.Out on the street（slang）在外讨饭 It’s simply another colloquial（口语的，白花的） description of the unemployed. The unemployed are sometimes described as tramps – does this ring a bell? Tramps（流浪汉） are “out on the street” a lot, moving from place to place looking for a job or, worse, begging for food. Bill has lost his job. He’s unemployed. He’s jobless. He’s out on the street. He’d be called a tramp if he stopped looking for jobs and began begging for food. 2.fly-by-night adj.不可信任的，不可靠的n.不可靠的人 “Fly-by-night” is a phrase for a businessman who is dishonest, unreliable, or for describing shady businesses in general. Eg. I want a reputable tour operator,not one of these fly - by - night outfit. 我想找一家信誉好的旅游公司，而不是那些靠不住的公司If you pass the buck, you shirk your responsibility by letting others do the job. This phrase originates from the game of poker but was made famous by former US President Harry Truman(杜鲁门), who had “The Buck Stops Here” as a motto and put it on a sign on his desk. Eg. When I asked my secretary Miss Brown why she hadnt mailed out these very important letters to customers, she passed the buck to our office boy for not having enough stamps ready. 4.loose ends未知结局，零碎资料，收场 Grab a piece of worn-out clothes and you’ll see what a “loose end” is. By the edges of any piece of threadbare clothing, there are loose threads hanging – these are loose ends. Metaphorically speaking, loose ends are any minor unresolved problem that leaves a bigger project unfinished or leave the readers dangling in the air, wondering what you’re talking about. Eg. I dont like this solution. It leaves too many loose ends. 5.keep up with the Jone’s (在社会地位和物质生活方面)与左邻右舍攀比，互相攀比，不落后于邻居；赶时髦This is an age-old and very commonplace (widely used) idiom. In Britain, it’s spelled Joneses, instead of Jones’s. The Joneses stand for one’s neighboring family. Therefore, to keep up with the Joneses means to keep up with your neighbor. That is, if your neighbor buys a washing machine, you want to buy one. If they buy