美国英语成语俗语八十讲PDF电子书下载

目录 1

1．Lock,Stock and Barrel 1

2．Greasy Spoon and Potluck 4

3．To Go in One Ear and out the Other and to Play by Ear 7

4．Doggy Bag and Eggs 10

5．In Hot Water and to Throw Cold Water 13

6．To Hold Water andWater off a Duck's Back 15

7．Blow up and Blow out 18

8．To Pull Your Socks up and to Knock Your Socks off 21

9．To Be Led by the Nose and Under Your Nose 24

10．Poker Face and Close to the Vest 27

11．The Shoe Is on the Other Foot and to Work Hand in Glove 30

12．Follow the Nose and to Pay Through the Nose 33

13．To Keep an Ear on the Ground and Up to One's Ears 36

14．Sweeten the Pot and The Cards Are Stacked against You 39

15．To Fly off the Handle and to Bark up the Wrong Tree 42

16．Right on the Beam and to Fly by the Seat of One's Pants 45

17．To Keep One's Shirt on and to Lose One's Shirt 48

18．A Stuffed Shirt and to Give You the Shirt off His 51

Back 51

19．To Bail out and Nose Dive 54

20．Up in Arms and at Arm's Length 57

21．To Shake a Leg and to Pull My Leg 60

22．To Twist Someone's Arm and To Charge Someone an Arm and a Leg 63

23．Taking Candy from a Baby and a Piece of Cake 66

24．Top Gun and Bottom Line 69

25．Just for Laughs and to Laugh up One's Sleeve 72

26．A Horse Laugh and the Last Laugh 75

27．A Red Letter Day and Red Tape 78

28．Black Sheep and White Lie 81

29．Rain Check and It Never Rains But It Pours 84

30．To Stick to One's Guns and Shooting the Breeze 87

31．Green Thumb and Green Light 90

32．Singing the Blue and Like a Bolt out of the Blue 93

33．Apple Pie and Hot Potato 96

34．To Put All His Eggs in One Basket and to Eat Crow 99

35．Monkey Business and to Make a Monkey out of Somebody 102

36．Hot Seat and Hot and Bothered 105

37．To Break Your Neck and to Stick Your Neck out 108

38．Pain in the Neck and Neck and Neck 111

39．To Have a Heart and cross My Heart 114

40．My Heart Stood Still and Heart-to-heart Talk 117

41．To Go All out and to Go Through Hell or High Water 120

42．To Go Broke and to Go Overboard 123

43．To Put One's Best Foot Forward and to Land on One's Feet 126

44．To Get off on the Wrong Foot and to Put Your Foot in Your Mouth 129

45．Cold Feet and Jump in and Get Yom Feet Wet 132

46．Ants in Your Pants and to Have Butterflies in One's Stomach 135

47．To Bug Me and to Loue up 138

48．To Get a Foot in the Door and to Be Dead on One's Feet 141

49．To Stand on One's Two Feet and to Throw Oneself at Someone's Feet 144

50．To Be Swept off One's Feet and Don't Let the Grass Grow Under One's Feet 147

51．To Pull noPunches and Straight from the Horse's Mouth 150

52．No Holds Barred and toLet One's Hair Down 153

53．Loose Cannon and Blockbuster 156

56．Peaches and Cream and Sour Grapes 156

54．Bomb and to Drop a Bombshell 159

55．Oddball and Odds and Ends 162

57．Lemon and Going Banana 168

58．To Shoot the Breeze and Through the Grapevine 171

59．A Fish out of Water and to Teach a Fish How to Swim 174

60．To Fish or Cut Bait and Cold Fish 177

61．To Feast Your Eyes on and to Hit Between the Eyes 180

62．Eyes Pop out and not Even Bat an Eye 183

63．To Have One's Eyes Peeled and to Pull the Wool Over One's Eyes 186

64．To Keep One's Eye on the Ball and EyeOpener 189

65．Flea Market and to Clam up 192

66．Baloney and Kickback 195

67．To Get a Kick out of and to Kick the Bucket 198

68．To Kick up One's Heels and to Kick off 201

69．At the Drop of a Hat and to Talk Through One's Hat 204

70．Hang on to Your Hat and to Keep Something Under Your Hat 207

71．To Eat One's Hat and to Eat One's Heart out 210

72．Nerd and Jock 213

73．Wimp and Turkey 216

74．To Throw One's Hat in the Ring and Stump 219

75．Favorite Son and Sound Bite 222

76．Blame Game and Negative Campaigning 225

77．Swing Voters and to Come out Swinging 228

78．Don't Change Horses in the Middle of the Stream and Jump on the Bandwagon 231

79．Sleaze and Gridlock 234

80．Lame Duck and Golden Parachute 237

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