美国成语俗语 1PDF电子书下载

1.Lock,Stock and Barrel 1

2.Greasy Spoon ＆ Potluck 3

3.To Go in One Ear and out the Other ＆ to Play by Ear 6

4.Doggy Bag ＆ Eggs 8

5.In Hot Water ＆ to Throw Cold Water on 11

6.To Hold Water ＆ Water off a Duck's Back 13

7.Blow up ＆ Blow out 15

8.To Pull Your Socks up ＆ to Knock Your Socks off 18

9.To Be Led by the Nose ＆ under Your Nose 21

10.Poker Faca ＆ Close to One's Vest 24

11.The Shoe Is on the Other Foot ＆ to Work Hand in Glove 27

12.Follow One's Nose ＆ to Pay through the Nose 29

13.To Keep an Ear to the Ground ＆ up to One's Ears 32

14.Sweeten the Pot ＆ the Cards Are Stacked against You 35

15.To Fly off the Handle ＆ to Bark up the Wrong Tree 38

16.Right on the Beam ＆ to Fly by the Seat of One's Pants 41

17.To Keep One's Shirt on ＆ to Lose One's Shirt 44

18.A Stuffed Shirt ＆ to Give You the Shirt off His Back 47

19.To Bail out ＆ Nose Dive 50

20.Up in Arms ＆ at Arm's Length 53

21.To Shake a Leg ＆ to Pull One's Leg 56

22.To Twist Someone's Arm ＆ to Charge Someone an Arm and a Leg 59

23.To Take Candy from a Baby ＆ a Piece of Cake 62

24.Top Gun ＆ Bottom Line 65

25.Just for Langhs ＆ to Laugh up One's Sleeve 68

26.A Horse Laugh ＆ the Last Langh 71

27.A Red Letter Day ＆ Red Tape 74

28.Black Sheep ＆ White Lie 77

29.Rain Check ＆ It Never Rains but It Pours 80

30.To Stick to One's Guns ＆ Shooting the Breeze 83

31.Green Thumb ＆ Green Light 86

32.Singing the Blues ＆ like a Bolt out of the Blue 89

33.As American as Apple Pie ＆ Hot Potato 92

34.To Put All One's Eggs in One Basket ＆ to Eat Crow 95

35.Monkey Business ＆ to Make a Monkey out of Somebody 98

36.Hot Seat ＆ Hot and Bothered 101

37.To Break Your Neck ＆ to Stick Your Neck Out 104

38.Pain in the Neck ＆ Neck and Neck 107

39.To Have a Heart ＆ Cross My Heart 110

40.My Heart Stood Still ＆ Heart-to-heart Talk 113

41.To Go All Out ＆ to Go through Hell or High Water 116

42.To Go for Broke ＆ to Go Overboard 118

43.To Put One's Best Foot Forward ＆ to Land on One's Feet 121

44.To Get off on the Wrong Foot ＆ to Put one's Foot in One's Mouth 124

45.Cold Feet ＆ Jump in and Get One's Feet Wet 127

46.Ants in One's Pants ＆ to Have Butterflies in One's Stomach 130

47.To Bug Someone ＆ to Louse up 133

48.To Get a Foot in the Door ＆ to Be Dead on One's Feet 136

49.To Stand on One's Own(Two)Feet ＆ to Throw Oneself at Someone's Feet 139

50.To Be Swept off One's Feet ＆ Don't Let the Grass Grow under One's Feet 142

51.To Pull No Punches ＆ Straight from the Horse's Mouth 145

52.No Holds Barred ＆ to Let One's Hair down 148

53.Loose Cannon ＆ Blockbuster 151

54.Bomb ＆ to Drop a Bombshell 153

55.Oddball ＆ Odds and Ends 156

56.Peaches and Cream ＆ Sour Grapes 159

57.Lemon ＆ Go Bananas 162

58.To Shoot the Breeze ＆ through the Grapevine 165

59.A Fish out of Water ＆ to Teach a Fish How to Swim 168

60.To Fish or Cut Bait ＆ Cold Fish 170

61.To Feast One's Eyes on ＆ to Hit between the Eyes 173

62.Eyes Pop out ＆ Not Even Bat an Eye 176

63.To Have(or Keep)One's Eyes Peeled ＆ to Pull the Wool over One's Eyes 179

64.To Keep One's Eye on the Ball ＆ Eye-Opener 182

65.Flea Market ＆ to Clam up 185

66.Baloney ＆ Kickback 188

67.To Get a Kick out of ＆ to Kick the Bucket 191

68.To Kick up One's Heels ＆ to Kick off 194

69.At the Drop of a Hat ＆ to Talk through One's Hat 197

70.Hang on to Your Hat ＆ to Keep Something under Your Hat 200

71.To Eat One's Hat ＆ to Eat One's Heart out 203

72.Nerd ＆ Jock 206

73.Wimp ＆ Turkey 209

74.To Throw One's Hat in the Ring ＆ to Go on the Stump 212

75.Favorite Son ＆ Sound Bite 215

76.Blame Game ＆ Negative Campaigning 217

77.Swing Voters ＆ to Come out Swinging 220

78.Don't Change Horses in the Middle of the Stream ＆ Jump on the Bandwagon 223

79.Sleaze ＆ Gridlock 226

80.Lame Duck ＆ Golden Parachute 229

81.On the Fence ＆ Maverick 231

82.Buddy ＆ Sidekick 234

83.To Give Someone a Piece of One's Mind ＆ to Tell Someone off 237

84.Hick ＆ City Slicker 240

85.To Throw to the Wolves ＆ to Throw the Baby out with the Bath Water 243

86.To Throw a Wet Blanket over Something ＆ to Throw a Monkey Wrench 246

87.To Let the Cat out of the Bag ＆ Look like the Cat That Ate the Canary 248

88.Rain or Shine ＆ Rainy day 251

89.To Put on the Dog ＆ to Go to the Dogs 253

90.To Let Sleeping Dogs Lie ＆ Every Dog Has His Day 256

91.To Throw a Curve ＆ to Throw for a Loop 259

92.Crocodile Tears ＆ Sob Story 261

93.To Cry in One's Beer ＆ Cry Baby 263

94.Cloudy ＆ in the Clouds 265

95.On a Cloud ＆ under a Cloud 267

96.Basket Case ＆ All Washed up 269

97.Smart as Intelligent ＆ Fashionable 271

98.To Put on the Back Burner ＆ to Drag One's Feet 273

99.To Turn One's Back on Someone ＆ to Get on Someone's Back 275

100.Nag ＆ to Get off One's Back 277

101.To Get One's Back up ＆ to Scratch One's Back 280

102.Brainchild ＆ to Pick One's Brain 282

103.To Give up the Ghost ＆ Ghost Town 284

104.Ghost Writer ＆ Spooky 286

105.To Brainstorm ＆ Egghead 288

106.To Grab a Bite ＆ Grubstake 290

107.Munch ＆ Hors d'oeuvre 292

108.To Call the Shots ＆ to Call One's Bluff 294

109.To Call up ＆ to Call It a Day 296

110.To Rub Elbows ＆ Elbow Room 298

111.Shrimp ＆ Crab 300

112.To Smell Fishy ＆ to Fish for Compliments 302

113.Turkey ＆ Cold Turkey 305

114.Beefy ＆ to Beef up 307

115.Snowball ＆ Snow Job 310

116.To Break the Ice ＆ Iceberg 312

117.Where's the Beef ＆ Turkey Farm 314

118.Sitting Duck ＆ Dead Duck 317

119.To Chicken out ＆ Chicken Feed 320

120.Spring Chicken ＆ Goose Bumps 323

121.To Make Hay ＆ to Go Haywire 326

122.The Last Straw ＆ to Sow One's Wild Oats 329

123.Belly Laugh ＆ Knee-slapper 332

124.A Straw in the Wind ＆ to Grasp at Straws 336

125.Trailblazer ＆ Cutting Edge 339

126.Penny-pincher ＆ Cheapskate 342

127.Not All There ＆ to Have a Screw Loose 345

128.Under the Weather ＆ Down with a Bug 349

129.Baby Boomers ＆ Yuppies 353

130.Dinks ＆ Sandwich Generation 357

131.Couch Potato ＆ Mall Rats 360

132.Backslider ＆ Backslapper 363

133.Backseat Driver ＆ Back-up System 367

134.In the Pink ＆ Fit as a Fiddle 371

135.To Play Ball ＆ on the Ball 375

136.Now the Ball Is in Your Court ＆ to Start the Ball Rolling 379

137.Skin-deep ＆ That Really Gets under My Skin 383

138.No Skin off My Nose ＆ to Save One's Skin 386

139.At the Wheel ＆ Hell on Wheels 389

140.Spinning One's Wheels ＆ Re-inventing the Wheel 393

141.To Jump Right out of One's Skin ＆ All Skin and Bones 397

142.To Skin Someone Alive ＆ Skin Game 401

143.One of a Kind ＆ Top-notch 405

144.To Crash the Gate(or Party) ＆ Crash Course 408

145.Set of Wheels ＆ Free-wheeler 412

146.Wheeler-dealer ＆ Fifth Wheel 416

147.Green Thumb ＆ All Thumbs 419

148.Under the Thumb ＆ to Stick out like a Sore Thumb 422

149.Everything from Soup to Nuts ＆ Everything but the Kitchen Sink 426

150.To Kiss Someone or Something Goodbye ＆ Kiss of Death 429

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