美国成语俗语 2PDF电子书下载

1 Easy Street ＆ Out on the Street 1

2 Street Smarts ＆ Two-way Street 4

3 To Khock off 7

4 To Run a Tight Ship ＆ to Sit Tight 10

5 Tight-lipped ＆ Tight with Someone 13

6 Loose Lips ＆ at Loose Ends 16

7 Out of One's Skull ＆ Skull Session 19

8 Lick ＆ Lickety Split 22

9 To Have a Feeling in One's Bones ＆ to Have a Bone to Pick 25

10 To Shape up or Ship out ＆ to Rock the Boat 28

11 Up to One's Neck ＆ to Break One's Neck 31

12 To Get It in the Neck ＆ to Stick Out One's Neek 34

13 Cold Shoulder ＆ Hot Air 37

14 Over One's Head ＆ over the Hump 40

15 Over a Barrel ＆ over One's Dead Body 43

16 Out of the Woods ＆ out of the Picture 46

17 Out the Window ＆ out of This World 49

18 To Whistle in the Dark ＆ to Blow the Whistle 52

19 Nothing Special ＆ So-so 55

20 Far Cry ＆ Crying Towel 58

21 To Whistle a Different Tune ＆ Pipe Dream 61

22 For Crying out Loud ＆ to Cool It 64

23 To Keep One's Cool ＆ to Be Cool as a Cucumber 67

24 All in the Same Boat ＆ to Miss the Boat 70

25 In One's Blood ＆ Fresh Blood 73

26 To Make One's Blood Boil ＆ to make One's Blood Run Cold 76

27 To Hit the Ceiling ＆ to Blow One's Top 79

28 To Jump the Gun ＆ to Stick to One's Guns 82

29 To Beat One's Brains out ＆ to Brainwash 86

30 Brain Drain ＆ Brain Trust 89

31 One Track Mind ＆ Track Record 92

32 To Give Somebody a Piece of One's Mind ＆ Mind-boggling 95

33 Under the Gun ＆ Gun-shy 98

34 Hippie ＆ to Shoot from the Hip 102

35 Full of Beans ＆ a Hill of Beans 106

36 Bean Counter ＆ to Spill the Beans 109

37 To Make Tracks ＆ the Wrong Side of the Tracks 112

38 To Stand up Someone ＆ a Stand-in 115

39 To Stand Tall ＆ a Stand-out 118

40 At the Drop of a Hat ＆ to Pull Something out of the Hat 121

41 To Pass the Hat ＆ to Take One's Hat off 124

42 Hat in Hand ＆ to Wear Two Hats at a Time 127

43 Fat Farm ＆ to Chew the Fat 130

44 Fat Cat ＆ Fat Chance 133

45 On Thin Ice ＆ Thin-skinned 136

46 Workaholic ＆ Grunt Work 139

47 The Works ＆ in the Works 142

48 To Cut a Deal ＆ to Cut Corners 145

49 To Be Cut out for ＆ a Cut-up 148

50 Honeymoon ＆ Moonlight 151

51 Sunday Best ＆ Sunday Driver 154

52 One for the Books ＆ to Know Someone like a Book 157

53 To Close the Books ＆ to Cook the Books 160

54 To Bad-mouth ＆ to Shoot One's Mouth off 163

55 To Walk on Air ＆ toWalk the Floor 166

56 To Take a Walk ＆ to Walk on Eggshells 169

57 Motor Mouth ＆ Foot in Mouth Disease 172

58 To Put One's Money Where One's Mouth Is ＆ You Said a Mouthful 175

59 Wall-to-wall ＆ Wallflower 178

60 To Climb the Wall ＆ to Drive Someone up the Wall 181

61 To Stonewall ＆ off the Wall 184

62 Over the Long Haul ＆ Long Shot 187

63 Short and Sweet ＆ the Long and Short of It 190

64 In Short Order ＆ to Get the Short End of the Stick 193

65 On the Level ＆ Kosher 196

66 Open and Aboveboard ＆ on the Up and Up 199

67 Ups and Downs ＆ Down and Out 202

68 To Be Caught with One's Hand in the Cookie Jar ＆ to Be Caught with One's Pants down 205

69 To Touch Base ＆ to Do Lunch 208

70 Birds of a Feather ＆ to Feather One's Own Nest 211

71 In Fine Feather ＆ a Feather in One's Cap 214

72 Breadwinner ＆ to Know Which Side One's Bread Is Buttered on 217

73 Bread and Butter ＆ to Butter up Someone 220

74 Butterfingers ＆ Butterball 223

75 Like Greased Lightning ＆ like a Bat out of Hell 226

76 Slow Burn ＆ Slow Molasses 229

77 Give Me a Break ＆ Break Even 232

78 To Break the News ＆ to Break the Ice 235

79 Sacred Cow ＆ Dark Horse 238

80 Right on the Mark ＆ Right up One's Alley 241

81 To Give Someone the Hook ＆ by Hook or by Crook 244

82 To Pick up the Tab ＆ Go Dutch 247

83 Tax-and-spend Liberal ＆ Knee-jerk Liberal 250

84 Redneck ＆ McCarthyite 253

85 Dry Run ＆ Cut and Dried 256

86 High and Dry ＆ Dry Up 259

87 In the Doghouse ＆ between a Rock and a Hard Place 262

88 Bummer ＆ Bum Rap 265

89 Fair and Square ＆ Fair Shake 268

90 Fair Game ＆ Fair-haired Boy 271

91 The Time of One's Life ＆ in the Nick of Time 274

92 Front Money ＆ Hush Money 277

93 Free Lance ＆ Freeloader 280

94 Free and Easy ＆ Free-for-all 283

95 To Blow One's Own Horn ＆ to Blow the Lid off 286

96 To Play with Fire ＆ to Fight Fire with Fire 289

97 Half-baked ＆ Half-hearted 292

98 To Get to the Bottom of Something ＆ to Scrape the Bottom of the Barrel 295

99 There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch ＆ Power Lunch 298

100 Easy Money ＆ to Bet One's Bottom Dollar 301

101 Smart Money ＆ Mad Money 304

102 Sweet Talk ＆ Snow Job 307

103 A Fine Kettle of Fish ＆ to Have Other Fish to Fry 310

104 To Butter up Someone ＆ Nitpicker 313

105 Smoke and Mirrors ＆ Bum Steer 316

106 To Go up in Smoke ＆ Smoke Screen 319

107 On Top of the World ＆ off the Top of One's Head 322

108 Top Banana ＆ Top Brass 325

109 Pinhead ＆ on Pins and Needlea 328

110 To Cook up ＆ Smart Cookie or Tough Cookie 331

111 Fly-by-night ＆ off the Cuff 334

112 Gold Mine ＆ Born with a Silver Spoon in His Mouth 337

113 To Be Handed Something on a Silver Platter ＆ to Go over like a Lead Balloon 340

114 Steamroller ＆ under One's Own Steam 343

115 To Go Full Steam Ahead ＆ to Blow off Steam 346

116 Goody Two Shoes ＆ to Fill Somebody's Shoes 349

117 To Lower the Boom ＆ to Throw Away the Key 352

118 A Slap on the Wrist ＆ to Wait for the Other Shoe to Drop 355

119 Wild and Woolly ＆ Dyed in theWool 358

120 To Walk down the Aisle ＆ to Walk the Plank 361

121 To Eat One's Words ＆ from the Word GO 364

122 No Problem ＆ Have a Nice Day 367

123 One-liner ＆ Punch Line 370

124 To Play Fast and Loose ＆ Hard and Fast 373

125 Sitting Pretty ＆ to Sit Tight 376

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