妙趣横生英语坊 百变词汇 Colorful vocabularyPDF电子书下载

食物篇 1

apple 1

apple-pie 1

as apple pie 2

the apple of one s eye 2

upset sb. s applecart 3

bacon 5

bring home the bacon 5

save bacon 6

beef to the heels 7

beef about 7

beef 7

beef up 8

put beef into 9

bread 11

bread and butter 11

bread-and-butter 11

bread and scrape 12

break bread 13

bread buttered on both sides 13

cast one s bread on the waters 14

daily bread 14

eat the bread of 15

earn one s bread 15

know which side one s bread is buttered on 16

out of bread 17

take the bread out of sb. s mouth 17

the best thing since sliced bread 18

butter 20

butter up 20

butter would not melt in one s mouth 21

cake 23

a piece of cake 23

a slice of the cake 24

cakes and ale 24

cannot have one s cake and eat it 25

go like hot cakes 26

take the cake 26

candy 28

take a candy from a baby 28

would take a candy from a baby 29

cheese 31

chalk and cheese 31

cheeseparing 32

cheesed off 32

hard cheese 33

make the cheese more binding 33

coffee-and-cake job 35

coffee cooler 35

coffee 35

cream 38

cream of the crop 38

cream off 39

cream up 39

the cream of 40

egg 42

as sure as eggs is eggs 42

bring one s eggs to a bad market 43

crush in the egg 43

egg on one s face 44

good egg 45

from the egg to the apple 45

have all one s eggs in one basket 46

lay an egg 46

walk on eggs 47

food 49

food for thought 49

off one s food 50

ham 52

ham it up 52

ham up 53

hamstring 53

ham of 54

a honey 56

honey 56

honey-tongued 57

jam 59

have jam on it 59

jam tomorrow 60

like jam on it 60

real jam 61

juice 63

step on the juice 63

stew in one s own juice 63

be meat for sb. s master 66

cry roast meat 66

meat 66

jump on sb. s meat 67

meat and potatoes 68

meat ax 68

milk 70

bring sb. to his milk 70

cry over spilt milk 71

milk-and-water 71

milk for babies 72

milk of human kindness 72

mutton 74

be sb. s muttons 74

dead as mutton 74

eat mutton cold 75

mutton dressed as lamb 76

resume one s muttons 76

return to one s muttons 77

stick to one s muttons 77

onion 79

know one s onion 79

off one s onion 79

peach 81

a peach of 81

peaches and cream 81

be pie at 83

as...as pie 83

pie 83

cut a pie 84

eat humble pie 85

have a finger in the pie 85

salt 87

eat salt with sb. 87

not made of salt 88

put salt on the tail of 88

rub salt in sb. s wound 89

the salt of the earth 89

true to one s salt 90

worth one s salt 91

with a grain of salt 91

have the sauce 93

sauce 93

hit the sauce 94

poor man s sauce 94

serve with the same sauce 95

soup 97

from soup to nuts 97

in the soup 97

soup up 98

sugar 100

sugar the pill 100

sugarcoat 101

sugar up 101

tea 103

cup of tea 103

for all the tea in China 104

take tea with sb. 104

tea and sympathy 105

植物篇 107

bean 107

a row of beans 107

full of beans 108

haven t a bean 108

know one s beans 109

isn s worth a bean 109

not a bean 110

spill the beans 110

bud 113

in the bud 113

nip sth.in the bud 114

bush 115

beat about the bush 115

beat the bushes 116

go bush 116

carry corn 118

admit the corn 118

corn 118

corn off the cob 119

eat one s corn in the blade 120

cotton 122

cotton on 122

cottonpicking 123

cotton to 123

in tall cotton 124

keep in cotton wool 124

crop 126

a crop of 126

stick in sb. s crop 127

crop out 127

daisy 129

as fresh as a daisy 129

daisy chain of 129

push up daisies 130

flower 132

in full flower 132

in the flower of 133

the flower of sth. 133

fruit 135

(an action)bear fruit 135

forbidden fruit 136

first fruits 136

fruit of the body 137

grass 139

between grass and hey 139

cut the grass under sb. s feet 140

go to grass 140

grass roots 141

let the grass grow under one s feet 141

put sb. to grass 142

leaf 144

leaves without figs 144

take a leaf from sb. s book 144

turn over a new leaf 145

lilies and roses 147

gild the lily 147

lily 147

nut 149

a hard nut 149

do one s nut 150

for nuts 150

nut out 151

nuts and bolts 151

off one s nuts 152

screw the nut 152

feel one s oats 154

know one s oats 154

oat 154

off one s oats 155

sow one s wild oats 155

reed 157

lean on a reed 157

root 159

at root 159

pull up one s roots 160

put down roots 160

root and branch 161

strike at the root 161

take root 162

a bed of roses 164

rose 164

come up roses 165

gather roses 165

under the rose 166

seed 168

be seeded 168

go to seed 168

raise up seed 169

the seeds of sth. 169

stem 171

from stem to stem 171

stem from 171

catch at a straw 173

straw 173

a straw in the wind 173

do not care a straw 174

draw a straw 174

get the short straw 175

make bricks without straw 175

the last straw 176

thorn 178

a thorn in sb. s flesh 178

sit on thorns 179

tree 181

at the top of the tree 181

grow on trees 182

bark up the wrong tree 182

out of one s tree 183

up a gum tree 183

vine 185

dwell under one s vine and fig tree 185

wither on the vine 186

wood 188

come out of the woodwork 188

crawl into the woodwork 189

have the wood on 189

in the green wood 190

out of the wood 190

sth.nasty in the woodshed 191

saw wood 192

take sb.into the woodshed 192

take to the woods 193

物品篇 195

ball 195

ball up 195

carry the ball 196

catch the ball before the bounce 196

have a ball 197

have on the ball 197

keep one s eyes on the ball 198

keep the ball rolling 198

on the ball 199

take up the ball 200

run with the ball 200

the ball is in sb. s court 201

throw the ball to sb. 201

bed 203

be brought to bed 203

bed and board 204

keep one s bed 204

bench 206

on the bench 206

be brought before the bench 206

an open book 209

book 209

a closed book 209

bring sb.to book 210

by the book 210

close the books 211

hit the books 212

in sb. s book 212

in sb. s black books 213

make a book 213

boot 215

give sb.the boot 215

like old boots 216

lick sb. s boots 216

put the boots in 217

box 219

box in 219

box off 220

box-office 220

in a box 221

in the same box 221

in the wrong box 222

out of the box 222

at the first brush 224

tarred with the same brush 224

brush 224

cap 226

put a cap on 226

put on one s thinking cap 226

set one s cap 227

coat 229

a hole in sb. s coat 229

turn one s coat 230

chair 232

be in the chair 232

chairborne 232

take the chair 233

dash the cup from sb. s lips 235

cup 235

between cup and lip 235

drain the cup of 236

drink the cup of 237

door 239

at sb. s door 239

open the door 240

slam the door in sb. s face 240

hammer 242

between hammer and anvil 242

hammer and tongs 243

drop the hammer 243

hammer awayn at 244

hammer out 244

under the hammer 245

up to the hammer 245

hat 247

black as my hat 247

hang up one s hat 248

old hat 248

out of a hat 249

under one s hat 249

before the ink is dry 251

ink in 251

ink 251

sling ink 252

lid 254

blow one s lid 254

keep the lid on 255

put a lid on 255

put the lid on 256

take the lid off 256

mirror 258

with mirrors 258

get the needle 260

needle 260

a needle in a haystack 261

paper 263

peddle one s papers 263

set a paper 264

pen 266

drive a pen 266

put pen to paper 266

pillow 268

consult with one s pillow 268

sew pillows under people s elbows 269

plate 271

on a plate 271

on one s plate 272

another pair of shoes 274

in sb. s shoes 274

shoe 274

where the shoe pinches 275

table 277

on the table 277

turn the tables 278

under the table 278

thread 280

break the thread 280

hang by a thread 281

lose the thread 281

go on wheels 283

wheel 283

at the wheel 283

grease the wheels 284

have wheels in head 285

spin one s wheels 285

take the wheel 286

the man at the wheel 286

wheel and deal 287

wheels within wheels 287

window 289

fly out of the window 289

window dressing 290