no strings attached

jelentés / meaning: 

kötöttségek nélkül, feltételek nélkül, kötelezettségek nélkül

no special demands or limits that you have to accept  , no obligations

példák / examples:

• For a friend, I'll help out for free, no strings attached. 
• What exactly does 'no strings attached' mean when it comes to dating?
• Most of these so-called special offers come with strings attached.
• The bank's agreed to lend me £1000, no strings attached.

keep somebody at arm's lenght

jelentés / meaning: 

három lépés távolságot tart valakivel

(= "kartávolágban tart valakit, nem engedi annál közelebb ")

 

If you keep someone or something at arm's length, you keep a safe distance away from them.

példák / examples:

• There is an art in managing to be polite while keeping your neighbours at arm's length.
• Martha always keeps her coworkers at arm's length.

(Martha, who works in an office, is very careful when it comes to sharing personal details at work. Her coworkers are always trying to engage Martha in personal conversations. They invite Martha to parties and other social events. Martha always refuses the invitations. Martha prefers to keep her professional work life very separate from her personal life.) source

make somebody's day day

jelentés / meaning:

nagyon boldoggá tesz valakit / boldoggá teszi valaki napját (jó hírrel, dicsérettel, bókkal, meglepetéssel...stb.) 

to make someone very happy

példák / examples:

• Go on, tell him you like his jacket. It'll make his day!
• I was so pleased to hear from Peter. It really made my day. 
• Name 3 things to make somebody's day.
• What this simple act of kindness made me realize is that often it doesn’t take much to make someone else’s day.

 

spoil somebody rotten

spoil= elkényeztet, elront (múlt idő alakjai: spoilt/spoiled ; spoilt/spoiled)

rotten= romlott

jelentés / meaning:
valakit nagyon elkényeztet, túlságosan elkényeztet

spoil somebody greatly,
to do everything possible to satisfy someone's desires 

"He is spoilt rottten."

példák / examples:

• My husband spoils me rotten.
• Those children are spoiled rotten by their grandparents.
• Dad always spoiled us rotten, and Mon was the one who disciplined us.
• Below are the generous and very thoughtful gifts that my loved ones gave me almost a month ago now, for my 26th birthday. I am definitely spoiled rotten. 

pot calling the kettle black

jelentés / meaning: 

Bagoly mondja verébnek, (hogy nagy a feje)

 angol verzióban: ~ Üst mondja ,kannának hogy fekete.

pot= fazék, üst, edény

kettle: vízforraló kanna, 

the person accusing (the "pot") shares some quality with the target of their accusation (the "kettle")

 példák / examples:

• Pot calling the kettle black!
• A classic case of the pot calling the kettle black is to be found in today's gospel.
• It was like the pot calling the kettle black when the woman who is always late for work criticized her coworker for also coming late.

apple of one`s eye

jelentés / meaning: 
kedvenc (személy); vkinek a szíve csücske 

one's favourite (person, somebody)

példák / examples:

• His youngest daughter is the apple of his eye.  
• My children are the apple of my eye.
• And you can hear it in the lyrics of Akon's track: Right Now (Na Na Na)

to let somebody down

jelentése / meaning:

valakit cserben hagy, becsap, csalódást kelt valakiben

to disappoint somebody or to fail to uphold a commitment
 

"They let me down."

source: Only HD Wallpapers

példák / examples:

• He really let me down when he didn't arrive on time. 
• I won't let you down.
• The AMD FX processor won't let you down.
• All you need to remember is that God will never let you down.
• I'll have to let you down right now.
• My country let me down.

Ne feledjük, hogy a let ige második és harmadik alakja (múlt idő) is let.

get somebody's hopes up

jelentés / meaning:

reményeket ébreszt valakiben,(sokszor hiú reményeket)

ha magáról van szó: nagy reményeket fűz valamihez 

to make someone think that what they want is going to happen

to make someone more hopeful

 

 source

példák / examples:

• Don't get your hopes up: our chances of winning are slim.
• I'm telling myself not to get my hopes up.  (~nem szabad túlságosan reménykednem, bíznom benne) 
• I'm sorry for getting your hopes up. (Bocs, hogy hiú reményeket ébresztettem benned.)
• I don’t want to get your hopes up, but I think we may have won the lottery!
• Shelly got her hopes up when she called the radio station to try and win tickets to see Britney Spears. She was disappointed, however, when she didn’t win. 

• Mary: I think he may be going to ask me to marry him!
  Rebecca: Don’t go getting your hopes up, are you sure it’s an engagement ring?

 

put up with something

jelentése/ meaning:

tolerál, belenyugszik

tolerate, to accept or continue to accept an unpleasant situation 

 "A funny list of the things which we have to put up with getting on a plane."

példák/examples:

• I can't put up with my neighbour's noise any longer; it's driving me mad.
• Why do you put up with it?
• I put up with a lot of nonsense, but this is too much.
• The workers in the factory had been badly treated for a long time and they couldn't put up with it any more, so they went on strike.
• "Hannah's Diary" was themed around the question of how much the characters were willing to put up with in order to get something they need.

 

she had a go at me

to have a go at somebody

jelentése/ meaning:

leszid valakit, nekiesik vagy nekitámad valakinek (verbálisan)

to verbally attack somebody, tell somebody off,  confront somebody over a particular issue,  starting an argument, shout at somebody

"My mother had a go at me for not doing my homework."

 source

példák/examples:

• My wife had a go at me last night. She said 'You'll drive me to my grave'.
• Mum had a go at me for not doing my homework.
• The boss had a go at me for being late for work.

a vicious circle

[ˈvɪʃəsˈ sər-kəl ] 

jelentése/ meaning:

ördögi kör

vicious= harapós, gonosz, rossz

a situation which makes itself worse, so that there is little chance of improvement

"Look out, it's a vicious circle!"

source 

 példák/examples:

• The fatter I get, the unhappier I am, so I eat to cheer myself up, which makes me fatter yet. It's a vicious circle.
• All of these factors have contributed to a vicious circle.

to freeload

jelentése/meaning:

potyázik

to take advantage of the charity, generosity, or hospitality of others,
to accept food and housing 

példák/ examples:

• He was angry at his brother because he was always freeloading and never worried about finding a job. 
• "Washington is a town of freeloaders so of course it's only natural that some people compile lists of the best freeloading events of the Christmas party season."  source

Is he just using me to freeload?
 forrás/source

he cut me dead

jelentése / meaning:

úgy csinál mintha nem is ismerne, levegőnek néz

 ignore somebody totally because you are angry with them or do not like them

példák / examples:

• I saw Johnny in town but he simply cut me dead.
• I bumped into Dana in the street and started to talk to her but she just cut me dead.
• They changed their table in the dining-room and they cut me dead whenever we met on deck.

'will' vagy 'going to'?

'Will' vagy 'going to' ?Mikor melyiket használjuk? 

Összefoglalás:

going to = gonna:

• tervek, szándékok (már korábban kitalált) -  We are going to York in the summer. / I am going to wait here until Jim gets back.
• biztosan bekövetkező dolgok, amiknek látjuk az okát - It is going to rain. ( if you see black clouds in the sky) / Look at the tree! It's going to fall.  /She's going to have a baby ( is you see she is pregnant)
  

will:

• reakció, hirtelen döntés -I'll take this one /I'll wait here until Jim gets back.
  
• nem biztosan bekövetkező dolog, feltételezés, tippelés -The company will make a profit next year./ That'll be Jim at the door. / He'll be rich one day.
• 'bizonyosságok' - Our anniversary will be on a Sunday this year.

go through a bad patch

 jelentése /meaning:
nehéz időket él meg, rájár a rúd

patch= folt,toldás

  

go through a period of poor luck 

formái / forms:

• go through a bad patch
• hit a bad patch
• strike a bad patch

példák / examples:

• The Hungarian economy has certainly been going through a bad patch but there are definite signs of improvement now.
• Our marriage has hit a bad patch.
• Let's hope that is the end of our bad patch. -Liverpool football team.                    (Reméljük ezzel vége a rossz szériánknak.)
• I"m wondering what people here use as a measuring tool whether a relationship is just a bad patch or entirely over?( tovább olvasom )
• Lately, I feel like I've been going through somewhat of a “bad patch”, in terms of blogging and social networking.

in terms of something= valamivel  kapcsolatban

get your feet wet

jelentése / meaning:
kipróbál valamit, nekilát valaminek,
 kipróbálja magát valamiben

begin something, do something for the first time

- said especially about something that involves taking a risk 

 példák / examples:

• He has managed to get his feet wet in the publishing business and is ready to start his own business now. 
• I am looking forward to learning to drive. I can't wait to get behind the steering wheel and get my feet wet.
• If you've never invested money in the stock market, now is the time to get your feet wet.
• Are you ready to get your feet wet?

like a ton of bricks

 formái és jelentései:

hit somebody like a ton of bricks -  váratlanul csap le valakire (negatív esemény)

come down on somebody like a ton of bricks- hirtelen csap le valakire, megdorgál, 

be down on somebody like a ton of bricks - hirtelen csap le valakire, megdorgál, 

 to punish someone very quickly and severely 

példák:

• If you miss any more classes , your teachers will be down on you like a ton of bricks.
• When he failed to supply his accounts , tax inspectors came down on him like a ton of bricks.
• The news about the tragic terrorist acts hit us like a ton of bricks.
• How do you realize that you need to make a change? Is it gradual, or does it hit you like a ton of bricks?

crack a joke

jelentése:

poént elsüt

to tell a joke, to make a joke

példa:

• NYPD( New York Police Department) arrests a guy for cracking a joke.

A guy cracks a joke about a guy on a bicycle getting a ticket for riding on the sidewalk and ends up in handcuffs and under arrest. Apparently making jokes about people's misfortunes is illegal in New York....
 

arrest= letartóztat
get a ticket for riding ont the sidewalk= megbüntetik, mert a járdán teker kerékpárjával

ends up in handcuffs = bilincsben köt ki

misfortune=balszerencse


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she was born with a silver spoon in her mouth

jelentése: 

Nagyon gazdagnak születik.

("ezüst kanállal a szájában") 

to have opportunities that you did not earn but that you have from the influence of your family

példa / example:

• He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and has never worked in his life.

tar somebody with the same brush

jelentése: 

"Egy kalap alá vesz." 

 (ugyanazzal az ecsettel bekátrányoz :)

 

to believe wrongly that someone or something has the same bad qualities as someone or something that is similar

példák:

• I admit that some football supporters do cause trouble but it's not fair that we're all being tarred with the same brush.
• Don't tar all drinkers with the same brush.
• Don't tar me with the same brush. 
• I have to speak up here for recruiters because I am one, a good one, who gives a professional and worthy service and so to all critics of recruiters I would say this, don’t tar us all with the same brush AND check out a few facts before you cast your stone!( tovább)

példák nyers fordítása: 

• Elismerem, hogy egyes football szurkolók "bajt kevernek", de nem fair hogy mindannyiunkat egy kalap alá vesznek.
• Ne vegyél mindenkit, aki iszik egy kalap alá.
• Ne vegyél (vele, velük) egy kalap alá.
•  A humánosok ( állások betöltését szakmaszerűen végzők) érdekében kell szóljak, mert én is az vagyok, egy jó humános, aki profi és értékes munkát nyújt. Szóval a összes bírálónknak azt mondanám, hogy ne vegyetek minket mindig egy kalap alá és ellenőrizzetek néhány tényt mielőtt ránk vetitek a követ.