heads will roll

jelentés / meaning: 

(ezért még) fejek fognak hullni  

szó szerint: fejek fognak gurulni

people will get into severe trouble/ something that you say which means people will lose their jobs as punishment for making serious mistakes

 

 példák / examples:

• How could the air force have bombed a school by mistake? Heads will roll, believe me!
• Have you any idea how much money this mistake will cost the company? You can be sure that heads will roll. 
• When the company's year-end results are known, heads will roll.
• You can rest assured that heads will roll for this.

hang somebody out to dry

jelentés / meaning:

magára hagy valakit, cserben hagy valakit, magára hagy valakit egy problémával (és gyakran a felelőséggel, őt hibáztatva)
 

• Leaving someone on his (or her) own.
• Leaving someone behind to take the blame for a bad situation
• Abandoning someone who is in need of help

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példák / examples:

• After losing the election, the party is going to hang him out to dry. 
• When the department got into difficulties, his bosses simply hung him out to dry.
• A. Why are you so upset with me? B. You left me hanging out to dry!! You didn’t even TRY to help!
• Scott Harrison is struggling but we can't hang him out to dry, says Tommy Gilmour

bite somebody's head off

jelentés / meaning:

Leharapja valaki fejét, mérgesen reagál, mérgesen beszél valakivel , túlreagál valamit

to speak sharply and with great anger to someone. / overreact to something that someone has done or done

He bites his head off!
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példák / examples:

• Don't bite my head off! Be patient.
• I'm very sorry I lost my temper. I didn't mean to bite your head off.
• I only asked if I could borrow your bike. There's no need to bite my head off!   
• You don’t have to bite my head off !
• Ask her to step down from the board? She'd bite my head off!
• Try not to bite his head off. 
• I can't tell him he is not good at doing his job, he'd bite my head off!

I lost my temper= elvesztettem az önuralmam

patient ( ~pésönt)= türelmes

step down from the board~ lemond a bizottsági pozíciójáról

to be in the clear

jelentése / meaning:

(valaki) tiszta, nem bűnös, nem hibás

not guilty of a crime, not responsible for a mistake,  

free from danger or suspicion of wrongdoing

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példák / examples:

•  Mark is in the clear.
• The police breathalysed him last night, but he was in the clear.
• The X-rays showed that she's in the clear.
• The evidence showed that the suspect was actually in the clear.