with bated breath

gyakran használt, de helytelen formája: baited breath

jelentés / meaning:

visszatartott lélegzettel (vár valamit)

 if you wait for something with bated breath, you feel very excited or anxious while you are waiting

 forrás és további kifejezések

példák / examples:

• They listened with bated breath for the announcement about the winner.
• We stood there with bated  breath while the man hung on the side of the bridge.
• We were waiting with bated breath for the prizes to be announced.
• She waited with bated breath for their host to emerge from the shadows.

emerge= felbukkan, megjelenik,

pet hate

jelentés / meaning: 
amit a legjobban utálsz,  
 legjobban irritáló dolog, "kedvenc" idegesítő dolog amit utálsz

 something you strongly dislike because it particularly annoys you

'Back-seat drivers are motorists’ biggest pet hate'

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példák / examples:

• TV game shows are one of my pet hates.
• A pet hate of ours is telephone salesmen who phone just as we're sitting down to watch TV
• My pet hate is being put on hold on the telephone.
• One of my pet hates is when people leave an event before it has finished. I have been in concerts, theatre shows or even sporting events where people get up and leave before the event has finished. I find this really rude to the performer.
• What are your top 5 pet hates? (examples here ) 

HELP:

pet=    háziállat, kedvenc
pet=    kedvenc (person treated as a favourite, for example: 'the teacher's pet')
pet=    kedvenc, sok figyelmet kapó dolog ( thing that is given special attention, for example:    

• pet hate,
• pet peeve (American English),  
• pet project, 
• pet theory,
• pet aversion,  my pet aversion= amitől leginkább iszonyodom ,

back seat driver   = A backseat driver is a passenger who is not controlling the vehicle, and seems to be uncomfortable with the skills of the and/or wants to tutor the driver while the driver is at the wheel.

to be on edge

jelentés / meaning:

feszült, ideges, ingerült,

 

to be nervous or worried about something,

 impatient, excited,

 

 példák / examples:

• The players were all a little on edge before the big game.
• I was on edge the whole time I was there.  
• We were all on edge as we listened to the TV for news of the election results. 

evoke memories

 [UK: - ɪvoʊk ] 

 jelentés / meaning:

emlékeket idéz fel, emlékeket hoz vissza

  

to bring back memories ,to bring to recollection, to  trigger memories

recollection= emlékezet

trigger= előidéz, serkent, kivált  / ravasz (fegyveren)

For a person with Alzheimer’s the sense of touch can trigger memories

példák / examples:

• Her singing evoked memories of my childhood.
• The old house evoked memories of her childhood.
• Certain scents seem to evoke strong emotional memories—a phenomenon psychologists have long referred to as the Proust effect.
• Why do smells evoke memories? -   How Scents Evoke Memories
• Nike apologises for 'Black and Tan' trainers that evoke memories of notorious paramilitary unit. -The Telegraph article

phenomenon= jelenség

refer to= hivatkozik, utal valamire 

trainers= edzőcipő

notorius= notórius, hírhedt

paramilitary= katonai jellegű, félkatonai

keep a straight face

jelentés / meaning:

fapofát vág
(szó szerint: "egyenes" arcot)

A face that betrays no sign of emotion /

a serious facial expression, especially one that conceals the impulse to laugh

fapofa - straight face

source

 példák / examples:

•  He has such a strange voice that it's difficult to keep a straight face when he's talking.
• How to keep a straight face? (wikihow tips)
• It's hard to keep a straight face when someone tells a funny joke.
• Can you keep a straight Face?
• 'It was hard to keep a straight face': Twilight stars admit that gory birth scene in Breaking Dawn was funny to film. Daily Mail article 

gory= véres

 

bottle it up

jelentés / meaning:

Magában tartja (érzéseit)

to hold one's feelings within;

to keep from saying something that one feels strongly about

szó szerenti jelentésben: palackoz valamit,

to put some sort of liquid into bottles.

példák / examples:

• Let's talk about it, John. You shouldn't bottle it up.
• She bottled up her feelings.
• She bottled up her emotions throughout the tournament.
• Keeping your feelings all bottled up might seriously damage your health.  

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."

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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.

 

white as a sheet

jelentése/ meaning:

fehér mint a fal (ijedtségtől)

extremely pale because frightened or sick

Voca People

példák/examples:

•  You are white as a sheet!
• Any time I encounter more than two fifth graders in a group I turn white as a sheet. I'm afraid they'll jump on me and beat me.
•  When he blurted out the bad news, Jeff turned white as a sheet and I burst into tears. (more)
• My wife tells me I went white as a sheet when William called to tell me the news.
• f any one of these people ever really encountered a real demon they would turn white as a sheet and their hair would turn white.

segítség a fordításhoz:

encounter= összefut, összetalálkozik

fifth grader= ötödikes 

blurt out= kibök,kifecseg

it gives me the creeps

jelentése / meaning:

a frászt hozza rám, libabőrös leszek tőle,

a hideg ráz tőle

makes me feel frightened, anxious and disgusted

példák / examples:

• This old house gives me the creeps.
• Spiders give me the creeps
• Walking through the graveyard late at night gave me the creeps.
• How to make your boyfriend happy: Friends, especially old friends, are usually particularly close to his heart so never let slip that they give you the creeps or wonder out loud what on earth he has in common with them.Read more: here 

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

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?

last straw

jelentése: utolsó csepp a pohárban , ( szó szerinti fordításban: utolsó szalmaszál )

példák: 

• Claire had a bad day in school yesterday. She lost her favourite book, then she fell down, and when she realized she had broken her glasses, that was the last straw and she began to cry.
• For me, this was the last straw.
• The last straw came when an old man stared at me and I could see in his eyes he was undressing me.

eredeti formája: 'the last straw which breaks the camel's back'  Így is használják ma is! Az utolsó szalmaszál, ami eltöri a teve hátát.

A 'straw' szívószálat is jelent, a képen a last straw which breaks the camel's back is a 'szívószál'. 

forrás: Red Planet Cartoons