I'll never live it down

jelentése / meaning:

sose mosom le magamról, soha nem fogják elfelejteni nekem

people will not forget something bad or embarrassing that you have done

live down: to live so as to wipe out the memory or effects of

 " I'll never live it down."

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példák / examples:

• I'll never live down the fact that I spilt wine on my boss's dress.
• I knew she'd never live it down.
• John ' s business failure hurt him for a long time , but in the end he lived it down.

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put your thinking cap on

jelentése / meaning:

kezdj el gondolkozni róla, törd a fejed

Take time for consideration of some question, think carefully

"Scientists develop actual thinking cap."

példák/ examples:

• It's time to put our thinking cap on, boys.
• Put on your thinking cap and try to remember whose car was it.
• Now using these examples, put on your thinking cap and see what you can identify as possible trends.

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!"

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 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.

a square meal

jelentése / meaning:

kiadós, bőséges, laktató étkezés

square= derékszögű, négyzetes, tisztességes, korrekt , tér

a good and satisfying meal

"This is what I call a square meal!"

recept: http://www.falatozzunk.hu/2010/05/marhapofa-porkolt.html

példák / examples:

• Most of these supermodels don't look like they've had a square meal in their life.
• "I gave him half a dollar and a square meal." (Jack London, The Mexican)
• "After all that travelling, we needed a square meal."

A kifejezés eredete / Origin of the phrase

make up leeway

jelentése/meaning:

bepótol mulasztást / behoz lemaradást/ behoz késést

If you have to make up leeway you have to do extra work because you have not done as much work as you should have done

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példák/ examples:

• We've got quite a lot of leeway to make up.
• There was an attempt to make up leeway in 1940 and 1941, but it was hampered by
  difficulties in securing shipping space and by losses through enemy action. ...
• There is a short break of 10 minutes between each presentation, to make up leeway caused by prolonged presentation or discussion. (source)

odd one out / odd man out

 jelentése/ meaning:
kakukktojás

exception, misfit
Something or someone in a group that is different or exceptional that does not fit.

"Spot the odd one out!" (quiz)

példák/examples:

• All my family smoke apart from me.-I'm the odd man out.
• Which is the odd one out?
• Spot the odd one out.
• Being The Odd One Out - Survival Tips To Being Different (Forbes magazin)

stray dog

jelentése/ meaning:
kóbor kutya
a dog without an owner

"A stray dog riding the Moscow metro to get from its suburban place of living to the city center."

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• What to do if you find a stray dog or if your dog goes missing. (more) 
• Russian scientists say that Moscow stray dogs became much smarter. (more)

 

by the same token

jelentése / meaning:
hasonlóképpen, ugyanezen az alapon, továbbá


for a similar reason, in a similar manner


példák / examples:

• Tom: I really got cheated! Bob: You think they've cheated you, but, by the same token, they believe that you've cheated them.
• For example, if you write in all caps it may appear as though you are shouting. By the same token, do not type in all lower case because it may suggest laziness. (email correspondence)
• By the same token, that same contract will likely be totally inappropriate for many other types of situations.
• By the same token, this example is not valid.
• But, by the same token, you can lose time if you try to run analyses on models that aren't built for it.

outnumber

jelentése/meaning:

létszámban, számbelileg felülmúl

to exceed the number of / to exceed in number

" He is outnumbered."

példák/examples:

• It is fairly well known that women today outnumber men in American colleges. 
• Smartphone owners now outnumber other mobile users in the U.S.
• For the first time, urban dwellers in China now outnumber those living in the country. (more) (dweller=lakos)
• Top 10:  Cities where woman outnumber men.

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taxpayer = adófizető 

call it a day

jelentése/meaning:
végeztünk, legyen ennyi elég mára

stop doing something ( especially stop working for the rest of the day)

"Let's call it a day."

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példák/examples:

• I am tired. Let's call it a day.
• Why don't we call it a day?
• They have decided to call it a day.
• I was tempted to call it a day.  ( I was tempted= kísértésbe estem.)

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