cil 成语

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sharpen your pencils

be ready, be prepared Let's sharpen our pencils, gang. We have to set some goals.

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reconciled to

prepared to accept甘心接受
He is not reconciled to his defeat．他不甘心失败。

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Sharpen your pencil

(USA) If someone says this when negotiating, they want the other person to make a better offer, a lower price.

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blue-pencil|blue|pencil

v. To edit. The editor blue-penciled John's manuscript.

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pencil

pencil
see put lead in one's pencil.

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put lead in one's pencil

put lead in one's pencil
Enhance or restore sexual vigor, as in Try one of these hot peppers; that'll put lead in your pencil. This phrase, a euphemism for causing an erection, is considered far more vulgar than the contemporary synonym put hair on one's chest, alluding to a secondary male sex characteristic. [Colloquial; c. 1900]