dam 成语
damaged goods
damn it
damned if you do and damned if you don't
dampen your spirits
don't know him from Adam
give a damn/shit
put a damper on
Adam and Eve
can I live damn
damablanca
dame
damn all
damn right
damn straight
damper
you damn skippy
dam up
They have dammed up the valley and built a reservoir．他们已经在山谷里筑了坝，建造了水库。
2．hold back；restrain（a feeling，etc．）抑制（感情等）
She not only did her best to dam up her sorrows，but went in for her work even more energetically than ever before．她不仅竭力抑制内心的悲痛，而且以更加充沛的精力投入了工作。
He dammed up his fury until he could no longer remain silent．他一直到忍无可忍时才大发雷霆。
We should do our best to dam up inflation．我们应尽一切努力来制止通货膨涨。
damp down
She damped the fire down for the night．她把炉火封上过夜。
2．make sad or dull 使沮丧；使扫兴
Nothing could damp down his spirits．任何事情都不能破坏他的兴致。
Difficulties and failures did not damp down his enthusiasm．困难和失败都没有挫伤他的积极性。
3．diminish 减少；缩小
Inflation is being damped down．通货膨涨的势头正在被抑制。
not know sb from Adam
Idiom(s): not know sb from AdamTheme: IDENTIFICATION
not to know someone at all.
• I wouldn't recognize John if I saw him. I don't know him from Adam.
• What does she look like? I don't know her from Adam.
do sb damage
Idiom(s): do sb damageTheme: HARM
to harm someone. (Informal.)
• I hope she doesn't plan to do me damage.
• They did us damage by telling the whole story to the newspapers.
damn with faint praise
Idiom(s): damn sb or sth with faint praiseTheme: CRITICISM
to criticize someone or something indirectly by not praising enthusiastically.
• The critic did not say that he disliked the play, but he damned it with faint praise.
• Mrs. Brown is very proud of her son's achievements, but damns her daughter's with faint praise.
Adam's apple
The Adam's apple is a bulge in the throat, mostly seen in men.Collateral damage
Accidental or unintended damage or casualties are collateral damage.Damp squib
(UK) If something is expected to have a great effect or impact but doesn't, it is a damp squib.Not worth a tinker's dam
This means that something is worthless and dates back to when someone would travel around the countryside repairing things such as a kitchen pot with a hole in it. He was called a 'tinker'. His dam was used to stop the flow of soldering material being used to close the hole. Of course his 'trade' is passé, thus his dam is worth nothing.Road to Damascus
If someone has a great and sudden change in their ideas or beliefs, then this is a road to Damascus change, after the conversion of Saint Paul to Christianity while heading to Damascus to persecute Christians.Water over the dam
(USA) If something has happened and cannot be changed, it is water over the dam.damned if one does, damned if one doesn't|damn
adj. phr. No matter what one does, someone is likely to criticize one. No matter what decisions I make, there are always some people who will approve them and those who won't. It is a classical case of "damned if I do, damned if I don't."not to know one from Adam|Adam|know
v. phr. To not know a person; be unable to recognize someone. I have no idea who that guy is that Jane just walked in with; I don't know him from Adam.one damn thing after another|ODTAA|damn thing|one
(pronounced owed-tay) n. phr. If there is one problem, there will be more. First I lost my wallet, then a kid broke the window, and, lastly, my car refused to start. It was just one damn thing after another!Compare: IF IT'S NOT ONE THING IT'S ANOTHER.
water over the dam|bridge|dam|water|water under th
n. phr. Something that happened in the past and cannot be changed. Since the sweater is too small already, don't worry about its shrinking; that's water over the dam.Compare: CRY OVER SPILLED MILK.
worth a tinker's dam|dam|tinker's dam|worth
adj. phr., informal Not worth anything; valueless. As a bricklayer he was not worth a tinker's damn. I am not familiar with the subject so my opinion would not be worth a tinker's dam.Adam
Adamsee not know someone from Adam.
dam
damsee water over the dam.
damage
damageIn addition to the idioms beginning with damage, also see do someone wrong; the damage.
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- damage control
- damaged goods
damage control
damage controlMeasures to minimize or curtail loss or harm. For example, As soon as they discovered the leak to the press, the senator's office worked night and day on damage control. Used literally since the 1950s, specifically for limiting the effect of an accident on a ship, this term began to be used figuratively in the 1970s.
damn
damnIn addition to the idioms beginning with damn, also see do one's best; give a damn; not worth a damn.
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- damn well
- damn with faint praise
- damned if I do, damned if I don't
damn well
damn wellAlso, damned well. Certainly, without doubt; emphatically. For example, You damn well better improve your grades, or I know damned well that he's leaving me out. The damn in this phrase is mainly an intensifier.
damned
damned1.
do one's damnedest (or damndest)
Informal to do or try one's utmost
2.
the damned
Theol. souls doomed to eternal punishment
damned if I do, damned if I don't
damned if I do, damned if I don'tA situation in which one can't win. For example, If I invite Aunt Jane, Mother will be angry, and if I don't, I lose Jane's friendship—I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. Eric Partridge suggested this idiom may have come from the emphatic I'm damned if I do, meaning “I definitely will not do something,” but despite the similar wording the quite different meaning argues against this theory. [Colloquial; first half of 1900s] Also see Catch-22.
Damocles
Damoclessword of Damocles
any imminent danger
damp
dampdamp off
to wither and die because of mildew, as seedlings, plant shoots, etc.
give a damn
give a damnsee not give a damn.
know from Adam
know from Adamsee not know someone from Adam.
not give a damn
not give a damnAlso, not give a fig or hang or hoot or rap or shit. Not care about, be indifferent to, as in I don't give a damn about him, or She doesn't give a fig if he comes or not. The nouns in all these terms signify something totally worthless. Although probably in oral use for much longer, damn is first recorded in this negative form in the late 1700s and the worthless item it is used to denigrate is a curse. Fig has denoted something small and worthless since about 1400, and hang since the mid-1800s; hoot has been used for the smallest particle since the later 1800s; rap, also for the smallest particle, since the first half of the 1800s, and shit, for excrement, since about 1920. All but the first of these terms are colloquial and the last (using shit) is vulgar.
not know someone from Adam
not know someone from AdamBe unable to recognize someone, as in Although I have worked here for two months, I've never seen the department head; I wouldn't know her from Adam. This term refers to the biblical story about the world's first human being. As at least one writer has pointed out, differentiating someone from Adam makes little sense since he had no name and wore only a fig leaf. [Mid-1800s]
not worth a damn
not worth a damnAlso, not worth a plugged nickel or red cent or bean or hill of beans or fig or straw or tinker's damn. Worthless, as in That car isn't worth a damn, or My new tennis racket is not worth a plugged nickel. As for the nouns here, a damn or curse is clearly of no great value (also see not give a damn); a plugged nickel in the 1800s referred to a debased five-cent coin; a cent denotes the smallest American coin, which was red when made of pure copper (1800s); a bean has been considered trivial or worthless since the late 1300s (Chaucer so used it), whereas hill of beans alludes to a planting method whereby four or five beans are put in a mound (and still are worthless); and both fig and straw have been items of no worth since about 1400. A tinker's dam, first recorded in 1877, was a wall of dough raised around a spot where a metal pipe is being repaired so as to hold solder in place until it hardens, whereupon the dam is discarded. However, tinker's damn was first recorded in 1839 and probably was merely an intensification of “not worth a damn,” rather than having anything to do with the dam.
old as Adam
old as AdamAlso, old as the hills. Ancient, as in He must be as old as Adam by now, or That joke is as old as the hills. The first term, alluding to the first human created by God, according to the Bible, was first recorded only in 1867. The variant, referring to geological time (when mountains were created), dates from about 1800.
sword of Damocles
sword of DamoclesAlso, Damocles' sword. Impending disaster, as in The likelihood of lay-offs has been a sword of Damocles over the department for months. This expression alludes to the legend of Damocles, a servile courtier to King Dionysius I of Syracuse. The king, weary of Damocles' obsequious flattery, invited him to a banquet and seated him under a sword hung by a single hair, so as to point out to him the precariousness of his position. The idiom was first recorded in 1747. The same story gave rise to the expression hang by a thread.
the damage
the damageThe cost or price of something, as in So what's the damage for this outfit? This seemingly modern slangy phrase, with damage alluding to the harm done to one's pocketbook, was first recorded in 1755.
English Vocalbulary
a son of dripping
a son of ebony
a son of Momus
a son of the soil
a song and dance
a sop in the pan
a sound mind in a sound body
a spent bullet
a square yard
a stab in the back
a stage
a stand of colors
a standing joke
a state of siege
a stiff neck
A stitch in time saves nine
a stool of repentance
a storm in a teacup
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