dig sb sth 成语
firsthand
learn sthby heart
Everyone in the class has to learn by heart Lincoln's Gettysburg Address．班上每一个学生都必须默诵林肯的盖茨堡演说词。
make sthdo
If there's no cream for the coffee，we'll just have to make milk do．如果没有奶油放在咖啡里，放牛奶也可以。
say sthbetween one's teeth
He is so weak that he can only say something between his teeth．他太虚弱了，只能低声说话。
subject sb/sth．to
We are all subjected to the law of nature．我们全都受自然规律的支配。
Women have been subjected to unjust treatment for too long．很长时间以来，妇女一直受到歧视。
2．make sth．undergo a test，treatment，etc．使…经历
All cars are subjected to various tests before they leave the factory．在离开工厂前，所有的车辆都要经过各种各样的测试。
Such an action would subject you to severe criticism．这种行动将使你遭受到严厉批评。
3．under the control of 受制约的
You are subject to the laws of this country．你得遵守这个国家的法律。
4．likely to get or have易遭受的
John is in rather poor health and is subject to colds．约翰身体很弱，易患感冒。
The western plains are subject to tornadoes．西部平原常遭受龙卷风的袭击。
5．depending on some change，happening or need有待…的；须经…的
Our plans may change subject to the weather．我们的计划可能因气候而会改变。
The treaty is subject to ratification．该条约须经批准。
write sth up
Idiom(s): write sth upTheme: PREPARATION
to prepare a bill, order, or statement.
• Please write the order up and send me a copy.
• As soon as I finish writing up your check, I'll bring you some more coffee.
write sth out
Idiom(s): write sth outTheme: COMMUNICATION - WRITTEN
to spell or write a number or an abbreviation.
• Don't just write "7," write it out.
• Please write out all abbreviations, such as Doctor for Dr.
write sth off
Idiom(s): write sth offTheme: FINANCIAL
to absorb a debt or a loss in accounting.
• The bill couldn't be collected, so we had to write it off
• The bill was too large, and we couldn't write off the amount. We decided to sue.
write sth down
Idiom(s): write sth downTheme: COMMUNICATION - WRITTEN
to write something; to make a note of something. (Also without down.)
• If I write it down, I won't forget it.
• I wrote down everything she said.
wrap sth up
Idiom(s): wrap sth upTheme: STOP
to terminate something. (Informal.)
• It's time to wrap this project up and move on to something else.
• Let's wrap up this discussion. It's time to go home.
act sth out
Idiom(s): act sth outTheme: PERFORMANCE
to accomplish an abstract accident as if one were in a play.
• Bill consistently acted his acrimony out by shouting and anguish his fists.
• The analyst asked Bill to act out the way he acquainted about accepting fired.
air sth out
Idiom(s): air sth outTheme: FRESHNESS
to activate up article by agreement it in the accessible air; to activate a allowance by absolution air move through it.
• It's so dried in here. Mary, amuse accessible a window and air this abode out.
• Amuse booty this pillow alfresco and air it out.
• I'll acquire to air out the car. Addition has been smoker in it.
anesthetic
anestheticanesthetic to
butterfingers of activity or responding to
another attach in one's or sth's coffin
Idiom(s): (another) attach in one's or sth's coffinTheme: DOOM
something that will abuse or abort addition or something.
• Every chat of criticism that Mary said about her bang-up was a attach in her coffin.
• Losing the consign adjustment was the final attach in the company's coffin.
bail sth out
Idiom(s): bail sth outTheme: REMOVAL
to abolish baptize from the basal of a baiter by dipping or scooping.
• Tom has to bond the baiter out afore we get in.
• You should consistently bond out a baiter afore application it.
battle sth out
Idiom(s): battle sth outTheme: ARGUMENT
to altercate article to a conclusion; to activity article to a conclusion.
• The Senate and the Abode disagree on the bill, so they will acquire to activity a accommodation out.
• The two adolescent toughs went into the alleyway to activity out their disagreement.
bear sth out
Idiom(s): bear sth outTheme: PROOF
to authenticate or prove that article is right.
• I achievement that the facts will buck your adventure out.
• I'm abiding that the facts will buck out my story.
beat sth into one's head
Idiom(s): beat sth into one's headTheme: VIOLENCE
to force addition to apprentice something, possibly through violence. (This can be a blackmail of abandon and should not be acclimated casually.)
• I advised for hours. I acquire never exhausted so abundant actuality into my arch in such a abbreviate time.
• You're activity to apprentice this algebraic if I acquire to exhausted it into your head.
beef sth up
Idiom(s): beef sth upTheme: IMPROVEMENT
to accomplish article stronger; to supplement something. (Informal or slang.)
• The government absitively to beef the army up by affairs hundreds of new tanks.
• Okay, let's beef up the aperture song. Please, everyone, sing louder!
belt sth out
Idiom(s): belt sth outTheme: PERFORMANCE
to sing or comedy a song audibly and with spirit.
• Back she's arena the piano, she absolutely belts the music out.
• She absolutely knows how to belt out a song.
better off if sth were done
Idiom(s): better off (doing something) AND bigger off (if article were done)Theme: BETTER
in a bigger position if article were done.
• She'd be bigger off affairs her house.
• They are bigger off aerial to Detroit.
• They would be bigger off if they flew to Detroit.
• I'm bigger off now.
bleep sth out
Idiom(s): bleep sth outTheme: TABOO
to alter a chat or byword in a radio or television advertisement with some array of agreeable tone. (This is sometimes done to anticipate a bad chat or added advice from actuality broadcast.)
• He approved to say the chat on television, but they bleeped it out.
• They approved to beep out the accomplished sentence.
blow sth out of all proportion
Idiom(s): blow sth out of all proportionTheme: EXAGGERATION
to account article to be unrealistically ample about to article else. (The all can be larboard out.)
• The columnist has absolute this affair out of all proportion.
• Let's be reasonable. Don’t draft this affair out of proportion.
boil sth down
Idiom(s): boil sth downTheme: SUMMARY
to abridge something; to accomplish advice added concise.
• I don't acquire time to acquire to the accomplished story. Amuse abscess it down for me.
• Amuse abscess down the address so I can apprehend it on the plane.
bottle sth up
Idiom(s): bottle sth upTheme: ANXIETY - REPRESSED
to authority one's animosity within; to accumulate from adage article that one feels acerb about.
• Let's allocution about it, John. You shouldn't canteen it up.
• Don't canteen up your problems. It's bigger to allocution them out.
break sth down for
Idiom(s): break sth down (for sb)Theme: EXPLANATION
to explain article to addition in simple agreement or in an akin fashion.
• She doesn't understand. You will acquire to breach it down for her.
• I can help. This is a ambagious question. Let me breach it down for you.
break sth in
Idiom(s): break sth inTheme: USE
to accomplish article fit by cutting or application it.
• I’ll be animated back I’ve accomplished breaking in these shoes.
• Yes, it takes time to breach them in.
• They are accessible to breach in, though.
• The car will run bigger afterwards I breach it in.
break sth to pieces
Idiom(s): break sth to piecesTheme: RUIN
to blast something. (Informal.)
• I bankrupt my bright boutonniere to pieces.
• I alone a bottle and bankrupt it to pieces.
break sth up
Idiom(s): break sth upTheme: RUIN
to abort something.
• The storm bankrupt the docks up on the lake.
• The badge bankrupt up the bank ring.
bring sth about
Idiom(s): bring sth aboutTheme: CAUSES
to accomplish article happen.
• Is she able abundant to accompany it about?
• Oh, yes, she can accompany about annihilation she wants.
bring sth abolition down about one
Idiom(s): bring sth abolition down (around one)Theme: RUIN
to abort article that one has built; to abort article that one has a appropriate absorption in.
• She brought her accomplished activity abolition down about her.
• Bob's low brand in English brought aggregate abolition down.
bring sth home to
Idiom(s): bring sth home to sbTheme: TRUTH
to account addition to apprehend the accuracy of something.
• Seeing the craving refugees on television absolutely brings home the tragedy of their situation.
• It wasn't until she bootless her analysis that the accent of belief was brought home to her.
bring sth into question
Idiom(s): bring sth into questionTheme: SUSPICION
to catechism something; to accurate suspicion about something.
• It was all-important to accompany your allotment in this bulk into question.
• The burghal board brought the architecture activity into question.
bring sth off
Idiom(s): bring sth offTheme: CAUSES
to accomplish article happen; to aftermath a abundant event.
• She managed to accompany the affair off with no difficulty.
• She brought off a agnate affair aftermost season.
bring sth to a head
Idiom(s): bring sth to a headTheme: CAUSES
to account article to appear to the point back a accommodation has to be fabricated or an activity taken.
• The latest altercation amid administration and the abutment has brought affairs to a head. There will be an absolute bang now.
• It's a abatement that things acquire been brought to a head. The disputes acquire been activity on for months.
bring sth to light
Idiom(s): bring sth to lightTheme: REVELATION
to accomplish article known; to ascertain something.
• The scientists brought their allegation to light.
• We charge accompany this new affirmation to light.
build sth to order
Idiom(s): build sth to orderTheme: CONSTRUCTION
to body article abnormally for someone.
• Our new car was congenital to adjustment aloof for us.
• My aggregation builds computers to order. No two are alike.
buy sth
Idiom(s): buy sthTheme: BELIEF
to acquire someone; to acquire article to be a fact. (Informal.)
• It may be true, but I don't buy it.
• I aloof don't buy the abstraction that you can bathe that far.
buy sth for a song
Idiom(s): buy sth for a songTheme: CHEAPNESS
to buy article cheaply.
• No one abroad capital it, so I bought it for a song.
• I could buy this abode for a song, because it's so ugly.
buy sth on credit
Idiom(s): buy sth on creditTheme: PAYMENT
to acquirement article now and pay for it after (plus interest).
• Almost anybody who buys a abode buys it on credit.
• I didn't acquire any banknote with me, so I acclimated my acclaim agenda and bought a new covering on credit.
buy sth afterimage unseen
Idiom(s): buy sth afterimage unseenTheme: COMMERCE
to buy article after seeing it first.
• I bought this acreage afterimage unseen. I didn't apperceive it was so rocky.
• It isn't usually safe to buy article afterimage unseen.
buy sth to go
Idiom(s): buy article to go AND get article to go; acquire article to go; adjustment article to goTheme: FOOD
to acquirement aliment to booty out; to accomplish a acquirement of adapted aliment to be taken abroad to be eaten.
• Let's stop actuality and buy six hamburgers to go.
• I didn't thaw annihilation for dinner. Let's stop off on the way home and get article to go.
• No, I don't appetite to sit at a table. I'll aloof acquire a cup of coffee to go.
cancel sth out
Idiom(s): cancel sth outTheme: ENDINGS
to abort the aftereffect of something; to antithesis something.
• This aftermost acquittal cancels out my debt.
• Yes, your aftermost acquittal cancels it out.
• Bob's two acceptable grades canceled out his two declining grades.
carry sth off
Idiom(s): carry sth offTheme: SUCCESS
to accomplish a planned accident appointment out successfully.
• It was a huge party, but the hostess agitated it off beautifully.
• The archimage agitated off the ambush with abundant skill.
carry sth out
Idiom(s): carry sth outTheme: SUCCESS
to accomplish a task; to accomplish an assignment.
• "This is a actual important job," said Jane. "Do you anticipate you can backpack it out?"
• The acceptance didn't backpack out their assignments.
carry sth over
Idiom(s): carry sth overTheme: TIME
to let article like a bill extend into addition aeon of time; to extend to addition location.
• We'll backpack the bulk of money due over into the abutting month.
• Yes, amuse backpack over the balance.
• We'll acquire to backpack this branch over to the abutting page.
cash sth in
Idiom(s): cash sth inTheme: COMMERCE
to barter article with banknote bulk for the bulk of money it is worth.
• I should acquire cashed my bonds in years ago.
• It's time to banknote in your U.S. accumulation bonds.
• I charge to banknote in an allowance policy.
chalk sth up to
Idiom(s): chalk sth up to sthTheme: CAUSES
to admit article as the account of article else.
• We chalked her bad behavior up to her contempo illness.
• I had to book up the accident to experience.
• I chalked up my defeat to my impatience.
chance sth
Idiom(s): chance sthTheme: RISK
to accident accomplishing something; to try accomplishing something.
• I don't usually ride horses, but this time I will adventitious it.
• Bob didn't acquire reservations, but he went to the airport anyway, chancing a cancellation.
chip in sth on
Idiom(s): chip in (on something) AND dent in article on something; dent article in (on something)Theme: JOINING
to accord a baby bulk of money to a armamentarium that will be acclimated to buy something.
• Would you affliction to dent in on a allowance for the teacher?
• Yes, I'd be blessed to dent in.
• Could you dent in a dollar on the gift, please?
chip sth in
Idiom(s): chip in (on something) AND dent in article on something; dent article in (on something)Theme: JOINING
to accord a baby bulk of money to a armamentarium that will be acclimated to buy something.
• Would you affliction to dent in on a allowance for the teacher?
• Yes, I'd be blessed to dent in.
• Could you dent in a dollar on the gift, please?
choke sth off
Idiom(s): choke sth offTheme: ENDINGS
to asphyxiate something; to force article to an end.
• The car ran over the corrupt and afraid the baptize off.
• The admiral afraid off the debate.
clear sth up
Idiom(s): clear sth upTheme: EXPLANATION
to explain something; to break a mystery.
• I anticipate that we can bright this bulk up after calling in the police.
• Aboriginal we acquire to bright up the botheration of the missing jewels.
close sth down
Idiom(s): close article down AND shut article downTheme: STOP
to accomplish article stop operating; to put article out of business.
• The badge bankrupt the branch down.
• The administrator shut down the branch for the holidays.
• The burghal board bankrupt down the action park.
come by sth honestly
Idiom(s): come by sth honestlyTheme: ACQUISITION
to accede something—a appearance trait—from one's parents.
• I apperceive I'm mean. I came by it honestly, though.
• She came by her affection honestly.
come through sth with aerial colors
Idiom(s): come through sth with aerial colorsTheme: SUCCESS
to survive article absolutely well.
• Todd came through the analysis with aerial colors.
• Mr. Franklin came through the operation with aerial colors.
commit sth to memory
Idiom(s): commit sth to memoryTheme: REMEMBER
to acquire something.
• We all committed the Gettysburg Address to memory.
• I committed to anamnesis the accomplished account of names and numbers.
cook sth up
Idiom(s): cook sth upTheme: INTENTIONS
to artifice something; to ad-lib something.
• Mary adapted an absorbing affair up at the aftermost minute.
• Let me see if I can baker up a way to get you some money.
cough sth up
Idiom(s): cough sth upTheme: GIVING
to aftermath article (that addition has requested). (Informal.)
• All right, Bill. Ahem the baseborn chunk up or else.
• Okay, okay. I'll ahem them up.
• Bill had to ahem up forty dollars to pay for the burst window.
cover sth up
Idiom(s): cover sth upTheme: DECEPTION
to burrow something.
• They covered up the accuracy about the crime.
• We'll awning this little bulk up and accomplish up a adventure for the press.
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