repo woman 成语

a kept woman

a woman who is paid to live with a man I'm tired of being a kept woman. I want to be free of him.

fallen woman

prostitute, hooker The priest was trying to save the fallen women in his parish.

kept woman

(See a kept woman)

woman to woman

Idiom(s): man to man AND woman to woman

Theme: FRANKNESS

speaking frankly and directly, one person to another.
• Let's discuss this man to man so we know what each other thinks.
• The two mothers discussed their child-raising problems woman to woman.

Scarlet woman

This idiom is used as a pejorative term for a sexually promiscuous woman, especially an adulteress.

Yesterday's man or Yesterday's woman

Someone, especially a politician or celebrity, whose career is over or on the decline is yesterday's man or woman.

hell has no fury like a woman scorned

hell has no fury like a woman scorned
No anger is worse than that of a jilted woman. For example, Nancy has nothing good to say about Tom—hell has no fury, you know. This term is a shortening of William Congreve's lines, “Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd, nor Hell a fury like a woman scorn'd” (The Mourning Bride, 1697). Similar lines appear in several plays of the same period. Today the proverb is often shortened even more, as in the example.

new woman

new woman
see under feel like oneself.

woman

woman
see feel like oneself; marked man, a; of few words, man of; own person, be one's; right-hand man; scarlet woman.

repo woman

slang A woman whose job entails repossessing acreage from bodies who accept collapsed into debt. I formed for a time as a repo woman for a administration store. You wouldn't accept the bulk of applesauce bodies would buy on acclaim aback they had no astute way of advantageous it back. I was affected to alive out of my car for a few months, until a repo woman eventually came and repossessed that, too.Learn more: repo, woman

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