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eek Idiom

cheek

sharp reply, sarcasm, lip "When I called Mom a crab, she said, ""No more of your cheek!"""

cheek by jowl

beside, alongside, side by side Jack and James fought cheek by jowl in World War I.

cheeky

rude, impolite, lippy, sassy Tara is too cheeky. She told her mom to stop flirting with men.

geek

strange person, scholar, book worm, nerd Allan reads a lot and stays by himself. He's kind of a geek.

Greek to me

(See it was Greek to me)

it was Greek to me

"I could not understand what was said; it was like a foreign language" "When he asked me what I had learned about DNA, I replied, ""I don't know. It was Greek to me."""

peek-a-boo

peek through the fingers with hands covering eyes Shelly was playing peek-a-boo with the baby.

seek revenge

try to hurt a person who hurt you, get back at If a dog bites you, there are many ways to seek revenge.

tongue in cheek

fooling, joking, kidding Most of what Bob said was tongue in cheek. He was joking.

turn the other cheek

let someone do something to you and not try to get revenge He decided to turn the other cheek when the man tried to start a fight in the restaurant.

up shit creek

in a bad situation, in a fix If we lose our matches, we're up shit creek. We need a campfire.

cheeks

the buttocks

cheeky monkey

a light-hearted name for a verbally impertinent person

deuce of peekers

eyes

geek out

to make a big deal out of nothing; to freak out; to become excessively upset or excited; "She was geekin' out when she saw her boyfriend hanging out with another girl"

geeka

a crackhead (2) who is wanting some drugs; "Them geekas been knockin' on tha door all day"

geeked

excited and/or surprised, about something; "I was so geeked when he asked me to come over and meet his family!"

geeking

under the influence of crack cocaine

peek at

look at sth．secretly 偷看；窥视
Through a keyhole he peeped at what was happening inside．他从锁眼里窥视室内的动静。
She felt she was constantly being peeped at．她感到自己一直受人监视着。

peep/peek at

seek after

try to gain as by inner enquiry 探索；寻求
Many people spend years seeking after peace of mind，often with little success．许多人花多年时间来寻求精神上的平静，但通常收效甚微。
He is the kind of man who is al ways seeking after truth．他是那种始终追求真理的人。

seek out

look for and find；single out 找出；挑出
They sought him out from among the crowd．他们在人群里找到了他。
He is still seeking out a suitable as sistant．他仍在想法物色一个适当的助手。
Such inspection methods seek out surface flaws in materials．这种检验方法可以找出原材料表面的瑕疵。

week in, week out

Idiom(s): week in, week out

Theme: ALWAYS

every week, week after week. (Informal. Fixed order.)
• We have the same old food, week in, week out.
• I'm tired of this job. I've done the same thing—week in, week out—for three years.

up the creek without a paddle

Idiom(s): up the creek (without a paddle)

Theme: TROUBLE

in a bad situation. (Slang. Use with caution. There is a taboo version of this phrase.)
• What a mess I’m in. I'm really up the creek without a paddle.
• I tried to prevent it, hut I seem to he up the creek, too.

tongue-in-cheek

Idiom(s): tongue-in-cheek

Theme: FUNNY

insincere; joking.
• Ann made a tongue-in-cheek remark to John, and he got mad because he thought she was serious.
• The play seemed very serious at first, but then everyone saw that it was tongue-in-cheek, and they began laughing.

hide-and-seek

Idiom(s): hide-and-seek

Theme: PLAY

a guessing game where one has to find something or figure out something that is concealed or disguised. (Also literal when referring to a game where a person hides and another person tries to find the hidden person. Fixed order.)
• I am tired of running up against a game of hide-and-seek every time I ask to see the financial records of this company.
• I have been trying to see the manager for two days. Where is she? I refuse to play hide-and-seek any longer. I want to see her now!

by the week

Idiom(s): by the week

Theme: TIME

one week at a time.
• I plan my schedules by the week.
• Where can I rent a room by the week?

all Greek to me

Idiom(s): (all) Greek to me

Theme: CONFUSION

unintelligible to me. (Usually with some form of be.)
• I can't understand it. It's Greek to me.
• It's all Greek to me. Maybe Sally knows what it means.

Lord willing and the creek don't rise

Pertains to the ability to accomplish a task or meet an obligation, barring unforseen complications. Example "I will be at work tomorrow, Lord willing and the creek don't rise."

Up the creek

If someone or something is up the creek, they are in real trouble. 'Up the creek without a paddle' is an alternative, and 'up shit creek (without a paddle)' is a ruder form.

Tongue And Cheek

humor, not to be taken serious.

dance cheek to cheek

dance very close to someone: "Everyone was looking at them dance cheek to cheek."

have a cheek

be disrespectful: "He's got a cheek saying you never help him - I saw you writing his report for him!"

in days to come|day|days|in weeks to come|in years

adv. phr. In the future. In the years to come I will be thinking of my father's advice about life.

self-seeking|seeking|self

adj. Given to egotism and self-aggrandizement. Al is the most self-seeking person I've ever met, he is not fun to be around.

tongue-in-cheek|cheek|tongue

adj. phr. In an ironic or insincere manner. When the faculty complained about the poor salary increments, the university's president said that he was not a psychiatrist, thus making an inappropriate tongue-in-cheek remark.

turn the other cheek|cheek|other cheek|turn

v. phr. To let someone do something to you and not to do it in return; not hit back when hit; be patient when injured or insulted by someone; not try to get even. Joe turned the other cheek when he was hit with a snowball.

up the creek|creek|paddle|up|up the creek without

adj. phr., informal In trouble or difficulty and unable to do anything about it; stuck. Father said that if the car ran out of gas in the middle of the desert, we would be up the creek without a paddle. I'll be up the creek if I don't pass this history test.
Compare: DEEP WATER, IN THE SOUP, UP A TREE, OUT OF LUCK.

week of Sundays|Sunday|Sundays|week

n. phr. A long time; seven weeks. I haven't seen them in a week of Sundays.

creek

creek
see up a creek.

Greek

Greek
be Greek to someone
to be incomprehensible or unintelligible to someone

Greek to me, it's

Greek to me, it's
Also, it's all Greek to me. It is beyond my comprehension, as in This new computer program is all Greek to me. This expression was coined by Shakespeare, who used it literally in Julius Caesar (1:2), where Casca says of a speech by Seneca, deliberately given in Greek so that some would not understand it, “For mine own part, it was Greek to me.” It soon was transferred to anything unintelligible.

hide and seek

hide and seek
see play hide and seek.

play hide and seek

play hide and seek
Evade or seem to evade someone. For example, Bill is hard to pin down—he's always playing hide and seek. This expression alludes to the children's game in which one player tries to find others who are hiding. It has been used figuratively since the mid-1600s.

seek

seek
see play hide and seek.

tongue in cheek, with

tongue in cheek, with
Ironically or as a joke, as in Was he speaking with tongue in cheek when he said Sally should run for president? This term probably alludes to the facial expression produced by poking one's tongue in one's cheek, perhaps to suppress a smile. [First half of 1800s]

up a creek

up a creek
Also, up shit creek; up the creek (without a paddle). In trouble, in a serious predicament, as in If the check doesn't arrive today I'm up a creek, or The car wouldn't start, so I was up the creek without a paddle. This slangy idiom conjures up the image of a stranded canoeist with no way of moving (paddling) the canoe. President Harry S. Truman used the first term in a letter in 1918. The first variant is considered vulgar.

week

week
1.
Sunday week
or Monday week or Tuesday week
Chiefly Brit. a week (counting backward or forward) from Sunday (or Monday, Tuesday, etc.)
2.
this day week
or this yesterday week
Chiefly Brit. a week (counting backward or forward) from today (or yesterday, etc.)
3.
week after week
every week or for many successive weeks
4.
week by week
each week
5.
week in, week out
every week

weekend

weekend
long weekend
a weekend plus one or two days before or after