list Idiom, Proverb
ballistic
black-listed
go ballistic
listen up
on the shit list
shit list
sucker list
listen for
They were listening for the sound from the next room．他们正留心听隔壁屋子是否有声音。
Please listen carefully for the telephone while I am upstairs．我在楼上的时候，请注意听着电话。
listen in
We were listening in to the President's speech．我们在收听总统的广播讲话。
He likes to listen in late at night．他喜欢在深夜听广播。
2．listen to the talk of others 偷听（讲话）；窃听（电话）
When Mary talked to her boy friend on the telephone，her little brother listened in．玛丽与男朋友打电话时，她弟弟在偷听。
The police had tapped his tele phone wire and listened in on his conversations with his confederates．警方在他的电话线上搭线，监听他和同伙的谈话。
The boy listened in while we were discussing the problem．我们在讨论这个问题时，这男孩在旁边听着。
listen to
All listened to him with great attention．所有人都聚精会神听他说话。
stop, look, and listen
Idiom(s): stop, look, and listenTheme: CAUTION
to exercise caution, especially at street corners and railroad crossings, by stopping, looking to the left and to the right, and listening for approaching vehicles or a train. (Also used figuratively for exercising extreme caution in general. Fixed order.)
• Sally's mother trained her to stop, look, and listen at every street corner.
• It is a good practice to stop, look, and listen at a railroad crossing.
• You really should stop, look, and listen before you take any risks with your hard-earned money.
listen to reason
Idiom(s): listen to reasonTheme: YIELDING
to yield to a reasonable argument; to take the reasonable course.
• Please listen to reason, and don't do something you'll regret.
• She got into trouble because she wouldn't listen to reason.
At the top of the list
If something is at the top of the list, it is of highest priority, most important, most urgent, or the next in one's line of attention.Kick the ballistics
It means you realise the intensity of a situation. For example, there is too much unemployment now, so the prime minister must kick the ballistics and change his policy.To be off someone's Christmas card list
"Oh dear. I think I'm off her Christmas card list after insulting her husband!"on the black list
be on a list of "undesirables": "We won't be invited to their party this year - we're on their black list."blacklisted
be banned: "Many actors and writers were blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1950's because they were considered "un-American."holistic health|health|holistic
n., informal, semi-technical The maintenance of health and the avoidance of disease through such psychogenic practices and procedures as biofeedback, meditation, alternative methods of childbirth, and avoidance of drugs. The Murgatroyds are regular holistic health freaks
why, they won't even take aspirin when they have a headache.listen in|listen
v. 1. To listen to a radio broadcast. We found them listening in to the president's speech. 2. To listen to the talk of others, often to talk that is not intended for your ears; eavesdrop. When Mary talked to her boyfriend on the telephone, her little brother listened in.listen to reason|listen|reason
v. phr. To listen to and think about advice that you are given. Joe was stubborn and would not listen to reason. It will save you a lot of trouble if you will just listen to reason.short list|list|listed|short|short-listed
v. phr. To place on the list of select finalists for a job. Only three of the twenty-seven applicants were short-listed for the assistant professorial vacancy in our department.sucker list|list|sucker
n., slang A list of easily-fooled people, especially people who are easily persuaded to buy things or give money. The crook got hold of a sucker list and started out to sell his worthless stock. Mr. Smith gets so many advertisements in his mail that he says he is on every sucker list in the country.waiting list|list|wait|waiting
n. A list of persons waiting to get into something (as a school). The nursery school enrollment was complete, so the director put our child's name on the waiting list. The landlord said there were no vacant apartments available, but that he would put the Rogers' name on the waiting list.black list
black listA list of persons or things considered undesirable or deserving punishment, as in Japanese beetles are on my black list of garden pests. The practice of making such lists is quite old. Notorious examples include the late 19th-century black lists of union members whom employers would not hire and the black lists of persons suspected of being Communists as a result of the hearings held by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy in the early 1950s. Today the term is also used more loosely, as in the example. [Early 1600s] Also see black book, def. 1.
enter the lists
enter the listsAlso, enter the fray. Engage in a fight or competition, as in He said he'd be willing to enter the lists well before the primaries, or Whenever people disagreed, she was eager to enter the fray. The first term uses the noun lists in the sense of “a barrier around the arena enclosing medieval jousting tournaments” and was being used figuratively by the late 1500s. The variant uses fray in the sense of “a noisy skirmish or battle,” a usage from the late 1300s.
federalist
federalistThe Federalist
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a set of 85 articles by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, published in 1787 and 1788, analyzing the Constitution of the U.S. and urging its adoption
list
listsee black list; enter the lists; sucker list.
listen
listenlisten in
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1) to listen to the conversation of others; esp., to eavesdrop
2) to listen to a broadcast
lists
listsenter the lists
to enter a contest or struggle
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