Sens: blotting pad

blot·ting pad || 'blɒtɪŋbuvard, papier buvard (papier utilisé pour absorbé le surplus d'encre)

pad Idiome

call a spade a spade

"say it in plain language; the straight goods" Kris will report the facts. She's not afraid to call a spade a spade.

pad

apartment, digs You have a nice pad, Nora. I love your leather furniture!

pad an expense account

claim more money than spent, add false expenses How can I pad my expense account if I don't have receipts?

pad the bill

add false expenses He always pads the bill when he goes on a business trip.

paddle your own canoe

be an individual, be independent Love many, trust few, but always paddle your own canoe.

spade work

first stage of the work, preparation for later work, pave the way Paul did the spade work for our food bank. He asked each of the merchants for a donation.

paddle

a gun:"Say why ya creep without a muthaphuckin paddle" -- Lady or Rage (Lyrical Gangbang [1992]).

pad out

1．fill out with extra material用额外的材料充填
The tailor padded out the shoulders of the coat．裁缝给这上衣做垫肩。
2．make a sentence， story， etc．longer by adding unnecessary detail用不必要的材料拉长；添凑
Her letter to her aunt was not long enough，so she padded it out with information about the weather．她给她姨妈的信不长，她又添加了些有关天气的内容。
My advice is not to pad out your story with irrelevant details．我的意见是别用不相干的细节来拉长你的故事。
paddle one's own canoe work without help； earn one's own living独立自主；依靠自己
After his father died，he had to paddle his own canoe．他父亲死后，他只好自己谋生。
Don't worry about your son． He's old enough to paddle his own canoe．不要为你儿子担心，他已到了足以自力的年龄了。

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.

paddle one's own canoe

Idiom(s): paddle one's own canoe

Theme: INDEPENDENCE

to do (something) by oneself; to be alone.
• I've been left to paddle my own canoe too many times.
• Sally isn't with us. She's off paddling her own canoe.

In spades

(UK) If you have something in spades, you have a lot of it.

Up a river without a paddle

If you up a river without a paddle, you are in an unfortunate situation, unprepared and with none of the resources to remedy the matter.

Paddle your own canoe.

Mind your own business and be self-reliant.

call a spade a spade|call|spade

v. phr. To call a person or thing a name that is true but not polite; speak bluntly; use the plainest language. A boy took some money from Dick's desk and said he borrowed it, but I told him he stole it; I believe in calling a spade a spade.

paddle one's own canoe|canoe|paddle

v. phr., informal To work without help; earn your own living; support yourself. After his father died, John had to paddle his own canoe.
Synonym: HOE ONE'S OWN ROW.
Compare: MAKE ONE'S WAY.

paddy wagon|paddy|wagon

n., informal A police van used for transporting prisoners to jail or the police station. The police threw the demonstrators into the paddy wagon.

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.

crash pad

crash pad
A free, temporary lodging place, as in The company maintains several crash pads for employees from out-of-town divisions. This expression originally referred to a place affording runaways, drug addicts, and the like somewhere to crash in the sense of “sleep.” In time it also was used more broadly, as in the example. [Slang; 1960s]

do the spadework

do the spadework
Make the preliminary preparations or do the preliminary research for something. For example, The department head did all the spadework for this agreement. This expression transfers the heavy spading required to prepare for planting to other kinds of preparation. [c. 1900]