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opp Idiom

a golden opportunity

a good chance to succeed, a good investment The Royal Hotel is for sale. What a golden opportunity!

a window of opportunity

an opportunity, a chance, a golden opportunity Sometimes a problem is actually a window of opportunity.

copper

(See cop)

golden opportunity

(See a golden opportunity)

hopped up

high on a drug or on alcohol The man who tried to rob the store was hopped up on some kind of drug.

hopping mad

very angry, hot She was hopping mad when you laughed at her wig.

knee high to a grasshopper

small or short, the size of a child When we lived in Oslo, you were just knee high to a grasshopper.

moppie

mobile office professional, ambitious business people A lot of moppies lost their jobs when the oil industry declined.

name dropper

one who implies famous people are his friends What a name dropper! He spoke of Gordon Lightfoot as his friend.

one's opposite number

someone who has the same position as oneself in another company or organization I spoke with my opposite number in the other company but he didn't agree with me about the new sales policy.

seize the opportunity

act now to gain most, take advantage of He seized the opportunity to invest in gold. He didn't wait.

throw away a chance or opportunity

fail to make use of a chance or opportunity He threw away a chance to get a good education when he began to work when he was very young.

window of opportunity

(See a window of opportunity)

bopper

a guy/girl who looks for the opposite sex all the time. (ex: car bopper, bed bopper, telephone bopper)"You don't want him; he's just a bed bopper"

chopper

1. a helicopter
2. the penis
3. a blow to the face
4. to drink

Chopper City

New Orleans

choppers

1. teeth
2. see AK

clodhopper

a large heavy shoe

collar poppin'

to have on a really cool outfit or that to have a "good time" See also pop ya collar

come a cropper

1. to fall heavily
2. to fail

what's poppin'

see whassup

whopperjawed

out of place, crooked: "That looks whopperjawed"

in opposition to

opposite to反对；同…相反（的）
What he has done is in opposition to his wishes．他事与愿违。

the opposite sex

Idiom(s): the opposite sex

Theme: SOCIAL

(from the point of view of a female) males; (from the point of view of a male) females. (Also with member of, as in the example.)
• Ann is crazy about the opposite sex.
• Bill is very shy when he's introduced to the opposite sex.
• Do members of the opposite sex make you nervous?

knee-high to a grasshopper

Idiom(s): knee-high to a grasshopper

Theme: SHORT

not very tall; short and small, as a child. (Folksy.)
• Hello, Billy. I haven t seen you since you were knee-high to a grasshopper.
• I have two grandchildren, both knee-high to a grasshopper.

go window-shopping

Idiom(s): go window-shopping

Theme: SHOPPING

to go about looking at goods in store windows without actually buying anything.
• The clerks do a lot of window-shopping in their lunch hour, looking for things to buy when they get paid.
• Joan said she was just window-shopping, but she bought a new coat.

leap at the opportunity

Idiom(s): jump at the chance AND jump at the opportunity; leap at the opportunity

Theme: OPPORTUNITY

to take advantage of a chance to do something.
• John jumped at the chance to go to England.
• I don't know why I didn't jump at the opportunity myself.
• I should have leaped at the chance.

jump at the opportunity

Opportunity seldom knocks twice.

Don't miss opportunities that come along.

Cut down the tall poppies

(AU) If people cut down the tall poppies, they criticise people who stand out from the crowd.

Dropped like a hot cake

If something is dropped like a hot cake, it is rejected or disposed of very quickly.

Opportunity knocks but once

This idiom means that you only get one chance to achieve what you really want to do.

The penny dropped

When the penny drops, someone belatedly understands something that everyone else has long since understood.

You can't have cake and the topping, too

(USA) This idiom means that you can't have everything the way you want it, especially if your desires are contradictory.

Dropping Like Flies

A large number of people either falling ill or dying.

come a cropper|come|cropper

1. To fall off your horse. John's horse stumbled, and John came a cropper. 2. To fail. Mr. Brown did not have enough money to put into his business and it soon came a cropper.
Compare: RIDING FOR A FALL.

hopped up|hop|hop up|hopped

adj., slang 1. Doped with a narcotic drug. Police found Jones hiding in an opium den, among other men all hopped up with the drug. 2. Full of eagerness; excited. Fred was all hopped up about going over the ocean.

knee-high to a grasshopper|duck|grasshopper|knee|k

adj. phr., informal As tall as a very small child; very young. Charles started reading when he was knee-high to a grasshopper. I've known Mary ever since she was knee-high to a duck.

namedropper

n. phr. A person who is always mentioning well-known names. Since her move to Hollywood she has become a regular namedropper.

opposite number|number|opposite

n. phr. A person occupying the same position as someone in a different group, organization, or country. The opposite number of the President of the United States in Germany is the Chancellor of the Federal Republic.

opposite sex|opposite|sex

n. phr. The sex different from the one being discussed or mentioned. Fred came out and said he was gay, having never had any interest in the opposite sex.

seize the opportunity|opportunity|seize

v. phr. To exploit a chance. His wealthy uncle offered to send him to Harvard and he wisely seized the opportunity.

shopping center|center|shopping

n. A place usually for neighborhood shopping, where there is a group of stores and shops inside of a large parking lot. There is a bowling alley at the nearest shopping center. All the stores in our shopping center stay open until nine o'clock on Friday evenings.

cropper

cropper
come a cropper
Informal
1) to fall heavily or headlong
2) to come to ruin; fail

grasshopper

grasshopper
see knee-high to a grasshopper.

oppose

oppose
as opposed to
In contrast to: “a Baroque violin that … uses gut strings as opposed to metal-wound ones” (William Zagorski).

opposite number, one's

opposite number, one's
One's counterpart, as in He's my opposite number in the California office. This expression is generally used for a person's equivalent in another organization or system (number alluding to their position in a hierarchy). [c. 1900]