round on Idiom
twist someone around one
twist/wrap someone around one
round on
Listen patiently to what I've got to say first．Don't round on me just because I don't agree with you．不要因为我不同意你就发火，先耐心听完我的话。
He rounded on her fiercely．他突然气势汹汹地向她扑去。
2．inform against；betray出卖；告密
He was not so bad as to round on his comradesinarms．他不是坏得会出卖自己战友的那种人。
twist sb around one's little finger
Idiom(s): twist sb around one's little fingerTheme: MANIPULATION
to manipulate and control someone.
• Bob really fell for Jane. She can twist him around her little finger.
• Billy's mother has twisted him around her little finger. He's very dependent on her.
bring sth crashing down around one
Idiom(s): bring sth crashing down (around one)Theme: RUIN
to destroy something that one has built; to destroy something that one has a special interest in.
• She brought her whole life crashing down around her.
• Bob's low grade in English brought everything crashing down.
round on someone
to turn on someone: "She suddenly rounded on him and called him a liar."about one's ears|around one's ears|ear|ears
adv. phr. To or into complete collapse, defeat, or ruin; to the destruction of a person's plans, hopes, or happiness. They planned to have factories all over the world but the war brought their plans down about their ears. John hoped to go to college and become a great scientist some day, but when his father died he had to get a job, and John's dreams came crashing around his ears.Compare: ON ONE'S HEAD.
albatross around one's neck|albatross|neck
n. phr., literary Guilt, the haunting past, an unforgettable problem. Even though it was an accident, John's father's death has been an albatross around John's neck.Compare: MONKEY ON ONE'S BACK.
millstone around one's neck|millstone|neck
n. phr. An intolerable burden. Max said that his old car was a millstone around his neck.Compare: MONKEY ON ONE'S BACK.
twist one around one's little finger|finger|turn|t
v. phr. To have complete control over; to be able to make (someone) do anything you want. Sue can twist any of the boys around her little finger.Compare: JUMP THROUGH A HOOP.
albatross around one's neck
albatross around one's neckA heavy burden of guilt that becomes an obstacle to success, as in The failed real estate scheme became an albatross around her neck, for now she could not interest other investors in a new project. This idiom comes from Samuel Coleridge's narrative poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), which is based on the widespread superstition that it is unlucky to kill this large white sea bird. In the poem a sailor does kill an albatross, and when the ship then is becalmed near the equator and runs out of water, his shipmates blame him and force him to wear the dead bird around his neck.
millstone around one's neck
millstone around one's neckA heavy burden, as in Julie finds Grandma, who is crabby, a millstone around her neck. The literal hanging of a millstone about the neck is mentioned as a punishment in the New Testament (Matthew 18:6), causing the miscreant to be drowned. Its present figurative use was first recorded in a history of the Quakers (c. 1720).
turn around one's finger
turn around one's fingersee twist around one's finger.
twist around one's finger
twist around one's fingerAlso, turn or wind or wrap around one's finger. Exert complete control over someone, do as one likes with someone, as in Alison could twist just about every man around her finger. This hyperbolic term dates from the mid-1800s.
round on
To ashamed attack, berate, or appearance abhorrence against someone, abnormally verbally. I apperceive he seems friendly, but he'll annular on you in an burning if you disagree with him. I was absolutely taken ashamed back Sally angled on me because of what I said. It was aloof a joke, afterwards all!Learn more: on, roundround on
Turn on, assail, abnormally verbally. For example, They all angled on Jake for not advancement the affair line. [Mid-1800s] Learn more: on, roundround on
v. To abuse addition suddenly; about-face on someone: The absolute accumulation angled on me back I questioned their motives. Learn more: on, round
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