Significato: A branch

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branch office

an office in another location or city Please contact our branch office in your town or city.

branch out

open a second office/store, expand a company Business is very good. It may be time for us to branch out.

ignorance is bliss

ignorant people have nothing to worry about "The teacher said, ""Ignorance is bliss - until you write exams."""

keep up appearances

keep an outward show of prosperity or good behavior They have been trying to keep up appearances even though he has lost his job.

make an entrance

enter with style, enter with a flourish When the duchess attends an event she likes to make an entrance.

keep save appearance

present an unchanged front or appearance in public（esp．following some loss of status，prestige or fortune）装门面；虚饰外表
She would tather go hungry and keep up appearance that eat properly and wear last year's fashions．她宁愿挨饿也要顾全面子而不愿吃得好穿着过时的衣服。
It's silly to spend money just to keep up appearance．仅仅为了装门面图外表而那样花钱是愚蠢的。
Some young people spend lots of money on weddings just to keep up appearance．一些年轻人在婚礼上花费很多的钱仅仅是为了讲排场、装门面。

keep up appearance

keep up/save appearance

to all appearances

apparently显然
What he said was to all appearances correct．他所说的显然是正确的。

put in an appearance

Idiom(s): put in an appearance

Theme: APPEARANCE - PUBLIC

to appear (somewhere) for just a little while.
• I couldn't stay for the whole party, so I just put in an appearance and left.
• Even if you cant stay for the whole thing, at least put in an appearance.

make an appearance

Idiom(s): make an appearance

Theme: APPEARANCE - PUBLIC

to appear; to appear in a performance.
• We waited for thirty minutes for the professor to make an appearance, then we went home.
• The famous singing star made an appearance in Detroit last August.

hold out the olive branch

Idiom(s): hold out the olive branch

Theme: RECONCILIATION

to offer to end a dispute and be friendly; to offer reconciliation. (The olive branch is a symbol of peace and reconciliation. A biblical reference.)
• Jill was the first to hold out the olive branch after our argument.
• I always try to hold out the olive branch to someone I have hurt. Life is too short for a person to bear grudges for very long.

by all appearances

Idiom(s): by all appearances

Theme: APPEARANCE - EVIDENCE

apparently; according to what one sees.
• She is, by all appearances, ready to resume work.
• By all appearances, we ought to be approaching the airport.

Ignorance is bliss.

Possible interpretation: What you do not know causes no worry or sadness.

Olive branch

If you hold out or offer an olive branch, you make a gesture to indicate that you want peace.

Zero tolerance

If the police have a zero tolerance policy, they will not overlook any crime, no matter how small or trivial.

Where ignorance is bliss it is folly to be wise.

It is better to be unaware of something that will bring unhappiness.

branch off|branch

v. To go from something big or important to something smaller or less important; turn aside. At the bridge a little road branches off from the highway and follows the river. Martin was trying to study his lesson, but his mind kept branching off onto what girl he should ask to go with him to the dance.

branch out|branch

v. To add new interests or activities; begin doing other things also. First Jane collected stamps; then she branched out and collected coins, too. John started a television repair shop; when he did well, he branched out and began selling television sets too.

keep up appearances|appearance|appearances|keep

v. phr. To maintain an outward show of prosperity in spite of financial problems. Mr. Smith's widow had a hard time keeping up appearances after her husband's death.

olive branch|branch|olive

n. phr. An overture; a symbol of peace. Tired of the constant fighting, the majority government extended an olive branch to the militant minority.

put in an appearance|appearance|make|make an appea

v. phr. To be present, esp. for a short time; visit; appear. He put in an appearance at work, but he was too ill to stay. The president put in an appearance at several dances the evening after he was sworn in.

appearance

appearance
see keep up; put in an appearance.

branch

branch
In addition to the idioms beginning with branch, also see olive branch; root and branch.
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- branch off
- branch out

branch off

branch off
Diverge, subdivide, as in It's the house on the left, just after the road branches off, or English and Dutch branched off from an older parent language, West Germanic. This term alludes to a tree's growth pattern, in which branches grow in separate directions from the main trunk. [Second half of 1800s] Also see branch out.

on sufferance

on sufferance
Barely tolerated; agreed to but unwillingly. For example, They rarely put a non-academic on the panel, so obviously I was there on sufferance. This expression uses sufferance in the sense of “toleration,” a usage obsolete except in this idiom. [Mid-1500s]

root and branch

root and branch
Utterly, completely, as in The company has been transformed root and branch by the new management. Alluding to both the underground and aboveground parts of a tree, this idiom was first recorded in 1640.

sufferance

sufferance
on sufferance
allowed or tolerated but not supported or encouraged