Significato: adorned himself with borrowed plumes

si adornò di piume prese in prestito, si vantò di quanto non gli apparteneva

wed Idioma

get screwed

receive unfair treatment, ripped off, taken in I got screwed when I bought this condo. I paid too much for it.

look like the cat that ate (swallowed) the canary

seem very self-satisified like you have just had some kind of success He looked like the cat that ate the canary when he came in with a smile on his face.

look like the cat that swallowed the canary

look very self-satisfied, look as if one just had a great success You look like the cat that swallowed the canary. What happened?

sewed up

won or arranged as one wishes, decided The candidate for the nomination easily sewed up his victory last week.

something borrowed, something blue

two of the things required for a happy wedding and successful marriage The bride borrowed a blue garter, so she has something borrowed, something blue!

atomic wedgie

a wedgie (q.v.) of such force that the band is separated from the rest of the underpants

throwed off

person who doesn't have good sense, crazy person

whockerjawed

damaged, jammed, or out of alignment

whopperjawed

out of place, crooked: "That looks whopperjawed"

endowed with

born with 赋有
Jane is endowed with many talents．简多才多艺。
He was endowed with the spirit of selfsacrifice.他富有自我牺牲精神。
She is endowed with beauty and intelligence．她天生美丽聪明。
engage for guarantee；promise 保证；允诺
I can engage for nothing but his honesty．我只能对他的诚实担保。
That's all I can engage for．我所能担保的仅此而已。
Your demand is more than I can engage for．你的要求我无法答应。

shotgun wedding

Idiom(s): shotgun wedding

Theme: MARRIAGE

a forced wedding. (Informal. From imagery of the bride's father having threatened the bridegroom with a shotgun to force him to marry.)
• Mary was six months pregnant when she married Bill. It was a real shotgun wedding.
• Bob would never have married Jane if she hadn't been pregnant. Jane's father saw to it that it was a shotgun wedding.

live on borrowed time

Idiom(s): live on borrowed time

Theme: DOOM

to live longer than circumstances warrant.
• John has a terminal disease, and he's living on borrowed time.
• This project is living on borrowed time. It is overdue for completion.

get sth sewed up

Idiom(s): get something sewed up AND get something wrapped up

Theme: COMPLETION

to have something settled or finished.
• I'll take the contract to the mayor tomorrow morning. I'll get the whole deal sewed up by noon.
• Don't worry about the car loan. I'll have it sewed up in time to make the purchase.
• I'll get the loan wrapped up, and you'll have the car this week.

born out of wedlock

Idiom(s): born out of wedlock

Theme: BIRTH

born to an unmarried mother.
• The child was born out of wedlock.
• In the city many children are born out of wedlock.

bloody but unbowed

Idiom(s): bloody but unbowed

Theme: DETERMINATION

[one's head] showing signs of a struggle, but not bowed in defeat. (Fixed order.)
• Liz emerged from the struggle, her head bloody but unbowed.
• We are bloody but unbowed and will fight to the last.

Avowed intent

If someone makes a solemn or serious promise publicly to attempt to reach a certain goal, this is their avowed intent.

Drive a wedge

If you drive a wedge between people, you exploit an issue so that people start to disagree.

Screwed if you do, screwed if you don't

This means that no matter what you decide or do in a situation, there will be negative consequences.

Thin end of the wedge

The thin end of the wedge is something small and seemingly unimportant that will lead to something much bigger and more serious.

Wedge politics

(USA) In wedge politics, one party uses an issue that they hope will divide members of a different party to create conflict and weaken it.

be snowed under

to be very busy: "We're snowed under at work."

born out of wedlock|born|wedlock

adj. phr. Born to parents who are not married to each other; without legal parents. Sometimes when a married couple can't have children, they adopt a child who was born out of wedlock. Today we no longer make fun of children born out of wedlock.

flying wedge|fly|flying|wedge

n., informal 1. An offensive formation in football in which players link arms and line up to form a "V" with the ball carrier in the middle. The flying wedge was so dangerous and hurt so many players that rules have forbidden it for over 50 years. 2. A group (as of guards or policemen) who use a "V" formation to help someone get through a crowd. Police had to form a flying wedge to get the movie star through the crowd of autograph hunters.

have one's head screwed on backwards|have|head|scr

v. phr. To lack common sense; behave in strange and irrational ways. Henry seems to have his head screwed on backwards; he thinks the best time to get a suntan is when it is raining and to sleep with his shoes on.

live on borrowed time|borrowed time|live|time

v. phr. To live or last longer than was expected. Ever since his operation, Harvey felt he was living on borrowed time. Mr. Brown was living on borrowed time because a year ago the doctors had told him he would only live six months.

piss into the wedding cake|cake|piss|spit into the

v. phr., vulgar, avoidable To spoil someone's pleasure or celebration by doing or saying something harsh or unseemly in an otherwise happy gathering; bring up depressing or unhappy subjects at a supposedly happy time. Stuart really spit into the wedding cake when he told Burt in a bragging fashion that Lucy, Burl's bride, used to be his girlfriend.

sawed-off|saw off|sawed

adj., informal Shorter than usual; small of its kind. The riot police carried sawed-off shotguns. Jimmy was a sawed-off, skinny runt.

sewed up|sew up|sewed

adj. phr., informal Won or arranged as you wish; decided. They thought they had the game sewed up, but the other team won it with a touchdown in the last quarter. Dick thought he had the job sewed up, but another boy got it.
Compare: IN THE BAG.

silver wedding|anniversary|silver|silver anniversa

n. phr. The twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of a couple; the twenty-fifth anniversary of a business or an association, etc. "The day after tomorrow is Mom and Dad's silver anniversary," Sue said to her brother. "I hope you have a nice present picked out."

all sewed up

all sewed up
see sew up.

have one's head screwed on right

have one's head screwed on right
see under have a screw loose.

on borrowed time, live

on borrowed time, live
Outlive reasonable expectations, as in Our twenty-year-old car is living on borrowed time, or The vet said our dog is living on borrowed time. This expression alludes to time borrowed from death. [Late 1800s]

out of wedlock

out of wedlock
Of parents not legally married, as in Over the centuries many royal children were born out of wedlock. The noun wedlock, for the state of being married, is rarely heard today except in this phrase, first recorded in 1675; its converse, in wedlock, dates from the 1300s and is even more rarely used.

Swedish

Swedish
the Swedish
the people of Sweden

thin edge of the wedge

thin edge of the wedge
A minor change that begins a major development, especially an undesirable one. For example, First they asked me to postpone my vacation for a week, and then for a month; it's the thin edge of the wedge and pretty soon it'll be a year. This term alludes to the narrow wedge inserted into a log for splitting wood. [Mid-1800s]

wedding

wedding
see Shotgun wedding.

wedge

wedge
see thin edge of the wedge.

wedlock

wedlock
see out of wedlock.

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