意味: albumen paper

精度を高めるために卵の白身でコートされた印画紙（19世紀後半まで使われた）

aper イディオム

a paper trail

a series of memos or letters that record events A business merger leaves a long paper trail - many documents.

grim reaper

(See The Grim Reaper)

taper off

come to an end little by little, become smaller toward the end The rain began to taper off early in the afternoon.

The Grim Reaper

"an executioner; a person who decides your fate, position, grades, etc." Old Mason was The Grim Reaper. He showed no mercy when he failed students.

paper

money

on paper

1．judging by appearance表面上看
The football team look good on paper，but they have lost many games．这支足球队表面上看来挺不错，但他们已经输了许多场球。
2．in written words以书面形式
We must get the agreement down on paper．我们必须将此协议形成文字。
3． in theory理论上；从文字上看
The idea sounds good on paper，but I'm not sure whether it will really work．这个主意从字面上看是很好的，但我不敢肯定它是否真正能行得通。
The applicant looks good on paper．从书面材料看，这个申请人的情况很不错。

paper over

1．cover over with paper用纸遮盖
A number of stains on the wall were papered over．墙上的一些污迹被纸糊盖起来了。
2．conceal掩盖
They tried to paper over the differences between union and management， but the agreement did not last for long．他们试图掩盖工会和资方的差异，但协议并没延续多久。

put sth on paper

Idiom(s): put sth on paper

Theme: COMMUNICATION - WRITTEN

to write something down.
• You have a great idea for a novel. Now put it on paper.
• I'm sorry, I can't discuss your offer until I see something in writing. Put it on paper, and then we'll talk.

paper over the cracks in

Idiom(s): paper over the cracks (in sth)

Theme: DECEPTION

to try to hide faults or difficulties, often in a hasty or not very successful way.
• The politician tried to paper over the cracks in his party's economic policy.
• Tom tried to paper over the cracks in his relationship with the boss, but it was not possible.
• She didn't explain it. She just papered over the cracks.

give one one's walking papers

Idiom(s): give one one's walking papers

Theme: DISMISSAL - EMPLOYMENT

to fire someone; to dismiss someone from employment.
• Tom has proved unsatisfactory. I decided to give him his walking papers.
• We might even give Sally her walking papers, too.

get one's walking papers

Idiom(s): get one's walking papers

Theme: FAILURE

to get fired. (Informal.)
• Well, I'm through. I got my walking papers today.
• They are closing down my department. I guess I'll get my walking papers soon.

Cigarette paper

If you cannot get or put a cigarette paper between people, they are so closely bonded that nothing will separate them or their positions on issues.

Paper over the cracks

If you paper over the cracks, you try to make something look or work better but only deal with superficial issues, not the real underlying problems.

Paper tiger

A paper tiger is a person, country, institution, etc, that looks powerful, but is actually weak.

Get Your Walking Papers

Get fired from a job.

put pen to paper

start writing: "She finally put pen to paper and wrote the letter."

bad paper|paper

n., slang 1. A check for which there are no funds in the bank. 2. Counterfeit paper money. Why are you so mad? I was paid with some bad paper.

brown paper bag|bag|brown|paper

n., slang, citizen's band radio jargon An unmarked police car. The beaver got a Christmas card because she didn't notice the brown paper bag at her back door. See: PLAIN WHITE WRAPPER.

on paper|on|paper

adv. or adj. phr. Judging by appearances only and not by past performance; in theory; theoretically. On paper, the American colonies should have lost the Revolutionary War. The football team lost many games, even though they looked good on paper.

taper down|taper

adj. phr. To decrease; reduce. He has tapered down his drinking from three martinis to one beer a day.

taper off|taper

v. 1. To come to an end little by little; become smaller toward the end. The river tapers off here and becomes a brook. 2. To stop a habit gradually; do something less and less often. Robert gave up smoking all at once instead of tapering off.
Antonym: COLD TURKEY.

walking papers|orders|papers|ticket|walking|walkin

n., informal A statement that you are fired from your job; dismissal. The boss was not satisfied with Paul's work and gave him his walking papers. George is out of work. He picked up his walking ticket last Friday.

can't punch one's way out of a paper bag

can't punch one's way out of a paper bag
Be inept, as in Ask him to program the VCR? He can't punch his way out of a paper bag. This hyperbolic term for extreme ineptitude originally was an expression of contempt for a weak or cowardly boxer. [Slang; c. 1910]

caper

caper
cut a caper
or cut capers
to caper

cut capers

cut capers
Also, cut a caper. Frolic or romp, as in The children cut capers in the pile of raked leaves. The noun caper comes from the Latin for “goat,” and the allusion is to act in the manner of a young goat clumsily frolicking about. The expression was first recorded in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1:3): “Faith, I can cut a caper.”

push paper

push paper
Do administrative, often petty, paperwork. For example, She spent the whole day pushing paper for her boss. [Colloquial; second half of 1900s]

reaper

reaper
the (Grim) Reaper
death: often personified as a shrouded skeleton bearing a scythe

taper

taper
taper off
1) to become smaller gradually toward one end
2) to diminish or stop gradually

walking papers

walking papers
A dismissal, as in They're downsizing, and I got my walking papers last week. This slangy expression, first recorded in 1835, refers to a written notice of dismissal.

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English Vocalbulary

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