意味: balls

bɔːlzn. （下品な俗語）睾丸; 勇敢; 非常識bɔːln. 球状のもの; ボール, 球, 野球やバスケットボールなどに使用するもの; 野球の試合; 公式のダンス; （低俗）睾丸v. 球状にする; 丸める; 散らかす; 性交する（低俗）

get (someone) by the balls イディオム

got the balls

got the courage, got what it takes He wants to enforce gun control, and he's got the balls to do it.

got you by the balls

"got you so you can't move; can't quit or back out" If you signed the contract, they've got you by the balls.

have the balls

(See got the balls)

balls

1. testicles. Usually in plural
2. courage, in for example,"She hasn't got the balls to tell him the truth"
3. rubbish, nonsense
4. (interj) expressing annoyance

balls something up

to make a mess of a situation

balls-up

1. a mess up, a "cock-up.""I've made a right balls-up of my exams" 2. to make a mess of a situation, balls something up

ballsed-up

ruined, in a mess

break balls

to work hard

put sth in mothballs

Idiom(s): put sth in mothballs

Theme: SAVING

to put something in storage. (Often said of battleships.)
• The navy put the old cruiser in mothballs and no one ever expected to see it again.
• Let's just put this small bicycle in mothballs until we hear of a child who can use it.

up to one's eyeballs in

Idiom(s): up to one's neck (in something) AND up to one's ears (in sth); up to one's eyeballs (in sth)

Theme: INVOLVEMENT

having a lot of something; very much involved in something. (Informal.)
• I can't come to the meeting. I'm up to my neck in these reports.
• Mary is up to her ears in her work.
• I am up to my eyeballs in things to do! I can't do any more!