peri イディオム

have your period

menstruate, got the rags on I get stomach pains when I have my period. Do you?

at one's peril

at one's own risk自行冒险
Touch that at your peril． The parcel contains high explosives．你碰它就要自负后果。包裹里装有烈性炸药。
He made the experiment at his peril．他冒险做这个试验。

superior to

1．better than 比…好
This article is superior to that one in style．这篇文章在文体上要比那篇好。
This watch is superior to that one．这块手表比那块好。
2．strong enough in character 不屈服于
Always modest and prudent，he is superior to flattery．他总是谦虚谨慎，从来不为谄媚所动。
3．excelling 胜过；超过
In playing football，Tom is superior to Smith．在足球方面，汤姆要比史密斯强。

publish or perish

Idiom(s): publish or perish

Theme: COLLEGE

[for a professor] to publish many books or articles in scholarly journals or get released from a university or fall into disfavor in a university. (Also occurs in other parts of speech. See the examples. Fixed order.)
• Alice knew she would have to publish or perish if she took the teaching job.
• This is a major research university and publish or perish is the order of the day.

Perish the thought

Idiom(s): Perish the thought

Theme: IGNORE - DISREGARD

Do not even consider thinking of something. (Formal.)
• If you should become ill—perish the thought—I'd take care of you.
• I'm afraid that we need a new car. Perish the thought.

Experience is the father of wisdom.

Experience and knowledge result in better judgement.

In times of prosperity friends are plentiful.

You have many friends when you have no difficulties.

grace period|grace|period|period of grace

n. The time or extra time allowed in which to do something. Most insurance companies have a grace period of one month for payments. The teacher gave the class a week's period of grace to finish workbooks.

perish the thought|perish|thought

v. phr. Let us not even think of it; may it never come true.

Used as an exclamation. If John fails the college entrance exam perish the thought he will go back to high school for one more year. Perish the thought that Mary should have cancer.
Compare: GOD FORBID.

whispering campaign|campaign|whisper|whispering

n. The spreading of false rumors, or saying bad things, about a person or group, especially in politics or public life. A bad man has started a whispering campaign against the mayor, saying that he isn't honest.

perish

perish
In addition to the idiom beginning with perish, also see publish or perish.

whispering campaign

whispering campaign
A deliberate spreading of derogatory rumors about a candidate, as in That whispering campaign destroyed his chances for election. [c. 1920]