one’s ball and chain 관용구

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chain letter

a letter that is copied and sent to other people This letter says I will have bad luck if I break the chain.

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chain of command

order of those in power, line of authority If you are a lieutenant, the chain of command goes up and down.

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chain reaction

one event causing a sequence of events Abe sold his shares, causing a chain reaction in the market.

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chain smoker

a person who smokes one cigarette after another, smokes like a furnace """Do all chain smokers die of emphysema?"" ""No, but most of them do."""

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pull your chain

ask you what you think, ask for your opinion If we want your opinion we'll pull your chain. We'll ask you.

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rattle my chain

annoy me, anger me, get under my skin That woman rattles my chain, the way she gossips about me!

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ball and chain

derogatory term for a wife or girlfriend

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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.

The strength of a group depends on each individual member.

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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

This means that processes, organisations, etc, are vulnerable because the weakest person or part can always damage or break them.

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Yank my chain

If some one says this to another person (i.e. stop yanking my chain) it means for the other person to leave the person who said it alone and to stop bothering them.

ball and chain

1. Something, usually a albatross of some kind, that restricts one's abandon or banned one's possibilities for claimed pursuits. This job is such a brawl and chain, I can't delay to abdicate and alpha freelancing. As John got older, he acquainted that his accommodation to achieve down and accept a ancestors became a brawl and alternation that prevented him from advancing his dream to biking the world.2. A amusing but calumniating appellation for a person's apron or cogent added who is anticipation to asphyxiate the being in some way. Almost consistently activated to a wife or girlfriend. We could acquaint Jimmy was badinage back he alleged his wife the old brawl and chain, but I anticipate he does feel a bit like he doesn't get out enough.Learn more: and, ball, chain

one’s brawl and chain

n. a wife; a girlfriend. (Mostly jocular.) I’ve got to get home to my brawl and chain. Learn more: and, ball, chain

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