Смысл: baby boom

baby boom[ʹbeıbı͵bu:m]
<Í> резкое увеличение рождаемости (в первое десятилетие после второй мировой войны)

boom Идиома

baby boomer

a person born during the decade after World War II Baby boomers will retire in the first decade of the 21st century.

boom box

portable cassette/CD player.

afterboomer

newspaper slang for a person born between 1965 and 1974 after the baby-boom of 1946 to 1964

lower the boom on

Idiom(s): lower the boom on sb

Theme: SCOLDING

to scold or punish someone severely; to crack down on someone. (Informal.)
• If Bob wont behave better, III have to lower the boom on him.
• The teacher lowered the boom on the whole class for misbehaving.

baby boom|baby|boom

n. A sudden increase in the birth rate. The universities were filled to capacity due to the baby boom that followed World War II.

lower the boom|boom|lower

v. phr., informal To punish strictly; check or stop fully. The mayor lowered the boom on outside jobs for city firemen. Father lowered the boom on the girls for staying out after midnight.
Synonym: CRACK DOWN. The police lowered the boom on open gambling.

sonic boom|boom|sonic

n. A loud noise and vibration in the air, made when a jet plane passes the speed of sound (1087 feet per second). Fast jet planes sometimes cause a sonic boom, which can break windows and crack the plaster in houses below them. We thought there was an explosion or earthquake, but it was only a sonic boom that shook the house.

boom

boom
see lower the boom on.