Смысл: a-begginga-begging[əʹbegıŋ] adv <Í> 1. уст.нищенствуя, собирая милостыню to go a-begging - а) нищенствовать, собирать милостыню; б) собирать пожертвования 2. без внимания, в небрежении the copy goes a-begging - нигде не хотят эту рукопись принимать Í>
ging Идиома
leave hanging (in the air)
leave undecided or unsettled Whether or not they will be leaving next year was left hanging in the air at the end of the meeting.
leave me hanging
leave me wondering what happened You begin a story, but you don't finish it. You leave me hanging.
shagging wagon
a van designed for relaxing and having sex Tony's van has a bar and a bed. It's his shaggin' wagon.
tail wagging the dog
(See the tail wagging the dog)
the tail wagging the dog
minority controlling the majority If criminals get more rights, the tail will be wagging the dog.
bagging
a snack or food taken between meals. Heard pronounced as baggin [Lancs use]
banging
exciting, energetic, wonderful, excellent; usually pronounced "bangin"
begging for it
a general comment on a person's supposed, if not actual, yearning for sexual intimacies:"Cor, look at her! She's begging for it"
how are they hanging
a way of greeting
sagging deuce
a lowered Cadillac car
ginger up
put more life,energy,enthusiasm into sb.or some activity 使活跃起来;使有新的活力 Some of the smaller firms become rather slack;they need gingering up.一些小的商行营业很不景气,他们需要增添新的活力。
set tongues awagging
Idiom(s): set tongues (a)wagging
Theme: GOSSIP
to cause people to start gossiping. • The affair between the boss and her accountant set tongues awagging. • If you don’t get the lawn mowed soon, you will set tongues wagging in the neighborhood.
leave hanging in midair
Idiom(s): leave someone or something hanging in midair AND keep someone or something hanging in midair
Theme: WAITING
to suspend dealing with someone or something; to leave someone or something waiting to be finished or continued. • She left her sentence hanging in midair. • She left us hanging in midair when she paused. • Tell me the rest of the story. Don't leave me hanging in midair. • Don't leave the story hanging in midair.
have sth hanging over one's head
Idiom(s): have sth hanging over one's head
Theme: WORRY
to have something bothering or worrying one; to have a deadline worrying one. (Informal.) • I keep worrying about getting drafted. I hate to have something like that hanging over my head. • I have a history paper that is hanging over my head.
go begging
Idiom(s): go begging
Theme: NEED - LACKING
to be unwanted or unused. (As if a thing were begging for an owner or a user.) • There is still food left. A whole lobster is going begging. Please eat some more. • There are many excellent books in the library just going begging because people don't know they are there.
keep hanging in midair
Idiom(s): leave someone or something hanging in midair AND keep someone or something hanging in midair
Theme: WAITING
to suspend dealing with someone or something; to leave someone or something waiting to be finished or continued. • She left her sentence hanging in midair. • She left us hanging in midair when she paused. • Tell me the rest of the story. Don't leave me hanging in midair. • Don't leave the story hanging in midair.
All-singing, all-dancing
If something's all-singing, all-dancing, it is the latest version with the most up-to-date features.
Flogging a dead horse
(UK) If someone is trying to convince people to do or feel something without any hope of succeeding, they're flogging a dead horse. This is used when someone is trying to raise interest in an issue that no-one supports anymore; beating a dead horse will not make it do any more work.
Go down swinging
If you want to go down swinging, you know you will probably fail, but you refuse to give up.
Low-hanging fruit
Low-hanging fruit are things that are easily achieved.
Mud-slinging
If someone is mud-slinging, they are insulting someone and trying to damage that person's reputation.
Swinging door
This idiom refers to something or someone that can go in two conflicting or opposite directions.
clinging vine|cling|clinging|vine
n. A very dependent woman; a woman who needs much love and encouragement from a man. Mary is a clinging vine; she cannot do anything without her husband.
go begging|beg|begging|go
v. phr. To be not needed or wanted. Many old homes in the city go begging.Most of the apples on the market went begging.
keep plugging along|keep|plugging
v. phr., informal To continue to work diligently and with great effort, often against hardship. Bob was not particularly talented but he kept plugging along year after year, and eventually became vice president.
leave hanging|air|hang|hanging|hanging in the air|
v. phr. To leave undecided or unsettled. Because the committee could not decide on a time and place, the matter of the spring dance was left hanging.Ted's mother didn't know what to do about the broken window, so his punishment was left hanging in the air until his father came home. Compare: UP IN THE AIR.
slinging match|match|slinging
n. phr. A loud, angry quarrel. The debate deteriorated into a most unseemly slinging match.
wringing wet|wet|wringing
adj. Wet through and through; soaked; dripping. He was wringing wet because he was caught in the rain without an umbrella.He was wringing wet after working in the fields in the hot sun.
clinging vine
clinging vine An overly dependent person, as in A clinging vine since her marriage, she's never made a decision on her own. Nearly always applied to a woman (or wife), this metaphor for a climbing plant today criticizes dependency rather than, as in former times, praising the vine's fruitfulness.
leave hanging
leave hanging Also, leave hanging in the air or in midair. Keep undecided, uncertain, or in suspense. For example, Since we hadn't found a big enough hall, we left the final date hanging, or She couldn't figure out a good ending for the book, so her audience was left hanging in midair.
tail wagging the dog, the A small or unimportant factor or element governing an important one; a reversal of the proper roles. For example, She found herself explaining the new therapy to her doctor—a real case of the tail wagging the dog. [c. 1900]
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