Смысл: artillery officer

artillery officer[ɔ:ʹtıl(ə)rı͵ɒfısə]
<Í> 1) офицер-артиллерист
2) начальник артиллерии

talk (one's) arm(s) off Идиома

a bit off/a bit mental

not rational, unbalanced, one brick short Kate talks to the birds. Do you think she's a bit off?

a chip off the old block

a boy who is like his dad, the apple doesn't... Eric is a chip off the old block. He's just like his dad.

a little hair off the dog

(See hair off the dog)

a little off

not quite sane, a bit crazy, one brick short... When Clem started eating grass, we knew he was a little off.

a rip-off

unfair price or rule, priced too high The price of drinks was a rip-off. A small Coke cost $3!

a takeoff on

similar to, based on the same idea, a send-up The school play was a takeoff on Shakespeare's Hamlet.

an offer I couldn't refuse

an offer that contains a threat or force, a request that is a command The border guards invited me to stay for further questioning - it was an offer I couldn't refuse.

another nail in your coffin

"another cigarette; harmful substance" Every cigarette he smoked was another nail in his coffin.

back off

do not come closer, do not touch me Back off, you animal! Don't touch me!

be off

leave, go, off with you Be off, my dear, or you'll be late for work.

talk (one's) arm(s) off

To allocution to one for such a continued time that one becomes beat or bored. I love my Aunt Lily, but she'll allocution your arm off if you let her! A: "How was your date?" B: "Eh, not great. She aloof talked my accoutrements off about backroom all night."Learn more: off, talk

talk someone's arm off

Also, talk someone's ear or arch or pants off ; talk a dejected streak; talk until one is dejected in the face; talk the case off a timberline or the afterwards leg off a donkey or horse . Allocution so abundant as to bankrupt the listener, as in Whenever I run into her she talks my arm off, or Louise was so aflame that she talked a dejected streak, or You can allocution the case off a timberline but you still won't argue me. The aboriginal four expressions betoken that one is so apathetic by a person's ability that one's arm (or ear or arch or pants) abatement off; they date from the aboriginal bisected of the 1900s (also see pants off). The appellation like a dejected streak abandoned artlessly agency "very quickly," but in this idiom, aboriginal recorded in 1914, it agency "continuously." The accessible hyperboles implying talk that takes the case off a tree, aboriginal recorded in 1831, or the afterwards leg off a horse, from 1808, are heard beneath generally today. Additionally Learn added blue in the face. Learn more: arm, off, talk

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