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canary

a person who tells the police, a squealer Ken - that canary! He tells the boss who comes in late.

give you the runaround

(See the runaround)

look like the cat that ate (swallowed) the canary

seem very self-satisified like you have just had some kind of success He looked like the cat that ate the canary when he came in with a smile on his face.

look like the cat that swallowed the canary

look very self-satisfied, look as if one just had a great success You look like the cat that swallowed the canary. What happened?

narrow escape

an escape with no chance of error He had a narrow escape when he almost fell from his bicycle.

nary a word

not a word, nothing When I asked the boy a question, he said nothing - nary a word.

runaround

(See the runaround)

the runaround

an indirect answer, pass the buck, what a rigmarole I complained about the dryer, but they gave me the runaround. They blamed the delivery man.

narrow down

become narrow；become limited；reduce变窄；缩小；减少
The path has narrowed down a lot since I was last here．自我上次到这里以来，这条路已窄了许多。
The selection committee has narrowed down the original pile of applications to just these five．选拔委员会已把原来的一大堆申请书缩小到这5份了。
The whole question narrows down to who is going to pay for all the damage．整个问题只剩下该由谁来赔偿损失了。
They have narrowed the search down to this area of the town．他们已把搜查范围缩小到该市的这个地区。

out of the ordinary

outside or beyond common experience；unusual不同凡响；出众：不寻常
This is indeed out of the ordinary and unheard of．这真是闻所未闻的咄咄怪事。
In our grand father 'time it was quite out of the ordinary for a woman to go to college．在我们祖父的时代，妇女上大学是很不寻常的。
Has anything out of the ordinary happened since I've been away？我不在的时候，有没有发生什么不寻常的事？

straight and narrow

Idiom(s): straight and narrow

Theme: BEHAVIOR

a straight and law-abiding route through life. (Informal. From straight and narrow pathway. Fixed order.)
• You should have no trouble with the police if you stick to the straight and narrow.
• Roger was the kind who followed the straight and narrow every day of his life.

give sb the runaround

Idiom(s): give sb the runaround

Theme: DELAY

to give someone a series of excuses, delays, and referrals.
• If you ask to see the manager, they'll give you the runaround.
• Stop giving me the runaround!

get the runaround

Idiom(s): get the runaround

Theme: CONFUSION

to receive a series of excuses, delays, and referrals.
• You'll get the runaround if you ask to see the manager.
• I hate it when I get the runaround.

Canary in a coal mine

(UK) A canary in a coal mine is an early warning of danger.

Give someone the runaround

If someone gives you the runaround, they make excuses and give you false explanations to avoid doing something.

Rice missionary

A rice missionary gives food to hungry people as a way of converting them to Christianity.

Sing like a canary

If someone sings like a canary, they tell everything they know about a crime or wrongdoing to the police or authorities.

Lunar Module|L.M.|LM|Lem|Lunar|Module

n., Space English That portion of the rocket assemblage on a flight to the Moon in which the astronauts descend to the Moon's surface. Building the L.M. was one of the most expensive parts of the American space program.

look like the cat that ate the canary|canary|cat|l

v. phr. To seem very self-satisfied; look as if you had just had a great success. Peter bet on the poorest horse in the race and when it won, he looked like the cat that ate the canary. When she won the prize, she went home looking like the cat that swallowed the canary.

narrow down|narrow

v. phr. To limit within very strict margins. Of the numerous applicants, the list has been narrowed down to just a few.

narrow escape|escape|narrow

n. phr. An escape by a very small margin; a near miss. If the truck that hit his car had been coming faster, it would have killed him; it was certainly a narrow escape that he only had a broken arm!

narrow-minded|mind|minded|narrow

adj. phr. Limited in outlook; resistant to new ideas; bigoted. He is generally very open about everything, but when it comes to politics, he is terribly narrow-minded.

nary a|nary

informal Not a single; not one; never a. One afternoon a large dark cloud came in the sky. John thought it would rain so he took his raincoat but nary a drop fell. John went fishing but he caught nary a one.

out of the ordinary|ordinary|out

adj. phr. Outside or beyond common experience; unusual; wonderful; extraordinary. The parade will be something out of the ordinary because a real king will be there. This juggler was out of the ordinary because he could juggle with his feet as well as his hands.

walking dictionary|dictionary|walking

n. phr. A person highly knowledgeable in matters of language use. If you want to know what "serendipity" means, ask my Uncle Fred. He is a professor of English and is also a walking dictionary.

look like the cat that ate the canary

look like the cat that ate the canary
Also, look like the cat that swallowed the canary. Appear smug and self-satisfied. For example, After she hit her third winning shot, Jeannie looked like the cat that ate the canary. [Second half of 1800s]

nark

nark
nark it
Brit., Slang stop it; keep quiet

narrow

narrow
In addition to the idiom beginning with narrow, see straight and narrow, the.

nary a

nary a
Not one, as in There's nary a mention of taxes in that speech, or Nary an officer could be seen. This archaic-sounding contraction of “never a” remains in current use. [Mid-1700s]

ordinary

ordinary
see out of the ordinary.

quaternary

quaternary
the Quaternary
the Quaternary Period or its rocks

stannary

stannary
the Stannaries
such a region in Devon & Cornwall, England

straight and narrow, the

straight and narrow, the
The honest and upright way of living, as in He led a wild life when he was young, but he's been on the straight and narrow for some years. This expression is widely though to come from confusion of straight, “not crooked,” with strait, “narrow,” owing to a misinterpretation of a passage from the New Testament: “Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life” (Matthew 7:14). The current phrase dates only from the first half of the 1800s.