Forthycause's List: English Expressions

• I've just popped in to thank you

  • To visit in an impromptu manner.
• That's very kind of you.
• in fact I don't think you could have done it better.
• Everything went like   clockwork,
• I'm not sure about that, there were one or two things that could have been improved.
• In a perfect world perhaps, but as far as I'm concerned it was a great success. So thank you again.

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• An inept bomber
• Mr Harper chose to interpret the shooting as part of a broader bid by terrorist groups to bring “their savagery to our shores”.
• avoided making any political hay out of the incident,
• It should surely be possible to prevent that without a draconian regime.

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• Brooklyn is located across the river from the island of Manhattan
• “On-site” (site) means at the place where something is happening.
• take over construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.
• “To be paralyzed” (paralyzed) means that you are no longer able to move certain parts of your body,
• permanent,
• to supervise the work. “To supervise” means to manage and direct workers on some project.
• uspension bridge
• selling you the Brooklyn Bridge
• “To be gullible” (gullible) means to believe things that are clearly not true. It’s an insulting term to describe someone who is perhaps not very smart.
• “If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.”
• A “wage” (wage) is the amount of money that you are paid usually every hour that you work.
• “by the hour.”

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• hang together

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  1. Fig. [for something or a group of people] to hold together; to remain intact. I hope our bridge group hangs together until we are old and gray. I don't think that this car will hang together for another minute.

  2. Fig. [for a story] to flow from element to element and make sense. This story simply does not hang together. Your novel hangs together quite nicely.

  3. Fig. [for people] to spend time together. We hung together for a few hours and then went our separate ways. The boys hung together throughout the evening.

• float out

  • let me float out some observations and see if they find resonance with anyone else.
• find resonance with anyone else

  • let me float out some observations and see if they find resonance with anyone else

• 1    : to try to master necessary information quickly : cram
  • bone up for the exam
   
   
     
    2    : to renew one's skill or refresh one's memory
  • boned up on the speech just before giving it

  • bone up

• have/want no truck with somebody/something

   

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  to refuse to deal with someone; to refuse to accept or consider something We in this party will have no truck with illegal organizations.