English American Idioms - Thành Ngữ Tiếng Anh
LESSON #1: A slap on the wrist, Eat crow, Short circuit.
LESSON #2: To pull strings, To string someone along, Purse strings, Second string.
LESSON #3: Eyes bigger than your stomach, Butterflies in your stomach, Bellyache.
LESSON #4: Bone of contention, Make no bones about it, Have a bone to pick.
LESSON #5: To feel in your bones, To bone up, To throw someone a bone.
LESSON #6: All that, Fly, To perpetrate, To be ghost.
LESSON #7: Buy a pig in a poke, Buy for a song, Buy it, Buy the farm.
LESSON #8: Hard sell, sell a bill of goods, sell down the river, sell someone short.
LESSON #9: Fib, White lie, Lie in your teeth, Whopper.
LESSON #10: Hunker down, Hold the high ground, Trench warfare.
LESSON #11: Slapdash, Across the board, Back of the envelope.
LESSON #12: Out to lunch, Backed into a corner, Spell out.
LESSON #13: In cahoots with, Lip service, Hare-brained.
LESSON #14: Go bananas, Compare apples and oranges, hear through the grapevine.
LESSON #15: Swing voters, Down to the wire, In over one's head.
LESSON #16: Mission creep, Hotbed, Well-heeled.
LESSON #17: Football widow, Nail-biter, Back on track.
LESSON #18: Running scared, Spin your wheels, Bumper crop.
LESSON #19: Go south, Get cold feet, Cool your heels.
LESSON #20: Hog wash, Taking the point, Walking a tightrope.
LESSON #21: Behind the 8 ball, Dear John letter, Pay back time.
LESSON #22: Jump the gun, Stick one's neck out, Grit one's teeth.
LESSON #23: Go bananas, Start off on the wrong foot, Sleeping point.
LESSON #24: Across the board, Raise a red flag, At the drop of a hat.
LESSON #25: Peanut gallery, Give no quarter, Draw the line.
LESSON #26: Gimmick, Scope out, Elbow room.
LESSON #27: Jump start, Cracker Jack, Up and coming.
LESSON #28: Ghost Rider, Koosh, Snake check.
LESSON #29: Cloud nine, The whole nine yards, Nine day wonder.
LESSON #30: Name dropping, Name calling, The name of the game.
LESSON #31: Another nail in your coffin, Hard as nails, Hit the nail on the head.
LESSON #32: Hacker, Geek, Snail mail.
LESSON #33: Talking heads, Sound bites, Stake out.
LESSON #34: No dice, No great shakes, No picnic.
LESSON #35: No laughing matter, No spring chicken, No win situation.
LESSON #36: Hand in glove, Hand down, Hand to mouth.
LESSON #37: Back number, His number is up, Hot number.
LESSON #38: Go to pot, Sweeten the pot, Pot shot.
LESSON #39: Chew the fat, Fat chance, Fat farm.
LESSON #40: Pan out, Panhandle, Out of the frying pan and into the fire.