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Salad days
Your salad days are an especially happy period of your life.
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Sail close to the wind
If you sail close to the wind, you take risks to do something, going close to the limit of what is allowed or acceptable.
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Salt of the earth
People who are salt of the earth are decent, dependable and unpretentious.
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Last straw
導致失敗之最後一擊
- You ' ve been late for work too often . This is the last straw . You ' re fired .
- 你最近遲到次數太頻繁, 叫人忍無可忍, 你被開除了。
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Let the cat out of the bag
If you reveal a secret, you let the cat out of the bag.
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Get hitched
If you get hitched, you get married.
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Get the ball rolling
If you get the ball rolling, you start something so that it can start making progress.
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Paper over the cracks
(尤指倉促或有漏洞)隱瞞或掩飾分歧(或錯誤、困難) Critics of government policy argue that the new measures introduced to fight crime are simply papering over the cracks . 批評政府政策的人指責反犯罪活動新措施, 認為純粹是為掩蓋過錯而制定的。
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Pandora's box
open Pandora's box -to cause a lot of problems that did not exist before 打開潘多拉的盒子﹐引發種種禍患
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Pain in the neck
【口】令人厭煩的人或事物
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Pie in the sky
不可及的夢想; 渺茫的希望; 不能保證實現的諾言
- Their ideas about reforming the prison system are just pie in the sky .
- 他們打算改革監獄制度的想法純粹是空中樓閣。
- Political promises are often pie in the sky .
- 政治諾言經常是不保證能夠實現的。
- What you said is only pie in the sky .
- 你所說的實在是渺茫得很。
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Pick up the tab
A person who pays for everyone picks up the tab.
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