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书籍目录

1 Easy Street &. Out on the Street

2 Street Smarts &. Two-way Street

3 ToKnockoff

4 To Run a Tight Ship & to Sit Tight

5 Tighf-lipped & Tight with Someone

6 Loose Lips & at Loose Ends

7 Out of One's Skull & Skull Session

8 Lick & Lickety Split

9 To Have a Feeling in One's Bones & to Have

a Bone to Pick

10 To Shape up or Ship out & to Rock the Boat

11 Up to One's Neck & to Break One's Neck

12 To Get It in the Neck & to Stick

Out One's Neck

13 Cold Shoulder & Hot Air

14 Over One's Head & over the Hump

15 Over a Barrel & over One's Dead Body

16 Out of the Woods & out of the Picture

17 Out the Window & out of This World

18 To Whistle in the Dark & to Blow the Whistle

19 Nothing Special & So-so

20 Far Cry & Crying Towel

21 To Whistle a Different Tune & Pipe Dream

22 For Crying out Loud & to Cool It

23 To Keep One's Cool & to Be Cool

as a Cucumber

24 All in the Same Boat & to Miss the Boat

25 In One's Blood & Fresh Blood

26 To Make One's Blood Boil & to make One's

Blood Run Cold

27 To Hit the Ceiling & to Blow One's Top

28 To Jump the Gun & to Stick to One's Guns

29 To Beat One's Brains out & to Brainwash

30 Brain Drain & Brain Trust

31 One Track Mind & Track Record

32 To Give Somebody a Piece of One's Mind

& Mind-boggling

33 Under the Gun & Gun-shy

34 Hippie & to Shoot from the Hip

35 Full of Beans & a Hill of Beans

36 Bean Counter & to Spill the Beans

37 To Make Tracks & the Wrong Side

of the Tracks

38 To Stand up Someone & a Stand-in

39 To Stand Tall & a Stand-out

40 At the Drop of a Hat & to Pull Something

out of the Hat

41 To Pass the Hat & to Take One's Hat off

42 Hat in Hand & to Wear Two Hats at a Time

43 Fat Farm & to Chew the Fat

44 Fat Cat & Fat Chance

45 On Thin Ice & Thin-skinned

46 Workaholic & Grunt Work

47 The Works & in the Works

48 To Cut a Deal & to Cut Corners

49 To Be Cut out for & a Cut-up

50 Honeymoon & Moonlight

51 Sunday Best & Sunday Driver

52 One for the Books & to Know Someone

like a Book

53 To Close the Books & to Cook the Books

54 To Bad-mouth & to Shoot One's Mouth off

55 To Walk on Air & to Walk the Floor

56 To Take a Walk & to Walk on Eggshells

57 Motor Mouth & Foot in Mouth Disease

58 To Put One's Money Where One's Mouth Is

& You Said a Mouthful

59 Wall-to-wall & Wallflower

60 To Climb the Wall & to Drive Someone

up the Wall

61 To Stonewall & off the Wall

62 Over the Long Haul & Long Shot

63 Short and Sweet & the Long and Short of It

64 In Short Order & to Get the Short End

of the Stick

65 On the Level & Kosher

66 Open and Aboveboard & on the Up and Up

67 Ups and Downs & Down and Out

68 To Be Caught with One's Hand in the Cookie

Jar & to Be Caught with One's Pants down

69 To Touch Base & to Do Lunch

70 Birds of a Feather & to Feather One's Own Nest

71 In Fine Feather & a Feather in One's Cap

72 Breadwinner & to Know Which Side One's

Bread Is Buttered on

73 Bread and Butter & to Butter up Someone

74 Butterfingers & Butterball

75 Like Greased Lightning & like a Bat

out of Hell

76 Slow Burn & Slow Molasses

77 Give Me a Break & Break Even

78 To Break the News & to Break the Ice

79 Sacred Cow & Dark Horse

80 Right on the Mark & Right up One's AUey

81 To Give Someone the Hook &

by Hook or by Crook

82 To Pick up the Tab & Go Duteh

83 Tax-and-spend Liberal & Knee-jerk Liberal

84 Redneck & McCarthyite

85 Dry Run & Cut and Dried

86 High and Dry & Dry Up

87 In the Doghouse & between a

Rock and a Hard Place

88 Bummer & Bum Rap

89 Fair and Square & Fair Shake

90 Fair Game & Fair-haired Boy

91 The Time of One's Life & in

the Nick of Time

92 Front Money & Hush Money

93 Free Lance & Freeloader

94 Free and Easy & Free-for-all

95 To Blow One's Own Hom &

to Blow the Lid off

96 To Play with Fire & to Fight Fire with Fire

97 Half-baked & Half-hearted

98 To Get to the Bottom of Something & to Scrape

the Bottom of the Barrel

99 There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

& Power Lunch

100 Easy Money & to Bet One's Bottom Dollar

101 Smart Money & Mad Money

102 Sweet Talk & Snow Job

103 A Fine Kettle of Fish & to Have

Other Fish to Fry

104 To Butter up Someone & Nitpicker

105 Smoke and Mirrors & Bum Steer

106 To Go up in Smoke & Smoke Screen

107 On Top of the World & off the Top

of One's Head

108 Top Banana & Top Brass

109 Pinhead & on Pins and Needtes

110 To Cook up & Smart Cookie or

Tough Cookie

111 Fly-by-night & off the Cuff

112 Gold Mine & Born with a Silver Spoon

in His Mouth

113 To Be Handed Something on a Silver Platter

& to Go over like a Lead Balloon

114 Steamroller & under One's Own Steam

115 To Go Full Steam Ahead & to Blow off Steam

116 Goody Two Shoes & to Fill Somebody's Shoes

117 To Lower the Boom & to Throw Away the Key

118 A Slap on the Wrist & to Wait for the

Other Shoe to Drop

119 Wild and Woolly & Dyed in the Wool

120 To Walk down the Aisle & to Walk the Plank

121 To Eat One's Words & from the Word Go

122 No Problem & Have a Nice Day

123 One-liner & Punch Line

124 To Play Fast and Loose & Hard and Fast

125 Sitting Pretty & to Sit Tight

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