美国成语俗语

书籍目录

1. Lock.Stock and Barrel

2. Greasy Spoon &. Potluck

3. To Go in One Ear and out the Other

&. to Play by Ear

4. Doggy Bag & Eggs

5. In Hot Water & to Throw Cold Water on

6. To Hold Water & Water off a Duck's Back

7. Blow up & Blow out

8. To Pull Your Socks up & to Knock Your

Socks off

9. To Be Led by the Nose & under Your Nose

10. Poker Face & Close to One's Vest

11. The Shoe Is on the Other Foot & to Work

Hand in Glove

12. Follow One's Nose & to Pay through the Nose

13. To Keep an Ear to the Ground & up

to One's Ears

14. Sweeten the Pot & the Cards Are

Stacked against You

15. To Fly off the Handle & to Bark up

the Wrong Tree

16. Right on the Beam & to Fly by the Seat

of One's Pants

17. To Keep One's Shirt on & to Lose One's Shirt

18. A Stuffed Shirt & to Give You the Shirt

off His Back

19. To Bail out & Nose Dive

20. Up in Arms & at Arm's Length

21. To Shake a Leg & to Pull One's Leg

22. To Twist Someone's Arm & to Charge

Someone an Arm and a Leg

23. To Take Candy from a Baby & a Piece of Cake

24. Top Gun & Bottom Line

25. Just for Langhs & to Laugh up One's Sleeve

26 A Horse Laugh & the Last Langh

27. A Red Letter Day & Red Tape

28. Black Sheep & White Lie

29. Rain Check & It Never Rains but It Pours

30. To Stick to One's Guns & Shooting the Breeze

31. Green Thumb & Green Light

32. Singing the Blues & like a Bolt out of the Blue

33. As American as Apple Pie & Hot Potato

34. To Put All One's Eggs in One Basket

& to Eat Crow

35. Monkey Business & to Make a Monkey

out of Somebody

36. Hot Seat & Hot and Bothered

37. To Break Your Neck & to Stick Your Neck Out

38. Pain in the Neck & Neck and Neck

39. To Have a Heart & Cross My Heart

40. My Heart Stood Still & Heart-to-heart Talk

41. To Go Alt Out & tb Go through Hell

or High Water

42. To Go for Broke & to Go Overboard

43. To Put One's Best Foot Forward &

to Land on One's Feet

44. To Get off on the Wrong Foot & to Put

one's Foot in One's Mouth

45. Cold Feet & Jump in and Get One's Feet Wet

46. Ants in One's Pants & w Have

Butterflies in One's Stotnach

47. To Bug Someone & to Louse up

48. To Get a Foot in the Door & to Be

Dead on One's Feet

49. To Stand on One's Own (Two)Feet &

to Throw Oneself at Someone's Feet

50. To Be Swept off One's Feet & Don't Let

the Grass Grow under One's Feet

51. To Pull No Punches & Straight from

the Horse's Mouth

52. No Holds Barred & to Let One's Hair down

53. Loose Cannon & Blockbuster

54. Bomb &o Drop a Bombshell

55. Oddball & Odds and Ends

56. Peaches and Cream & Sour Grapes

57. Lemon & Go Bananas

58. To Shoot the Breeze & through the Grapevine

59. A Fish out of Water & to Teach

a Fish How to Swim

60. To Fish or Cut Bait & Cold Fish

61. To Feast One's Eyes on & to Hit

between the Eyes

62. Eyes Pop out & Not Even Bat an Eye

63. To Have (or Keep) One's Eyes Peeled &

to Pull the Wool over One's Eyes

64. To Keep One's Eye on the Ball & Eye-Opener

65. Flea Market & to Clam up

66. Baloney & Kickback

67. To Get a Kick out of & to Kick the Bucket

68. To Kick up One's Heels & to Kick off

69. At the Drop of a Hat & to Talk

through One's Hat

70. Hang on to Your Hat & to Keep

Something under Your Hat

71. To Eat One's Hat & to Eat One's Heart out

72. Nerd & Jock

73. Wimp & Turkey

74. To Throw One's Hat in the Ring &

to Go on the Stump

75. Favorite Son & Sound Bite

76. Blame Game & Negative Campaigning

77. Swing Voters & to Come out Swinging

78. Don't Change Horses in the Middle of the

Stream & Jump on the Bandwagon

79. Sleaze & Gridlock

80. Lame Duck & Golden Parachute

81. On the Fence & Maverick

82. Buddy & Sidekick

83. To Give Someone a Piece of One's Mind

& to Tell Someone off

84. Hick & City Slicker

85. To Throw to the Wolves & to Throw

the Baby out with the Bath Water

86. To Throw a Wet Blanket over Something &

to Throw a Monkey Wrench

87. To Let the Cat out of the Bag & Look like

the Cat That Ate the Canary

88. Rain or Shine & Rainy day

89. To Put on the Dog & to Go to the Dogs

90. To Let Sleeping Dogs Lie & Every Dog

Has His Day

91. To Throw a Curve & to Throw for a Loop

92. Crocodile Tears & Sob Story

93. To Cry in One's Beer & Cry Baby

94. Cloudy & in the Clouds

95. On a Cloud & under a Cloud

96. Basket Case & All Washed up

97. Smart as Intelligent & Fashionable

98. To Put on the Back Burner & to Drag

One's Feet

99. To Turn One's Back on Someone & to Get

on Someone's Back

100. Nag & to Get off One's Back

101. To Get One's Back up & to Scratch One's Back

102. Brainchild & to Pick One's Brain

103. To Give up the Ghost & Ghost Town

104. Ghost Writer & Spooky

105. To Brainstorm & Egghead

106. To Grab a Bite & Grubstake

107. Munch & Hors d'oeuvre

108. To Call the Shots & to Call One's Bluff

109. To Call up & to Call It a Day

110. To Rub Elbows & Elbow Room

lll.Shrimp &Crab

112. To Smell Fishy & to Fish for Compliments

113. Turkey & Cold Turkey

l14.Beefy & toBeefup

115. Snowball & Snow Job

116. To Break the Ice & Iceberg

117. Where's the Beef & Turkey Farm

118. Sitting Duck & Dead Duck

119. To Chicken out & Chicken Feed

120. Spring Chicken & Goose Bumps

121. To Make Hay & to Go Haywire

122. The Last Straw & to Sow One's Wild Oats

123. Belly Laugh & Knee-slapper

124. A Straw in the Wind & to Grasp at Straws

125. Trailblazer & Cutting Edge

126. Penny-pincher &. Cheapskate

127. Not All There & to Have a Screw Loose

128. Under the Weather & Down with a Bug

129. Baby Boomers & Yuppies

130. Dinks & Sandwich Generation

131. Couch Potato & Mall Rats

132. Backslider & Backslapper

133. Backseat Driver & Back-up System

134. In the Pink & Fit as a Fiddle

135. To Play BaU & on the Ball

136. Now the Ball Is in Your Court & to Start

the Ball Rolling

137. Skin-deep & That Really Gets under My Skin

138. No Skin off My Nose & to Save One's Skin

139. At the Wheel & Hell on Wheels

140. Spinning One's Wheels & Re-inventing

the Wheel

141. To Jump Right out of One's Skin & All

Skin and Bones

142. To Skin Someone Alive & Skin Game

143. One of a Kind & Top-notch

144. To Crash the Gate (or Party) & Crash Course

145. Set of Wheels & Free-wheeler

146. Wheeler-dealer & Fifth Wheel

147. Green Thumb & All Thumbs

148. Under the Thumb & to Stick out like

a Sore Thumb

149. Everything from Soup to Nuts &

Everything but the Kitchen Sink

150. To Kiss Someone or Something Goodbye

& Kiss of Death

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