Chào mừng quí khách đã đến với ANCNV
- egg someone on
egg someone on - khuyến khích, đôn đốc, động viên, xúi giục hoặc thách thức ...thường là những chuyện ngu ngốc!
- Lộc wouldn't have done the dangerous experiment if his brother hadn't egged him on.
(Thật ra thì Lộc sẽ chẳng làm chuyện nguy hiểm nếu anh của cậu không xúi bậy hay thách thức cậu.)
- The two boys kept throwing stones because the other children were egging them on.
(Hai thằng nhỏ cứ liệng đá bởi vì các đứa trẻ khác đang xúi dục chúng.)
- Go fry an egg!
Cút đi, đi chỗ khác chơi, đừng quấy rối, Đi làm chuyện gì đi ... và các diễn đạt tục tiểu khi nổi nóng!
Ví dụ"
- Go away and stop bothering me! Go fry an egg!
Cút đi đừng quấy rầy tao!
(Đi phơi nắng cho cháy da như trứng chiên - đi chiên cái trứng đi!)
- Get out of my way! Go fly a kite!
Tránh ra, đi chỗ khác!
(Con nít - Đi thả diều đi!)
- go away, get out
- Eat me, you little shit.
- fuck off
- go fly a kite
- go fry an egg
- go fuck yourself
- go jump in the lake
- goose egg
1. Bị u đầu ... u trán ...
- I walked into the edge of the door and got a terrible goose egg.
2. Bị ăn trứng Vịt hay bị điểm zero...
- At the end of the game there was nothing but goose eggs next to our name.
- have egg on one's face
Cảm thấy xấu hỗ, bị mang tiếng xấu ...
Làm việc gì đó sai và cảm thấy bị xấu hỗ như mặt dính lọ nồi hay dính ghèn khi ra đường ...
Ví dụ:
- She's really got egg on her face!
- I was completely wrong, and now I have egg on my face.
- You'll be the one who has egg on your face if it goes wrong.
- If the computer problems continue, then the software giant will have egg on its face.
Đôi khi hay gặp trong lối nói khác như: "with egg on your face":
- People who supported him came away with egg on their faces.
Cụm từ này cũng có nghĩa gần như "blow up in your face"
- He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens.
Tục ngữ. Muốn ăn trứng thì phải chịu khó nghe tiếng gà cục tác.
Hoặc là:
Anh nào đó mà muốn có con hả thì phải biết chịu đau khi rặn đẻ
Ngụ ý là muốn thành công trong công việc thì phải chịu kham khổ - Muốn trở thành Bác sĩ thì phải chịu khó học hành ... đại loại như thế!
Ví dụ:
Thuận: I'm tired of working after school. All the customers at the store are so rude.
OGXT: But you wanted money to buy a car. He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens, dear.
- Kill the goose that lays the golden egg(s).
Prov. To destroy something that is profitable to you. Fred's wife knew he wasn't happy in his job, even though it paid well; still, she felt that advising him to leave it would be killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.
1. Lit. [for a hen, etc.] to deposit an egg. Old Red stopped laying eggs, so we stewed her for Sunday dinner.
2. Fig. [for someone] to do something bad or poorly; to perform poorly on stage. I guess I really laid an egg, huh? The cast laid an egg in both performances.
- one's (butter and) egg money
Thành ngữ của người nhà quê !!!
Đây là tiền từ bơ và trứng mà người nhà quê trong nông trại họ có được để dành cho lúc mưa gió hay bệnh hoạn - Thường là của các bà mẹ lượm trứng gà và vắt sữa bò để làm bơ ...
Ví dụ:
- Mộc Thanh was saving her butter and egg money for a new TV.
Cường rủ Lộc:
- I've got my egg money. Let's go shopping..
- put all one's eggs in one basket
(a) To make everything dependent on only one thing; to place all one's resources in one place, account, etc. (If the basket is dropped, all is lost.)
- Don't invest all your money in one company. Never put all your eggs in one basket.
- I advise you to diversify and not to put all your eggs in one basket.
(b) To risk losing everything by putting all your efforts or all your money into one plan or one course of action
- If you're going to invest the money, my advice would be don't put all your eggs in one basket.
(c) To risk your money or your reputation in support of one idea or plan
- I didn't want to put all my eggs in one basket, so I played five different lottery games, but lost all of them.
Etymology: based on the idea that if all the eggs you got from your chickens are in one basket ( container) and you drop it, you will lose all your eggs - rotten egg và bad egg
(a) Một người bị khinh bỉ đầu đường xó chợ, hoặc là 1 tên có bụng dạ một xấu xa, thối tha như trứng ung ...
(b) Một tên vào tù ra khám, một người hay lừa đảo, không đáng tin cậy, một tên láo khoét hay hứa hẹn những điều tốt lành mà chả bao giờ làm nên sự ...
Ví dụ:
- That guy is a real rotten egg.
- She sure has turned out to be a rotten egg
- He had served several years in prison. He is a bad egg!
Trong ngôn ngữ đường phố các bạn có thể nghe thấy từ Rotten Eggs (Trứng ung) được thay thế cho nhiều cách nói lóng khác nhau:
Ví dụ: - What a shitty day được đổi thành "What a rotten eggs day"
- She's being such a bitch được đổi thành "She's being such rotten eggs"
- Claire can't have babies. She's got rotten eggs (Buồng trứng của Claire hết làm việc hay bị ung ...)
- I had rotten eggs for breakfast and my breath smell like rotten eggs. What a rotten eggs day. (Xì Hơi bay mùi trứng cả ngày!)
- Man I have some rotten eggs. (bị cóng ... hì hì ~~~)
- teach one's grandmother to suck eggs
Fig. to try to tell or show someone more knowledgeable or experienced than oneself how to do something. Don't suggest showing Mary how to knit. It will be like teaching your grandmother to suck eggs. Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs. Bob has been playing tennis for years.
- walk on eggs and walk on thin ice
Fig. to proceed very cautiously; to be in a very precarious position. (Fig. on the image of someone walking on something that offers little support and may collapse at any moment.) I have to remember that I'm walking on eggs when I give this speech. Careful with radical ideas like that. You're walking on thin ice.
- You cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Prov. In order to get something good or useful, you must give up something else. Jill: Why do they have to tear down that beautiful old building to build an office park? Jane: You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs. Alan: We may make more money by raising our prices, but we'll also upset a lot of customers. Fred: You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
(as) sure as eggs (are/is eggs) (British & Australian old-fashioned)
something that you say when you are certain about what is going to happen or what someone will do He'll be back again next week asking for more money, sure as eggs is eggs.
- a bad egg (mainly American informal)
someone who behaves in a bad or dishonest way He's a bad egg - don't believe anything he says.
- a chicken and egg situation
a situation in which it is impossible to say which of two things existed first and which caused the other It's a chicken and egg situation - I don't know whether I was bad at the sciences because I wasn't interested in them or not interested in them and therefore not good at them.
- a curate's egg (British)
something which has both good and bad parts
Usage notes: A curate is a priest. There is a joke about a curate who was given a bad egg and said that parts of the egg were good because he did not want to offend the person who gave it to him.
Queen's College is something of a curate's egg, with elegant Victorian buildings alongside some of the ugliest modern architecture.
- a nest egg
an amount of money that you have saved Regular investment of small amounts of money is an excellent way of building a nest egg.
- can't boil an egg (humorous)
if someone can't boil an egg, they are not able to cook
Usage notes: This phrase comes from the idea that boiling an egg is a very easy thing to do.
Don't expect a dinner invitation from Laura - she can't boil an egg.
- lay an egg (American informal)
to fail to make people enjoy or be interested in something
- Our first two sketches got big laughs, but the next two laid an egg.
- over-egg the pudding (British)
to spoil something by trying too hard to improve it
- As a director, I think he has a tendency to over-egg the pudding, with a few too many gorgeous shots of the countryside.
- teach your grandmother to suck eggs (British & Australian)
to give advice to someone about a subject that they already know more about than you You're teaching your grandmother to suck eggs, Ted. I've been playing this game since before you were born!
- You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
something that you say which means it is difficult to achieve something important without causing any unpleasant effects Twenty jobs will have to be cut if the company's going to be made more efficient. But you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
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