English

Cards (75)

  • I wouldn’t touch you with a barge pole
  • What a timeless gem it is
  • You wouldn't believe the hogwash he was spouting at us. His argument is hogwash.
  • Scientific rigour is the strict application of the scientific method to ensure unbiased and well-controlled experimental design, methodology, analysis, interpretation and reporting of results.
  • To hit the nail on the head - find exactly the right answer. "You hit the nail on the head with your proposal at the staff meeting yesterday".
  • Raging homosexual
  • Take it on the chin - accept misfortune courageously or stoically. "To take a criticism on the chin".
  • I'm sorry to barge in like this
  • Intricate - very complicated or detailed
  • James Brown being interviewed in 1988 after being arrested for allegedly assaulting his wife with a lead pipe and firing a gun at a car she was in.

    -It sounds to me like you are not troubled by any of this at all
    -This is a maaaaaan’s world
  • I'm scared to death. I'm frightened and I don't know what to do, I'm confused and I want to go home. - Johnny Depp
  • Hung like a moose
  • Mentally deficient
  • Jack of all trades, master of none
  • Mazel fucking tov
  • If you describe something as uncanny, you mean that it is strange and ficcicult to explain. She bears an uncanny resemblance to the new president. Synonyms: weird, strange, mysterious
  • Well, that was wildly inappropriate
  • Did you want to unpack that one bro?
  • Brutal British honesty
  • To be morbidly obese
  • To hit the sack
  • Poignant - evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret. The photograph awakens poignant memories of happier days.
  • I just wiped the floor with him in a debate. He buckled under intellectual scrutiny.
  • The place is a fucking antique shop
  • It is unbecoming - if you describe a person's behaviour or remarks as unbecoming, you mean that they are shocking and unsuitable for that person
  • Spread legs not hate
  • To come out of left field - to be very surprising and unexpected
  • "If you're "intimate" with a wide variety of people, then is it really intimate anymore?" It brings me back to the quote by Aristotle "A man who is friend to everyone is a friend to no one." You've taken away the closeness of whatever aspect of "intimacy" you're expressing when you do it with a vast amount of people in my opinion.
  • I am sweating buckets
  • If you can't take the heat, get the fuck out of the kitchen
  • Let's go and spin some wax
  • People with rap sheets (with a a criminal record)
  • Don't tell me that you need me for my intellect and then treat me like a fool
  • -No one is putting a gun to your head
    -Sometimes there is a gun to your head and you don't even know it
  • You need to cool down and think very carefully about what you’ve just said
  • To put something to bed - deal with something conclusively
  • Ludicrous - so foolish, unreasonable, or out of place as to be amusing
  • Things have been a little rocky
  • To retaliate - нанести ответный удар
  • I won’t leave one of my own bleeding on the field