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（转贴）每日习语
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1）部分英语词汇起源
http://www.zftrans.com/bbs/read.php?tid=7989&page=e#a
2）(转载)英语学习·日积月累
http://www.zftrans.com/bbs/read.php?tid=8717&fpage=2
3）VOA 习惯用语
http://www.zftrans.com/bbs/read.php?tid=9162&fpage=2
4）Kaleidoscopic English
http://www.zftrans.com/bbs/read.php?tid=80&page=1&toread=1
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目 录
P1:
1) dear John Letter
2) That's all she wrote.
3) deep trouble
4) behave yourself
5) die for
P2:
6) Nobody lives without faults
7) doesn’t count
8) apple of discord
P3:
9) red-letter day
10) put oneself in another's shoes
11) chain-smoker
12) do someone good
13) lie like a log
P4:
14) bunk, bunkum, talk to buncombe
15) Do you get me
16) drop in
17) match maker
18) drop me a line
19) facelift
P5:
20) largely depend on… for…
21) tax free
22) honeymoon
23) enough of it
24) be saddled with
25) face up to
P6:
26) fall for sb.
27) dumping
28) be fed up
29) find a way out
30) fishy
31) for a song
32) get a bite
P7:
33) keep doing
34) give others one's word
35) give me a headache
36) give someone a piece of one’s mind
37) go along with
38) get rid of
39) get/have a crush on sb.
P8:
40) what's the crack?
41) God knows.
42) got it
43) hands down
44) hands are full
P9:
45) have had it
46) have good taste
47) beside the point
48) have nothing to do with
49) hold water
50) in a jam
51) in every sense of the word
P10:
52) hijack
53) pull one’s leg
54) leave it to me
55) screw up
56) make a fool of oneself
57) make a hit
P11:
58) answer the call of nature
59) keep one's fingers crossed
60) no way
61) over my dead body
62) top-heavy
63) be on cloud nine/be in seventh heaven
64) day in and day out
65) Don't take it to heart.
66) let's get started. let's start. let's do it right now. let's hit sth. let't rock&roll.
let's put our hands on sth.
67) never tell me
68) the breaks
P12:
69) red carpet
70) swan song
71) forty winks
72) gravy train, get on the gravy train
73) to twist someone's arm
74) carry coals.
75) to charge someone an arm and a leg
76) to bail out
P13:
77) nose-dive
78) slip-up
79) be blitzed
80) get going
81) neither fish, (flesh) nor fowl
82) blow off steam
83) the small hours
P14:
84) (it) beat me
85) i'm really psyched!
86) generic drug
87) brown-bag it
88) have been around
89) for the life of me
90) know the score
91) year in year out
92) on the wrong foot
P15:
93) on/from the wrong side of the tracks
94) The writing is on the wall.
95) nothing to write home about (P18)
96) be wrapped up in
97) be worth one's salt
98) be not worth the candle
99) at (the) worst
100) worlds apart
101) all the world to...
102) word for word
103) word-perfect, letter-perfect
P16:
104) Even a worm will turn.
105) be not long for this world...
106) not for the world
107) give someone the works
108) A bad workman (always) blames his tools.
109) work one's fingers to the bone
110) all in a/the day's work
111) Words fail me!
P17:
112) a one-hit wonder
113) A word to the wise.
114) go out of the window
115) a waste of space
116) wash one's hands of
117) wake up and smell the coffee
118) draw a veil over
119) value for money
P18:
120) two cents worth
121) When you were just a twinkle in your father's eye
122) Abandon oneself to something
123) Abase oneself
124) Abide by something
125) Back a/the wrong horse
126) Back away (from doing something)
127) Call forth/out something
128) Call in someone/something
129) Dab hand at (doing) something
130) Dabble in something
131) Had better
132) Haggle over/about something
133) I beg to differ.
134) I/You bet...
135) a Jack-in-the-box
136) Jack of all trades and master of none
137) Oblivious of/to something
138) Odd man/one out
139) a pack of lies
140) Pack someone off (to some place)
141) Qualify as someone/for something
142) Quarrel with one's bread and butter
143) Race against time/a race against time
144) Abide by the consequences
145) Able to/can take something
146) Abound in/with something
147) Back down
148) Back on to something
149) Call it a day
150) Call off something
151) Dally about
152) Dally with something
153) Dam up something
154) Hail-fellow-well-met with someone
155) have no bearing on something
156) blow something out of proportion
157) get through to someone
158) be wiped out
159) be stretched out
160) scratch the surface
161) get out of one's rut
162) music to one's ears
163) face the music
164) school of hard knocks
165) step on it
166) hit the sack
167) hit the road
168) hit the ceiling
169) blow one's own trumpet
p19:
170) harp, harp on (about)
171) drum...into...
172) bell the cat
173) play second fiddle
174) ring a bell
175) as sound as a bell/as fit as a fiddle
176) hit it off
177) on the fiddle
178) pay the piper
179) pay the piper and call the tune
P20:
180) thank one's lucky stars
181) go out of one's way to do sth
182) face lift, face-life, face-lifting
183) young and old (alike)
184) not get any younger
185) as yet
186) put years on sb
P21:
187) yellow-bellied
188) out of this world
189) get sb. wrong
190) keep the wolf from the door
191) wrong side out
192) before one's time
193) whistle for sth.
194) make one's voice heard
P22:
195) a war of words
196) go through the roof
197) as white as a sheet
198) wake the dead
199) one's own worst enemy
200) a stone's throw
201) to sb's advantage
202) a piece/slice of the action
203) at anchor
204) run amok
P23:
205) on/off the air
206) alive and kicking
207) look alive: hurry up; be brisk
208) all in all
209) be all up (with sb)
210) keep/stand/hold aloof from sb/sth
211) (not) come/go amiss
212) in the last/final analysis
213) have/know all the answers
214) keep up appearances
P24:
215) be up in arms
216) under favourable auspices
217) a piece of cake
218) hitchhike
219) have a bad hair day
P25:
220) up to par, up to scratch or snuff or speed or the mark
221) be on (upon), be on one, not be on
222) bring to the table
223) come to
224) so much the better
225) get out
P26:
226) for the life of (one), for my life
227) turn (over) in one's grave
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dear John Letter 绝交信：A letter, as to a serviceman, requesting a divorce or ending a personal relationship.
例句：
I received a dear John letter from my girl friend which broke my heart.
我收到女友来的绝交信，令我伤心欲绝。
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i just wonder, 男的给女的写的绝交信也是dear John Letter 吗?  
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这是有典故的
等改天我给你找找
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中国有个说法叫作“鸿雁传情”，指的是情侣通过写信互相表达爱意。但是如果收到的是“Dear John Letter”的话，那就大事不妙了。因为在西方，Dear John Letter指的是情人写给对方的绝交信。
“Dear John Letter”成为一个大众词汇是在第二次世界大战的时候。男人们应征入伍，留下了他们的妻子或女朋友。由于常年在外征战，他们的情人纷纷移情别恋，另寻他人。这样的绝交信往往以“Dear John”来称呼绝交对象。信的开头一般也是固定的：“我已经找到了我的另一半，但他不是你。所以我想我们还是分开的好。”
可以想象，在战场上收到远方爱人的绝交信对奋勇作战的战士来说是十分痛苦的，更为痛苦的是他们都被统一地称呼为“Dear John”。因为这样的信带给战士们的往往是刻骨铭心的伤感。于是“Dear John Letter”在战后广为流传。
有趣的是，“Dear John Letter”还引出了另外一个词组“That is all she wrote”。二战时在军队中有一个流传很广的笑话：一名士兵将女友的来信念给战友们听。“Dear John”，他刚一开口就停住了。战友们催他继续往下念，他说：“That is all she wrote.”（她就写了这么多，我被甩了！）
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摘自：http://www.zjcx.gov.cn/portal/main/SMXYY_52/article17214.html
That's all she wrote. 看上去是一句及其平常的句子，但它却是一个固定短语，意思是That's all there is. 或 That's the end of it.
关于它的来源，比较成形的理论是：这个短语最初出现在第二次世界大战期间，美国士兵在外征战，他们只能通过信件和家乡的亲友联络，他们和女朋友之间也只能通过写信来保持联系。其中有一种信被称为Dear John Letters，实际上就是绝交信。这类信件在战争中非常常见，据说有一位美国大兵（他可能压根就不叫John）收到了一封来信，信中除了称呼Dear John之外，只有一句话：It's over，剩下的是一片空白，这封信的含义直接明了。当其他士兵问起信中还有什么内容时，他说That's all she wrote. 于是，这句原本常见的句子逐渐变成了一个短语，有了固定的含义，也就是：“只有这些”“这就是结局”。
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此刻有谁在世上某处哭，无缘无故在世上哭，在哭我．
此刻有谁夜间在某处笑，无缘无故在夜间笑，在笑我．
此刻有谁在世上某处走，无缘无故在世上走，走向我．
此刻有谁在世上某处死，无缘无故在世上死，望着我．
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deep trouble
有麻烦
例句：
You’d better behave yourself or else you'll be in deep trouble when mom gets home.
你最好乖一点, 否则妈一回来你就惨了
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好想法，好创意，加精，加精！楼主要坚持下来啊！！！
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behave yourself ，这也是很好的用法，“行为规矩些”的意思。 
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die for
好得愿为之付出生命
例句
Jason is to die for. I'd do anything to go out with him.
杰森真棒, 我愿意做任何事来换得和他出去。
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