مرکز انجمنهای تخصصی

to bite the dust=مردن،مرحوم شدن!!

مثال:He has bitten the dust

Cook with gas

He is cooking with the gas

داره کارش رو درست انجام میده

مردن،مرحوم شدن!=to give up the ghost=to pop clogs=to kick the bucket

موخره: اين اصطلاحات نظير اصطلاحات پست قبلي اينجانب هستند.
مثال:she has given up the ghost
he has kicked the bucket
she has popped her clogs

a taste of your own medicine

رفتاری مثل رفتار طرف مقابل انجام دادن. (برای فهماندن اینکه کارش اشتباه بوده)

I saw you pushing my brother yesterday... maybe I should give you a taste of your own medicine!

milad1378 نوشته شده:مردن،مرحوم شدن!=to give up the ghost=to pop clogs=to kick the bucket

موخره: اين اصطلاحات نظير اصطلاحات پست قبلي اينجانب هستند.[to bite the dust=مردن،مرحوم شدن!!]
مثال:she has given up the ghost
he has kicked the bucket
she has popped her clogs

اين دو را نيز به مجموعه اصطلاحات مردن اضافه ميکنم:

go west

British idiom for "die, be killed" popularized during World War I
به معناي مردن و يا کشته شدن
[احتمال دارد از غروب کردن خورشيد هم الهام داشته باشد.]


Fall off one's perch

He's fallen of his perch

jump for joy=هيجان و خوشحالي زياد ناشي از يك رويداد

مثال:Ali jumped for joy when he heard that he had won first prize

[align=left]On cloud nine

هيجان و خوشحالي زياد ناشي از يك رويداد

A person who is on cloud nine is very happy because something wonderful has happened.

"When the boss announced my promotion, I was on cloud nine!" 

a shot in the dark

حدس زدن

How old do you think I am?
I have no idea.
come on. Take a shot in the dark

Five o'clock shadow

ته ریش

If a man hasn't shaved for a day or two, you say he has a five o'clock shadow

put/send the cat among the pigeons=عصباني كردن(نگران كردن) عده زيادي با گفتن چيزي يا انجام كاري

مثال: Ben put the cat among the pigeons by talking about the earthquake

All Greek

نامفهوم

Something is all Greek to you when it is so hard to understand that it is like reading a foreign (Greek) language


Did you understand what he just said?
No, it was all Greek to me

Equivalents for "all greek" in spanish is:

Esto me suena a chino, no me hables en chino
(It sounds Chinese to me, I don't speak in Chinese)

Me suena como griego (It sounds Greek to me),

Para mí que es griego (It's Greek to me)

Eso es griego para mí (That's Greek to me)

Es chino básico (It's basic chinese)

It is very intresting that you know in greek language the equivalent for this idiom is :
(Íne gia ména kinézika) - it's Chinese to me
or
(Íne alabournézika) - it's Arabic