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Y8 Shakespeare idioms

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  • Take the wind out of someone's sails
    To make someone feel less confident or less enthusiastic about something.
  • Elephant in the room
    to descirbe an obvious problem or difficult situation that people do not want to discuss.
  • waste not, want not
    勤俭节约，吃穿不缺。
  • Call it a day
    Stop working on something
  • Rain cats and dogs
    Raining heavily
  • Shoo-in
    稳操胜券的人
  • A piece of cake
    Easy
  • No sweat
    没问题
  • Break a leg
    祝好运（尤其在演出前）
  • Pull the wool over someone's eyes
    to deceive someone, often by hiding the truth.
  • go bananas
    表示某人发疯、情绪不稳定的状态
  • Jargon
    行话
  • Actions speak louder than words
    事实胜于雄
  • a cake walk
    a easy thing
  • Fly off the handle
    To suddenly become very angry or lose one's temper.
  • Close-knit
    紧密相连
  • live it up
    狂欢一场
  • Hit the sack
    去睡觉
  • Eat no fish
    Honest and trustworthy
  • slip your mind
    used to say you forgot to do sth
  • cat
    有钱有势的人
  • scapegoat
    a person who is blamed for sth that somebody else has done or for some failure
  • A blessing in disguise
    因祸得福
  • Bite the bullet
    To get something over with because it is inevitable
  • be in the air
    something gonna happen in the future
  • pull your weight
    to do your share of the work; to contribute your share of effort
  • go bananas
    go crazy
  • See the light
    finding out the truth
  • Riches have wings.
    富贵无常
  • be on the ball
    to be thinking well and reacting quickly
  • Ring a bell
    看上去或听起来很熟悉
  • dog watch
    working in the night
  • Clear the air
    relieve the misunderstanding
  • a bad egg
    缺乏道德的人
  • Hit the books
    用功学习
  • Nip it in the bud
    防患于未然
  • Touch wood
    但愿走好运
  • Feeling blue
    心情压抑
  • Be on nine cloud
    Very happy
  • Kick the can down the road
    To delay or postpone a decision or action, often in a way that makes it someone else's problem in the future.
  • Diamonds cut diamonds
    旗鼓相当
  • A dime a dozen
    Something common
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