新闻常用短语词汇表
新闻常用短语词汇表
strike while the iron is hot
long haulwalk and chew gumcut cornersgive someone the green lighthave someone's finger in the piedouble-checkwin-wincut and driedbusiness is businesscutting edgeheadhuntin the redparachuteget the hang oflearn the ropesnitty-grittyon the blockcrack down onworth one's saltcall it a dayclinchnot by a long shotget the axein black and whitego out of businesstalk shopcommon practiceput on holdcorner the markethit the ground runningpick up steamtight budgeton cloud nineblow up in someone's facethat makes two of uslive from hand to mouthone good turn deserves anotherfirst come first servedsix of one and half a dozen of the otherit takes two to tangomake ends meetcatch-22one's number is upsafety in numbersnumber crunchernineteen to the dozenthrow in the toweltake the bull by the hornsin dribs and drabsgo Dutchof the first waterfifth wheelout of the gateforty winksskin in the gameon one's upperssuit every pocketsting someone for somethingon the dotdown paymentscrimp and savemiss the boatpay over the oddsfall on one's swordthrow good money after badput one's money where one's mouth islive in clovernot for love or moneymoney for jammoney burns a hole in one's pocketlook like a million dollarslive beyond one's meansdip intoitchy palmbreadlinehit pay dirtcome a long wayrake infeather one's nestfeed the kittythe other side of the coinout of the picturemoney to burnon second thoughtill-gottenbet one's bottom dollarmake a go offall from gracerob Peter to pay Paulback to square onea bone of contentionnot hold a candle tofirst basenest eggget off the groundtelephone boothday in day outthe other daymeasure upfrom hand to mouthcross offtalk overtake note ofconstruction sitebetter offwin outlive up tobreak the icesucceed income into effectstand a chancewell offknock offborder oncatch onin light ofso to speakby virtue ofby and largein the blackbrush asidein the leastin proportion toin excess ofand the likeblack outin all directionsblack and bluein accordance withrun offback and forthat the mercy ofat regular intervalsat any rateand so forthgive rise toput forwarda clean slateas a rule of thumba hard nut to crackmortality rateat this ratecaution againstlet oneself in forpay upwithout so much asvouch forwith regard toforeign tradewind upa host ofreconcile toon no accounton a large scaledrown outdraw a conclusionnone toonone the lessnever mindevadebranch outmore often than notwork like a charmbuy outheads will rollderive frommay as wellall night longmany alive offill at easecome what mayjet lagcall offin due coursecity hallin the long runsee eye to eyelearn something by heartat someone's heelsthink of asat all eventsgo in forgive offcarbon dioxideget atsee offupside downa case in pointpreserve fromhelp oneself toon and offwrap uppay offwithout failwithout numberface up toexcept forever sinceall the year roundon endon earthon creditup in armsdwell onat one time or anotherdraw lotsdrag onget paidno other thancome aroundraw materialto dateall aboutmuch lesscome to lifeto the fullto the pointconcern withto the contraryfront runnerlost onmake outcome of agelimber upcome offon the houseby and bybuzz offbreak downset asideblow someone's topbeyond questionbehind schedulebear in mindbe remarkable forrun downbe all earsback upin a big wayat the latestat someone's disposalat first sightadequate forat a lossas followscut out foranswer forgo over
