[Hauser]

make a go of something 获得成功
My brother started a company some years ago but was never able to make a go of it.
Do you think he'll make a go of his new restaurant?
Gabriel and Beatrice never should have married. Though both of them tried to adapt to each other, their personalities were too strong. They just couldn't make a go of it.
Horace's got a lot of experience in sales. I'm sure he'll make a go of selling cars as well.

imbecile (低能的)笨蛋
If that imbecile makes one more mistake, he's fired!

[joanphan]

do sb 模仿某人
I thought you were doing me.

昨晚看friends学到的。

Hauser这个主题贴不错哦，以后我常来看看学学

[Hauser]

a coffin nail 一根烟
Buy me a pack of coffin nails, will you?
Can I bum a coffin nail from you?

have no room to talk 没有资格笑话别人
A: You should lose a little weight. B: You have no room to talk. You're heavier than I am.
When it comes to wasting money, they have little room to talk.
A: Ian is always complaining about reckless drivers. B: A lot of room he has to talk! Look at the way he's always racing around in that sports car of his! (反语)他还有脸说别人呢！

[wzt1100]

A friend in need.患难之交。I will support you for nerver.

[Hauser]

cramp someone's style 使人感到不舒畅，不自由
I didn't like the army. All those rules cramped my style.
I don't want to get married. Having a wife and children would cramp my style.

spread like wildfire (流言，消息)迅速传开
News of the cholera outbreak spread like wildfire.
When the President suddenly canceled all his appointments for the next three days, the rumor spread like wildfire that he had had a heart attack.

[Hauser]

come within an ace of doing something 差一点就要。。。
Although Keith was highly favored, he came within an ace of losing the match.
I came within an ace of being hit by a car.

make one's bundle 发大财
When I make my bundle, I think I'll retire to Florida.
Mr. Jones make his bundle in the foreign exchange market.

[Hauser]

Barking dogs seldom bite People who use a lot of angry words seldom take action.
Our neighbor's dog is very noisy, but I don't think it's dangerous. After all, barking dogs seldom bite.
Sure they're angry, but let them yell. After all, barking dogs seldom bite.

be no go 白费劲
If you want to buy one of the houses in that subdivision, I'm afraid it's no go. They've all been sold.
It's no go. No matter what I say, he refuses to lend us the money.
You can talk until you're blue in the face, but it's no go. You're too young to have a car.

[Hauser]

give someone an inch and he'll take a mile 得寸进尺
You have to be careful about showing kindness to Jake. Give him an inch and he'll take a mile.
Don't offer the other ***** any more concessions. Every time you give them an inch, they take a mile.

a coffin nail 一根烟
Buy me a pack of coffin nails, will you?
Can I bum a coffin nail from you?

[Hauser]

no room (in someplace) to swing a cat 几乎没有容身的地方
We can't have the ***** in my apartment. I don't have enough room to swing a cat.
I wish I had a bigger office. There isn't room in here to swing a cat.

sucker 容易上当的人
I refused to work for that kind of pay. I'm not that much of a sucker.
A: Why did you give him the money? B: I guess I'm just a sucker for a hard-luck story.

[Hauser]

give someone the willies 使人不安
I hope Edith calls soon to let us know whether she succeeded or not. All this waiting is giving me the willies.
I know there's no such thing as a haunted house, but still that old abandoned mansion in our neighborhood gives me the willies every time I pass by it.
I get the willies whenever I'm with someone who gestures with both hands while he is driving.

doctor the accounts 伪造账户
The defendant, Keith Bell, was found guilty of doctoring the accounts to cover up his brother's embezzlement.
It seems that some doctors doctor their accounts in order to avoid paying taxes.

[Hauser]

burn someone up 令人生气
That burns me up. After promising he would be here for sure, Lance just called me to say he couldn't make it.
What are you so burned up about? It was partly your fault.
That was a terrible thing for him to do. I get burned up every time I think about it.

one's dogs are barking 脚走累了
I hiked for twenty kilometers today. My dogs are really barking.

[Hauser]

a gob, tar, old salt 水兵，水手
When the war started, I joined the air force and my brother became a gob.
Being a tar in the old days was a rough life.
My uncle's an old salt. He's teaching us how to sail.

info 情报
I'll bring you all the info tomorrow.
I can't make a decision without a little more info.

[Hauser]

hit the nail on the head 抓住要点
Mr. Smith is good at discussing generalities, but when it comes to specifics he never quite hits the nail on the head.
Malcolm hit the nail right on the head when he said that our biggest weakness is in product development.

rule the roost 掌权
The ********** in that country is so fragmented that it's difficult to know who actually rules the roost.
A clever wife rules the roost without her husband's ever being aware of it.

[Hauser]

suds 泡，啤酒
The maid spilled a bucket of soapy water and the kitchen floor was covered with suds.
We'll need a lot of suds for the ***** tonight.


get one's second wind 恢复元气
The first hour of mountain climbing is always the hardest. But don't worry, in a little while you'll begin to get your second wind.
Just when everyone thought the speaker was about to conclude his talk, he seemed to get his second wind and continued to speak for almost another hour.

[Hauser]

have a nodding acquaintance 点头之交，不大熟悉
I don't know her very well. We have only a nodding acquaintance.
I have a nodding acquaintance with him because we go to the same class, but I don't know him well enough to introduce you.
Even after ten years in America she appears to have little more than a nodding acquaintance with English.

put something on the back burner (暂时)束之高阁，继续研究
He says he has put all his other projects on the back burner for a while until he finishes writing his new novel.
Inflation has forced us to put our plans to buy a new house on the back burner for the time being.
We haven't given up the project yet. It's still on the back burner.