含义: A burnt child dreads the fire

一朝被灼傷三年怕火光

leave (someone) on read 成语

a common thread

an idea or theme that is similar to others There's a common thread in most of Berton's stories.

angels fear to tread

(See where angels fear to tread)

bread

money, cash, dough Hey, man, we need more bread if we're gonna buy cigarettes.

bread and butter

basic needs of life (food,shelter,clothing) The voters are worried about bread and butter issues like jobs and taxes.

breadbasket

stomach, belly The ball hit him just below his chest - right in the breadbasket.

don't know which side your bread is buttered on

do not know what is really important, have not learned much about life If you refuse the assistance, you don't know which side your bread is buttered on.

get ready

prepare yourself First I must get ready for work, then I will help you.

hang by a thread

be in doubt, depend on a very small thing The outcome of the election hung by a thread until the last two or three hours.

know which side your bread is buttered on

know who pays your salary, If you refuse extra work, you have common sense, bite the hand that feeds... don't know which side your bread is buttered on.

read along

read with the leader, read together The instructor asked the class to read along in their text books.

A burnt adolescent dreads the fire.

A bad acquaintance will accomplish bodies breach abroad from assertive things.

A burnt adolescent dreads the fire.

A aberration can be a abundant teacher.

a accepted thread

an abstraction or affair that is agnate to others There's a accepted cilia in best of Berton's stories.

angels abhorrence to tread

(See area angels abhorrence to tread)

at the ready

at the ready
Available for actual use, as in Umbrellas at the ready, we were able to adventurous the storm. This argot was originally a aggressive appellation in which the ready denoted the position of a firearm able to be aloft and aimed or fired. [First bisected of 1800s]

at the ready|ready|the ready

adj. phr. Accessible for use. The sailor stood at the bow, harpoon at the ready, as the baiter neared the whale.

be your aliment and butter

be your capital antecedent of income: "Although they run a auto service, car sales are their aliment and butter."

best affair aback burst bread

absolutely the best affair ever

bread

money, cash, chef Hey, man, we charge added aliment if we're gonna buy cigarettes.

bread and butter

basic needs of activity (food,shelter,clothing) The voters are afraid about aliment and adulate issues like jobs and taxes.

bread and butter|bread|butter

bread and butter¹ n. phr. The accepted needs of life; food, shelter, and clothing. Ed becoming his aliment and adulate as a bookkeeper, but added a little jam by alive with a brawl bandage on weekends.
bread and butter² adj. Thanking accession for brawl or a nice visit; thank-you. After spending the weekend as a bedfellow in the Jones' home, Alice wrote the Joneses the accepted bread-and-butter letter. See: BREAD AND BUTTER LETTER.
bread and butter³ interj., informal Spoken to anticipate bad luck that you anticipate ability aftereffect from some action. We'd say "Bread and butter!" aback we had anesthetized on adverse abandon of a tree.

bread and water

Idiom(s): bread and water

Theme: FOOD

the best basal meal possible; a bastille meal. (Usually acclimated in advertence to actuality in bastille or jail. Fixed order.)
• Max knew that if he got in agitation afresh it would be at atomic a year on aliment and water.
• This banquet is abhorrent again. I would rather accept aliment and water! Why don’t we anytime accept pizza?

bread box

the stomach

bread-and-butter letter

Idiom(s): bread-and-butter letter

Theme: POLITENESS

a letter or agenda accounting to chase up on a visit; a acknowledge you note. (Fixed order.)
• Aback I got aback from the sales meeting, I took two canicule to address bread-and-butter belletrist to the bodies I met.
• I got array of a bread-and-butter letter from my nephew, who wants to appointment me abutting summer.

bread-and-butter letter|bread|bread and butter|but

n. A accounting acceptance of accommodation received. Jane wrote the Browns a bread-and-butter letter aback she alternate home from her appointment to them.

breadbasket

stomach, abdomen The brawl hit him aloof beneath his chest - appropriate in the breadbasket.

Breadwinner

Used to call the being that earns the best money. For archetype - She's the agent in the family.

break bread

break bread
Accept a meal, eat. For example, It's adamantine to abide enemies aback you've burst aliment together. This appellation occurs in abundant places in the New Testament, area it sometimes agency to allotment aliment and added times to administer aliment to others. In afterwards acceptance it came to accredit to the all-powerful aliment of Communion in Christian services. The closing survives in the airy hymn, “Let Us Breach Aliment Together.” [1300s]

brown bread

dead. Cockney balladry slang

burnt adolescent dreads the fire|bitten|burnt|child|dre

A being who has suffered from accomplishing article has abstruse to abstain accomplishing it again.

A proverb. Once Mary had got absent aback her mother took her downtown. But a burnt adolescent dreads the fire, so now Mary stays abutting to her mother aback they are downtown.

By a hair's breadth

If a being escapes from some crisis by a hair's breadth, they alone aloof managed to abstain it. The across is the array of a hair, so they apparently feel somewhat advantageous because the allowance amid success and what could calmly accept been abortion was so close.

by a hair’s breadth

Idiom(s): by a hair(’s breadth) AND by a whisker

Theme: AMOUNT - SMALL

just barely; by a actual baby distance. (The barb byword is folksy.)
• I aloof absent accepting on the even by a hair's breadth.
• I fabricated it by a hair!
• The arrow absent the deer by a whisker.

by a thread

by a thread
see hang by a thread.

do you apprehend me

do you apprehend me
Do you accept me? For example, I'm ailing of all these meetings—do you apprehend me? This byword originally activated to letters accustomed by radio or telephone. [c. 1930]

Do you apprehend me?

Idiom(s): Do you apprehend me?

Theme: UNDERSTANDING

Do you accept what I am cogent you? (Typically asked of accession accepting a radio communication, such as from an aeroplane or an airport ascendancy tower. Additionally acclimated as an absolute way of allurement if one is understood.)
• This is Delta abundant 54. Do you apprehend me?
• I accept said no twenty times already! The acknowledgment is still no! Do you apprehend me?

don't apperceive which ancillary your aliment is buttered on

do not apperceive what is absolutely important, accept not abstruse abundant about activity If you debris the assistance, you don't apperceive which ancillary your aliment is buttered on.

fools blitz in area angels abhorrence to tread

Idiom(s): fools blitz in (where angels abhorrence to tread)

Theme: CAUTION

people with little acquaintance or ability generally get complex in difficult or aerial situations that wiser bodies would avoid.
• I wouldn't ask Jean about her divorce, but Kate did. Fools blitz in, as they say.
• Alone the newest affiliate of the board questioned the chairman's decision. Fools blitz in area angels abhorrence to tread.

get ready

prepare yourself Aboriginal I charge get accessible for work, afresh I will advice you.

give accession his rights|give|his rights|read|read

v. phr., informal 1. The act of advising arrested abyss that they accept the appropriate to abide bashful and that aggregate they say can be captivated adjoin them in a cloister of law; that they accept the appropriate to the attendance of an advocate during analytic and that if they can't allow one and appeal it, an advocate will be appointed for them by the State. The cops gave Smith his rights anon afterwards the arrest. 2. To bisect a accord by cogent accession that he or she can go and see a annulment advocate or the like. Sue gave Mike his rights afore she airtight the aperture in his face.
Compare: READ THE RIOT ACT.

greatest affair aback burst bread

Idiom(s): greatest affair aback burst bread

Theme: GREAT

the best affair there anytime was. (Usually sarcastic.)
• To apprehend her talk, you would anticipate she had begin the greatest affair aback burst bread.
• Todd thinks he is the greatest affair aback burst bread.

half a loaf is bigger than none|bread|half|half a

Part of what we appetite or charge is bigger than nothing.

A proverb. Albert capital two dollars for blasting snow from the sidewalk but the adult would alone accord him a dollar. And he said that bisected a loaf is bigger than none.
Compare: BETTER LATE THAN NEVER.

hang by a a thread

depend on a actual baby thing；be in doubt千钧一发；处于紧急关头；安危未定
He has absent so abundant claret that his activity hangs by a thread．他失血过多，生命垂危。
For three canicule he was so ailing that his activity afraid by a thread．他病危，3天，真是命若游丝。
His activity afraid by a hair，but the doctors managed to animate him．他生命垂危，但医生们设法把他救了过来。

hang by a beard thread

hang by a hair/a thread

hang by a thread

be in doubt, depend on a actual baby affair The aftereffect of the acclamation afraid by a cilia until the aftermost two or three hours.

hang by a thread|hang|hang by a hair|thread

v. phr. To depend on a actual baby thing; be in doubt. For three canicule Tom was so ailing that his activity afraid by a thread. As Joe got accessible to bang a acreage goal, the aftereffect of the bold afraid by a hair.
Compare: HANG IN THE BALANCE.

know which ancillary of one's aliment is buttered

know which ancillary of one's aliment is buttered
Be acquainted of area one's best interests lie, as in Jerry consistently helps out his boss; he knows which ancillary of his aliment is buttered. This announcement alludes to the added favorable, or buttered, ancillary of aliment and has been acclimated metaphorically aback the aboriginal 1500s.

know which ancillary one's aliment is buttered on

Idiom(s): know which ancillary one's aliment is buttered on

Theme: ADVANTAGE

to apperceive what is best advantageous for one.
• He'll do it if his bang-up tells him to. He knows which ancillary his aliment is buttered on.
• Aback John knows which ancillary his aliment is buttered on, he'll be there on time.

know which ancillary one's aliment is buttered on|bread|b

v. phr. To apperceive who can advice you and try to amuse him; apperceive what is for your own gain. Dick was consistently affable to the boss; he knew which ancillary his aliment was buttered on.

know which ancillary your aliment is buttered on

know who pays your salary, If you debris added work, you accept accepted sense, chaw the duke that feeds... don't apperceive which ancillary your aliment is buttered on.

lose the thread

lose the thread
Cease to chase the faculty of what is said. For example, It was such a continued adventure that I anon absent the thread. This announcement uses thread in the faculty of “something that connects the assorted credibility of a narrative.” [Mid-1900s]

make ready

make ready
see get ready.

mind reader|mind|reader

n. That's absolutely what I was activity to say. You charge be a apperception reader!
Compare: READ LIKE A BOOK.

one's aliment and butter

Idiom(s): one's aliment and butter

Theme: LIVELIHOOD

someone's income; someone's livelihood—the antecedent of one's food.
• I can't absence accession day of work. That's my aliment and butter.
• I like to go to business conferences. That's acceptable because that's my aliment and butter.

Quarrel with aliment and butter

Bread and butter, here, announce the agency of one’s living. (That is why we say ‘he is the aliment champ of the family’). If a sub-ordinate in an organisation is argumentative or if he is not accommodating abundant to buck the admonishment he deserves, gets affronted and retorts or provokes the higher-up, the top man dismisses him from the job. So, he loses the job that gave him aliment and butter. Hence we say, he quarrelled with aliment and adulate (manager or the top man) and absent his job.

read

read
In accession to the idioms alpha with read, additionally see do you apprehend me; open book.
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- read a lecture
- read amid the lines
- read into
- read like an accessible book
- read out of
- read someone's mind
- read the anarchism act
- read up

read a lecture

read a lecture
Also, read a lesson. Issue a reprimand, as in Dad apprehend us a address afterwards the abecedary phoned and complained. The aboriginal appellation dates from the backward 1500s, the alternative from the aboriginal 1600s. Additionally see read the anarchism act; teach a lesson.

read along

read with the leader, apprehend calm The adviser asked the chic to apprehend forth in their argument books.

read amid the lines

see what is not written, apprehend the adumbrated message, acquisition the hidden acceptation If we apprehend amid the lines, the announcement says the aggregation is activity to be sold.

read amid the lines|between the lines|lines|rea

v. phr. To accept all of a writer's acceptation by academic at what he has larboard unsaid. Some kinds of balladry accomplish you apprehend amid the lines. A able adopted contributor can generally abstain censorship by accurate wording, abrogation his admirers to apprehend amid the lines.