Significado: abridges 
a·bridge || ə'brɪdʒ v. abreviar, abstraer, compendiar, condensar, contraer; limitar, reducir, acortar
ges Idioma
a token gesture
burn your bridges
drop charges
for ages
freeze wages
go through changes
press charges
token gesture
bridges
hinges
off the hinges
He who laughs last, laughs longest
Idiom(s): He who laughs last, laughs longest. AND He laughs best who laughs lastTheme: LAUGHTER
A proverb meaning that whoever succeeds in making the last move or pulling the last trick has the most enjoyment.
• Bill had pulled many silly tricks on Tom. Finally Tom pulled a very funny trick on Bill and said, "He who laughs last, laughs longest."
• Bill pulled another, even bigger, trick on Tom and said, laughing, "He laughs best who laughs last."
go through the changes
Idiom(s): go through the changesTheme: TROUBLE
to experience a rough period in one's life. (Slang.)
• Sally's pretty upset. She's really going through the changes.
• Most teenagers spend their time going through the changes.
burn one's bridges in front of one
Idiom(s): burn one's bridges in front of oneTheme: LIMITATION
to create future problems for oneself.
• I made a mistake again. I always seem to burn my bridges in front of me.
• I accidently insulted a math teacher whom I will have to take a course from next semester. I am burning my bridges in front of me.
burn one's bridges behind one
Idiom(s): burn one's bridges (behind one)Theme: LIMITATION
to make decisions that cannot be changed in the future.
• If you drop out of school now, you'll be burning your bridges behind you.
• You're too young to burn your bridges that way.
apples and oranges
Idiom(s): apples and orangesTheme: DIFFERENCE
a pair of words representing two entities that are not similar. (Fixed order.)
• You can't talk about Fred and Ted in the same breath! They're apples and oranges.
• Talking about her current book and her previous best-seller is like comparing apples and oranges.
Rough around the edges
If someone is rough around the edges, they haven't mastered something, though they show promise.Rough edges
If something has rough edges, it is still not a finished product and not all of a uniform standard.burn one's bridges|boat|boats|bridge|bridges|burn|
v. phr. To make a decision that you cannot change; remove or destroy all the ways you can get back out of a place you have got into on purpose; leave yourself no way to escape a position. Bob was a good wrestler but a poor boxer. He burned his boats by letting Mickey choose how they would fight. When Dorothy became a nun, she burned her bridges behind her.going through changes|changes|go|going
v. phr., slang, informal To be in trouble, to have difficulties, to be trapped in unfavorable circumstances. "What's the matter with Joe?"
"He's going through changes."law of averages|averages|law
n. phr. The idea that you can't win all the time or lose all the time. The Celtics have won 10 games in a row but the law of averages will catch up with them soon.ring the changes|change|changes|ring
v. phr. To say or do the same thing in different ways; repeat the same idea in many ways. David wanted a new bicycle and he kept ringing the changes on it all day until his parents got angry at him. A smart girl saves money on clothes by learning to ring the changes on a few dresses and clothes.stagestruck
adj. Desirous of becoming an actor or actress; enamored of the acting profession. Milly is so stagestruck that she waits for actresses at the stage door after each performance to get their signatures.burn one's bridges
burn one's bridgesAlso, burn one's boats. Commit oneself to an irreversible course. For example, Denouncing one's boss in a written resignation means one has burned one's bridges, or Turning down one job before you have another amounts to burning your boats. Both versions of this idiom allude to ancient military tactics, when troops would cross a body of water and then burn the bridge or boats they had used both to prevent retreat and to foil a pursuing enemy. [Late 1800s] Also see cross the Rubicon.
law of averages
law of averagesThe idea that probability will influence all occurrences in the long term, that one will neither win nor lose all of the time. For example, If it rains every day this week, by the law of averages we're bound to get a sunny day soon. This colloquial term is a popular interpretation of a statistical principle, Bernoulli's theorem, formulated in the late 1600s.
oranges
orangessee apples and oranges.
ring the changes
ring the changesKeep varying how one performs an action or says something, as in She went on and on, ringing the changes on the joy of computers. This expression alludes to the art of change-ringing, where a series of church bells are rung in as many sequences, or changes, as possible. [Early 1600s]
wages of sin, the
wages of sin, theThe results or consequences of evildoing, as in She ate all of the strawberries and ended up with a terrible stomachache—the wages of sin, no doubt. This expression comes from the New Testament, where Paul writes to the Romans (6:23): “The wages of sin is death.” Today it is often used more lightly, as in the example.
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