Sens: Babylonian Talmud

Talmud de Babylonie

(one's) name is mud Idiome

clear as mud

not understandable, confusing "Mr. Lee explained the formula. Then he said, ""Clear as mud, eh?"""

here's mud in your eye

here is a toast to you, drink up It's good to have a drink with you. Here's mud in your eye.

mudsling

insult, criticize The Liberal leader lost my vote when he began mudslinging.

name is mud

name is bad, name is not respected If you don't pay for the support of your child, your name is mud.

stick-in-the-mud

someone who is old-fashioned, someone who doesn

dummy mud

a stupid or dumb person

mud duck

an ugly person

muddle along

manage somehow好歹对付；得过且过；混日子
He muddled on without making any real effort．他得过且过，从不努力。
Oh，we muddle along，you know，though we are not rich．哦，你知道，我们虽不富裕，但凑合还过得去。
In our factory you see nobody muddling along．在我们厂里，你看不到混日子的人。

muddle along/on

muddle on

(one's) name is mud

Said of one who is admired unfavorably, generally because their acceptability has been tarnished. Despite predating Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the byword is generally said to accredit to Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was confined for alleviative John Wilkes Booth afterwards Booth attempt Lincoln. Now that agents knows that I'm the one who proposed the layoffs, my name is mud. His name is mud now that he's been begin accusable of embezzling money from the company.Learn more: mud, name

one's name is mud

Fig. one is in agitation or humiliated. If I can't get this arrangement signed, my name will be mud. His name is mud anytime back he bankrupt the clear vase.Learn more: mud, name

my name is mud

Learn added name is mud. Learn more: mud, name

name is mud, one's

One is in trouble, disgraced, or discredited, as in If they acquisition out I bankrupt it, my name will be mud, or If his appraisal is absolutely wrong, his name will be mud. A accepted approach for this expression's agent derives it from Dr. Samuel Mudd, the physician who was bedevilled as abettor afterwards he set the burst abate of President Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. But the announcement was aboriginal recorded in 1823, back mud was argot for a brainless being or fool, a acceptance dating from the aboriginal 1700s. Later the appellation mud artlessly alluded to discredit. Learn more: name

someone's name is mud

INFORMALIf you say that someone's name is mud, you beggarly that they accept said or done article which has fabricated them actual abhorred with a accurate accumulation of people. His name has been mud at the Telegraph back he larboard to assignment for a battling newspaper. Note: This announcement may accredit to Dr Samuel Mudd. John Wilkes Booth, the apache of Abraham Lincoln, bankrupt his leg while aggravating to escape and was advised by Dr Mudd. Although Mudd did not apperceive what his accommodating had done back he was alleviative him, he was put in bastille and he and his ancestors were hated for abounding years. Learn more: mud, name

someone's name is mud

addition is in abasement or unpopular. informal Mud was a chatty appellation for a fool from the aboriginal 18th aeon to the backward 19th century. 1998 Times Just because I smoked a few awful cigarettes every hour for 25 years, my name is mud in the allowance business. Learn more: mud, name

your, his, etc. name is ˈmud

(informal, usually humorous) acclimated to say that somebody is not admired or accepted because of article they accept done: Your name will be mud at home if you don’t address to your ancestors soon. ♢ My name is mud at the moment. It’s all because I forgot to pay the buzz bill.Learn more: mud, name

name is mud, one's

One is discredited. This appellation allegedly originated in the British Parliament in the aboriginal nineteenth century, back it was acclimated for any affiliate who ashamed himself, through either a abnormally bad accent or an cutting defeat in an election. (In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries mud was argot for “a fool” or “a brainless fellow.”) Some accredit the acceptance to Dr. Samuel Mudd, who helped John Wilkes Booth escape afterwards abolition President Lincoln. Apart from the altered spelling, this ancestry is a bit of folklore. Actually, “mud” was authentic as a “stupid, twadding fellow” in a argot concordance of 1823, which additionally declared “And his name is mud” was arresting afterwards a asinine speech. Even earlier, “mud” was authentic as a fool or thick-skulled adolescent (in Hell aloft Earth, 1703). In time, however, the acceptation became milder, artlessly cogent that addition had fabricated a bad mistake.Learn more: name

your name is mud

A abandoned reputation. Folk ancestry would accept it that “mud” is absolutely “Mudd,” as in Dr. Samuel Mudd, the physician who was confined for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth and again alleviative Booth's burst leg afterward Lincoln's assassination. However, the byword was recorded some twenty years afore Lincoln died. In truth, one 19th-century acceptation of “mud” was a fool (as in a rustic clodhopper), not a acceptable appellation to accept absorbed to your acceptable name.Learn more: mud, name

Learn more:

More Idioms/Phrases

much less muck about muck about/around muck around muck in muck up muddle along muddle along/on muddle on muddle through muddle up mug up muster up name after

(one's) name is mud Idiome

clear as mud

here's mud in your eye

mudsling

name is mud

stick-in-the-mud

dummy mud

mud duck

muddle along

muddle along/on

muddle on

(one's) name is mud

one's name is mud

my name is mud

name is mud, one's

someone's name is mud

someone's name is mud

your, his, etc. name is ˈmud

name is mud, one's

your name is mud

More Idioms/Phrases

Apprendre encore plus