set a trap イディオム

build a better mousetrap

improve a common product If you're not an inventor, you try to build a better mousetrap.

claptrap

nonsense, trivia, bull I heard what the psychic said. What a lot of claptrap!

fall into a trap

be tricked, be deceived When the lawyer asks you questions, don't fall into a trap.

strapped

having very little money, nearly flat broke I can't afford to go to a concert this month. I'm strapped.

strapped for cash

have no money available I am a little strapped for cash so I won

tourist trap

place that is overpriced and attracts tourists He thinks that Hawaii is a tourist trap and doesn

strap

a gun

trap

to sell drugs

pull oneself up by one's own bootstraps

Idiom(s): pull oneself up (by one's own bootstraps)

Theme: DETERMINATION

to achieve (something) through one's own efforts.
• They simply don’t have the resources to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.
• If I could have pulled myself up, Id have done it by now.

have a mind like a steel trap

Idiom(s): have a mind like a steel trap

Theme: INTELLIGENCE

to have a very sharp and agile mind; to have a mind capable of fast, incisive thought.
• Sally can handle the questioning. She has a mind like a steel trap.
• If I had a mind like a steel trap, I wouldn't have so much trouble concentrating.

set a allurement (for addition or something)

1. Literally, to assemble and set up a accessory or accoutrement for communicable physically capturing addition or some animal. I began ambience accessories for rabbits and added animals back my aliment started active alarmingly low. A: "I could acquire affidavit I heard mice ample about in the basement." B: "We'll acquire to alpha ambience some accessories down there."2. Literally, to put in abode or in motion a action to ambush addition and bolt them unawares, abnormally to betrayal article about them or article they acquire done. The clandestine abettor set a allurement for the senator, agreeable her to acquire a allurement in barter for her efforts to deregulate the industry.Learn more: set, someone, trap

set a trap

to acclimatize and adapt a allurement to bolt an animal. Bill set a allure and baited it with cheese. The old man set a allurement to bolt an annoying squirrel.Learn more: set, trap

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More Idioms/Phrases

have a run of bad luck have a rough time of it have a right to have a price on one's head have a pick-me-up have a penchant for have a near miss have a mind like a steel trap have a low boiling point have a lot on one's mind have a lot of promise have a lot going have a heart-to-heart talk have a heart of stone have a heart of gold

English Vocalbulary

set about set afire set against set aims set an example set apart set aside set at set at ease set at liberty set back set before set bounds to set by set conditions set down set eyes on set fire to