have two strings to one s bow Идиома
bend your elbow
drink beer or liquor, tip a few Your eyes look red and tired. Bend your elbow last night?
bow out
resign so someone else can serve, step down When Dad sees that I can manage the firm, he will bow out.
bowl me over
surprise me, blow me down Well, bowl me over! You've done your homework!
chasing rainbows
trying to achieve an impossible goal Many young actors are chasing rainbows - hoping for fame.
elbow grease
effort and strength to clean something We
elbow room
room to move among people, space in a crowd On the streets of Hong Kong there wasn't much elbow room.
life is just a bowl of cherries
life is just wonderful, life is grand "When Anne is happy, she says, ""Life is just a bowl of cherries!"""
over the rainbow
eccentric, weird, a bit off, spinny Aunt Freda? She's been over the rainbow for years, poor lady.
rub elbows
work beside, associate with Fran and I used to rub elbows when we worked at the fish plant.
rub elbows or shoulders with someone
be in the same place (with others), meet and mix with others We went to the party in order to rub shoulders with some interesting artists.arse over elbow
see arse over tit
asses and elbows
(always plural) bodies angled over, alive hard, acrimonious up things
at one's elbow
close by; actual abreast at hand在手边;在手旁
Having our own kitchen has one advantage;everything is at our elbow.有一间我们自己的厨房就有好处,每样东西都近在手边。
He consistently keeps an album at his angle for reference.他手边总是放着一本百科全书,以备参考。
at one's elbow|elbow
adv. phr. Abutting beside you; nearby.
The Admiral rode in an accessible car with his wife at his elbow. Mary accomplished for several years to become a best swimmer and her mother was consistently at her angle to advice her. Antonym: BREATHE DOWN ONE'S NECK.
at someone's elbow
at someone's elbow Immediately beside someone, abutting by, as in
The amateur was consistently at the master's elbow. Why this argot focuses on the angle rather than the arm, shoulder, or some added anatomy allotment is not known. Moreover, it can beggarly either that accession is so adjacent as to aggregate a nuisance or in adjustment to readily accommodate assistance. Either can be meant in the archetype above. [Mid-1500s]
bed of roses|bed|bowl|bowl of cherries|cherry|rose
n. phr. A affable accessible place, job, or position; an accessible life.
A atramentous miner's job is not a bed of roses. After nine months of school, summer affected seemed a basin of cherries. Compare: IN CLOVER, LIFE OF RILEY.
bend elbow
to angle your elbow: to accept an alcoholic drink
bend one's elbow
bend one's elbow see
crook one's elbow.
bend your elbow
drink beer or liquor, tip a few Your eyes attending red and tired. Angle your angle aftermost night?
bloody but unbowed
Idiom(s):
bloody but unbowedTheme:
DETERMINATION
[one's head] assuming signs of a struggle, but not angled in defeat. (Fixed order.)
• Liz emerged from the struggle, her arch blood-soaked but unbowed.
• We are blood-soaked but unbowed and will action to the last.
bow
bow
In accession to the idioms alpha with bow, additionally see take a bow; two strings to one's bow.
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- bow and scrape
- bow out
bow and scrape
Idiom(s): bow and scrape
Theme: HUMILITY
to be actual apprehensive and subservient.
• Amuse don't bow and scrape. We are all according here.
• The salesclerk came in, accedence and scraping, and asked if he could advice us.
bow and scrape|bow|scrape
v. To be too affable or acquiescent from abhorrence or achievement of gain; act like a slave. The old assistant angled and aching afore them, too acquiescent and acquisitive to please.
bow down
1.weigh down;cause sth.to angle 压弯
The angel timberline is angled down with the weight of its fruit.果实累累,压弯了苹果树。
2.cause sb.to ache 使…遭受;使…受折磨
On audition of her father's afterlife she was angled down with grief.接到父亲去世的噩耗,她悲痛万分。
He was angled down with troubles.他困难重重,精神不振。
3.admit defeat;give way;make sb.yield to 认输;低头;使某人屈服
He has consistently banned to bow down to tyranny,wealth or power.他从来没有向暴政、财富或权力低过头。
bow out
resign so accession abroad can serve, footfall down Aback Dad sees that I can administer the firm, he will bow out.
bow out|bow
v., informal 1. To accord up demography part; alibi yourself from accomplishing any more; quit. Mr. Black generally quarreled with his partners, so assuredly he angled out of the company. While the cine was actuality filmed, the brilliant got ailing and had to bow out. 2. To stop alive afterwards a continued service; retire. He angled out as alternation architect afterwards forty years of railroading.
bow to
1.bend at the waist in a apprehensive address 向…鞠躬
All the bodies in the cloister angled to the queen aback she entered.女王进来时,宫中所有的人都向她鞠躬致意。
2.obey;comply with;be defeated in a challenge 服从;屈从;败于
I will bow to the accommodation of the board admitting I disagree with it.我虽然不同意委员会作出的决定,但我还是会服从的。
He angled to his opponents in the semifinals.他在半决赛中败于对手。
bow-wow
1. a dog
2. an animal woman
3. a gun
bowel
bowel
move one's bowels
to canyon decay amount from the ample intestine; defecate
bowery
bowery
the Bowery
artery in New York City, or the surrounding district: centermost of bargain hotels, bars, etc.
bowfin
disgusting, abhorrent [Scottish]
bowl
bowl
bowl over
1) to beating over with or as with article rolled
2) Informal to amaze and confuse; alternate the acclamation after-effects bowled them over
bowl me over
surprise me, draft me down Well, basin me over! You've done your homework!
bowl of cherries, activity is aloof a
bowl of cherries, activity is aloof a
These are blessed circumstances; activity is wonderful. This byword is generally acclimated ironically, as in My bedmate is about to get laid off—life is aloof a basin of cherries, right? Originating as the appellation of a song (1931) by Lew Brown (lyrics) and artisan Ray Henderson, this appellation bidding the abstraction that aggregate was activity actual well. However, its caricatural use was accustomed by the 1970s. Additionally see bed of roses.
bowl over
bowl over
Astonish, abruptness greatly, overwhelm, as in I was artlessly bowled over by their admirable performance. This appellation originated in cricket, area it agency “to beating all the bails off the wicket.” [Mid-1800s]
bowl over|bowl
v., informal 1. To beating down as if with a bowled ball. The auto hit him a casual draft and bowled him over. 2. To amaze with success or shock with misfortune; upset; stun. He was bowled over by his wife's abrupt death. The adolescent extra bowled over everybody in her aboriginal movie.
bowl sb over
Idiom(s): bowl sb over
Theme: SURPRISE
to abruptness or beat someone.
• The account bowled me over.
• The capacity of the proposed activity bowled anybody over.
bowline
bowline
on a bowline
with sails set so as to arch abutting to the wind; closehauled
Chase rainbows
If accession chases rainbows, they try to do article that they will never achieve.
chasing rainbows
trying to accomplish an absurd ambition Abounding adolescent actors are block rainbows - acquisitive for fame.
crook one's elbow
crook one's elbow
Also, bend one's elbow. Alcohol liquor, abnormally a abundant deal. For example, Bill is accepted to cheat his angle now and then, or Uncle Joe rather overdoes it with angle his elbow. Both slangy expressions allude to the motion of appropriation a alcohol to one's lips, which involves angle the elbow. The aboriginal dates from about 1820, and the additional from about 1900.
Draw a continued bow
If accession draws a continued bow, they lie or exaggerate.
elbow
1. a batter of marijuana
2. see bend elbow
elbow grease
effort and backbone to apple-pie article We
elbow grease|elbow|grease
n. Exertion; effort; energy. "You'll accept to use a little added angle grease to get these windows clean," Mother said to Ed.
elbow one's way into|elbow|out of
v. phr. To force access into a abode by application one's elbows. The bus was so awash that, in adjustment to get off in time, we had to angle our way to the avenue door.
elbow room
room to move amid people, amplitude in a army On the streets of Hong Kong there wasn't abundant angle room.
elbow room|elbow|room
n. Adequate amplitude to move about or to assignment in. He doesn't crave a huge office, but we charge at atomic accord him angle room.
elbow sb out
Idiom(s): elbow sb out (of sth)
Theme: REMOVAL
to force or burden accession out of something, such as an office, post, or status.
• The old arch of the aggregation was elbowed out of appointment by a adolescent carnality president.
• They approved to angle me out, but I captivated on to what was mine.
goldfish bowl
goldfish bowl
A bearings affording no privacy, as in Being in a goldfish basin comes with the senator's job—there's no alienated it. The bottle basin acceptance one to appearance goldfish from every administration was transferred first, in the 1920s, to a badge claiming allowance able with a one-way mirror. By the mid-1900s the announcement was actuality acclimated added broadly.
goldfish bowl|bowl|goldfish
n., slang, informal 1. A bearings in which it is not accessible to accumulate things abstruse for any breadth of time. Washington Society is a goldfish bowl. 2. An accommodation or abode that provides no aloofness for its occupant, e.g., an appointment that has too abounding windows. Joe's appointment is a goldfish bowl, that's why I didn't let him kiss me there.
have two strings to one's bow
have an another or choice有两手准备
You've fabricated abiding in both directions.It's consistently acceptable to accept two strings to one's bow.你已经在两个方面都落实了。有两手准备总是好的。
life is aloof a basin of cherries
life is aloof wonderful, activity is admirable "When Anne is happy, she says, ""Life is aloof a basin of cherries!"""
longbow
longbow
draw the longbow
or pull the longbow
to amplify in cogent something
More than one cord to their bow
A being who has added than one cord to their bow has altered talents or abilities to abatement aback on.
out at the elbows
out at the elbows
Also, out at the heels or knees. Wearing clothes that are beat out or torn; poor. For example, When we aftermost saw Phil he was out at the elbows. These expressions, dating from the backward 1500s and aboriginal 1600s, can accredit to clothes beat through at these credibility as able-bodied as to a being too poor to alter them.
out at the elbows|elbow|elbows|out
adj. phr. Poorly or shabbily dressed. Roy walks about out at the elbows, but it's not because he is penniless, but added in apery of a assertive style.
over the rainbow
eccentric, weird, a bit off, spinny Aunt Freda? She's been over the bubble for years, poor lady.
rub elbows
work beside, accessory with Fran and I acclimated to rub elbows aback we formed at the angle plant.
rub elbows or amateur with someone
be in the aforementioned abode (with others), accommodated and mix with others We went to the affair in adjustment to rub amateur with some absorbing artists. Dictionary