Quotes - Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac:
Pain or love or danger makes you real again... .
Vocabulary - Qwerty Nosediving
Qwerty Nosediving:
Falling asleep at the keyboard.
I took a qwerty nosedive this morning after working through the night on that essay.
That essay took so long to finish, I kept qwerty nosediving in the middle.
Quotes - James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell:
Fate loves the fearless.
کلمات مشترک زبان انگلیسی و فارسی
کلمات مشترک زبان انگلیسی و فارسی:
Keyboard
چه کسی برنده شد؟
Communication Board
کامیون کی شن ها رو برد؟
Morphine
باید بیشتر فین کنی
LOL!
:-)
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Idiom - Run off at the Mouth
Run off at the Mouth:
(inf) To talk excessively.
Shut up, John. You're always running off at the mouth.
Persian: وراجی کردن
Idiom - Take sth with a Pinch of Salt
Take sth with a pinch/grain of salt:
To listen to a story or an explanation with considerable doubt.
You must take anything she says with a pinch of salt. She doesn't always tell the truth.
They took my explanation with a grain of salt. I was sure they didn't believe me.
Persian:با دیده تردید به چیزی نگریستن، چیزی را سریع باور نکردن
Idiom - Rub Salt in the Wound
Rub Salt in the Wound:
To deliberately make sb's unhappiness, shame, or misfortune worse.
Don't rub salt in the wound by telling me how enjoyably the party was.
Persian: نمک به زخم پاشیدن
Vocabulary - Tranq
Tranq:
(Short for tranquilizer) A sedative, or the act of sedating; any chemical substance used for calming a human or animal through injection or ingestion.
n. The tranqs are kept in the emergency medical locker by the gauze.
v. The bear was tranqed so that officials could safely transport it back into the wild.
v. You need to tranq out, man, it isn't the end of the world.
Quotes - Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde:
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Idiom - Make a Go of It
Make a Go of It:
(inf) To make sth work out all right.
It's a tough situation, but we are trying to make a go of it.
Idiom - A Turn up for the Books
A Turn up for the Books:
An unexpected piece of good fortune.
Persian: اتفاق غیر منتظره، واقعه عجیب
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Idiom - Get One's Walking Papers
Get One's Walking Papers:
To get fired.
They are closing down my department. I guess I'll get my walking papers.
Persian: اخراج شدن
Synonym: Get sacked
Quotes - George Clooney
George Clooney:
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.
Vocabulary - Dental Swag
Dental Swag:
The complementary stuff with which you leave your dentist's office: toothbrush, dental floss, etc.
I think the hygienist likes me; she always loads me up with dental swag.
Idiom - Get Carried Away
Carried Away:
Excited or moved to extreme action by sb or sth.
The crowd got carried away and did a lot of damage to the park.
Persian: جوگیر شدن
Vocabulary - Malemployed
Malemployed:
When what you do for a living makes you want to kill yourself.
I re-edit text that has already been edited in India; I am so malemployed.
Idiom - Breathe Down Your Neck
Breathe Down Your Neck:
We often use this with bosses in the work place. If you have a very strict boss who pays attention to every little thing you do and doesn’t give you much space or freedom.
My work is really stressful lately because my new boss is always breathing down my neck.
I love working from home because I don’t have the stress of my boss breathing down my neck all the time.
Everyone hates the feeling of having someone else breathing down their neck.
Persian: چهار چشمی کسی را پاییدن، حرکات کسی را زیر نظر گرفتن
Quotes - Sogyal Rinpoche
Sogyal Rinpoche:
There would be no chance to get to know death at all ...if it happened only once.
Vocabulary - Brown Carded
Brown Carded:
When a person does not wash their hands after taking a dump they receive a brown card. Similar to a warning in sports.
Brent got brown carded because he is a disgusting douche bag and didn't wash after laying an offering to the porcelain god.
Quotes - Kedar Joshi
Kedar Joshi:
The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.
Idiom - Hang on Sb's Every Word
Hang on Sb's Every Word:
To listen with complete attention to everything someone says.
Look at the way John hangs on Mary's every word. He must be in love with her.
Persian: به دقت به حرف های کسی گوش کردن
Vocabulary - Freddy Cougar
Freddy Cougar:
An old chick who totally rocks her slutty Halloween costume.
Did you see Freddy Cougar all over that poor kitten? He stood no chance.
Idiom - Off The Record
Off the Record:
Unofficial; informal.
Although her comments were off the record, the news agency published them anyway.
Persian: غیر رسمی
Quotes - Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort
Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort:
All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.
Vocabulary - Bachelor Sip
Bachelor Sip:
To drink water directly from the faucet.
Dude 1: "Hey, you need a glass?"
Dude 2: "Nah, I'll just take a quick bachelor sip."
Quotes - John Powell
John Powell:
To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.
Vocabulary - Hunger Pack
Hunger Pack:
A six pack that is only visible when you are very hungry.
Guy 1: "What happened to my six
pack? I could see it when I woke up in the morning.. did I fall out of
shape in a matter of hours?"
Guy 2: "Must have been just a hunger pack... lol"
Vocabulary - Rehab Sunglasses
Rehab Sunglasses:
Sunglasses worn inside.
I saw three women in the supermarket wearing rehab sunglasses.
Idiom - Cry One's Eyes Out
Cry One's Eyes Out:
To cry a lot.
I was so upset that day, I cried my eyes out.
Quotes - Francis Of Assisi
Francis of Assisi:
He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.