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2、as about politics are all wet. MEANING: completely wrong all-nighter I almost fell asleep during the test after an all-nighter. MEANING: after studying all night. ammo The gun was useless after the killer ran out of ammo. MEANING: ammunition antifreeze I really need some antifreeze in me on cold day
3、s like this. MEANING: liquor armpit This town is really an armpit. MEANING: undesirable place awesome What an awesome sunset. MEANING: great bad Wow, that was really a bad movie. MEANING: intense barf He barfed all over the seat of the airplane. MEANING: vomitted bashed The boat was bashed beyond re
4、cognition. MEANING: crushed beat After working all day I am really beat. MEANING: exhausted beemer He just bought a new beemer to drive to work in. MEANING: B.M.W. car bench He was benched during the basketball playoffs. MEANING: taken out of the game bent Its OK. Dont get so bent. MEANING: angry be
5、nt out of shape Dont get so bent out of shape. MEANING: become upset big gun The president brought two big guns to the meeting. MEANING: powerful people big mouth Shut up! You really have a big mouth. MEANING: talk too much big stink The citizens made a big stink about the new nuclear power station.
6、 MEANING: big issue blade He carried a ten inch blade with him. MEANING: knife blimp I always seem to have a blimp sitting next to me when I travel. MEANING: very fat person blow Im going to blow out of here now. MEANING: leave blow He blew all his money gambling. MEANING: lost blow a fuse Hey, dont
7、 blow a fuse. MEANING: lose your temper. blow ones cool Calm down. Dont blow your cool. MEANING: become angry blown away I was blown away by his donation of a million dollars. MEANING: greatly impressed bomb The movie was a bomb. MEANING: bad bombed The driver of the car was bombed. MEANING: intoxic
8、ated bonkers I think I am going bonkers. MEANING: crazy美国俚语二 boo-boo If you make another boo-boo like that, you wont have a job. MEANING: mistake booze I promised to bring two bottles of booze to the party. MEANING: alcohol bread I need some bread to pay for my car. MEANING: money break A lucky brea
9、k helped him get the job. MEANING: opportunity break it up Break it up, or I will call the police. MEANING: stop bring-down The news of the airplane crash was a bring-down. MEANING: depressing buck Do you have a buck I can borrow? MEANING: dollar bummed I was really bummed after I heard the news. ME
10、ANING: depressed bummer My trip to New York was a bummer. MEANING: bad experience bust The whole idea was a bust. MEANING: failure buy it If you dont slow down, youre going to buy it in a car accident. MEANING: die call The weatherman made a good call about when the storm would come. MEANING: predic
11、tion can Do you know where the can is? MEANING: bathroom carb My motorcycles carb is out of adjustment. MEANING: carburetor catch some rays Im going to lie on the beach and catch some rays. MEANING: get some sunshine. catch some Zs I need to catch some Zs before I go on my trip. MEANING: get some sl
12、eep cheesy That is really a cheesy looking outfit. MEANING: cheap chicken Dont be a chicken. MEANING: coward chintzy That really was a chintzy present you got him. MEANING: cheap chow down I need to find a place to chow down. MEANING: eat a lot clip Watch out or they will clip you at that bar. MEANI
13、NG: cheat clunker I cant go on a date in that clunker. MEANING: old car cold fish My date for the dance was a cold fish. MEANING: dull collar I knew they would collar the robber sooner or later. MEANING: arrest come up for air He has to come up for air or he will die from exhaustion. MEANING: take a
14、 break con Dont try to con me. MEANING: deceive cool This is a really cool place to work. MEANING: good cool down Things should cool down in a day or two. MEANING: calm down cop How did you get the road sign? I copped it. MEANING: robbed cop The cop showed me his badge. MEANING: policeman couch pota
15、to He is a couch potato. MEANING: lazy person crack open a bottle Lets crack open a bottle for his birthday. MEANING: open cram I need more time to cram for the test. MEANING: study hard cream Our team creamed them badly. MEANING: beat croak I feel like I am going to croak. MEANING: die cruise The s
16、kier was cruising down the hill MEANING: going very fast cuffs He put the cuffs on the killer. MEANING: handcuffs cushy He has a really cushy job. MEANING: easy cut Could you cut my whiskey with a little water? MEANING: dilute cut out It is late. I have to cut out. MEANING: leave damage Lets get the
17、 bill and find out the damage. MEANING: cost dead This disco is really dead tonight. MEANING: quiet deck He was decked in the fight. MEANING: knocked down deep pockets Her boyfriend has deep pockets. MEANING: is a good source of money dicey Since the weather is a little dicey, I wont go today. MEANI
18、NG: chancy dirty I hear that its a dirty movie. MEANING: an obscene ditch Ill ditch my younger brother with my grandmother. MEANING: leave do a snow job on Dont try to do a snow job on me. MEANING: deceive dope He is such a dope. MEANING: stupid person dope There are a lot of dope dealers around her
19、e. MEANING: drug dork He is such a dork. MEANING: strange person dough I need some dough before I can go Christmas shopping. MEANING: money down Lets go to a bar and down a few beers. MEANING: drink quickly drag Doing homework on the weekend is a drag. MEANING: boring dynamite This drink is really d
20、ynamite. MEANING: powerful; great earful My grandmother gave me an earful about the neighborhood. MEANING: a lot of gossip easy mark The Japanese are an easy mark because they usually carry cash. MEANING: likely victims eat The problem is really eating away at me. MEANING: bothering excellent Thats
21、excellent man. MEANING: fine face-off The two sides were headed for a nasty face-off. MEANING: confrontation far-out This music is really far-out. MEANING: great fix The addict needs another fix. MEANING: dose of drugs flaky He is too flaky to do the work. MEANING: unreliable flashback At the weddin
22、g he had a flashback of his old girlfriend. MEANING: remembered flick I havent seen a flick in a long time. MEANING: movie flip out He flipped out when he heard that his mother had been killed. MEANING: lost control flip side What kind of music do you have on the flip side of the tape? MEANING: othe
23、r side fox His older sister is a fox. MEANING: very attractive foxy She is a foxy lady. MEANING: sexy freebie The pillow was a freebie MEANING: free get into something I got into gardening in high school. MEANING: became seriously interested in get it I listened to the joke twice, but I still dont g
24、et it. MEANING: understand get with it If you dont get with it, we will never finish this work. MEANING: hurry up美国俚语三 gig I have a gig on Saturday night from 7:00 to 10:00. MEANING: job glitch This computer program has a glitch. MEANING: defect glitzy This is a pretty glitzy hotel to be staying in.
25、 MEANING: fashionable go Let me have a go at solving the problem. MEANING: try go bananas I am going to go bananas if I dont have a vacation soon. MEANING: go crazy go down What is going down? MEANING: happening goof I am really a goof at times. MEANING: fool goof up I really goofed up when I painte
26、d my room green. MEANING: made a serious mistake goofy You are always acting goofy these days. MEANING: silly gourd Use your gourd to figure out what is happening. MEANING: head grand His salary is twenty grand. MEANING: thousand dollars grass Lots of students smoke grass in the dormitory. MEANING:
27、marijuana gravy This job is pure gravy. MEANING: easy money groovy This music is groovy. MEANING: pleasant gross Picking your nose is really a gross habit. MEANING: disgusting gross-out The party was a gross-out. MEANING: digusting time grub Where is the best place to get some grub around here? MEAN
28、ING: food grubby Those clothes are too grubby to wear to the party. MEANING: unclean and untidy grungy That is a really grungy jacket. MEANING: dirty gut He got shot in the gut. MEANING: stomach. gut The gut issue is about what we are going to do now. MEANING: basic guts It takes a lot of guts to gi
29、ve the boss your true opinion. MEANING: courage hairy That was a hairy plane trip. I am glad the storm is over. MEANING: dangerous hammer Put the hammer to the floor or we will be late for the wedding. MEANING: accelerator hang it up I have decided to hang up my teaching job. MEANING: quit hang loos
30、e Just hang loose for another few days. MEANING: relax hang tough We need to hang tough on our decision. MEANING: stick with hardware The police were surprised by all the hardware the gang members had. MEANING: weapons have a buzz on I had a buzz on after the third martini. MEANING: was slightly int
31、oxicated have good vibes I have good vibes about our new secretary. MEANING: feel good about have it all together Recently I dont have it all together. MEANING: feel mentally all there. heave I heaved up on the floor. MEANING: vomited high The teenagers look high to me. MEANING: intoxicated on drugs
32、 or alcohol hip-shooter He is such a hip-shooter. MEANING: always talking without thinking history I dont have any idea where my old boyfriend is. Hes history. MEANING: something in the past hit Your proposal was a hit with the boss. MEANING: successful hole up I had to hole up for three days becaus
33、e the police were looking for me. MEANING: hide honcho The honcho says that we are going to have to give up two days of our vacation. MEANING: boss hooker Her clothes make her look like a hooker. MEANING: prostitute hot The police stopped them because they though the car was hot. MEANING: stolen huf
34、fy I will do it soon so please dont get huffy. MEANING: angry hungry If you are not hungry, you wont get ahead in the business. MEANING: eager to make money hustle If you dont hustle, we will be late again. MEANING: hurry up hyped The fans were all hyped up for the football game. MEANING: excited hy
35、per Dont get hyper about what she told you. You know it isnt true. MEANING: over excited I.D. Can you show me some I.D. please? MEANING: identification in The tie you are wearing is really in. MEANING: fashionable in deep They are really in deep with each other. MEANING: deeply involved in the bag E
36、verything is in the bag. There is nothing to worry about. MEANING: settled intense This is a very intense situation we are discussing. MEANING: serious jam I am glad you got yourself out of that jam. MEANING: trouble jerk someone around Recently it seems like everyone is jerking me around. MEANING:
37、wasting my time and causing me trouble jock My roommate is a jock for the basketball team. MEANING: an athlete john The john really smells. MEANING: bathroom joint Where is the closest joint to here. MEANING: cheap bar joint He is good at rolling joints. MEANING: marijuana cigarettes junkie Sam is a
38、 junkie. MEANING: rug addict just off the boat He acts like he is just off the boat. MEANING: naive keep ones cool He kept his cool when his house burned down. MEANING: remained calm kegger I hear there is a kegger at Johns house tonight. MEANING: beer party kick I get a kick out of watching him pai
39、nt. MEANING: enjoy klutz He is a real klutz. MEANING: stupid and clumsy person knock Dont knock it if you cant do it any better. MEANING: criticize knocked up My dog gets knocked up once a year. MEANING: pregnant knockout Who was that knockout I saw you with last Friday? MEANING: stunning person knu
40、ckle sandwich Shut up or Ill give you a knuckle sandwich. MEANING: punch in the mouth kook Watch out for all the kooks in this neighborhood. MEANING: strange people laid-back You need to be more laid-back. MEANING: calm and relaxed lame That is really a lame excuse. MEANING: an inadequate line I hav
41、e heard that line a million times. MEANING: story loser John is a loser. MEANING: annoying and useless love handles I exercise every day, but I cant get rid of these love handles. MEANING: rolls of fat around my stomach make waves Try not to make waves around the office. MEANING: cause trouble美国俚语四 maxed out I am maxed out at
