Alf Vocabulary s4 e2

Alf s1 e2 called Lies. How would you deal with a reporter who took your picture without permission? Correct! You would eat all of his films.
Phrases
- Don't forget to wear your batting helmet.
- batting - the action of hitting with or using a bat, especially in cricket or baseball
- Ah, they're fooling around with the universe.
- fool around - if you fool around, you behave in a playful, childish, and silly way, often in order to make people laugh: in British English, you can also say you fool about
- That's a toughie.
- toughie - a difficult problem or question
- Schultz could have never pulled it off.
- pull off - if you pull off something very difficult, you succeed in achieving it
- I'm afraid I rather abused the exclamation point.
- rather abused - very much abuse, to go too far with something
- Fighting mad.
- It means very angry, like a beast.
- It might be booby-trapped.
- booby-trap - booby-trap is something such as a bomb which is hidden or disguised and which causes death or injury when it is touched
- You'll feel better once the bitterness sets in.
- bitterness - sharpness of taste; lack of sweetness
- - Suit yourself.
- If you suit yourself, you do something just because you want to do it, without bothering to consider other people
- I'd say we've isolated the problem.
- isolated the problem - identify the root of the problem, find the root cause
- ...kind of runs counter to that.
- runs counter - if one thing runs counter to another, or if one thing is counter to another, the first thing is the opposite of the second thing or conflicts with it
- Are you saying you were abducted by aliens?
- abduct - take (someone) away illegally by force or deception; kidnap
- - He's only aiding and abetting.
- abet - encourage or assist (someone) to do something wrong, in particular to commit a crime
- aid - help or support (someone or something) in the achievement of something
- You twist around the truth, you invade our homes...
- twist around - distort, misrepresent
- - Hey, it's my first heist.
- heist - a robbery