Cross with Me Expressions
Long time no see. During this time I managed to gather up a lot of useful expressions. Watch them all. I like "cross with me" the most.
- That may be... but our species do have a common ancestor.
- ancestor - a person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended
- be descended form - be a blood relative of (a specified ancestor)
- However, as employers became more aware of the prohibitions in the new law, race discrimination increasingly took on more subtle
- subtle - so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyse or describe
- Loners don't tend to last long.
- loner - a person that prefers not to associate with others
- When joking we call motorcycles models AJS as All Junk and Scrap.
- junk - old or discarded articles that are considered useless or of little value
- scrap - any waste articles or discarded material
- If you bought a car model MGB now you have Money Grabbing Bastard.
- Regarding the latter, he said that the Russian delegation would introduce amendments to make it more concise and simpler.
- concise - giving a lot of information clearly and in a few words; brief but comprehensive
- You had better cover your backside and get insurance for that car or else someone could sue you for everything you own.
- cover your backside - to do something to protect yourself from blame or criticism in the future (very informal, also UK offensive cover your arse, also US offensive cover your ass/butt)
- Speak to him and then ring me up.
- ring up – speak by using telephone
- Is she cross with me?
- to be cross with smb - being angry with someone
- You can give me notice.
- He was shoved and ordered around by every bloated horse trader, by every drunken deck hand
- desk hand - sailor
- The wolves killed coyotes, and as a result of that, the number of rabbits and mice began to rise, which meant more hawks, more weasels, more foxes, more badgers.
- badger - a heavily built omnivorous nocturnal mammal of the weasel family, typically having a grey and black coat
- Myron, we don't pass wind without a military escort.
- to pass wind – to fart
- In the grammar of some languages, the accusative, or the accusative case, is the case used for a noun when it is the direct object of a verb, or the object of some prepositions. In English, only the pronouns `me', `him', `her', `us', and `them' are in the accusative.
- Nature never plays dice.
- dice - a small cube with each side having a different number of spots on it, ranging from one to six, thrown and used in gambling and other games involving chance
- That's the way the cookie crumbles - that's the way the situation is, and it must be accepted, however undesirable.
- I thought I throw the idea into the hat.
- throw idea into the hat - to submit one's own or someone else's idea for consideration in a selection, such as a competition, brainstorming, discussion, etc.
