American English

mind your P's and Q's

mind your P's and Q's [idiom]

Try to be as polite as you can; mind your behavior and try to be polite.

mind your P's and Q's - مواظب حرف زدن خود بودن

مراقب رفتار خود بودن، مودب بودن، مواظب حرف زدن خود بودن

مثال: 

Susie, mind you P’s and Q’s when Aunt Martha is here and be a little good sweet girl. She likes polite girls.

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition
 

mind your p's and q's old-fashioned

to make an effort to be especially polite in a particular situation:

I have to mind my p's and q's when I'm with my grandmother.

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Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary: 

mind your p's and q's also US watch your p's and q's : to be careful about behaving in a polite or proper way
• We knew to mind our p's and q's around our aunt.

on ice

on ice [idiom]

To delay or postpone something

on ice - روی هواست

به حالت تعلیق درآمده ، روی هواست

مثال: 

The oil projects are on ice and can’t be run at the moment. We have to wait for the sanctions to be terminated.

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

on ice

on ˈice idiom
1. (of wine, etc.) kept cold by being surrounded by ice

All the food is laid out and the champagne is on ice.

2. (of a plan, etc.) not being dealt with now; waiting to be dealt with at a later time

We've had to put our plans on ice for the time being.

3. (of entertainment, etc.) performed by skaters on an ice rink

Cinderella on ice

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition
 

be on ice

If a plan is on ice, a decision has been made to delay it for a period of time:

Both projects are on ice until the question of funding is resolved.

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turn someone off

turn someone off [idiom]

To displease someone; make someone detest something greatly (can have sexual or physical implications)

حال کسی را به هم زدن، نسبت به کسی بی میل شدن

مثال: 

Martha really turned me off when she ate salad with her unwashed hands. It was really disgusting the way she picked cucumbers with her fingernails!

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

urn-off 4 turn somebody ↔ off to make someone decide they do not like something :

Any prospective buyer will be turned off by the sight of rotting wood.

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition
 

turn sb off informal — phrasal verb with turn / tɜːn /   / tɝːn / verb

to stop someone feeling interested or excited, especially sexually:

I should think the smell of her breath would turn any man off.

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To get up on the wrong side of the bed

To get up on the wrong side of the bed [idiom]

To be in a bad mood and to be easily annoyed all day

 

از دنده چپ بلند شدن

مثال: 

What's wrong with Ali? Did he get up on the wrong side of the bed??

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

get out of bed on the wrong side

get out of bed on the wrong side idiom

(BrE) (NAmE get up on the wrong side of the bed) to be bad-tempered for the whole day for no particular reason

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition
 

get out of bed (on) the wrong side ( US get up on the wrong side of the bed )

to be in a bad mood and to be easily annoyed all day

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Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary: 

get up on the wrong side of the bed US or chiefly Brit get out of bed on the wrong side : to be in a bad mood throughout the day
• Be careful when you talk to the boss. He got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.

give someone the slip

give someone the slip [idiom]

To escape or get away from someone

give someone the slip - جیم شدن

در رفتن از دست کسی، فرار کردن، جیم شدن

مثال: 

Oh no, look over there, that's my old uncle. If we go for a greeting, we’ll be late. Let’s give him the slip! Let’s go that way.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Give somebody the slipinformal to escape from someone who is chasing you Somehow she’d given them the slip.

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition
 

slip / slɪp / noun (ESCAPE)

give sb the slip informal

to escape from someone who is following or chasing you

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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

give sb the slip

phrase

If you give someone the slip, you escape from them when they are following you or watchingyou.

[informal]

He gave reporters the slip by leaving at midnight.

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary: 

give (someone) the slip

 idiom

Definition of give (someone) the slip

 

informal

to escape (someone) to get away from (someone)The robber gave the police the slip.

raise a stink

raise a stink [idiom]

To protest publicly and strongly

raise a stink - به صورت جمعی اعتراض کردن

شکایت کردن، به صورت جمعی اعتراض کردن

مثال: 

The new students to the college raised a stink about the poor quality of the food. They gathered in front of the headmaster’s office with some plaques saying “poor food, poor management".

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition
 

create/kick up/raise a stink informal

to make a strong public complaint:

She created a stink about the lack of recycling facilities in the town.

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drive somebody up the wall

drive somebody up the wall [idiom]

If something drives somebody up the wall, it annoys or irritates them very much

drive somebody up the wall - داره کلافم میکنه

داره دیوونم میکنه، داره میره رو اعصابم، داره کلافم میکنه

مثال: 

How can you tolerate Mia shouting at you for everything? It’s really annoying and drives me up the wall.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

6 up the wall spoken very angry or annoyed :

That noise is driving me up the wall (= making me annoyed ) .

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition
 

drive sb up the wall

to make someone extremely angry:

My flat-mate is driving me up the wall at the moment.

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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

drive someone up the wall

phrase

If you say that something or someone is driving you up the wall, you are emphasizing that they annoy and irritate you.

[informal, emphasis]

The heat is driving me up the wall.

I sang in the bath and drove my parents up the wall.

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary: 

drive (someone) up a/the wall

idiom

Definition of drive (someone) up a/the wall

informal

to make (someone) irritated, angry, or crazyYour constant tapping is driving me up the wall!

shoot the breeze

shoot the breeze [idiom]

To chat informally about unimportant things

shoot the breeze - گپ زدن

گپ زدن

مثال: 

- What are you girls doing here?
- Nothing, we’re chatting, just shooting the breeze.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

13 shoot the bull/breeze American English informal to have an informal conversation about unimportant things :

Cal and I were sitting on the porch, shooting the breeze.

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

shoot the breeze

shoot the ˈbreeze/ˈbull idiom
(NAmE, informal) to have a conversation in an informal way
Syn:  chat

We sat around in the bar, shooting the breeze.

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition
 

shoot the breeze US informal

to spend time talking about things that are not important:

We sat out on the porch, just shooting the breeze.

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Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary: 

shoot the breeze also shoot the bull US informal : to talk informally about unimportant things
• I enjoy shooting the breeze with my neighbors.

jump down someone's throat

jump down someone's throat [idiom]

To suddenly become very angry at someone; to react or respond angrily to someone

jump down someone's throat -  به کسی پریدن

از دست کسی شدیداً عصبانی شدن، توپیدن، به کسی پریدن

مثال: 

I just said I couldn’t go to his party but suddenly he started shouting at me and called me unreliable. I don’t know why he jumped down my throat.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

jump down somebody’s throatinformal to suddenly speak angrily to someone

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition
 

jump down sb's throat informal

to react angrily to something that someone says or does:

I made the mildest of criticisms and he jumped down my throat.

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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

jump down someone's throat in British

informal

to address or reply to someone with unexpected sharpness

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary: 

jump down someone's throat

idiom

Definition of jump down someone's throat

informal

to respond angrily to someoneHe jumped down my throat when I suggested a different plan.

keep something under your hat

keep something under your hat [idiom]

keep something a secret

keep something under your hat - صداشو در نیار

صداشو در نیار، به کسی نگو، بین خودمون باشه

مثال: 

We are going to have a surprise birthday party for Maria, keep it under your hat and don’t let anyone know about it.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

keep something under your hatinformal to keep something secret

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

keep (something) under one’s hat

to keep (something) secret

Keep it under your hat but I’m getting married next week.

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

keep sth under your hat

phrase

If you tell someone to keep a piece of information under their hat, you are asking them not to tell anyone else about it.

Look, if I tell you something, will you promise to keep it under your hat?

He kept it all very much under his hat.

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary: 

keep (something) under one's hat

 idiom

Definition of keep (something) under one's hat

to keep (something) secret to not tell anyone about (something)I'll tell you what happened, but you have to keep it under your hat.

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