2009年3月15日 星期日

push up daisies

這則是上星期有關加拿大護士在非洲被綁架的新聞回文。
One thing I will say however, is if we wait for the UN to do anything, we will all be pushing up daisies by the time a solution is reached, best to leave that bunch of morons out of it.....


push up daisies Slang-----To be dead and buried: a cemetery of heroes pushing up daisies.

另外,我在字典看到這個片語,忍不住又把它記錄下來

push your luck/push it informal
to do something or ask for something, especially something you have done or asked for before, when this is likely to annoy someone or involves a risk
If she doesn't want to go, don't push it.
It's 26 miles, so you're pushing your luck if you try to hike it in a day.

這個是來自大聯盟官網(有關美國以1比11輸波多黎各的報導)
Maybe it is a moot point.
Said Dunn, "The word that comes to mind is embarrassing. It's inexcusable and uncalled for. It's embarrassing."
Dunn表示,我腦子裡只想到丟臉。這是沒有理由的,而且也不應該,真的是很丟臉。

a moot point----something that has not yet been decided or agreed, and about which people have different opinions
這個片語,第一次是在 friends學到的,那時候,joey講錯了,把它講成 a moo point.
用來諷刺他的無知、不學無術。
uncalled for----
If you describe a remark or criticism as uncalled for, you mean that it should not have been made, because it was unkind or unfair.
I'm sorry. That was uncalled for.

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