[make a play for] {v. phr.}, {slang} To try to get the interest orliking of; flirt with; attract. Bob made a play for the pretty newgirl. John made a play for the other boys’
Идиома: on the Q. T. / on the QT Перевод: тайком, потихоньку (аббревиатура от On the quiet) Пример: The policeman accepted bribes on the Q. T. Полицейский тайком брал взятки.
Идиома: once again Перевод: еще раз, снова Пример: I tried once again to phone my boss at his home. Я еще раз попробовал позвонить своему начальнику домой.
[nose in a book] {n. phr.} Busy interest in reading. – Used with apossessive. Mother can’t get Mary to help do the housework; shealways has her nose in a book.
[go hard with] {v. phr.} To be painful, troublesome, or hard for;happen or result badly for. – Used after “it”. It will go hard withyou if I catch you smoking.
[nose up] {v.} To head up; incline the forward end upwards; moveup. The airplane nosed up through the cloud bank. The pilotnosed the plane up from the field.
[higher education] {n.} Schooling after graduation from highschool, especially in a college or university. Tom plans to get hishigher education at the state university.
[blow one’s own horn] or [toot one’s own horn] {v. phr.}, {slang} To praise yourself; call attention to your own skill, intelligence, or successes; boast. People get tired of a man who is always
[take a nose dive] {v. phr.} To plummet; fall sharply. The stockmarket took a nose dive after the news of the President’s heartattack.
[in a flash] also [in a trice] {adv. phr.} Very suddenly. Wewere watching the bird eat the crumbs; then I sneezed, and he was gonein a flash. Bob was looking over his notes for