STRUCTURE 31

1 Find your feet: to start to feel confident and able to deal with st.
 It took a while, but I've finally found my feet in my job.
 I know you're nervous, but all freshmen are. You'll find your feet at school, don't worry.

2 It's a small world: said to show your surprise that people or events in different places are connected.
 Thirty years after leaving Vietnam, I bumped into him again in New York. It is indeed a small world.
 I found a copy of my novel at a usedbookstore in Paris. It's a small world, isn't it?

3 Save st for a rainy day: to reserve st, especially money, for use in a time of unforeseen difficulty, or need.
 I know you want to buy a new TV with your bonus, but you should save it for a rainy day.
 I save a portion of my wages each month for a rainy day.

4 See sb’s name in lights: to be very famous and popular.

 I've always prioritized improving my performance in the game over seeing my name in lights.
 If you go into this profession with the sole aim of seeing your name in lights, then you're in for a
rough ride of it.

5 Stand for sth: to be an abbreviation or symbol of sth.

 A: The song's written by MTP.
B: What does the ‘MTP’ stand for?

6 Star-struck: feeling too much respect for famous people, especially famous actors or performers.
 It's the story of a star-struck young girl who goes to Hollywood to make her fortune.

7 In the limelight/spotlight: to be the center of attention.

 The director assured me that I would be in the spotlight for my solo.
 My sister loves being in the spotlight, but I get really nervous on stage.
 Once news of this scandal breaks, our company will be in the spotlight for months.

8 Go through/Hit the roof:

1. to rise to a very high level.
 Prices have gone through the roof.
2. to get very angry.
 When I was expelled from school, my parents went through the roof.

9 Take shape: to start to develop a more clear or certain form:

 We watched the vase begin to take shape in the potter's hands.
 Our ideas are beginning to take shape.

10 Scrape/ Scratch a living: to only just earn enough money for food, clothing, and a place to live.
 He settled in Paris, where he scraped a living writing short stories and magazine articles.
 The farmer somehow managed to scratch a living from the arid land.

Earn your living/ Make a living: to earn enough money to pay for everything you need.
 Everyone should have the means to earn their own living.
 What do you do for a living?
 He made a living by working as a cook.

11 Make a killing: to make a lot of money very quickly

 Senior executives have made a killing through massive pay rises.
 They made a killing with the sale of their London house.

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12 The name of the game: the main purpose or most important aspect of a situation.
 Popularity is the name of the game in television.
 Survival was the name of the game, as it has been throughout history.

13 Stay up: to go to bed later than usual.

 We stayed up (late) to watch a film.
Stay out (late)

14 Put st together: make st by assembling different parts or people.

 He can take a clock apart and put it back together again.

15 Rhyme with sth: if a word rhymes with the other, they have or end with the same sound
 ‘Though’ rhymes with ‘low’.

Rhyme(n): the use of words in a poem or song that have the same sound, especially at the ends of lines
 The poem is written in rhyme.
 A poem without rhyme.

16 Reach (học thuộc cụm)

 The shot was well beyond the reach of the goalkeeper.
 Condoms should be kept out of the reach of children.
 Victory is now out of her reach.
 The basic model is priced well within the reach of most people.

17 Bone-dry: extremely or completely dry.

 The springs failed this year, leaving the riverbed bone-dry.
 The ground was bone dry after the drought.

18 Flash sth at sb: to show sth to sb quickly

 He flashed his pass at the security officer.
 Do you want to flash your boobs in exchange for Vnd 200K?

19 Free agent: a person who can do whatever they want because they are not responsible for anyone else
 Mom: When are you getting married?
You: I'm a free agent.

20 Be at it (again): to be doing st, especially st bad

 He’s at it again, trying to cheat the customers.
 Look at all that graffiti – those kids have been at it again.

21 Get weird: using any kind of drug, alcohol or illegal substance…

 Let’s get weird tonight and lick some faces.
 John called the dealer. Let’s get weird tonight."

22 You’re up: it's your turn.

 When you're playing a game and it's turn of your friend to throw the dices but he doesn't realize, and
then you yell to him "you are up!"

23 Do sb a solid: do sb a favor.
 They're a business, not a friend who will do you a solid for being a good customer.
 Do me a solid man, lend me $5.

24 Dead meat: in serious trouble.

 If anyone finds out, you're dead meat.
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25 Move along: to continue to move; to start moving out of the way. (often a command.)
 The crowd moved along slowly.
 Please just move along. There is nothing to see here.
Move in
26 Sophie's choice: an extremely difficult decision a person has to make. It describes a situation where no
outcome is preferable over the other.
 Everybody had to make Sophie's choice.
 It's like Sophie's choice; you need all the roads but must choose just one.

27 Shit a brick: (rude slang) to be very scared or nervous. The plural ("shit bricks") is also commonly used.
 Of course I shit a brick when I woke up to the sounds of an intruder in my house!
 My brother is so scary-looking that people shit bricks when he threatens them.

28 Easy money: money that is easily and sometimes dishonestly earned

 And now there was a chance to make some easy money out of it.

29 Win-win (adj): a situation in which there is a good result for each person or group involved
 This is a win-win situation all around.

30  No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

 The baby weighed three kilos at birth.
 Partner in crime
 I’m Ly, with a ‘Y’.
 No way | Not a chance
 Fuck off | Beat it
 Get high
 Stripper / Smuggler

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