On ice: tạm gác lại

To set a precedent

To set a precedent for st: đặt thành tiền lệ cho st

To rally: tập hợp

Resounding: nổi danh, lừng lẫy

To underpin: củng cố, làm vững cho 1 lí lẽ

By the look of it: judging by the information we have now

Ill feeling( toward sb): ác cảm

In a row: in succession

To hunt down( a criminal): lùng sục, lùng bắt

To set on: tấn công

To settle on st: make a final decision about something, or to agree to accept something

To be counter-intuitive: contrary to intuition or to common-sense expectation 

To fixate on st: to think about st too much

In your salad days: During the period of time when you were a young person and had little experience

rise to the occasion/challenge :to show that you can deal with a difficult situation successfully

cramp sb's style:to prevent someone from having a good time, especially by going somewhere with
them
To bowl over: làm bối rối, sửng sốt

To be on the wane: lu mờ( hứng thú), tàn tạ( sắc đẹp)

keep your eyes peeled/skinned: to watch carefully for someone or something

To diminish st: hạ bớt, giảm bớt
To strut around: to walk in a proud way trying to look important

Scientific disciplines: các môn khoa học

If something happens in fits and starts, it often stops and then starts

To drive a wedge between sb: chia rẽ

To weather st: vượt qua

swot up (on sth):to learn as much as you can about a subject, especially before an examination

To mull over: ngẫm nghĩ, nghĩ tới nghĩ lui

To be reduce to tears: to cry

To send up sb/st: to make someone or something seem stupid by copying him, her, or it in

a funny way

To blow the gaff: để lộ bí mật

At the double: rất nhanh, vội vã

frighten/scare sb out of their wits (also frighten/scare the wits out of sb): to make someone

very frightened
To plod away: làm chậm nhưng chắc chắn

The boy wasn’t allowed to have any friends, so he became an introvert.

= Deprived of friends, he ....

So+ adj/adv+ to be +S + that...

A handful of+N(s)= a few+N(s).

Occurred
To live it up: to have an exciting and very enjoyable time with parties, good food and drink, etc
To sweep st under the carpet/rug : to hide a problem or try to keep it secret instead of
dealing with it
Per year= per annum
leave someone high and dry: to leave someone in a difficult situation without any help
Gloom and doom: a feeling that a situation is very bad and without help

Suffice it to say that:It is enough to say

Come what may=whatever happens

Hue and cry: a noisy expression of public anger or disapproval

Sell-by date: a date printed on a product such as food after which it should not be sold

If you do something on impulse, you do it because you suddenly want to

set sth against sth: to consider something in relation to another thing

and compare their different qualities or effects
To lash out (at)sb/st: to suddenly attack someone or something physically or criticize him, her, or it in
an angry way

To con: to make someone believe something false, usually so that that person will give

you their money or possessions:

She  felt  she had been conned  into buying the  car.

Thieves conned him out of  his life  savings.

To break free= to escape

Regarding= as regards= with regard to
fall from grace: a situation in which you do something that
makes people in authority stop liking you or admiring you
In/by fits and starts: If st happens in fits and starts, it often stops and then starts again
If a situation is touch-and-go, it is uncertain

Stuff and nonsense: an expression used to show that you think something is not true and/or is silly

Get-up-and-go: the quality of being positive and having a lot of new ideas, determination, and energy

To go to rack and ruin: to get into a state of neglect and decay( tiêu tan sự nghiệp)

the life and soul of the party: Sb who is energetic and funny and at the

centre of activity during social occasions
Toss and (turn): to move around restlessly while sleeping or trying to sleep
cut sb dead :to pretend you do not know someone in order to show you are angry
by the skin of your teeth: If you do something by the skin of your teeth, you only just succeed in doing
it
To throw sth up : to produce new problems or ideas

To pull out of sth: to stop being involved in an activity

To round sth off: to complete an event or activity in a satisfactory way

get/start off on the wrong foot: to start a relationship or activity badly

To pay sb back: to do something unpleasant to someone because they have done

something unpleasant to you

To drown sth out: (of a sound) to be loud enough to block the sound of something else

To talk sb out of doing sth >< to talk sb into doing sth