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have/keep (something) up one's sleeve
有杀手锏、秘密武器,留后手








真实性,可靠性:veracity
e.g. Officials expressed doubts concerning the veracity of the story.


bag作为动词也有收入囊中的意思
e.g. Cillian Murphy recently won his first Oscar for Best Actor for his role in Oppenheimer, reports Birmingham Live. He also bagged a Golden Globe, a Bafta and a Screen Actors Guild award for his portrayal of theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's biopic about the father of the atomic bomb.
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翻脸、吵架:fall out
The two fell out over coaching tactics a long time ago.


扑克的花色:suit
diamonds (♦️), clubs (♣️), hearts (♥️) and spades (♠️)


预约、约定地点:rendezvous
rɒndeɪvu
既可以作为动词也可以作为名词,也可以简写成RDV。
这个词直接取自法语,不过一般不会跟法语一样在rendez和vous之间加横线。


has-been: 明日黄花
a person who was famous, important, admired, or good at something in the past, but is no longer any of these


below the belt: 暗箭伤人、不公正的(具有侮辱性质)
这个词来自拳击比赛,原指比赛中击打腰带以下。




flip the bird: 竖中指




pertain to
to belong as, to be connected with, to relate to
We are only interested in the parts of the proposals that pertain to local issues.


progenitor
祖先、起源、起源人
特别地,这个词可以指某种流行文化的起源。例如cheems就是很多网络文化的progenitor


没收,征用:confiscate


adumbrate
未雨绸缪,粗略描绘框架,铺垫
例如,粗略地制定计划就可以说是adumbrate a plan.
铺垫了法国大革命的社会紧张情况: the social unrest that adumbrated the French Revolution.
e.g. In between, works by contemporaries complicate superficial ideas about his meteoric genius, and small, delicate drawings teem with an abundance of ideas — paintings never made, thoughts adumbrated then abandoned.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019

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