Deadhead
f. bir havayolundaki uçuş ekiplerinin (üniformalı ya da üniformasız) uçakla ancak aktif uçuş görevi yapmaksızın transfer edilmeleri anlamına gelen terim
Flat broke
“Could you lend me some money, I’m flat broke.”
Beş parasız
brush with death
“What a brush with death taught David Eagleman about the mysteries of time and the brain.”
Ölümle burun buruna gelmek
= someone comes very close to dying but live, they have a brush with death
“What a brush with death taught David Eagleman about the mysteries of time and the brain.” = “Ölümle burun buruna gelmenin David Eagleman’a zamanın ve beynin gizemleri hakkında öğrettikleri.”
chew the fat
“We sat in a bar most of the evening just chewing the fat.”
= to talk with someone in an informal and friendly way:
be short with someone
“It was obvious from the Ripley series that frustrated desire was the catalyst for crime in Pat’s world, and Anna telling me that Pat was upset and short with me because she might love me made me even more afraid. Like Ripley, Pat could be charming but also dark, possessive, irrational and impatient.”
= to speak to someone rudely without saying much:
“You could tell Dad was worried about something because he was short with everyone.”
have a bone to pick with someone
“I have a bone to pick with you - you’ve been using my shaver again.”
= to want to talk to someone about something annoying they have done:
walk out on sb
“He walked out on his wife and kids.”
to suddenly leave your husband, wife, or partner and end your relationship with them:
get the drop on (someone or something)
“The police received an anonymous tip and got the drop on the would-be robbers when they entered the bank.”
Gafil avlamak
Erken davranıp ön almak
= To acquire an advantage over another person or entity; to catch someone or something in a vulnerable position or situation. The phrase refers to drawing a gun on someone first (thus causing them to “drop” their own gun).
“I think we’ll get the drop on the defense if we run this play next.”
“Those thugs only beat me up because they got the drop on me—it wasn’t a fair fight.”
doll up
“She spent two hours getting dolled up for the party.”
1 : to dress elegantly or extravagantly
2 : to make more attractive (as by decorating)
“You guys really need to doll up this house if you’re hoping to sell it for that high a price.”
rammed earth
Sıkıştırılmış Toprak
Sıkıştırılmış toprak, toprak, tebeşir taşı, kireç veya çakıl gibi sıkıştırılmış doğal ham maddeler kullanılarak temeller, zeminler ve duvarlar inşa etmek için kullanılan bir tekniktir. Son zamanlarda sürdürülebilir bir yapı yöntemi olarak yeniden canlandırılan eski bir yöntemdir.
débutante
‘When Mary was treated for cancer, the drugs also relieved her psychosis of twenty years. Her daughter Christine described her as a “psychological débutante.”
= an upper-class young woman making her first appearance in fashionable society.
= a woman making her first public appearance, especially in sport.
“the women’s team includes eighteen year-old debutante Katharine Merry”
A never-was
Başarıya, şöhrete ya da zenginliğe ulaşamamış kişi
= one that has attained no rank, success, or eminence
plural = never-weres
A has been
Gözden düşmüş kimse
= a person who in the past was famous, important, admired, or good at something, but is no longer any of these
= a person or thing considered to be outmoded or no longer of any significance.
“a political has-been
A phony
Yapmacık
Tailgate
{f} öndeki arabanın dibinden gitmek
{i} (yük arabasına/steyşına ait menteşeli) arka kapak.
f., k.dili. başka bir arabanın arkasından çok az bir mesafe bırakarak gitmek/gelmek
susceptibility
Vladimir Lenin wrote in 1913 of the ‘bizarre, ritualised susceptibility of the Australian public to ranked lists of music’
Hassasiyet, duyarlılık
especially : lack of ability to resist some extraneous agent (such as a pathogen or drug) : sensitivity
Sweet spot
I have a vague unprovable theory that there is a sweet spot of popular non-fiction books published between about 1960 and 2005 (roughly between Richard Ellman’s biography of Joyce and Leo Damrosch’s book about Rousseau, which is one of my favourite popular biographies).
rakette topa vurulacak en etkili nokta
= The place on a bat, club, racket, or paddle, where it is most effective to hit a ball
= the part of a surface that gives the most power for the least effort, for example when hitting a ball:
The new tennis rackets are lighter, stronger, and have a bigger sweet spot.
to be invested in something
= to have an interest in something as a result of a commitment to it or an investment in it of resources such as time, effort and money
relieve oneself
In the obsessively civilised society of the 18th century, Thomas reminds us, it was thought quite normal to defecate in the street or relieve oneself in the fireplace of a palace (happily, even Kubrick doesn’t go this far in his pursuit of historical verisimilitude)
to urinate or defecate
go south
“When a transition is handled badly, things can go south very quickly.”
sarpa sarmak
= to become much worse:
“A lot of people ended up losing money when the economy went south.”
Behind the curve
It’s frustrating that in most cases we’re behind the curve because we’re reacting to crime, not preventing it.
= to change to a new idea or way of doing something later than most others, or to react to something after it has already happened:
“If you’re not using social media to promote your business, you’re behind the curve.”
bent out of shape
“he’d changed a few things around, and Glen was a little bent out of shape about it”
angry or agitated.
I’m not getting bent out of shape because people don’t respect my opinion. I’m used to that.
funny business
“If you try any funny business you’ll be sorry.”
dishonest actions or behaviour intended to trick someone:
“This is not a funny business; it will make very much worse a problem that is of very serious proportions today.”
Venison
Karaca, geyik eti
