1
Q
Increasingly lax attitude
A
towards sex
2
Q
Rouse suspicion of
A
the police
3
Q
Become the sole beacon of the
A
dark and unstable world
4
Q
Lock, stock and barrel
A
the whole thing
5
Q
He finally realised that John had been playing
A
a prank on him
6
Q
Lift the
A
repression
7
Q
Stand/ turn sth
A
on its head
8
Q
Is in grave
A
doubt
9
Q
Lay bare the
A
truth
10
Q
It all seems a a far
A
cry from…
11
Q
Be on speaking
A
terms
12
Q
Bear you
A
prejudice
13
Q
Scheme against
A
sb
14
Q
Go such a
A
length to
15
Q
We pull
A
this off
16
Q
By
A
far
17
Q
We are calling
A
the operation
18
Q
We criticized the proposals, but at a loss for
A
an alternative
19
Q
We will not yield
A
to blackmail
20
Q
Stop
A
shoving
21
Q
Marry beneath
A
you
22
Q
Marry in haste,
A
repent at leisure
23
Q
Not be the marrying
A
kind
24
Q
I chipped in
A
twenty dollar
25
Incubation of
ideas
26
Just keep your wits about you and
you will do fine
27
I am drawing a total
blank here
28
Evidence adduced
援引證據
29
Is in effect saying
等同在說
30
Sb is in error
in...
31
Upon its true construction
經真正詮釋後
32
The appeal is dismissed and the original judgement upheld
本庭駁回原告人的上訴, 維持原判
33
A condition precedent to
... 前的條件
34
I have a hunch that you would
be here
35
Come along for the ride/ look on/ watch the fun
看熱鬧
36
A last-gasp
goal
37
Whiz it up with a food
processor
38
A green scouring
pad
39
Use a pestle and mortar
to bash the fennel seed
40
I am raring
to go
41
arrest of
growth
42
brave the
heavy rain
43
fish maw
花膠
44
He was released from bail on
medical parole
45
His death added a dramatic touch to
this year's vigil
46
Fight for the crackdown to be
redressed
47
Something for Hong Kong to be justifiably
proud of
48
Keep the candle burning for as long
as it takes
49
His comment reduced her to
tears
50
Classy even in the face
of disrespect
51
He turned to support the
underdog
52
Join in on
the fun
53
Cheer their heart
out for
54
He is stripped of
the title
55
That slide tackle does not even
receive a caution
56
a segregated section for
away fans
57
Kudos
to
58
Well
mannered
59
A sob
story
60
Remember the day
in veiled reference
61
In a thinly veiled reference to
Barack Obama, ...
62
A drunk driver mowed down
Lantau Cattle
63
A dented car stained with
animal hair
64
Compassionate
allowance
65
Miscarriage of
justice
66
An armchair critic
/ gardener/ traveler
67
He took a vow to abstain
from alcohol
68
Stock stage an awesome comeback
on another wild day
69
Euro gains as ECB seen on hold,
Fed worries linger
70
Force their way into
the apartment
71
He did not heed her
assurance that she was a policewoman
72
They are still divided on
the issue
73
Cover up a
naughty doodle
74
a bind over
a good behaviour order under which charges are withdrawn as long as the offender agrees to abide by the court's terms
75
A binding-over order is not
a let-off
76
A rallying point for
activists
77
A case dropped in fall and
revived in February
78
Hone fighting
skills
79
The hunger
pang
80
A pang of
jealousy
81
A rainbow heralds
change
82
He has been asked to take on the mantle of
managing director in New York office
83
inherit the
mantle
84
Stick around for a few more
days
85
I sneaked a phone
call
86
a sting
operation
87
I have a brush with
death on the motorcycle
88
Spare me the
scare tactic
89
The cat is the bane
of my life
90
He has his own
agenda
91
Signed a petition calling for his
pardon in the United States
92
An 800-strong police force already on terror
alert at Heathrow
93
The 'cherry-pick' facets of text to
focus
94
It is on the flip side of
the page
95
Wave goodbye to
sb
96
Pass the buck
to sb
97
She has eyes in the back of
her head
98
They are rolling in
money
99
My ears are burning.
Someone must be talking about me
100
Come across
as
101
As though
As if
102
Beyond
the pale
103
At a/one stroke
by a single action having immediate effect
104
Be in hot
water
105
He was imprisoned on
trumped-up corruption charges
106
Give you a sneak peek
of what we are doing
107
Have pillow
lips
108
A well thought-out
plan
109
I will strike what you have
just said
110
Get on sb's
nerves
111
Boil it
down to
112
Bump my
fist
113
America's prying
eyes
114
Fun-
laden
115
You will see them in a
complete new light
116
Take a peek at
the questions
117
Slip drug
in her drink
118
He was arrested on
suspicion of corruption
119
Too
chatty
120
Ward off
his touch
121
Had she not faint,
I would...
122
Run counter to
expectations
123
My batteries were
flat
124
Grind to
a halt
125
An ambulance or fire tender with its
light flashing and siren blaring
126
A grease
spot
127
Give him the
brush off
128
Apparently superfluous
information
129
Try hard to curry favour
with his bishop
130
I would not try to steer you
away from that conclusion
131
Rise to the
occasion
132
Doll yourself
up
133
A tough nut
to crack
134
Fish for
fame
135
Always harp on the
same thing
136
We have lost everything that we
cherish and hold dear
137
The sentence/voice trails
off
138
Pack a
punch
139
Bodily
touch
140
During the
small hours
141
In an attempt to chat
up a girl
142
He walked her toa place near
her address
143
He was taken
aback
144
My game, my turf
, my rule
145
The controversy has already
reached fever pitch
146
They are not political
pawns
147
Become a pawn in the
chess board
148
His parents footed the bill
for his course fees
149
Two listing candidates open
retail books today
150
I thought you knocked
her up
151
Give sb an
earful
152
He plays hooky all
the time
153
Go out with
a bang
154
Be barking up the
wrong tree
155
All that work
down to drain
156
The specter of higher interest
rates is looming
157
It may be sweltering outside but
that's what's driving up the hemlines all around
158
Independents who had been
non-committal
159
Twirl
gyroscopes
160
Swing a ball
on its tether
161
Sunglasses with prescription
lens
162
Suffer a
relapse cancer
163
After exchanging pleasantries, the delegation revealed
the purpose of their visit
164
To work in accordance with the
laid-down norms/ procedures
165
She waded in
with her opinion
166
Series
Premiere
167
The book is perfectly pitched
to meet the needs of
168
Run
into sb
169
A latent
artistic talents
170
Barely a day goes by
without...
171
No preordained fate
awaiting
172
The students' language
proficiency leaves much to be desired
173
Chinese to English translation
was especially trying to them
174
A nonchalant
shrug
175
Cook the
books
176
'Black Monday' in Shanghai as the index
registers/ posts its biggest fall in four years with investors spooked by the squeeze on the interbank market
177
Mounting cash crunch worries
sent mainland stocks into freefall
178
Push certain borrowing entities to
the brink of default
179
Hong Kong stocks took
a hammering
180
Following the regional rout,
... plunged...
181
Cash crunch would continue to
wrech havoc on embattled financial institutions
182
..., citing concerns
over...
183
To mitigate
risk
184
There has been no flood
of credit
185
Stoke volatility across
financial markets
186
Jumble
sale
187
There is a grand scheme
behind
188
To make peace
with sb
189
Hong Kong way of life is characterized among
other things by laissez-faire economy
190
Stretching out the tired limbs,
she felt the tensions of the day drain away
191
Stamp the tide of
population movement
192
A brain
drain
193
In a CV,
every sentence should pack a punch
194
Spell the
end of
195
Attached lots of significance
to
196
cut adrift
from
197
His account is both introspective
and anecdotal
198
Will not buckle to
the threat
199
Wheeling and dealing
and trading
200
Involve a
shady deals
201
Get into a
squabble
202
I am a
slow burner
203
Time is the herald
of time
204
Bake the
ledger
205
He ratted
on us
206
Play a
third wheel
207
Give sb
the brush-off
208
Go out with her on a
proper date
209
Bring sth to
the fore
210
Another area that would merit further investigation
concerns the way in which...
211
With the benefit of
hindsights...
212
It would throw a wrench
to the system
213
Stretch
the law
214
It is the last thing
you want
215
A flaky
degree
216
Sometimes life squeezes out
the best of us
217
The topic at
hand
218
She tucked a loose
strand of hair behind her ears
219
There are so many different strands to the
plot that it's quite hard to follow
220
The judge issued a
gagging order
221
We will see how the
story evolves
222
Poems are
highly-wrought
223
Sear into
our memory
224
Point of
departure
225
Act like
a Red Guard
226
Become cannibal of
our own business
227
Fly off the
handle
228
All work and no play makes
Jack a dull boy
229
Meddle in internal
Hong Kong affairs
230
It ran under the headline:
"..."
231
There are no hard-and-fast
rules for
232
Although it is tempting to
think that
233
A case in point
is ...
234
Generalization
1. plural (common) - computers are...
2. singular + def art (formal) - The computer is
235
The staggering publicity
stunt
236
A numerical
ruse
237
Political
grandstanding
238
The legal battle
could leave the club in limbo
239
Field a group of experts
/ workforce
240
Due to a whole
host of factors outside our control
241
Take our place by
undercutting the narrow margins
242
We have established baseline
resources
243
Grandstanding theatrics cannot
settle this dispute
244
Would you like to
venture a guess?
245
On second
thought,
246
Scale
new heights
247
None of the evidence adduced in
court was conclusive
248
The boy was found lying face-up under a slab of concrete which
had been weighted down further with a wooden trolley
249
The boy was covered
in scratches
250
Foster
mother
251
Concrete
drain cover
252
Raise the alarm
call the police
253
He was only a matter of feet from
the entrance of an underpass
254
Get short end of
the stick
255
I was nowhere near
the place
256
What are you
up to?
257
In the middle of
something?
258
Keep his plan close to
his vest
259
The robbers walked out right
under the nose of the guard
260
A microcosm of
Hong Kong society
261
To go "off the grid"
in Hong Kong
262
Lift the lid on
intelligence gathering
263
I am not
amused
264
A crisp HK$500
note
265
Haggle with
station staff
266
Spend 45 minutes
traipsing around in the heat
267
Install alarms in
stairwells
268
HSBC acknowledged
compliance lapses
269
Thwart financial
crime
270
Window
dressing
271
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