Noun + Compound Noun
- built-up resentment
- money issue
- text message
- drifter (= someone who is always moving from one job or place to another with no real purpose)
- New Year’s Eve party
- stroke of midnight
- small/large intestine (of a pig)
- confrontation
- bowling alley (= a building where you go bowling)
- carpeted garage
- cordless phone
- gigahertz
- spectrum (= a complete range of radio, sound etc waves)
- lunatic
- a bike ride
- router
- a limp (= the way someone walks when they are limping)
- quirk (= a strange habit or feature of someone’s character, or a strange feature of something)
- squad car / patrol car (= a car used by police on duty)
- police blanket
- firmware (固件）
- encryption
- ethernet cable
- dummy
- imbecile
- lecture (= an act of criticizing someone or warning them about something in a long serious talk, in a way that they think is unfair or unnecessary)
Verb + Phrasal Verb
- pick up (= lift up)
- contain
- wash someone out
- keep sth up (= to continue doing something)
- run up (= to make something, especially clothes, very quickly)
- spit on (sb)
- get out of sth/doing sth (= to avoid doing something you have promised to do or are supposed to do)
- pick up on sth (= to notice something about the way someone is behaving or feeling, even though they are trying not to show it)
- live up to sth (= if something or someone lives up to a particular standard or promise, they do as well as they were expected to, do what they promised etc)
- refer to sb/sth as …
- gag (= to be unable to swallow and feel as if you are about to bring up food from your stomach)
- spring for sth (= to pay for something) I’ll spring for the beer tonight
- interfere
- unplug
- mock
- go over (to)
- text (him) back
- fill (yourself) up (= to eat so much food that you cannot eat any more)
- dine on (= to eat a particular kind of food for dinner, especially expensive food)
- come at sb/sth (= to move towards someone in a threatening way)
- make out (with) sb
- tip over
- beat (= to be much better and more enjoyable than something else)
When someone says a light-colored shirt washes someone out, they mean that the color of the shirt makes the person’s skin tone look pale, dull, or less vibrant.
She can run up a dress in an evening.
Children pick up on our worries and anxieties.
gag on the smell of paint
if something interferes with a radio or television broadcast, it spoils the sound or picture that you receive I thought maybe the cordless phone was interfering.
if you tip something over, or if it tips over, it falls or turns over
Adjective + Adverb
- flirty
- (kiss)-worthy moment
- needy (= needing and wanting a lot of love and attention)
- dorky (= physically or socially awkward or not fashionable)
- underrated
- departed (= dead – used in order to avoid saying the word ‘dead’)
- demonstrative (= willing to show that you care about someone) My mother wasn’t demonstrative; she never hugged me.
- lovey-dovey
- coy (= especially of women, being or pretending to be shy, or like a child 扭扭捏捏) a coy smile
- per se (= by or of itself)
behaviour that is lovey-dovey is too romantic
It is not divorce per se that harms children, but the continuing conflict between parents.
Collocation (verb+noun)
- save sb the trouble (of doing sth)
- make up an excuse
- crack jokes (on/about)
- draw the curtains
- get/gain a reputation
- show affection
- install new drivers (驱动）
Collocation (adj+noun)
- built-up resentment
- bare/absolute minimum (= the very least amount or number)
Collocation (verb+adverb)
- highly doubt it
- be emotionally closed off
Phrase + Idiom
- public display of affection/grief/emotion etc (= showing your emotions so that everyone can see)
- lose touch with sb/sth
- be/get involved with sb (= to be having a romantic relationship with someone, especially a sexual one)
- fall (far/ a long way/ well) short of sth
- be ashamed of yourself/ who you are
- not (even) go there (= to not start or think about or discuss a subject)
- give sb hell (= to treat someone in an unpleasant or angry way)
- get on with sth (= used to tell someone to hurry)
- be at it again
- be off base (= to be completely wrong)
- the better/best part of sth (= nearly all of something)
- on the table
- not a chance (= there is no possibility)
- be worth doing sth
- make a fool of sb
- let sb in on sth (= to tell sb about sth that is secret)
fall short of sth: to be less than what you need, expected, or hoped for, or to fail to reach a satisfactory standard fall short of a goal/target/ideal
if you say that someone is at it again, you mean that they are doing something you disapprove of, which they have done before
the better part of a half hour
an offer, idea etc that is on the table has been officially suggested and someone is considering it
I’m feeling a little bit disconnected from Alex.
You can’t go wrong here.
come to me in my dreams
has better chance of doing sth (than sb)
Why don’t you save us the stomping and swearing?
You know what takes real strength?
I would like for you to kiss me.
Did you know how embarrassing this is for me?
Don’t turn this on me.
I kind of feel like we’re spinning out here a little bit.
don’t be such a chicken
We’ve got intestines coming.
walk in the footsteps of the ancestors
This happens to be …
Why is that something we have to do?
What does that have to do with anything?
What do I do about tomorrow?
