IDIOMS Talk to a brick wall = talk to an unresponsive person Put someone in the picture To be in a fix = be in difficulty To be in a tight corner = be in a situation that is hard to get out of To be in muddle = be confused/mixed up To take a back seat = let other acts instead To take the bull by the horns = act positively to face and attack the problem To stir things up = do/say things that make the situation worse To pour oil on troubled waters = do/say things that calm situation down Hear it on the grapevine = nghe tin don Get our act together = organize ourselves to response Get to the bottom of things = find the true explanation for the state of affairs To get a grasp of = to find out/understand See light at the end of the tunnel Come to a dead end Swept under the carpet = ignored/deliberately forgotten, without solving it He’s always beating about the bush (noi vong vo) The devil makes work for idle hands (nhan cu vi bat thien) Idle talks : chuyen vo van Long-term strategy You can't get a ticker for love or money (can't make it happen=impossible) It's time to love you and leave you (time to say goodbye) To see the red light (linh cam thay tai hoa) It is a red rag to him (make him angry) Red tape (beuraucracy) In the red = being in debt -> be out of the red Not give a red cent for sth = don't look down/ignore sth Paint the town red = di ra ngoia va enjoy the good time at the bar, night club, etc.. Once in a blue moon = nam thi muoi hoa Blue-eye boy = cuc cung Carry the can = to be held responsible Game plan = strategy and tactics The bottom line = the most important fact In the hot seat = the person responsible for some difficult decisions A closed book = a totally unfamiliar Bit the dust = went out of biz (last year two of our main competitors bit the dust Double Dutch = completely confusing (it is double Dutch to me) High profile = is very well known ( he is very well known in the banking world) On the drawing board = in the planning stage (the project is still on the drawing board) A head start = a competitive advantage (Due to its experience in Europe, the company has a head start over its competitors) Talk shop = talk about biz Shop around for sth = consider carefully Prime time = peak view hours A bolt out of the blue = sth you don't expect that happen A black look = angry with so The green light = signal to move forward A green belt area = surrounding areas with plants, trees, fresh air
Em cũng đang chờ "the green light" để "move forward" nè anh nganPH ơi! Nhưng khổ nổi chỉ toàn thấy "the red light" ko à! "Move forward" em sợ bị "the police" thổi lại lắm Cho em xì pam chút xíu để thêm phần sôi động nha anh nganPH !!
Pls do sth while waiting for the green light...and bear in mind that green or red...also denpend on you....Have you ever heard that .....that is your choice??....hehe.. Good luck!..
Yeap, totally agree with "uncle" NganPH, that if just waiting for the"green light" without doing something may waste time and loosing some good chances to "move forward". Sometime, we should... not care "the police" if we really want the "green light" come earlier!...
Thanks "uncle" nganPH & HoaBatTu. I not only wait for "the green light", but also I will do sth to make "the green light" signals for my love. And next Valentine' Day is a good chance for me... Have a romantic Valentine's Holiday, all "family"!
A friend sent me this...really meaningful...best wishes! LET IT REALLY SINK IN.......THEN CHOOSE . John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, 'If I were any better, I would be twins!' He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation. Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and asked him, 'I don't get it!' 'You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?' He replied, 'Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or...you can choose to be in a bad mood I choose to be in a good mood.' Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or...I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or...I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life. 'Yeah, right, it's not that easy,' I protested. 'Yes, it is,' he said. 'Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live your life.' I reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back. I saw him about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, 'If I were any better, I'd be twins...Wanna see my scars?' I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place. 'The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon-to-be born daughter,' he replied. 'Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or...I could choose to die.. I chose to live.' 'Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness? ' I asked. He continued, '....the paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man'. I knew I needed to take action.' 'What did you do?' I asked. 'Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me,' said John. 'She asked if I was allergic to anything 'Yes, I replied.' The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Gravity'' Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.' He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude.... I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything. "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. You have two choices now: 01. Delete this 02. Forward it to the people you care about. I and You know the choice I made
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