これらの英語表現は、私のお気に入りのコーチシェーンのDaily easy expressionsから引用させて頂いております。もしあなたがスピーキング力を伸ばしたい、海外の映画やドラマを楽しみたい、ネイティブイングリッシュスピーカーと会話を楽しみたいと思って英語学習をしているのであれば、おすすめです。
201 Swagger
Meaning: men who are too confident
意味: 自信過剰な(男)
Look at that guy swagger.
202 even(two usages)
①more, to emphasize: This road is even nicer.
②flat: The road is very even.
203 may be OR maybe
①may be: You may be pregnant.
②maybe(adverb): Maybe
204 CONtent or conTENT?
①CONtent: material or stuff that we are studying or reading
②conTENT: satisfied
205 classic and classical
①classic: something representative
②classical: ancient Greek or Roma
206 to hunker down
Meaning: to get serious, really focus
意味: 〜に集中してる
207 frazzled
Meaning: extremely tired in a nervous
意味: くたくたな
You look frazzled.
208 to flake out
Meaning: To cancel a prearranged meeting, especially at the last minute
意味: ドタキャンする
He flaked out again.
209 to have a hankering for〜
Meaning: want to〜
意味: 〜が欲しい
I have a hankering for donuts.
210 I even(+ verb)
Meaning: You might be surprised at what I verb
意味: 〜さえする（強調）
I even love to wash dishes.
211 Not nearly enough…
Meaning: way too little
意味: 全然足りない
You don’t love me nearly enough.
212 What’s all the racket?
Meaning: What’s this noise?
意味: 何の騒ぎ？
213 pipe down
Meaning: be quiet
意味: しずかにする
You’d better pipe down.
214 the straight and narrow
Meaning: to carefully follow the rules to be a good person
意味: 道徳的に正しい生活
you have to stick to the straight and narrow.
215 on a health kick
Meaning: concentrate on his or her health
意味: 健康を心がけてる
216 Nothing but the best.
Meaning: only the best
意味: 最高のもの
217 great taste
Meaning: discerning judgement
意味: センスがある
I have great taste in clothing.
218 devastated
Meaning: extremely sad
意味: 絶望している
I’m devastated!
219 to mull it over
Meaning: to think about it carefully
意味: よく考える
I’m still mulling it over.
220 give a wide berth
Meaning: give a lot of space or distance
意味: 距離やスペ−スを置く
You should always give emergency vehicles a wide berth.
221 in my clutches
Meaning: I’m holding〜
意味: 握っている、掌握している
The US wants Snowden in its clutches.
222 To be at the helm
Meaning: to be a leader
意味: リーダーになる
Tim Cook’s at the helm.
223 to be up to something
Meaning: doing something suspicious
意味: 何かを企む
I think he’s up to something.
224 Beggars can’t be choosers.
Meaning: you can’t request stg, if you are given stg by someone
意味: 何かを貰う側は、選べない
225 a cheat sheet
Meaning: small pieced of paper that u use cheat
意味: カンペ
226 to ditch
Meaning: to leave somebody to run away from somebody
意味: 人を巻く
I’m trying to ditch him.
227 to be in the moment
Meaning: ur entire mind focusing on
意味: 何かに集中している
He is totally in the moment.
228 Twoosh
Meaning: Swoosh of Twitter version
ur tweet is just 140 letters, u can say Twoosh
229 ~ gone wild
Meaning: go chaos, messy, and crazy
意味: カオス、大混乱
Laws gone wild
230 Corny
Meaning: stupid, simple, clean and childish
意味: くだらない
That’s corny joke.
231 dress-down Friday
Meaning: a policy that allowing employees to wear informal clothing on Friday
We’ll have dress-down Fridays!
232 to be out of sorts
Meaning: not able to concentrate on something
意味: 調子が悪い
Sorry~ I’m outta sorts today.
233 Happy holidays!
Meaning: Merry Christmas, happy new year and so on
234 holiday traffic
Meaning: a traffic which is caused on holidays
235 to hound somebody
Meaning: don’t bother me, stop nagging me
Quit hounding me~
236 bores me to tears
Meaning: super boring
意味: めちゃくちゃ退屈
It bored me to tears~
237 to have the guts
Meaning: to have courage, to be brave
意味: ガッツだぜ
You don’t have the guts.
238 It’s all Greek to me.
Meaning: can’t understand al all
意味: 全く理解できない
239 to foot the bill
Meaning: to pay the bill
意味: 会計をする
Who’s gonna foot the bill?
240 stocking stuffer
Meaning: socks that we hang them on Christmas.
241 I’m fixing to /I’m finna (fixing to)do something
Meaning: I’m going to/getting ready to
意味: 〜するつもり
I’m finna make some hammers!
242 stoop so low as to~
Meaning: to do stg evil secretly
意味: 悪いことを(誰か)にする
I can’t believe you’d stoop so low.
243 stoop so low to~
Meaning: to be disgustingly nice to his or her boss and so on
意味: 媚び諂う
You stoop SO low.
244 Auld Lang Syne
Meaning: the name of song that's usually sung the last day of year
意味: 蛍の光の原曲
245 starting is half the battle
Meaning: the most difficult thing is starting
意味: 初めるのが一番難しい
246 Go with the flow
Meaning: to follow everybody else
意味: ノリで、流れで、皆に習って〜する
247 to make ends meet
Meaning: to make income and expense same
意味: 収支をoにする
248 spick and span
Meaning: super clean
意味: ピカピカ
249 out of my league
Meaning: too difficult, can’t handle
意味: 難しすぎる、手に負えない
250 to do a disservice to someone
Meaning: a harmful action
意味: 良くないことをする
You’re doing your kid a disservice.
251 the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree
Meaning: like father like sun, like mother like daughter
意味: 蛙の子は蛙
252 easy on the eyes/ears/taste buds
Meaning: it’s nice, enjoyable
意味: 目や耳にいい
Something easier on the eyes, please.
253 to have a way with ~
Meaning: much influence, be able to manipulate
意味: 〜の扱い方を知っている
Shane really has a way with animals!
254 in/out on/off
I'm in: working in the office
I'm out: working out of office(or vacation)
I’m on: working
I'm off: day off
255 party away VS party on
party away: to party really hard and long until u fall asleep
party on: Greeting at a party
256 That figures~~
Meaning: that doesn’t surprise me, that makes sense
意味: 納得、辻褄があう
257 What for?
Meaning: Why?/For what?/How come?
意味:なんで？
258 to hit on someone
Meaning: seduce to someone
意味: ナンパする
Were you hitting on her?
259 to hit it off
Meaning: to get along very well, naturally become good friend
意味: 馬がある
You and Dean hit it off.
260 to throw in the towel
Meaning: to give up
意味: 諦める
I threw in the towel.
261 to be BOUND TO verb…
Meaning: surely you will verb
意味: きっと〜する
You’re bound to learn something in every class.
262 binding VS bound to
binding: obligatory
ex. I signed a binding contract.
bound to NOUN: u are tied to noun, u must follow noun
ex. I’m bound to it for 3 years
263 stay on my tail.
Meaning: stay right behind me
意味: しっかり付いて来て
264 bawling your eyes out
Meaning: ur eyes are so many tears coming out
意味: 大泣きする
265 going through a rough patch
Meaning: to experience a difficult or bad time
意味: 大変な経験をする
266 a slacker
Meaning: a person who doesn’t work hard
意味: サボり魔
He’s SUCH a slacker.
267 slacking off
Meaning: doing nothing when u are supposed to do stg
意味: サボる
I’ve never seen you slacking off!
268 What have you been up to?
Meaning: What have u been doing?
意味: どうしてたの？
269 I’m stumped.
Meaning: can’t solve a problem
意味: お手上げ
270 Taken aback
Meaning: angry, insulted, shocked
意味: ちょっと引いた、驚いた
She was taken aback.
271 slack up
Meaning: to not be so hard/ to be nice
意味: 優しくする
You should slack up a bit.
272 Give a shout out to ~
Meaning: to say special Hi to someone on TV or radio
意味: 〜に（特別な）挨拶をする
Lemme give a shout out to my mom!
273 to get cold feet
Meaning: to get nervous/scared
意味: ビビる
You got cold feet!
274 save it for a rainy day
Meaning: save it for just in case
意味: もしもの時に
275 trendy
Meaning: very popular now
意味: 流行の、トレンディな
But they try to be so trendy.
276 stay ahead of the game
Meaning: ahed of the commotion
意味: 一歩先をゆく
I try to stay ahead of the game.
277 pretty beat
Meaning: extremely tired
意味: めちゃくちゃ疲れた
I’m pretty beat.
278 a crock
Meaning: full of lie(casual expressions)/bullshit
意味: 嘘だらけ
This site is a crock.
279 ~ not carved in stone
Meaning: can’t be changed
意味: もはや変えられない
it’s not carved in stone!
280 one too many
Meaning: excessively
意味: 余計な、過剰な
You smiled at her one time too many!
281 cut me some slack
Meaning: please be nice
意味: 勘弁してよ、大目に見てよ
282 to crack open
Meaning: just a little bit open
意味: ちょっと開ける
283 to feel stifled
Meaning: feel u can’t breeze because of air quality or stressful atmosphere
意味: 息の詰まる(空気が汚いor重い)
I feel so stifled in this office.
Crack open the window, dirty man.
284 to stifle something
Meaning: restrict stg
意味: 〜を抑える
285 a crook
Meaning: a person who steals stg
意味: 泥棒、詐欺師
You’re a crook!
You’re stifling my emotions.
286 right off the bat.
Meaning: immediately
意味: 直ぐに
The teacher gave us a test right off the bat.
287 food for thought
Meaning: should think about
意味: 検討しなければならない
Here’s some food for thought: they say it takes 10,000 hours to master something
288 to scramble
Meaning: to move quickly/ to mix
意味: 早く動く/ごちゃまぜ
You’d better scramble.
289 out of sight, out of mind
Meaning: if u don’t see, u do not think about it
意味: 去る者は日々に疎し/見なければ、考えずに済む
290 it’ll never fly
Meaning: it’ll never happen
意味: 起こり得ない/ありえない
291when pigs fly
Meaning: it’ll never happen
意味: ありえない/起こり得ない
292 to pick someone’s brain
Meaning: to ask someone to help
意味:知恵を借りよう
293 a train wreck
Meaning: a trouble maker
意味：トラブルメーカー
294 pushing up daisies
Meaning: to die
意味：死ぬ
295 out in the sticks
Meaning: very country
意味：ど田舎
296 How does～ strike you?
Meaning: What do you think of～?
意味：～についてどう思う？
297 a little too strange
Meaning: too much strange
意味：奇妙すぎる
298 raining cats and dogs
Meaning: It rains a lot
意味：土砂降りの雨
299 back in the saddle
Meaning: to be back at work/to start something again
意味：仕事に戻る/また何かを始める
300 all too much
Meaning: crazy bad/absolutely stupid/ridiculous
意味：すごく悪い、馬鹿げている
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