pull out of one's ass
(idiomatic, vulgar, transitive) To fabricate (a factual-sounding claim) from no factual basis or evidence

A: Have you bought a bus pass yet? B: I'm not getting one. A: Why is that? B: It's cheaper if I don't buy one. A: Buying a bus pass will save you money. B: How do you figure that? A: There's no limit to how often you can use your bus pass. B: Really?

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(195) / 评论(0) 分类 实用乘车英语

A: Could I buy a bus pass today? B: Which bus pass would you like to purchase? A: What kinds of passes are there? B: There are day passes, weekly passes, monthly passes, and student passes. A: Let me get a student pass. B: Could I see your student ID

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A: I would like to get a bus pass. B: Do you know what kind of pass you want? A: Can you tell me my options? B: There are passes for a day, month, and week, and there are student passes. A: I would like the student pass. B: Let me see your student ID

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A: I need to buy a bus pass. B: What kind of bus pass would you like to buy? A: What are the different kinds? B: You can get a day, weekly, monthly, or student pass. A: Could I get a student pass, please? B: Sure, can I see your student ID? A: Sure,

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busting my ass 的意思是让难堪/ 努力工作 例句: I wish the directors just would stop, you know, busting my ass because I already have lots of problems. 我真的希望导演别再为难我,我的麻烦事已经够多了。 Every day I

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(227) / 评论(0) 分类 美国俚语

A: Did Richard really go to Italy this summer? A: Richard 这个夏天真的去了意大利了吗? B: No way. He was only pulling your leg and you believed him? B: 哪有可能? 他只是跟你开玩笑的, 你还当真啊? 这也是一个跟「腿」有

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参考对话: A: Honey, this is going to be my last cigarette. I'm not gonna smoke again, I promise. A: 宝贝, 这将是我最后一支烟。 我保证不会再抽了。 B: This is going to be your last cigarette, my ass. B: 这会是你的最后一

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As Aesop's lion was going to the forest in company with an ass,who was to assist him with his terrible voice,an impertinent crow called to him from a tree:A pretty companion!Are you not ashamed of yourself to be walking with an ass?Whomsoev

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An ass and an ox,fastened to the same yoke,were draging a waggon.While the ox was pulling with all his might he he broke a horn.The ass swore that he had got no help whatever from his weak companion.Exerting himself in the labour,the ox b

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to keep one's eyes peeled to have the wool over one's eyes 美国人似乎有不少用眼睛这个字,也就是英文里的eyes这个字组成的成语和俗语。我们曾经在前面的课文中给大

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Pull Out of Japanese Car Maker Toyota Latest Hit To Australia's Economy 丰田退出冲击澳大利亚经济 From VOA Learning English, this is the Economics Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语经济报道。 Automobile manufacturing in Austral

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To shake a leg To pull one's leg 美国的成语和俗语,也和其他语言一样,有许多都是由身体各个部份的名称组成的。例如:To follow your nose是指

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to pull no punches straight from the horse's mouth 大多数人都认为诚实和坦率是一个很好的品质,尽管我们不见得每时每刻都能够做到,美国人也不例外。在美国的日

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to pull your socks up to knock your socks off 许多美国成语或者习惯用语都是以各种衣服的名称来组成的。比如说,

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By Pearse Lynch Nairobi 04 August 2006 Deep divisions within the transitional government of Somalia appear to be worsening, with four more ministers defecting from the administration. International observers fear rising tension in Somalia could engu

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As an ass was quietly dining on thistles,he beheld a shepherd seated beneath a tree,awakening sweet echoes on his flute,and charming the ears of all within hearing,excepting our discontented lop-eared brute,who thus soliloquized:The world

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SINGAPORE, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- Italy's 19-year-old Matteo Manassero holed a 12-foot putt for eagle on the third play-off hole to win the Singapore Open on Sunday, beating South African player Louis Oosthuizen. It also makes Manassero the first teenag

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By Steve Herman Kathmandu 13 April 2008 The leader of Nepal's Maoists is trying to reassure his country and the world that the former rebels will play a constructive political role as election returns show the far-left party making a much stronger-th

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我们上次学的习惯用语都有push也就是推这个词,而我们今天要讲的习惯用语却都有一个动作相反的词pull, 也就是拉。我们先要学两个习惯用语,它们分别是:pull for. Pull for是打气、鼓劲,或

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美国习惯用语第854:完成自己那份工作(音频) pull one's own weight 我最喜欢参加的志愿活动就是翻修房子,为低收入的人提供住处。亲手让一栋破破烂烂的老房子焕然一新,会有一种难以言表的成就

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4-hydroxy-2-methyl-pentanal
abrasive grit
air defense identification zone
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ankh
Antijanira
articulationes composita
backup ring
Baron Lister
barotraumatic otitis media
beef trust
beurt
biachaenium
black-lung
bleed illustration
bosutinib
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civil twilight
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coltlike
cooling pipe grid
counter-image
cross-over unit
cryptal
Director of Public Prosecutions
disproportionation
dock asthma
dry-insulation transformer
extraocular muscles
family Branchiobdellidae
farabi
fist-fucker
flavophospine
flooding irrigation method
genre fiction
geop. (geopotential)
granby
Great Barton
gulacave
hengerer
hypobranchial bone
hypocardia
IM us
inductive reasonings
insurance idemnity
intergeniculate
Karl-Marx-Stadt
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kjellberg
layer-crossing regulation
lift to drag ratio
man of war
mbwela
mechanical working
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military personnels
money paid in advance
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multimode terminal
narrow heritability
noiseproofed
often-quoted
osterye
packet loss
paint bridge
plaster model
portable irradiation facility
propodeal
quadrant photomultiplier
range sweep
rudniks
scanning radiometer data manipulator (srdm)
schoolteacherish
scotophilus sp.
security operation
self-possessedly
service law
single hologram
snigglers
syphionthus
tackle up
take the mickey out of someone
theater missile defence project
thermal lamination
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thrust side bearing
time point
torsional damping spring
trimatrices
truck loading
turbine floatation
two-toed anteater
uniform connection
vesuvianite
visit with
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wooden handle for men's umbrella