Thả thính, bó tay, soái ca… là những từ giới trẻ Việt thường xuyên sử dụng hiện nay, khi sang tiếng Anh chúng là flirt, stuck...
1. Flirt
Flirt/flɜrt/ Thả thính, tán tỉnh ai đó.
Ví dụ: He flirts with her [Anh ta hay thả thính cô ấy].
2. Prince Charming
Prince Charming/prins ˈtʃɑrmɪŋ/ Soái ca.
Ví dụ: He is really Prince Charming! [Anh ấy đúng là soái ca mà!]
3. Shoot the breeze
Shoot the breeze/ʃu:t ðə bri:z/ Chém gió.
Mai likes to shoot the breeze in her free time. [Mai thích chém gió lúc rảnh rỗi. ]
4. Stuck
Stuck/stʌk/ Bó tay.
Ví dụ: I’m stuck [Tôi bó tay rồi].
5. Dead meat
Dead meat/ded mi:t/ Chết chắc.
Ví dụ: If your mom find out what you did, you’re dead meat! [Nếu mẹ cậu biết việc cậu làm, thì cậu chết chắc rồi.]
6. Haughty
Haughty/´hɔ:ti/ Chảnh, kiêu kỳ.
Ví dụ: She is so haughty [Cô ấy rất chảnh].
7. Green-eyed monster
Green-eyed monster/ Gato, ghen tỵ
Ví dụ: Linh turned into the green-eyed monster when she saw her friend buying a new phone.[Linh 'gato' khi thấy bạn mình mua chiếc điện thoại mới.]
8. A bitter pill to swallow
A bitter pill to swallow/ Đắng lòng.
Ví dụ: Failing the exam was a bitter pill for him to swallow. [Thi trượt thật đắng lòng với cậu ta].
Attested from the late 19th century in the United States in the sense of “bluff”; the sense “speak without authority or knowledge” developed later. Although some people speculate a connection to a former requirement that British Members of Parliament wear hats, the connection is implausible.
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[third-person singular simple present talks through one's hat, present participle talking through one's hat, simple past and past participle talked through one's hat]
- [] To speak lacking expertise, authority, or knowledge; to invent or fabricate facts.Synonym:
- 1900, Gilbert Parker, At The Sign Of The Eagle: "Mr. Pride said to me a moment ago that they spoke better English in Boston than any other place in the world." "Did he, though, Lady Lawless? That's good. Well, I guess he was only talking through his hat." [] To assert something as true or valid; to bluff.
- 1905, “The Norsk Nightingale”, in Popular Mechanics[1], page 478: No, sir, she yust standing pat, / And vonce more she tal her father, / “Yu ban talking tru yure hat!”
1922, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 14, in Right Ho, Jeeves:
He's conceited and opinionative and argues all the time, even when he knows perfectly well that he's talking through his hat.
Dorothy keeps saying she can outrun anyone in our school, but she's talking through her hat if you ask me. It seemed like the candidate was talking through his hat for a while when the debate turned to the topic of tax policy.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2022 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.
talk through one's hat
Fig. to brag or exaggerate; to talk nonsense. That can't be so! You are just talking through your hat! Pay no attention to Mary. She is just talking through her hat.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
talk through one's hat
Talk nonsense; also, hold forth about something one knows very little about. For example, He was talking through his hat when he described the shipwreck, or Mother went on and on about various screwdrivers but in fact she was talking through her hat . The allusion in this idiom makes no sense either, which may be the point. [Late 1800s]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
talk through your hat
talk foolishly, wildly, or ignorantly. informal
Vulgar variants of this expression include talking through your backside , arse , and ass .
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
talk through your ˈhat
[old-fashioned, informal] [usually used in progressive tenses] say silly things while you are talking about a subject you do not understand: Don’t take any notice of him. He’s talking through his hat, as usual.
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talk through one’s hat
in. to say baseless things; to speak carelessly and tell lies. You don’t know what you are talking about. You’re just talking through your hat.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
talk through [one's] hat
1. To talk nonsense.
2. To bluff.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
talk through one's hat, to
To talk nonsense; to pontificate about something one knows little or nothing about. This late nineteenth-century expression calls up an image that makes no sense whatever. Theodore Pratt [Thunder Mountain, 1944] added a little meaning to it, writing, “You’re talking through your hat, and your hat is full of holes.”