常见的英语俚语有什么

学习英语口语，不知道下面这些英语俚语，可是很难和外国人很好的交流的。我们一起去看看吧。

· one’s brain child某人的主意，某人想出来的.

等同于one’s original idea

one’ brain children(复数)

the new ways of teaching which have been proved very effective are brain children of all teaching staff of our department.

· have a chip on one’s shoulder叫阵，叫板

he is not popular among his peers. he always seems to have a chip on his shoulder.

此外该语还有“不满”，“对抗”的意思

mary has got a chip on her shoulder about not having obtained the scholarship.

· clam up守口如瓶，拒不开口，沉默不语

i don’t understand why my students are quite talkative during the break but all clam up in class.

· take someone to the cleaners使人囊中如洗，一贫如洗

don’t ask me to play in a crap game. i don’t want to be the cleaners.

· a cliff-hanger扣人心玄的事情

peter was nearly involved in a car accident. he called it a narrow escape. but it was really a cliff-hanger.

· fight the clock争分夺秒，与时间赛跑

等同于work against the clock

if you don’t fight the clock to enrich yourself, you will surely be lagged behind soon.

· a clotheshorse讲究穿戴的人

princess diana was a real clotheshorse. it’s hard to imagine how much she had spent on clothes.

· get hot under the collar发怒，怒气冲天

make someone hot under the collar

he got hot under the collar when he found his bicycle was missing.

· come through with flying colors干得出色，大获成功

in the 13th asian games, chinese athletic team came through with flying colors

· show (reveal) one’s true colors原形毕露

he always appears polite and gentle. but his quarrelling with others in dirty words show his true colors.

· come up with找出，想出，弄出，提出

等同于to produce, to find out, to think out

after three days’of deep thinking, the manager came up with an idea of promoting the products.