老外聊天必备英语俚语短语有哪些

在英语里，存在着大量的俚语短语，这些俚语短语相当于我们中国的民间俗语。下面，小编就为大家盘点一下老外聊天必备英语俚语短语有哪些。

· 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.

· 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.

　附：英语单词发音记什么?

记发音时，重音、单词中元音的'发音、偏离发音规律的怪音是记忆的重点，可将之简化为“重、元、怪”。

比如editorial这个词，需要在字母t上标一下重音，否则容易读错。再如，我读错好几年的fundamental，da中的这个a，应该读[ə]，不是[i]，大家可以把这个元音标记一下。

同时提醒大家不要把每个单词的音标都照抄一遍，那样很耽误时间，容易忽略重点。