| المصطلح | الترجمة | الشرح | مثال |
|---|---|---|---|
| a guinea pig | خنزير تجارب |
شخص ما أو شيء ما يستخدم كموضوع لتجربة
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Jane used her husband as a guinea pig to try her new baked chicken recipe. |
| a gut feeling | شعور غريزي |
حدس أو غريزة ، في مقابل رأي قائم على تحليل منطقي.
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Jennifer's mother had a gut feeling that something was wrong when her daughter wasn't home by 10 o'clock. |
| a gut reaction | رد فعل غريزي |
رد فعل على موقف قائم على غريزة الشخص ومشاعره ، وليس على تحليل منطقي.
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My initial gut reaction was that the merger would result in a drop in stock prices, but the opposite turned out to be true. |
| a hair in the butter | شعرة في الزبدة | مشكلة أو حالة صعبة | Things were going smoothly enough on our road trip until we found out that every hotel in town was booked for the night. Talk about a hair in the butter! |
| a hair of the dog | شعر الكلب |
شعر الكلب هو مشروب كحولي يحاول شخص أن يجعله يشعر بتحسن بعد شرب الكثير من الكحول في اليوم السابق.
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I need a drink, chum. A large hair of the dog. |
| a hair shirt | قميص شعر | ثوب غير مريح مصنوع من شعر خشن أو مواد أخرى تلبس على الجلد. تستخدم في بعض الطقوس الدينية كعقاب أو التوبة. | In ancient times, men would wear a hair shirt as a sign of repentance to their deity for wrongs they had done. |
| a hair's breadth | عرض شعرة |
كمية صغيرة جدا أو مسافة قصيرة.
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After wandering around the forest for an hour thinking we were lost, it turned out that we were only a hair's breadth away from our campsite. |
| a halfway house | منزل في منتصف الطريق |
مرفق سكني يقدم خدمات العلاج وإعادة التأهيل للأشخاص الذين يتغلبون على الإعاقات أو الإدمان.
مزيج من شيئين مختلفين. |
Once the halfway house helps Mark recover from his heroin addiction, he'll be able to return to his hometown and move forward with his life. That restaurant is a halfway house between a burger joint and a sushi bar. Weird, right? |
| a hand in | يد في |
دور المساهمة في شيء ما.
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We're going to find everyone who had a hand in this robbery and arrest them. |
| a hand with | يد مع |
مساعدة في مهمة أو عمل روتيني
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Could you please give me a hand with carrying the laundry up the stairs? |