【-Feature 】 English learning expert reminder: English learning is used to move, be active in your study! for following these materials, please do not just see naore, or spur of the moment, but rather to emphasize adherence! English learning no shortcuts, only one step at a time! this is about learning English cultural trap with a focus on real-world context to understand its usage!
1. You have matches
Recently I had a chance to embark on a luxury cruise ship tourism. Once I bar desk took two cocktail to enjoy on the way back to my room, met a lady, she looks at me with a smile: "You have matches?" I am dumbfounded replied: "I'm sorry, I just quit smoking 15 years ago, so there are no matches. "She immediately knowing that I had misunderstood the meaning of her, seems a bit sorry to say:" It ' s a joke. "and then we are embarrassed to smile, and walked away. Ex-post and friends in the chat at dinner, I took advantage of the United States to a friend for advice during the day that sentence, he said: "because she see you both share a joke with the intent to match, this is a very common jokes, instead of malicious, but to ask do you need help. ”
2. Turn the table
A relative and wife divide up to divorce. A few days ago received a relative of the phone, saying they entered the law firm before to have recourse to experts on psychological and marriage. The couple calmly sit down and talk about the good times, mutual understanding and a more than a suspicion, complain, hatchets pen. That simple or straightforward, so save the marriage. I heart my eyes as they pleased, put this news as well as their friends in one of the United States. This friend quite excited, he said "thank God, thank God," she added the phrase "He turned the table".
These things make me feel uncomfortable, she refers to my relatives rough? I wonder and said: "no, no, he was very polite, very gentle, not to be rude gesture pressed each other, not to let the other subjugated under high pressure. "As a result, more who didn't understand. Look at my face unpleasant look, my friend was suddenly very enlightening to another way to explain to me. Finally let me know that she is, my relatives "reversing the situation", "table" and I thought nothing of the "table".
Say away, turn the tables (on someone) this phrase also and "table" is okay, it's mean to suddenly take a position of strength or advantage that was formerly held by someone else (a weaker opponent, as strong). For example: "She played badly in the first set, but then she turned the tables on her opponent and won the match."
3. Wearing two hats
Colleagues, friends, not to introduce each other. Introduction to me in his colleague Larry, said he's a busy man: "He is wearing two hats." I said, you're kidding, he's not a hat. Larry has to laugh to answer, but the wind blows, Mr. know I do not understand, it will help me to find the next steps. Originally, Mr. refers to Larry in the hospital positions in a sector, there are your own business, that Larry wearing two hats, not really wearing two hats.
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