osmosis：不費力而自然吸收(技術，知識)
　　EX:The little gril learned to play the piano by osmosis. She's a real music genius

　　bring to mind 想起
　　Ex:This film has brought to mind a story I once heard from my professor.

　　the last thing to crsoss sb's mind 做夢都想不到
　　Ex:It was the last thing to cross my mind that he would cheat in the test.

　　basket case失魂落魄的人
　　Ex:After he lost his job, Bob became a real basket case, drinking and messing around every day.

　　loony (or looney) 瘋狂的；無厘�"的
　　Ex:Sometimes he is really loony enough to crack everybody up.

　　pull sb's leg; jerk sb. around 開玩笑
　　Ex:My buddy always enjoys pulling my leg in front of my girlfriend.

　　primp:(花時間)打扮，梳妝
　　Ex:She has been primping for hours for her frist date.

　　savvy 機伶，對？？？瞭若指掌
　　Ex:I'm the one in charge, savvy?
　　Ex:You have to be street savvy to keep yourself from being held up.

　　scope out 瞧瞧
　　Ex:"Why do we go to the beach?" "Dummy,to scope out some girls, of course."

　　spin-off 翻版
　　Ex:Your marriage is exactly a spin-off of the soap opera.

　　spit it out 說出來
　　Ex:Don't be afraid of telling the truth. No one is gonna hurt you. Just spit it out.

　　spread the word about 替…作宣傳
　　Ex:We would like to spread the word about our club to catch people's attention.

　　in stitches呵呵大笑
　　Ex:His talk show kept me in stitches for 30 minutes.

　　hold water 站得住腳
　　Ex: Did you check my hypothesis?
　　Yeah, but I don't think it holds water. Your data are not sufficient.

　　hold on to 留著；保有
　　Ex: Can I hold on to the paper fill next Friday?

　　bring down the house 贏得滿堂采，叫好叫座
　　Ex: The actress brought down the house with her act in this movie.

　　hard to face 難以忍受
　　Ex: I think the manager's sarcastic tone is really hard to take.　Yeah, you can say that again.

　　hash out 費力地做出來
　　Ex: The administration office is hashing out a new policy to increase the budget.

　　crop up 突然出現；發生 (pop up)
　　Ex: There are usually problems cropping up with the intallation of the new software.

　　crack-pot 神經病，腦筋〝秀逗〞
　　Ex: Valerie is sure a crack-pot. She thinks she is haunted by a ghost from the Computer.

　　iffy 不確定
　　Ex: How much budget we can get is still iffy because the board hasn't made the final decision.

　　huff and puff 氣喘吁吁
　　Ex: He was huffing and puffing while walking all the way up to the 10th floow.

　　low-key 隨和的
　　Ex: He owns many famous organizationgs, but he always gives people a low-key impression.

　　loophole 漏洞
　　Ex: There are some loopholes in his testmony.

　　much-touted 議論紛紛的
　　Ex: The much-touted murder was still suspended, and there were a lot of speculations going around.

　　shrug off 一笑置之 (shrug 聳肩)
　　Ex:The neurologist's opinion should not have been shrugged off.

　　a laundry list of… 一長串的
　　Ex:My nephew always asks for a laundry list of gifts when he has a chance.

　　a hole in the wall不起眼的地方
　　Ex:This cafe is a hole in the wall, but it has a very nice selection of salads.

　　high on… 沉迷，熱衷於…
　　Ex:I don't need drugs because I'm high on my life.

　　all hell will break loose 鬧得不可收拾
　　Ex:If you don't apologize for what you have done to her, all hell will break loose.

　　hefty 發福，變胖
　　Ex:John has gotten a little hefty since he began working in the restaurant.

　　sell oneself short 妄自菲薄
　　Ex:You're capable of much more, Tommy. Don't sell yourself short.

　　hoax 騙局
　　Ex:He said that the health food could do wonders, but we just found that it was a hoax.

　　set in 開始
　　Ex:The freezing weather won't set in until next week.

　　rig 動手腳(V.)
　　Ex:They rigged the raffle so nobody would win.

　　rain on one's parade 掃…的興致
　　Ex:I'm really sorry to rain on your parade, but the funding for your research project has been canceled.

　　mudsling(V.)抹黑
　　Ex:That politician's specialty is mudslinging his campaign opponents.

　　fall flat:不能引起興趣；完全失敗
　　Ex:His jokes fell flat because no one could catch on to them.
　　Ex:Far from being received with the enthusiasm that he had expected, his speech fell flat.

　　for the birds:沒趣的，乏味(常用作補語)
　　Ex:I saw the movie you've been raving about. It's just for the birds.

　　get one's own back on a person報復某人(報仇)
　　Ex:He has cheated me this time, but I'll get my own back on him one day.

　　get one's money's worth:得到所花錢的價值
　　Ex:We enjoyed the film so much that we felt we'd got our money's worth.

　　hang by the wall:指擱置不用；被遺忘
　　Ex:He has hundreds of books but most of them hang by the wall.
　　Ex:Most of the problems were solved at the meeting, but two were left hanging by the wall.

　　have a bone to pick with sb.:與某人有爭論；對某人有意見
　　Ex:I've got a bone to pick with you. How about the two hundred dollars you promised to pay me back today?

　　have a thin skin:指臉皮薄，對批評十分敏感
　　Ex:He has a thin skin and doesn't take kidding very well.

　　have an ear to the ground:注意，留心可能發生的事
　　Ex:The city manager kept an ear to the ground for a while before deciding to raise the city employees' pay.

　　have sb. in one's pocket:可任意支配別人
　　Ex:If you want to get something out of the chief, just get his secretary on your side, and it'll be done. She has got him right in her pocket.

　　hit below the belt:用不正當的手段打人，暗中傷人
　　Ex:Most of the criticism of his new book hit below the belt.