Tuesday, November 24, 2009

ESL 5 Summary of Vocabulary and Idioms Nov 23-25 , 2009


Ch 5: Eating Dinner with a Roommate

Ace, King, Queen, Jack, Ten…
breaking new
come to (cost)
decadent
doesn’t look half bad
dough
gossip
I don’t know how to break this to you…
in mint condition
in the buff
in the long run
jack-of-all-trades
on the fritz
s/o = someone
s/t = something
s/w = somewhere
the can
to chow down on s/t
to drop in on s/o to pop up s/w
to fix breakfast / lunch / dinner
to give s/o the creeps / creepy
to let s/o down
to let s/o off the hook
to lip one’s mind
to make s/t from scratch
to never let s/o live s/t down
to rip s/o off
to stay on one’ good side
to talk turkey
to turn beet red
to work out