вторник, 5 марта 2013 г.

American English phrases

What Americans really mean when they say . . .
  • Drive someone up a wall--annoy someone greatly
  • Raise a stink--protest strongly
  • Pull someone's leg--fool someone
  • All thumbs--clumsy
  • Shoot the breeze--chat informally
  • Feel like a million dollars--feel wonderful
  • Duck soup--easy, effortless
  • Dough nut - extremely enthusiastic about money
  • Car pool - when people drive together in same car to save gas and money
  • Smell a rat - feel that something is definitely wrong
  • Go to the dog - become run down 
  • Fishy - strange and suspicious

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