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“Yours to lose” is an American expression which actually means your chance of winning is great.
To say people are “in the same boat” points to the fact that they share the a similar fate.
The term “high and dry” is now applicable in any situations where helplessness is keenly felt.
We force them, we keep putting pressure on them – sometimes to the point of hurting them.
If someone drops the ball, he makes a small mistake which may prove very costly.
Entrenched interests are resistant to change because they’ve gained the most from the status quo.
If we say somebody has a blind spot about something, we mean to say they cannot see it.
When a person’s style of managing people is described as “slash and burn”, he doesn’t care about how people feel.
You look over your shoulder for any sign of threat or danger.
The low-hanging fruit are, needless to say, the easiest and pick.
“Hot cakes” is an American idiom, representing a commodity that’s popular and easy to sell.
周黎明，Raymond Zhou,中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)資深專(zhuān)欄作家，用地道英語(yǔ)撰寫(xiě)社會(huì)、娛樂(lè)等題材的評(píng)論文章。
中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)網(wǎng)特約專(zhuān)欄作家，英語(yǔ)專(zhuān)業(yè)教授，碩士生導(dǎo)師，國(guó)內(nèi)知名公示語(yǔ)翻譯研究專(zhuān)家。
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