Time Idioms - Nico Nico Douga Lesson for June 28, 2010

1.
A: Can I borrow you car?
B: My new car? Over my dead ~! (Never!)


2a. You better shape up or you’re going to ~ up in jail!

2b. You better shape up or you’re going to ~ up losing your job.
(To arrive – usually at a bad place.)

NOTE! NOT THE SAME AS: I need to get in shape!= I need to exercise and get healthy.
to wind up = to end up


3. He’s not a bad employee, but he spends a lot of time watching the clock.


4. I love the good old days! Sometimes I wish I could turn back the ~.


5. Time is pretty ~. (I don’t have much time.)


6. It’s that time of the ~. She’s getting her monthly visitor.She is on her period.


7. Things are moving so slowly that it feels like time is standing ~.


8. I think it’s time we ~ things up. (finished)


9. I’m a little ~ on time.=I don’t have enough time.


10. I pulled an all~.= I stayed up all night studying or working.


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Answers:
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1. body
Over my dead body! = No! Never!
Other ways to say, "Never!"
Over my dead body!
When Hell freezes over!
When pigs fly!

2. wind

3. clock

4. clock

5. tight

Money is tight!=I don’t have much money.
That band is tight!=Good! His game is tight!= His game is tight!

6. month

7. still

8. wrapped

9. short

10. nighter
Ex: I pulled an all nighter.