Mad English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vpBqHL2yTM

the dead of winter: the coldest part of winter, the middle of winter. January and February.
It was the dead of winter and the ground was covered in deep snow.  (covered with x, in a deep snow x)
the dead of summer x

spill the beans: reveal something
I will spill the beans.

in the thick of it(sth): in the most active or dangerous part of a particular situation or activity. in the hardest part.
He was always right there, in the thick of it when the fighting started.
I am in the thick of the exam week. 

semi /semi/ or /semai/: a kind of huge truck, tractor & trailer (tractor is the front piece)
haul: pull something 

full swing into spring (summer): you are deep into it.  

brutal /ˈbro͞odl/ savagely, violent 
brutal weather, brutal wind

 your neck of the woods: your place to live in Americans.

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPG6PiRSwjU&t=70s 

humming and hawing
I was just humming and hawing over what to have for my Christmas dinner.

kidney beans
sardines

indecisive: not good at making decisions

deliberate: engage in long and careful consideration
She deliberated over the menu.
                   done consciously and intentionally (신중한, 의도하고 계획한 intentional, planned)
a deliberate attempt to provoke conflict.

procrastinate: delay or postpone action; put off doing something

let up: (it's been constant) If bad weather or an unpleasant situation lets up, it stops or improves.
The rain is not letting up. 
It hasn't let up.
When the rain lets up we'll go for a walk. 

cold snap: a short period of cold weather, a period of time it is cold. ≠ 꽃샘추위
a very long cold snap
two months cold snap

cooped up: being in a small closed space from which you cannot escape or you feel as if you are.
I hate being cooped up inside working when it's a sunny day outside.
It's such a tiny office -don't you ever feel cooped up here? 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR_eFZczfJI&t=327s 

races jokes
clean jokes 
dirty jokes

contraction 축약형, 축소 (↔ expansion), 진통

pun: wordplay

(a woman) in labor:  진통 중인 it has to be with pregnancy. starting to have a baby

molecule
atom
particle

make up: invent something
                 consist of (sth)
Are you wearing make-up?
in a car accident

diddly-squat = nothing
I did diddly-squat.

recede 퇴각하다
receding hare-line

part with
I'll never part with it. 가르마를 타다
I'll never part with you.
part ways 이별하다
I'll never part ways with you.

Today is really overcast. 구름으로 가득차있다.

fork in the path

corny
lame

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi_QTBo_x1g 

purebred 

mutt: mixed breed

promiscuous

fallen out of grace 품위를 잃은

my voice is cracked

first nations people
especially
dessert

I'm fine, and how are things on your end? 

 arrogant 오만한 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHsjUrh0pO4 

cusp 어금니 윗면
We are on the cusp of (something big, change, graduation, revolution).

raspy voice

canine 송곳니 =cuspid 

bicuspid 송곳니 안쪽으로 옆의 2개

precipice
Central banks have brought our civilization to the edge of a precipice.
We could be on the precipice of war.
The UK is teetering on the edge of a financial precipice.

* western civilization
* teeter back and forth = drunk
* teeter-totter = see-saw

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14phtSphF4A 

compatible ↔ incompatible

flammable = inflammable
Gas is flammable.
↔ non flammable

famous = infamous (infamous criminal)

genius = ingenius (ingenius idea)

shameful = shameless (shameless person)

mean the same thing
I don't care.
I could care less. (x) 
I couldn't care less. (o) 

faithful
↔ unfaithful: cheated
faithless: lack of confidence

loyalty and commitment

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1F_bHIuDsg 

cliche: a saying or idea that is overused and unoriginal.
I know it sounds cliched, but I'm thinking and praying for you. 

genuen

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATAN4t4HjYo 

makeshift 임시변통의

make shift

humble abode: somebodys house or home

paper thin

surreal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlZ0XgTUpNk