Idioms ESL-Lab, 2022-09-28

No.	Title	Explanations
1	Personal Profile	·         Hit it off                  : get along well, become friends - Tom and I hit it off. - Jenny hits it off with her friends.  - After the first couple of letters, I knew we would hit it off because we had so many things in common. ·         nothing to write home about          : not exciting or interesting, 특별할 거 없는 - My trip was nothing to write home about. I didn’t have much fun, and it was kind of boring. - It's nothing to write home about. - This donut has nothing to write home about.  - My las weekend is nothing to write home about.  - Daniel got a good grade, I asked him how to study well. He gave me a piece of advice. But i think it was nothing to wirte home about.    ·          university student / undergraduate          : 대학원생 - freshman (noun): first-year student - sophomore(noun): second-year studen - junior (noun): third-year studen - senior(noun): forth-year studen  : He is only a junior, so he has another year to graduate.   ·         graduate student (미국) / post-graduate student (영국) : 대학원생   - bachelor (noun): 학사   - master(noun): 석사   - Ph.D. (noun): 박사   - post-doctoral(noun): 박사후
2	Phone Message	·         sleep on it              : wait until tomorrow to make a decision - She wanted to sleep on it before making such an important decision. - He doesn’t make a quick decision. When he gets an issue, he always sleep on it.   ·         Right off the bat     : immediately – 즉시, 주저하지 않고 - When I called her yesterday, she told me right off the bat that she was getting married. - I knew right off the bat that something was wrong.     If you could tell him to me tonight between 7:00 and 8:30 ?   I’m not supposed to tell that.
3	Physical Therapy	·          get off someone’s back    : stop criticizing someone all of the time - Hey, get off my back. I’ll get a job faster if you stop bothering me. - I don’t like her. She never get off my back. She always bother me.   ·         Get cold feet          : become nervous about something  - nervous, worry - I think she’s getting cold feet about marrying my brother. -     ·         trip over                 : 걸려 넘어지다. - I tripped out over a box in the dark after the lights went out.   ·         Cant’ beat s/t                     : be better than s/t else – 이보다 더 좋을 순 없다. - You can’t best that . - You can’t beat the flavor of this ice cream. It’s the best. - He couldn’t beat this dinner. The main dish was fantastic.