It’s Greek to me.
Something is difficult to me.
More sinned against than sinning
Less guilty than those who have injured one
Salad days
A youthful time, accompanied by the inexperience, enthusiasm, idealism, innocence, or indiscretion that one associates with a young person
More in sorrow than in anger
With regret or sadness rather than with anger. This is taken from Hamlet.
Wish is father to the thought
Our opinions or beliefs are often influenced by our desires and hopes.
Vanish into thin air
To become invisible or pass out of sight, especially very suddenly or mysteriously
Budge an inch
To not move, change, or shift in any way at all
Green-eyed jealousy
Shakespeare: O beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.
Fast and loose
If you say that someone is playing fast and loose , you are expressing disapproval of them for behaving in a deceitful, immoral, or irresponsible way, e.g: There have been people who have played fast and loose with the rules.
Tongue-tied
Shakespeare: My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still， while comments of your praise richly compiled.
我的缄口的诗神只脉脉无语，他们对你的美评却累牍连篇。
Taciturn
Tower of strength
A person who gives you help and support when you are in a difficult situation
Hoodwinked
To deceive or trick someone
He hoodwinked us into agreeing.
In a pickle
To be in a difficult position
Knitted your brows
皱眉
Made a virtue of necessity
To make the best of a difficult situation; to recast or portray an action or situation in which one has no alternatives as an action or situation which was deliberately chosen on its merits
There will be many times in your life where you have to do something you don’t want to, so it’s best to learn very early how to make a virtue of necessity.
Slept not one wink
Not sleep at all
Fair play
In sport, the fact of playing according to the rules and not having an unfair advantage
Foul Play : a criminal act that results in serious damage or injury, especially murder
It is not clear what caused the explosion, but the police do not suspect foul play.
Stood on ceremony
Insist on the observance of formalities
We don’t stand on ceremony in this house.
Danced attendance on your lord and master
Danced attendance on someone means to wait upon someone in an overly assiduous [刻苦的] or sycophantic [阿臾的] manner
Short shrift
If you get or are given short shrift by someone, you are treated without sympathy and given little attention
He’ll get short shrift from me if he starts complaining about money again, now that I know how much he earns.
Laughed yourself into stitches
笑破了肚皮
Too much of a good thing
the fact that something pleasant becomes unpleasant because you have or do too much of it
Cold comfort
When being told a particular thing about a bad situation is cold comfort, it does not make you feel better although it is intended to.
Seen better days
走过运
Fool’s paradise
live in a fool’s paradise : to be happy because you do not know or will not accept how bad a situation really is
More fool you
More fool sb :said to mean that you think someone is being unwise
“I lent Rhoda £100 and she hasn’t paid me back.” “More fool you - you know what she’s like!”
Foregone conclusion
a result that is obvious to everyone even before it happens
The result of the election seems to be a foregone conclusion.
As good luck would have it
used to say that something happened because of good or bad luck
Our car broke down on the road, but as luck would have it, there was a garage nearby.
It’s early days
said when you think it is too soon to make a judgment about the likely result of something because a lot might still happen or change
Clear out bag and baggage
bag and baggage All of one’s belongings, especially with reference to departing with them;
High time
Long and short of It
Game is up
Truth will out
Own flesh and blood
Lie low
Crack of doom
Teeth set on edge
One fell swoop
Without rhyme or reason
Give the devil his due
Truth were known
Tongue in your head
Good riddance
Send me packing
Dead as a door-nail
Eyesore
A laughing stock
The devil incarnate
Stony-hearted villain
Bloody-minded
Blinking idiot
By Jove!
O Lord!
Tut tut!
What the dickens!
For goodness’ sake!
But me no buts
It is all one to me
