as the crow flies
thumb one's nose at〜
look a gift horse in the mouth
play it close to the vest
square meal
on the carpet
drink a person under the table
Stone poured champagne into flutes the size of beer glasses.
It was the first time I'd ever been penciled in for a phone call.
If he gives you static, tell him to go outside and call me.
The following summer there was a bumper harvest.
A young man who appeared to be a carbon copy of his father
The settlers found the lustrous stone called jet
He was careful to a fault.
Any company with a research arm in molecular biochemistry
I doctor it, stir it.
Thanks, but I haven't made a dent in the one I've got.
Children were herding flocks of bleating goats with switches.
Above fifty-five and it's yours by a street
She's an odds-on favorite to come through with flying colors.
She made no bones about the fact.
I'll make book she never sees port.
We deep-six the warheads in the ocean.
There were one hundred and forty-three diamonds of the first water.
But now they want to attach a rider to the agreement?
He talks a mile a minute and goes off on tangents
He threw it in their teeth.
flute: 17世紀の細身で背の高いワイングラス
pencil in: 一応予定に入れておく
static: 苦情、いざこざ
bumper harvest: 豊作
carbon copy: 生き写し(メールの Cc: と同じですね)
jet: 黒大理石
to a fault: 極端に,あまりにも
arm: (組織・機構の)部門
doctor: 〈飲食物などに〉異物[薬物]を加える
make a dent: {通例否定文}(仕事・問題解決などに)取りかかる,手をつける{in…}
switch: (むちに使う)しなやかな小枝;(植物の)若枝
by a street: 大差で
the odds-on favorite: 本命
with flying colors: 大勝利で、大成功で、ものの見事に
make no bones about…: …を率直に認める
make (a) book: (…に)賭ける;請け合う
deep-six: 水葬;海中[水中]に捨てること
water: 宝石,特にダイヤモンド(時に真珠)の透明度と光沢度による)品質,品位
rider: (議案が通過するときに補足される通例主文と無関係な)(…への)追加条項,付加箇条,補則{to…}
talk a mile a minute: 早口でひっきりなしにしゃべり続ける
throw in a person's teeth: 〈行為などに対して〉人を責める,非難する
Stone poured champagne into flutes the size of beer glasses.
It was the first time I'd ever been penciled in for a phone call.
If he gives you static, tell him to go outside and call me.
The following summer there was a bumper harvest.
A young man who appeared to be a carbon copy of his father
The settlers found the lustrous stone called jet
He was careful to a fault.
Any company with a research arm in molecular biochemistry
I doctor it, stir it.
Thanks, but I haven't made a dent in the one I've got.
Children were herding flocks of bleating goats with switches.
Above fifty-five and it's yours by a street
She's an odds-on favorite to come through with flying colors.
She made no bones about the fact.
I'll make book she never sees port.
We deep-six the warheads in the ocean.
There were one hundred and forty-three diamonds of the first water.
But now they want to attach a rider to the agreement?
He talks a mile a minute and goes off on tangents
He threw it in their teeth.
P.19
>They also had dark shadows under those eyes − purplish, bruiselike shadows.
>As if they were all suffering from a sleepless night, or almost done recovering from a
>broken nose. Though their noses, all their features, were straight, perfect, angular.
なんだってそう思い込んでしまったんでしょう・・・(^^;
今の今まで、ずーっと私の中のCullensは、鼻が曲がってたなんて・・・
がーん・・思い込みというのは怖いものですね・・・