(exp) to get a phone call
(exp) to get a phone call
(exp) by dint of their help
(exp) no good
all pain, no gain
do no good and a lot of harm
completely a disadvantage (lit: great damage with no advantage)
(exp) to speak for one's father
(exp) with the advance of civilization (civilisation)
(exp) (id) A paradise on hearsay, a hell at sight
(exp) utterly scandalized
(exp) profit is better than fame
(exp) (obs) to ask for the impossible
(exp) to ask for fish from a tree (Mencius)
(exp) to be really angry
(exp) as always
the same as it always is
(exp) all pain and no gain
lots of pain and not much gain
(exp) (obs) a burnt child dreads the fire
once bitten twice shy
an expression meaning to become over cautious from a bad experience
(exp) utterly scandalized
(n) Catcher in the Rye (novel by J. D. Salinger)
(exp) the poor can't afford manners
only when basic needs for living are met can people spare the effort to be polite
(exp) as a general rule
(n) in either case
in all cases
(exp) (id) Excessive tenderness switches to hundredfold hatred
(exp) along comes a sucker just begging to be parted from his money (lit: a duck comes carrying an onion)
(exp) along comes a sucker just begging to be parted from his money (lit: a duck comes carrying an onion)
(exp) to be brief and to the point
to be succinct
(exp) (id) Nobody can struggle against advancing age
(exp) (id) Haste makes waste
(exp) when in Rome, do as the Romans do
(exp) to give money to a beggar
(exp) have no hesitation in stating (declaring)
(exp,v5u) to say time and time again
to say till you're blue in the face
