Thẻ ghi nhớ: Destination C1C2 unit 12 | idioms and phrasal verbs

an act of God

a natural event that cannot be controlled or prevented by humans, especially one that causes a lot of damage, such as an earthquake or a flood:thiên tai, thảm họa thiên nhiên

come rain or shine

whatever happens:dù chuyện gì xảy ra

down on your luck

to be experiencing a bad situation or to have very little money:không gặp may mắn (trong tìm việc, kiếm tiền)

draw the short straw

to have to do the least enjoyable of a range of duties, often because you have been chosen to do it:Làm việc không mong muốn

have green fingers

the ability to make plants growcó biệt tài làm vườn

let nature take its course

to allow someone or something to live or die naturally:Cứ để tự nhiên.

no rhyme or reason

to be without any obvious reasonable explanation:không có nghĩa lý, lý do gì

out of the blue

Bất ngờ, bất thình lình

the luck of the draw

to be the result of chance and something that you have no control over:vận may rủi

Touch wood / Knock on wood.

said in order to avoid bad luck, either when you mention good luck that you have had in the past or when you mention hopes you have for the future:hi vọng may mắn kéo dài, trộm vía

Chance upon

Find or see someone or something when you did not expect to.

Come across

Meet someone or find something by chance.

Cut back (on)

Reduce the amount of something, especially money that you spend.

Die out

Become weaker or less common and then disappear completely.

Dig up

Remove something from under the ground by digging; dig holes in an area of land; find information by searching carefully.

Dry up

If something dries up or is dried up, all the water comes out of it; stop being available.

Get through

Use or finish something; manage to deal with a difficult situation or stay alive until it is over; finish dealing with some work, a subject, etc.

Heat up

Make something hot; become hot.

Kill off

Destroy living things so that most or all of them are dead.

Put down to

If you put something down to a particular reason, you think it has happened for that reason.

Slip up

Make a careless mistake. Slip-up (n): A mistake.

Spring up

Appear or be produced suddenly and quickly.

Store up

Keep a lot of something so that you can use it later; do something that will cause problems in the future.

Throw out

Get rid of something that you no longer want, for example by putting it in a dustbin; force someone to leave a place or group; if someone in authority throws out a plan, proposal, etc., they refuse to accept it.

Throw up

Produce something new or unexpected; cause something such as dust or water to rise into the air. : xây dựng cái gì đó vội vã và đột ngột; làm nổi bật

Instinct

bản năng / instinctual (thuộc bản năng), instinctive(ly) (bản năng, một cách bản năng)

Intend

dự định / intention (dự định), (un)intended (dự định / không dự định), (un)intentionally (một cách dự định / không dự định)