mailda , english

Adoration

Deep love , respect

Revolting off-spring

Disgusting children

Bring us a basin , we are going to be sick

Expression of disgust ! ( I’m about to vomit )

Twaddle

Nonsense , silly talk , rubbish

Ex. Teachers suffer a good deal from having to listen to this sort of twaddle from proud parents

Get ( his , her , their , my ) own back

Taking revenge

Ex. The teachers get their own back from the proud parents at the end-of term

Cook up

Invent , creat

Ex. Cook up some real scorchers ( come up with really wild or outrageous ideas or tricks )

Doting parents

Over loving/protecting parents

Someone “total wash out”

Complete failure

Ex.he tried to be a singer , but he was a total wash out

Feeling lyrical

Someone in mood to express themselves poetically

Grasshoppers

Insect

Delve deeper

Explore something in more detail

Ex. The teacher asked us to delve deeper into the novel’s themes

Periodical cicada

Insect in United States , spend most of their lives underground as a nymphs , then surface synchronously in spring to mate /lay eggs and die within few weeks

Grub

Noun : insect (larva) / food (slang speech)

Verb : digging or searching

Ex. The bird ate a grub from the soil

Ex. Let’s get some grub

Ex. He was grubbing around the garden

Emerge

1- Physical appearance : ex. The butterfly emerged from its chrysalis

2- Becoming known : ex. A new problem emerged during the meeting

3- rise into prominence : ex. She emerged as a strong leader

Poisonous

Toxic or poisoned

Little poisonous girl

Sting me into (verb-ing)

Pressured so strongly that the other person is forced to do the (verb-ing)

He stung me into saying what I shouldn’t have

You are stinging me into saying things that I’ll regret

Glacial

Relating to glaciers (large mass of ice )

The valley was shaped by glacial movement

Stinkers

Naughty child , ex. You little stinker!

Negative sense , ex. That movie was a real stinker. (Terrible)