谚语集锦

谚语.成语.口语集锦

1.Actions speak louder than words.百说不如一干。

2.go from bad to worse .每况愈下。

3.as busy as a bee 忙忙碌碌。

4.Better late than never.迟做总比不做好。

5.black and blue 遍体鳞伤。

6.in black and white 白纸黑字。

7.Blood is thicker than water .血浓于水。

8.keep body and soul together.仅能维持生活。

9. a bolt from the blue.晴天霹雳。

10.Bottoms up！干杯/cheers!

11.bright and early 大清早。

12.be in a brown study .沉思默想；幻想。

13.get/come to business.言归正传。

14.Everyone’s business is nobody’s business.三个和尚没水喝。

15.Mind your business.少管闲事。

16.You cannot eat your cake and have it.两者不可得兼。

17.call a spade a spade.是啥说啥，直言不讳。

18.burn the candle at both ends.劳动过度。

19.have a card up one’s sleeves 胸有成竹

20.throw up one’s cards 洗手不干

21.The cards are in sb’s hands 稳操胜券

22.A cat has nine lives. 猫有九命

23.A cat may look at the king.猫也有权看国王。

24.like a cat on hot bricks /on hot tin roof.像热锅上的蚂蚁。

25.rains and dogs 倾盆大雨

26.not know chalk from cheese 不辨黑白

27.Charity begins at home.施舍先及亲友。（不捐款的借口）

28.Say cheese!笑一笑。

29.count one’s chicken before they are hatched.过早乐观。

30.Keep your chin up!不气馁，不要灰心。

31.as poor as a church mouse 一贫如洗。

32.run round in circles.忙得团团转。

33.in a class by itself(oneself) 独一无二，独具一格。

34.cut from the same cloth一路货色

35.make out of whole cloth 纯属虚构。

36.Every cloud has a silver lining 黑暗之中总有一线光明。

37.wait till the clouds roll by.等到乌云消散；等到有利时机再干。

38.carry coals to Newcastle 多此一举

39.heap coals of fire on sb’s head 以德报怨

40.live like fighting cocks 吃最好的东西，养尊处优。

41.pay sb on his own /the same coin.以其人之道还治其人之身。

e off it!别胡闹，别装蒜。

e on !来，快，得啦！

44.Too many cooks spoil the broth.厨子太多烧坏汤。

45.eat one’s corn in the blade 寅吃卯粮

46.measure other’s corn by one’s own bushel.以己度人

47.Count off!报数！

48.take one’s courage in both hands.鼓足勇气，敢作敢为。

49.call cousins with sb 称兄道弟

50.till the cows come home.无限期地

51.as cross as two sticks 非常生气

52.No cross no crown 无苦即无乐

53.raise oneself above the crowd 出类拔萃，鹤立鸡群。54.cry over spilt milk 做无益的后悔

55.between cup and lip 将成未成之际

56.depend upon it. 毫无问题

57.It all depends.这也难说，据情况而定。

58.between the devil and the deep blue sea .进退维谷，进退两难。

59.Do as you would be done by .你愿意别人如何待你，你就如何待

别人。

60.Do in Rome as Rome does/as the Romans do.入乡随俗，入国问

禁。

61.Barking dogs do not bite.爱叫的狗不咬人。

62.Every dog has his day.人人都有得意时。

63.Give a dog a bad name and hang him.欲加之罪，何患无辞。

64.Let sleeping dogs lie.麽惹是非。

65.Love me,love my dog.爱屋及乌。

66.all dressed up and nowhere to go.打扮得整整齐齐缺无处炫耀。

67.go in at one ear and out at the other .一只耳朵进一只耳朵出。

68.The early bird gets/catches the worm. 捷足先登。

69.Easier said than done.说来容易做来难。

70.stand easy! 立正。

71.easy as my eye易如反掌。

72.break the egg(s) in sb’s pocket.打破某人的计划。

73.bring one’s eggs to a bad /the wrong market.失算。

74.from the egg to the apple 自始自终

75.put /have all one’s eggs in one basket.孤注一掷

76.Good egg! 真好，妙极！

77.have one over the eight .酩酊大醉。

78.see the elephant 见世面，长世故。

79.Enough is as good as a feast.知足常乐。

80.more than enough 够了！well enough 还可以。Oddly enough 够

奇怪的。

81.be the equal of one’s word 说到做到

ing events cast their shadows before .未来之事先有征兆。

83.Examples is better than precept.以身作则胜于口头训诲。

84.make an exhibition of oneself.出洋相，当众出丑。

85.as might as expected 正如所料

86.an eye for an eye 以眼还眼

87.mind your eye!当心，留神！

88.So far,so good.到目前为止，一切顺利。

89.first and last总的来说；first or last迟早；from first to last一贯

90.play( a good) knife and fork 饱餐一顿

91.play the fox 耍滑头

92.No pains,no gains 不劳则无获。

93.have the game in one’s hands 胜券在握

94.Everything is nice in your garden!你家的东西哪有不好的啊！

95.give as good as one gets 以牙还牙

96.look through blue eyes悲观看事物；look through green eyes嫉

妒地看事物。

97.Glory!多奇妙啊！

98.Here goes!看，开始了！

99.God bless you!愿上帝保佑你！

100.Thank goodness!谢天谢地

101.in the green tree/wood 处于佳境

102.Habit is second nature 习惯成自然

103.Hands off!不许摸！不许干涉！

104.Hands up!举起手来

105.have an old head on young shoulders少年老成

106.Two heads are better than one两人智慧胜一人

107.Here’s to your/your health.（祝酒）祝你健康。