Словарь американских идиом (8000 единиц)
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[shoot straight] or [shoot square] <v.>, <informal> To act fairly; deal honestly. * /You can trust that salesman; he shoots straight with his customers./ * /We get along well because we always shoot square with each other./ - [straight shooter] or [square shooter] <n.>, <informal> /Bill is a square-shooter./ - [straight-shooting] <adj. > * /The boys all liked the straight-shooting coach./
[shoot the breeze] or [bat the breeze] or [fan the breeze] or [shoot the bull] <v. phr.>, <slang> To talk. * /Jim shot the breeze with his neighbor while the children were playing./ * /Come into the kitchen and we'll bat the breeze over a cup of coffee./ * /The women were shooting the breeze about Jim's latest trouble with the police./ * /The fishermen were shooting the bull about the school of sail fish they had seen./
[shoot the works] <v. phr.>, <slang> 1. To spare no expense or effort; get or give everything. * /Billy shot the works when he bought his bicycle; he got a bell, a light, a basket, and chrome trimmings on it, too./ * /The Greens shot the works on their daughter's wedding reception./ 2. To go the limit; take a risk. * /The motor of Tom's boat was dangerously hot, but he decided to shoot the works and try to win the race./
[shoot up] <v.> 1. To grow quickly. * /Billy had always been a small boy, but when he was thirteen years old he began to shoot up./ 2. To arise suddenly. * /As we watched, flames shot up from the roof of the barn./ 3. <informal> To shoot or shoot at recklessly; shoot and hurt badly. * /The cowboys got drunk and shot up the bar room./ * /The soldier was shot up very badly./ 4. To take drugs by injection. * /A heroin addict will shoot up as often as he can./
[shop] See: CLOSE UP SHOP, TALK SHOP.
[shop around for] <v. phr.> To make the rounds of various commercial establishments in order to find the most economical answer for one's needs. * /We've been shopping around for a larger condominium that is affordable, and near the university./
[shoplifter] <n.> A thief who steals things from a store. * /The TV camera identified the shoplifter, who was then arrested and sentenced to jail./
[shopping center] <n.> A place usually for neighborhood shopping, where there is a group of stores and shops inside of a large parking lot. * /There is a bowling alley at the nearest shopping center./ * /All the stores in our shopping center stay open until nine o'clock on Friday evenings./
[shopworn] <adj.> A piece of merchandise that is offered below the usual price because it is slightly damaged or soiled. * /Although shopworn, the jacket was perfectly usable, so he eagerly bought it./
[shore leave] <n.> Permission given to a man in the Navy to leave his ship and go where he wants for a certain length of time. * /Jim went to visit New York when he was given three days' shore leave./ * /The ship did not dock long enough for the sailors to get shore leave./
[shore patrol] <n.> The police of a navy. * /The sailors who were fighting in town were arrested by the shore patrol./ * /The shore patrol was ordered to search every sailor who went on board the ship./
[shore up] <v.> To add support to (something) where weakness is shown; make (something) stronger where support is needed; support. * /When the flood waters weakened the bridge, it was shored up with steel beams and sandbags until it could be rebuilt./ * /The coach sent in a substitute guard to shore up the line when Fitchburg began to break through./
[shorn] See: GOD TEMPERS THE WIND TO THE SHORN LAMB.
[short] See: CAUGHT SHORT, FALL SHORT, FOR SHORT, IN BRIEF or IN SHORT, IN SHORT ORDER, IN SHORT SUPPLY, MAKE SHORT WORK OF, RUN SHORT, SELL SHORT, THE LONG AND THE SHORT.
[short and sweet] <adj.> Brief and to the point. * /Henry's note to his father was short and sweet. He wrote, "Dear Dad, please send me $5. Love, Henry."/
[shortchange] <v. phr.> To return less money to a customer in a store than is coming to him or her; cheat. * /I was shortchanged by the cashier when I got seven dollars back instead of eight./
[shortcut] <n.> A road shorter than the one that people normally take. * /We can save twenty minutes if we take this shortcut over the hill./
[short end] <n.> The worst or most unpleasant part. * /The new boy got the short end of it because all the comfortable beds in the dormitory had been taken before he arrived./ * /The girls who served refreshments at the party got the short end of it. When everybody had been served, there was no cake left for them./
[shorthanded] <adj.> Understaffed; short on workers. * /With several employees gone for the holiday weekend and two dozen people in line, the rent-a-car agency suddenly found itself terribly shorthanded./
[short haul] <n.> A short distance; a short trip. * /The Scoutmaster said that it was just a short haul to the lake./ * /The man from the moving company said they did not make short hauls, so we hired a truck to move our furniture three blocks to our new house./ Contrast: LONG HAUL.
[short list] or [short-listed] <v. phr.> To place on the list of select finalists for a job. * /Only three of the twenty-seven applicants were short-listed for the assistant professorial vacancy in our department./
[short of(1)] <adj. phr.> 1. Less or worse than. * /Don't do anything short of your best./ 2. Not having enough. * /We did not buy anything because we were short of money./ * /The girls were asked to wait on tables because the kitchen was short of help./
[short of(2)] <adv. phr.> Away from; at a distance from. * /The day's drive still left us a hundred miles short of the ocean./ * /The golfer's shot fell far short of the hole./
[short of breath] <adj.> Panting and wheezing. * /He ran up six flights of stairs so rapidly that he was short of breath for several minutes./
[short-order cook] <n.> A person who prepares food that cooks quickly. * /Bruce found a summer job as a short-order cook in a drive-in restaurant./ * /The new diner needs another short-order cook./ Compare: SLING HASH.
[short shrift] <n.> Little or no attention.
– Usually used with "get" or "give". * /In books about jobs, women's work is consistently given short shrift./
[short-spoken] <adj.> Using so few words that you seem impatient or angry; speaking in a short impatient way; saying as little as possible in an unfriendly way. * /Jim is always short-spoken when he is tired./ * /We were hoping to borrow Dad's car, but he was so short-spoken when he came home that we were afraid to ask./