1. Be caught with one’s pants down
: 망신당하다
예문 1) It’s important to continue researching possible risks, just so we are not caught with our pants down when something unpleasant does eventually turn up.
어떤 좋지 않은 일이 닥쳤을 때 망신당하지 않기 위해선, 가능할 법한 리스크를 계속해서 찾아보는 것이 중요하다.
**turn up : 3. (기회가) (특히 우연히) 생기다 [나타나다]
예문 2) Since BOB was sleeping in his history class, he was caught with his pants down with the next-day presentation.
예문 3) Because I drank a lot last night, I was caught with my pants down at today’s meeting. That's because I messed up the meeting as I am hungover.
예문 4) They were caught with their pants down when the police asked them where they’d been that night.
그날 밤 어디에 있었는지 경찰이 물어보자 그들은 당황했다.
예문 5) I was caught with my pants down in public.
나는 많은 사람들 앞에서 망신을 당했다.
2. Take a toll
: ~에게 큰 타격/피해를 주다
예문 1) The stress was beginning to take its toll on their marriage.
예문 2) Eating junk foods can take a toll on a child’s health.
예문 3) Playing computer games everyday can take a toll on one’s productive daily life.
예문 4) Do you know how winter weather can take a toll on not only your driving but as well as your car?
예문 5) ~And those long grueling hours in cars, on trains, or buses can take a toll on a person’s health.
** grueling : 대단히 힘든
3. Down in the dumps
: 우울한, 의기소침한, 풀이 죽은
예문 1) Since I missed the train, I was/got down in the dumps.
예문 2) He is in the blues. or He is down in the dumps.
그는 기분이 맑지 않다
예문 3) If all these bad tidings have you down in the dumps I have an assignment for you. Read books.
**tidings : 소식, 뉴스
4. Get hot under the collar - excited in an angry / frustrated / negative way
: 화가 나다
예문 1) When I found out that my brother threw away my favorite glass, I got hot under the collar right away.
예문 2) When a customer behaved rudely, I got hot under the collar by I just simply sighed with full of anger.
**sigh : 자동사 [V] 한숨을 쉬다, 한숨짓다
예문 3) ~Right, so if that got you feeling a little hot under the collar, let’s all cool off by heading in the opposite direction;
예문 4) Apparently, fish don’t get hot under the collar?
예문 5) People get a little hot under the collar because there’s issues of sex crime.
**issues of sex crime : 성범죄 문제
예문 6) If you get a bit hot under the collar, leave the bus and hire yourself a bike at one of the Royal Parks.
5. Bread and butter - full-time job
: 비격식 (개인·회사의) 주 소득원
예문 1) I think it forced both sides, Democrat and Republican to focus on bread and butter issues.
예문 2) This is our bread and butter as policy analysts, so we have to use these data to try to understand the world around us.
6. Moonlight : 1. 자동사 비격식 [V] (moonlighted, moonlighted)
(보통 추가 소득에 대한 세금을 안 내고 은밀히) 부업을 하다
예문 1) While moonliting in a coffee shop, a woman came to me and immediately shout at me for no reason.
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