piranha, turn, blush, flush, turn on, hinge, first-class stamp, turn something in

"As Rebekah Brooks wasn’t found guilty of complicity in industrial-scale phone hacking by her employees, then she was surely the most incompetent executive, cluelessly paying out shedloads of expenses for unknown purposes. She lost the company £300m and hundreds of jobs in the scandal while taking a £16m payoff herself, as her colleagues went to jail. However, back in the saddle, her newspapers will continue their ideological assault on the public sector as wasteful and badly managed, without a blush."

Quotation of the Day: "You play golf with somebody, you are much less likely to see them as a piranha that is trying to devour consumers, even if that is just what they are." — Matthew L. Myers, president of the nonprofit Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, on lobbyists from regulated industries like finance, energy and tobacco socializing with top state law enforcement officers.

Margaret Thatcher: On two of the great issues, the lady was indeed for turning
She was famed for sticking to her guns, but on Europe and climate change the former prime minister in fact executed U-turns

Viewpoint: The Coming Merger of Google Chrome and Android

In August 2011, I outlined why I believed that Chrome was more important to Google than Android. At first blush, this sounds kind of crazy, but when you look at the bigger strategic picture it makes sense

 

Museums Go Shopping at Maastricht

By CAROL VOGEL

More museums have returned to the European Fine Art Fair. Some say American institutions are feeling more flush and some museums are reopening and want new works.


 Suddenly flush with disposable income, Germans started taking vacations in southern Europe - often in converted VW buses.

You've made things much clearer, Mr Gunnell. I'll put a first-class stamp on when I pay your bill.

 這句的意思似乎只是說我很滿意  支票會以最快速度寄上  你隔天就可收到 不會拖拉
First Class mail aims to deliver your letter or packet the next working day, including Saturday.

At first blush, this approach to buying market share sounds appalling. It's like Ford sending people to stand outside Toyota dealers and say, "Look, we'll give you $1,000 not to go in there." But what else can Microsoft do? It's tried for years to compete with Google the old-fashioned way. But Google still has 65 percent of the search market, compared with 10 percent for Microsoft.

The Hinge of History
By ROGER COHEN
Iran is experiencing a brutal clampdown, but memories of 1989 suggest that the dam must break when a repressive regime and the society it rules march in opposite directions.


Putinism's Piranha Stage

Russia's prime minister turns on his loyal friends.

Jun 8, 2009 ... Russia's prime minister turns on his loyal friends. Bret Stephens Time was when Oleg Deripaska was Vladimir Putin's best pet.


Why More U.S. Expatriates Are Turning In Their Passports

By Helena Bachmann / Geneva

Hit with double taxation and snubbed by local banks, more and more Americans abroad are choosing to give up their citizenship

piranha

Line breaks: pi|ranha

Pronunciation: /pɪˈrɑːnə , -njə/

NOUN

A deep-bodied South American freshwater fish that typically lives in shoals and has very sharp teeth that are used to tear flesh from prey. It has a reputationas a fearsome predator.

• Serrosalmus and other genera, family Characidae: several species

MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES

Origin

mid 18th century: via Portuguese from Tupi pirá 'fish' +sainha 'tooth'.

turn something in

give something to someone in authority:I’ve turned in my resignation

produce or achieve a particular score or a performance of a specified quality: he has turned in some useful performances for the under-21 and England B sides

TURN ON
1. Cause to begin the operation, flow, or activity of, as in Turn on the lights, please, or Don't turn on the sprinkler yet. [First half of 1800s]
2. Begin to display, employ, or exude, as in He turned on the charm. [Late 1800s]
3. Also, get high or on. Take or cause to take a mind-altering drug, as in The boys were excited about turning on, or They tried to get her high, or I told them I wouldn't get on tonight. [Slang; mid-1900s]
4. Be or cause to become excited or interested, as in His mother was the first to turn him on to classical music. [c. 1900]
5. Be or become sexually aroused, as in He blushed when she asked him what turned him on. [Second half of 1900s]
6. Also, turn upon. Depend on, relate to, as in The entire plot turns on mistaken identity. This usage, first recorded in 1661, uses turn in the sense of "revolve on an axis or hinge."
7. Also, turn upon. Attack, become hostile toward, as in Although normally friendly, the dog suddenly turned on everyone who came to the door. Also see turn against.


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she flushed dark.

flush
v., flushed, flush·ing, flush·es. v.intr.

1. To turn red, as from fever, embarrassment, or strong emotion; blush.
2. To glow, especially with a reddish color: The sky flushed pink at dawn.
3. To flow suddenly and abundantly, as from containment; flood.
4. To be emptied or cleaned by a rapid flow of water, as a toilet.

v.tr.

1. To cause to redden or glow.
2. To excite or elate: The team was flushed with the success of victory.
3. 1. To clean, rinse, or empty with a rapid flow of a liquid, especially water: flush a toilet; flush a wound with iodine.
   2. To remove or eliminate by or as if by flushing: "The weakness in demand and productivity will at least ... flush out some of the inflation premium that has been built into interest rates" (Fortune).

n.

1. 1. A flooding flow or rush, as of water.
   2. The act of cleaning or rinsing by or as if by flushing.
2. A blush or glow: "here and there a flush of red on the lip of a little cloud" (Willa Cather).
3. 1. A reddening of the skin, as with fever, emotion, or exertion.
   2. A brief sensation of heat over all or part of the body.
4. A rush of strong feeling: a flush of pride.
5. A state of freshness or vigor. See synonyms at bloom¹.

adj., flush·er, flush·est.

1. Having a healthy reddish color; flushed.
2. Having an abundant supply of money; affluent. See synonyms at rich.
3. Marked by abundance; plentiful: flush times resulting from the oil boom.
4. Swelling; overflowing: rivers flush with the spring rains.
5. 1. Having surfaces in the same plane; even.
   2. Arranged with adjacent sides, surfaces, or edges close together: a sofa flush against the wall. See synonyms at level.
   3. Printing. Aligned evenly with a margin, as along the left or right edge of a typeset page; not indented.
6. Direct, straightforward, or solid: knocked out by a flush blow to the jaw.
7. Designed to be emptied or cleaned by flushing: a flush toilet.

adv.

1. So as to be even, in one plane, or aligned with a margin.
2. Squarely or solidly: The ball hit him flush on the face.

[Probably from FLUSH³, to dart out.]

flusher flush'er n.
flushness flush'ness n.

flushの変化形

flushes (複数形) • flushed (過去形) • flushed (過去分詞) • flushing (現在分詞) • flushes (三人称単数現在)

flushの慣用句

Flush it！, flusher, （全2件）

[名]

1 （顔の）紅潮, 上気, 赤面

with a faint flush on one's face
顔をほんのり赤くして.

2 （水・血の）噴出；（人・注文などの）殺到, 急増；大発生

the flush of mosquitos
わんさと群がる蚊(か).

3 どっと水を押し流すこと；洗浄, 水洗；（トイレの）水洗装置

give the toilet a flush
トイレの水を流す.

4 （感情の）ほとばしり；感激, 興奮, 大得意, 盛んな意気

in the full flush of victory
勝利の感激に酔って.

5 [U]((文))生気, 盛り；若葉のもえ出ること

the spring flush of flowers
咲きほこる春の花

in the (first) flush of life
元気盛りに.

6 発熱；高熱状態.

━━[動](他)

1 ((通例受身))
(1) 〈人・顔・ほおを〉赤くさせる, 紅潮させる

Anger flushed his face. ［＝His face was flushed with anger. ］
怒って彼の顔はまっかになった.

(2) 〈感情が〉〈人を〉興奮させる, 〈人が〉（成功・勝利・誇りなどで）大得意になる((with, by ...))

be flushed with victory
勝って得意満面である.

2 〈場所・物に〉（掃除などのために）どっと水を流す, ざっとかける；〈下水管・トイレなどを〉水をさっと流して洗う；…に水をかけて押し流す((away, out))

flush the toilet
水洗トイレの水を（使用後に）流す.

3 〈隠れているものを〉明るみに出す, 引きずり出す((out)).

━━(自)

1 ［I（[副]）/II[形]］〈ほお・顔が〉（…で）赤らむ, 紅潮する((up/with ...))；〈光・色が〉ぱっと輝く；〈空が〉あかね色に輝く, （…色に）染まる, （…の状態に）染まる((into ...))

flush into rage
顔を紅潮させて激高する

Her face flushed red.
顔がぱっと赤らんだ.

2 〈トイレが〉水がどっと流れる；〈水が〉どっと流れる, 噴出する；〈考えが〉さっと浮かぶ.

3 ((米俗))（講義・授業を）サボる.

Flush it！

((米俗))ばかばかしい.

［FLASH（光る）とGUSH（ほとばしり出る）の混成語］

flush・er

[名]下水の流水装置；下水の流し掃除夫；散水車.

blush
intr.v., blushed, blush·ing, blush·es.

1. To become red in the face, especially from modesty, embarrassment, or shame; flush.
2. To become red or rosy.
3. To feel embarrassed or ashamed: blushed at his own audacity.

n.

1. A reddening of the face, especially from modesty, embarrassment, or shame.
2. A red or rosy color: the blush of dawn.
3. A glance, look, or view: thought the painting genuine at first blush.
4. Blusher.

[Middle English blushen, from Old English blyscan.]

blushful blush'ful adj.
blushingly blush'ing·ly adv.



hinge
━━ n. ちょうつがい; かなめ, 中心.
off the hinges　ちょうつがいが外れて; 調子が狂って.
━━ v. ちょうつがいを付ける［で動く］; （…に）かかっている, （…で）決まる ((on, upon)).
n.

1. 1. A jointed or flexible device that allows the turning or pivoting of a part, such as a door or lid, on a stationary frame.
   2. A similar structure or part, such as one that enables the valves of a bivalve mollusk to open and close.
2. A small folded paper rectangle gummed on one side, used especially to fasten stamps in an album.
3. A point or circumstance on which subsequent events depend.

v., hinged, hing·ing, hing·es. v.tr.

1. To attach by or equip with or as if with hinges or a hinge.
2. To consider or make (something) dependent on something else; predicate: "convenient and misleading fictions for hinging an argument" (Stephen Jay Gould).

v.intr.
To be contingent on a single factor; depend: This plan hinges on her approval.

[Middle English henge.]