drawing board, put your foot in your mouth, no-brainer

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重看「最新通俗美語詞典」 兼悼高克毅先生 莊信正 　(20080807)



「back to the drawing board（回到繪圖板去）」條未忘引述多年前「紐約客」著名漫畫家阿諾（Peter Arno）所畫一架新飛機剛剛試飛失敗，大家都奔向機身殘骸急著搶救，而設計師卻當做日常公事，看了一下便轉過身，面帶微笑地說﹕「Well,it’s back to the old drawing board （唉，只好回到那勞什子繪圖板去罷）」。（原圖無“it’s”。）諸如此類的細節在在顯示這不單單是本詞書，也是一本可以隨時翻閱的床頭書。

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drawing board noun [C]
a large flat table, often with a top that can be moved into different positions, which is used as a desk for drawing or designing something


「put （his）foot in（his）mouth（把腳放到嘴巴裡）」條追憶老布希當年依靠家裡有錢有勢而在政壇步步高升，可是頭腦簡單，說起話來錯字不斷。1991年大選期間 德克薩斯州長李查茲（Ann Richards）在民主黨全國代表大會發表的主題演說形容他開口就「put his silver foot in his mouth（把他的「銀腳」放在他的嘴巴裡）。」「詞典」解釋這是將“put his foot in his mouth”同「born with a silver spoon in his mouth（生下來有一隻銀匙在嘴巴裡）」兩句俗話巧妙地合成一句，挖苦他有財無才。

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put your foot in it (MAINLY US put your foot in your mouth) INFORMAL
to say something by accident which embarrasses or upsets someone:
I really put my foot in it with Alison. I had no idea she was divorced.

很多人認為小布希笨得像brain dead，腦死。這位當選連任的總統出口成「障」，謬語如豬；近幾年已經有人替他結集出了幾冊語錄，即所謂“Bushism”。

當前人人嘴巴上的「no brainer（不用傷腦筋的）」


no-brainer Show phonetics
noun [S] SLANG
something that is very simple to do or to understand:
That last test question was a complete no-brainer.