unnameable, take names, It Pays to Be on V.I.P. List/ boldface names,

New U.S. ambassador Nikki Haley in her first visit to the United Nations put U.S. allies on notice: "For those that don’t have our back, we’re taking names."


 By the late 1980s, Mr. Chagnon was under siege, not just intellectually but personally. Opponents leveled ever-increasing charges of racism, data-faking, brutality toward the Yanomamö (such as taking their names) and even complicity in genocide.



Credit Error? It Pays to Be on V.I.P. List
By TARA SIEGEL BERNARD
The major credit bureaus keep a V.I.P. list of boldface names, consumer lawyers say, and those people get special help in fixing mistakes on their credit reports.

Brian Reade's anthology of Victorian gay writing Sexual Heretics, published in 1970, was one of the first books to explore the territory that Robb now covers. In the wake of changes in British sexual offences law, and in a time of rapidly evolving attitudes to sexuality, it offered a novel picture of an earlier culture coming to terms with similar doubts and self-doubts about an almost unnameable idea.

unnameable

  音節

ùn • námeable

[形]名状しがたい.

めい‐じょう〔‐ジヤウ〕【名状】

 

［名］(スル)物事のありさまを言葉で表現すること。「―しがたい光景」

take names

((米))非行者のリスト［ブラックリスト］を作る.

kicking ass and taking names

Phrase used in reference to someone or something that is having multiple successes in succession. kicking ass - Kicking someone or something's ass, beating, defeating an opponent at a task. taking names - Recording a list of future contestants who will have also be beaten or defeated in the defined task.

Aunt Betty-Joe was kicking ass and taking names at bingo last night.

ブラックリスト【blacklist】

 

注意や監視を要する人物の氏名・住所などを記した表。黒表(こくひょう)。