fretting, in the air, up in the air, fret, shut...down/shutdown

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 Revolution in the air
The Economist
He pledged radical measures to snap Japan out of its long economic funk and restore pride to a country nearly overwhelmed by a sense of decline. On April 4th the man whom Mr Abe pushed forward as the new central-bank governor, Haruhiko Kuroda, ...


 A manager’s effectiveness depends not only on using e-mail and other electronic communication, but also on learning to shut it down.


At Yahoo, Top Investor Frets

Yahoo's top shareholder in recent days contacted the company's board to express concerns over some of the Internet pioneer's sale discussions as Yahoo's fate remains up in the air.

Japan’s Leaders Fret as Nuclear Shutdown Nears

By MARTIN FACKLER 7:28 PM ET

Japan will become a nuclear-free nation for the first time in more than four decades, at least temporarily.

shut down[shut down]

(自)
(1) 〈夜のとばり・霧などが〉降りる.
(2) 〈店・工場などが〉休業する.

in the air

noticeable all around; becoming prevalent:I smell violence in the air

up in the air
Not settled, uncertain, as in The proposal to build a golf course next to the airport is still up in the air. This metaphoric expression likens something floating in the air to an unsettled matter. Put as in the air from the mid-1700s, it acquired up in the first half of the 1900s.

 fret

• 発音記号[frét]

[動]（〜・ted, 〜・ting）(自)

1 ((主に話))（…のことで）いらいら［やきもき］する；思い悩む((about, over, at, for ...))；〈赤ん坊が〉むずかる

fret and fume
ぷりぷり怒る

fret at the smallest problems
ささいなことを思いわずらう

Don't fret about ［over］ it.
くよくよするな.

2 〈酸などが〉腐食［浸食］する；（…を）えぐる((away ...))；((比喩))むしばむ；浸食［腐食］される, むしばまれる, すり減る((away)).

3 〈水などが〉波立つ.

VERB (frets, fretting, fretted)

1[NO OBJECT] Be constantly or visibly anxious:she fretted about the cost of groceries

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1.1[WITH OBJECT] Cause anxiety to:his absence during her times awake began to fret her

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2[WITH OBJECT] Gradually wear away (something) byrubbing or gnawing:the bay’s black waves fret the seafront

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2.1Form (a channel or passage) by rubbing orwearing away:what shape the sea has fretted into the land

3[NO OBJECT] Flow or move in small waves:squelchy clay that fretted between his toes

━━(他)

1 ((しばしば〜 -self))〈人・心を〉（…のことで）悩ます, 困らす, いらいらさせる((about, over ...))；〈時などを〉やきもきして過ごす((away))；（…しはしないかと）気にやむ((that節))

fret oneself into a fit of nerves
いらだってかんしゃくを起こす

fret oneself about ［over］ trifles
つまらないことでくよくよする

fret one's life away
くよくよして一生を過ごす

She frets that an accident will occur.
事故が起きはしないかと気にやむ.

2 …を浸食［腐食］する, すり減らす；〈虫などが〉…に食い込む；〈穴・水路などを〉（浸食して）作る；((比喩))…をむしばむ((away, out))

fret one's health away ［out］
健康をそこなう.

3 〈風・雨滴などが〉〈池などの〉面を乱す, 波立たせる.

━━[名][U][C]

1 いらだち, 焦燥；当惑, 苦悩, 不安, 不きげん, むずかり

in a fret ［＝on the fret］
((英))いらいら［ぷりぷり, くよくよ］して.

2 腐食, 浸食；かじる［むしばむ］こと；すり減った箇所, 腐食［浸食］された跡.