2024年5月19日 星期日

stunt, stuntsman, snookered, salt sth away, Doughnut (driving). social media stunt. the young aviation stuntsman who lands in a field like this in “How I Met My Husband.”




the young aviation stuntsman who lands in a field like this in “How I Met My Husband.”





THEGUARDIAN.COM

Teen dies while climbing Los Angeles bridge in apparent social media stunt
Teen fell ‘when climbing upon one of the arches, in order to post, apparently, a social media broadcast’ said police chief


有心情:
But the pandemic has made me realize that I’m not sure how much I’ll really need to have salted away to protect my family and to keep our solidly middle-class standard of living intact, both now and into the future.

How Berkshire Hathaway May Have Been Snookered in Germany
By Jack Ewing
A unit of Warren Buffett’s empire paid an inflated price for a pipe maker that used fake sales to look profitable, an arbitration panel concluded. The firm was close to bankruptcy. He's an excellent snooker player, but he's never won a major trophy.

doughnut or donut is a manoeuvre performed while driving a vehicle. Performing this manoeuvre entails rotating the rear or front of the vehicle around the opposite set of wheels in a continuous motion, creating (ideally) a circular skid-mark ...




stuntman
/ˈstʌntman/
noun
  1. a person employed to take an actor's place in performing dangerous stunts.


stunt
noun C ]
UK 
 
/stʌnt/
 US 
 
/stʌnt/

stunt noun [C] (EXCITING ACTION)

an exciting action, usually in a film, that is dangerous or appears dangerous and usually needs to be done by someone skilled:
It's a typical action movie with plenty of spectacular stunts.
Tom Cruise has performed his own stunts for Mission Impossible 2, defying warnings from professionals.



salt sth away

— phrasal verb with salt verb T ]
UK 
 /sɒlt/ US 
 
/sɑːlt/
informal

to save something, often moneysecretly:
He salted away a fortune over the years and no one ever knew!


snooker
verb T ]
UK 
 /ˈsnuː.kər/ US 
 /ˈsnuː.kɚ/
UK informal
to prevent someone from finishing an intended plan of action:
We had intended to go driving around Scotland, but unless I can get my licence we're snookered.

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