The Basic Idioms 3-1

The Basic Idioms 3-1

 

원어민들이 자주 사용하는 idiom을 모았습니다.

학습에 부담 없도록 하루 분량을 정리하였습니다.

매일 조금씩 꾸준히 익히시고 많은 도움이 되시기 바랍니다.

 

 

• generally speaking [일반적으로(말하면)]
• - Generally speaking, the Koreans are diligent. [일반적으로 말하면 한국 사람은 부지런하다]
• used to introduce a statement that is true in most cases but not always
• - Generally speaking, the more expensive the stereo, the better it is.

 

• get a person to do [누구에게 ~하게 하다]
• - We got him to do the work properly. [우리는 그에게 그 일을 훌륭히 하게 했다]

 

• get a thing + p.p. [어떤 일을 ~당하다], [~시키다]
• - I get my hair cut. [이발하다]

 

• get angry at [about] (a thing) [(어떤 일에 대해서) 성을 내다]

 

• get angry with (a person) [(누구에게) 성을 내다]

 

 

• get in [들어가다, 타다], [도착하다]
• - get in a car [차를 타다]
• - The train got in on schedule. [기차는 예정대로 도착했다]
• 1 ENTER to enter a place, especially when this is difficult
• - We managed to get in through a window.
• 2 ARRIVE if a train, plane etc gets in at a particular time, it arrives at that time
• - What time does the bus get in?
• to
• - We get in to Heathrow at ten o’clock.
• 3 GET HOME to arrive home
• - What time do the boys get in from school?
• 4 BE ELECTED to be elected to a position of political power
• - The Conservatives have promised to increase spending on health and education if they get in.
• 5 COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY to be allowed to be a student at a university, college etc
• - I applied to Bristol University, but I didn’t get in.
• 6 BUY A SUPPLY get something in to buy a supply of something
• - I must remember to get some food in for the weekend.
• 7 CROPS get something in to gather a crop and bring it to a sheltered place
• - The whole village was involved with getting the harvest in.
• 8 ASK FOR WORKER get somebody in to ask someone to come to your home to do a job, especially to repair something
• - We’ll have to get a plumber in.
• 9 GIVE SOMETHING TO SOMEBODY get something in to send something to a particular place or give it to a particular person
• - Please can you get your essays in by Thursday.
• 10 DO SOMETHING get something in to manage to do something even though you do not have much time
• - We’re hoping to get in a game of golf over the weekend.

 

 

• get into [~에 들어가다, 타다, (목적지 따위)에 도착하다]
• - No, this is the line to get into the theater. If you need tickets, you should stand in that long line over there. [아니요, 극장에 들어가는 줄이에요. 표 사려면 저기 긴 줄에 서야 해요]
• 1 ENTER to enter a place, especially when this is difficult
• - The door was locked and we couldn’t get into the house.
• 2 ARRIVE to arrive at a place
• - What time do we get into New York?
• 3 BE ELECTED to be elected to a Parliament
• - He first got into Parliament in 1982.
• 4 COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY to be allowed to be a student at a university, college etc
• - She got into UCLA.
• 5 TEAM to be made a member of a team
• - Do you think you might get into the Olympic team this year?
• 6 START DOING SOMETHING to start doing or feeling something, or being in a particular situation
• - He’s started getting into trouble at school.
• 7 BECOME INVOLVED to begin to be involved in doing something
• - How did you first get into script writing?
• 8 ENJOY informal to begin to enjoy something or be interested in it
• - I first got into jazz when I was at college.
• 9 CLOTHING informal to put on a piece of clothing, especially when this is difficult because the piece of clothing is too small for you
• - I don’t know how she managed to get into those trousers.
• 10 what’s got into sb? spoken used to express surprise that someone is behaving very differently from the way they usually behave
• - I don’t know what’s got into Sally recently.

 

• get into trouble(with~) [말썽 (분란)을 일으키다]
• cf. get ~into trouble [(아무에게) 폐를 끼치다]

 

 

• get off ~ [(탈 것에서) 내리다, 출발하다] ↔ get on[(탈것에) 타다, 성공하다, 살아가다, 친하게 지내다, 부지런히 가다]
• 1 LEAVE to leave a place, or to help someone to leave a place
• - We’ll try and get off straight after lunch.
• get off something
• - Get off my land!
• get somebody off
• - I’ll phone you as soon as I’ve got the children off to school.
• 2 FINISH WORK get off (something) to finish work and leave the place where you work at the end of the day
• - What time do you get off work?
• 3 SEND SOMETHING get something off to send a letter or package by post
• - I’ll have to get this letter off by tonight.
• get something off to
• - I’ll get the forms off to you today.
• 4 CLOTHING get something off to remove a piece of clothing
• - Why don’t you get those wet clothes off?
• 5 NOT BE PUNISHED if someone gets off, they are not punished for doing something wrong, or they receive only a small punishment
• - In the end he got off because there wasn’t enough evidence against him.
• with
• - If you’re lucky, you’ll get off with a fine.
• 6 HELP SOMEBODY NOT BE PUNISHED get somebody off to help someone avoid being punished for a crime
• - Her lawyers were confident that they could get her off.
• 7 SLEEP get (somebody) off to go to sleep, or to help a child go to sleep
• - I went to bed but couldn’t get off to sleep.
• 8 get off to a good/bad etc start to start in a particular way
• - The day had got off to a bad start.
• 9 STOP TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING get off something to stop talking about a subject
• - Can we get off the subject of death, please?
• 10 STOP TOUCHING SOMETHING get off (something/somebody) informal used to tell someone to stop touching something or someone
• - Get off (=stop touching me)!
• 11 tell somebody where to get off informal to tell someone that they are asking you for too much or are behaving in a way you will not accept
• - He wanted £50, but I told him where to get off.
• 12 get off your butt/ass 미국식 spoken not polite used to tell someone that they should stop being lazy and start doing something useful

 

• get on board [승선하다]

 

• get ready for ~ [~의 준비를 하다]

 

• get rid of ~ [~을 제거하다, ~을 면하다(벗어나다)]
• - get rid of the habit of smoking [담배 피우는 습관을 없애다]
• a) to throw away or destroy something you do not want anymore
• - Governments should be encouraged to get rid of all nuclear weapons.
• b) to take action so that you no longer have something unpleasant that you do not want
• - He opened the windows to get rid of the smell.
• c) to make someone leave because you do not like them or because they are causing problems
• - It can be difficult for schools to get rid of poor teachers.

 

 

• get through [통과하다], [끝내다=finish]
• - get through the work [일을 끝내다]
• 1 DO WORK get through something to do an amount of work
• - We got through half the application forms this morning.
• 2 USE SOMETHING get through something informal to use a lot of something
• - You wouldn’t believe the amount of food children can get through in a week!
• 3 SPEND MONEY get through something informal to spend a lot of money
• - He can get through £100 in one evening.
• 4 DIFFICULT TIME get (somebody) through something to come successfully to the end of an unpleasant experience or period of time, or to help someone do this
• - I don’t know how we’re going to get through the winter.
• 5 TEST/COMPETITION get (somebody/something) through (something) to be successful in a test or competition, or to make sure that someone or something is successful
• - I finally managed to get through my driving test.
• get (somebody/something) through (something) to
• - Liverpool have got through to the final of the FA Cup.
• 6 REACH A PERSON/PLACE to reach a place or person that is difficult to reach
• to
• - Aid agencies have been unable to get through to the thousands of refugees stranded on the border.
• 7 BY TELEPHONE to succeed in speaking to someone on the telephone
• - I tried phoning her office, but I couldn’t get through.
• to
• - At last I managed to get through to one of the managers.
• 8 NEW LAW get (something) through (something) if a new law gets through parliament, or if someone gets it through, it is officially approved
• - Once again we failed to get the Bill through Parliament.

 

• get up [일어나다], [일어서다]
• 1 get (somebody) up to get out of your bed after sleeping, or to make someone get out of their bed
• - We didn’t get up until lunchtime.
• 2 to stand up
• - He got up and walked over to the window.
• 3 if a wind or storm gets up, it starts and gets stronger
• 4 be got up as/in something 영국식 informal to be dressed in particular clothes
• - He arrived at the party got up as Count Dracula.
• 5 get it up informal to get an erection

 

• give one’s word [약속하다]
• cf. break one’s word [약속을 어기다], keep one’s word [약속을 지키다]
• - I promised her to finish it by tomorrow and I want to keep that word. [나는 그녀에게 그것을 내일까지 끝내겠다고 약속했고 그 약속을 지키고 싶다]

 

 

• give up [단념하다, 그만두다]
• - Give up drinking [술을 끊어라]
• 1 give something up to stop doing something, especially something that you do regularly
• - Darren has decided to give up football at the end of this season.
• give up doing something
• - I gave up going to the theatre when I moved out of London.
• 2 to stop trying to do something
• - We spent half an hour looking for the keys, but eventually gave up and went home.
• give up doing something
• - I gave up trying to persuade him to continue with his studies.
• give something up
• - The ground was too hard to dig so I gave it up as a bad job (=stopped trying because success seemed unlikely).
• 3 give yourself/somebody up to allow yourself or someone else to be caught by the police or enemy soldiers
• - The siege ended peacefully after the gunman gave himself up.
• give yourself/somebody up to
• - In the end, his family gave him up to the police.
• 4 give up something to use some of your time to do a particular thing
• - I don’t mind giving up a couple of hours a week to deal with correspondence.
• 5 give something/somebody up to give something that is yours to someone else
• - The family refused to give up any of their land.
• give something/somebody up to
• - I would always give my seat up to an elderly person on the bus.
• 6 give somebody up to end a romantic relationship with someone, even though you do not really want to
• - I knew deep down that I should give him up.
• 7 give somebody up for dead/lost etc to believe that someone is dead and stop looking for them
• - The ship sank and the crew were given up for dead.
• 8 give it up for somebody spoken informal used to ask people to applaud someone

 

• go aboard [타다]
• - go aboard a ship [a train] [배(기차)에 타다]

 

• go away [떠나다, 달아나다=escape]
• 1 to leave a place or person
• - I went away wondering if I’d said the wrong thing.
• 2 to travel to a place and spend some time there, for example for a holiday
• - Are you going away this year?
• for
• - We’re going away for the weekend.
• to
• - He’s going away to college next year.
• on
• - I’m going away on a business trip next week.
• 3 if a problem, unpleasant feeling etc goes away, it disappears
• - Ignoring the crime problem won’t make it go away.

 

• go bad [썩다, 부패하다=spoil]

 

• go bathing [해수욕 가다]

 

• go for a walk [산책하다=take a walk]

 

 

• go off [(총 등이) 발사되다, 폭발하다]
• 1 LEAVE to leave a place, especially in order to do something
• - John decided to go off on his own.
• to
• - He went off to work as usual.
• go off to do something
• - Geoff went off to play golf.
• 2 EXPLODE to explode or fire
• - The bomb went off at 6.30 this morning.
• 3 MAKE A NOISE if an alarm goes off, it makes a noise to warn you about something
• - The thieves ran away when the alarm went off.
• 4 STOP LIKING go off somebody/something영국식 informal to stop liking something or someone
• - Many women go off coffee during pregnancy.
• go off doing something
• - I’ve gone off cooking lately.
• 5 STOP WORKING if a machine or piece of equipment goes off, it stops working
• - The central heating goes off at 9 o’clock.
• 6 go off well/badly etc to happen in a particular way
• - The party went off very well.
• 7 HAPPEN 영국식 spoken informal to happen = go on
• - There was a blazing row going off next door.
• 8 DECAY 영국식 if food goes off, it becomes too bad to eat
• - The milk’s gone off.
• 9 SLEEP to go to sleep
• - I’d just gone off to sleep when the phone rang.
• 10 GET WORSE 영국식 informal to get worse
• - He’s a singer whose talent has gone off in recent years.

 

• go on a hike [picnic] [하이킹(피크닉) 가다]