English
Idioms and Phrases
To be a primer on something
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Basic information about something.
"I would recommend some primer on actual programming."
To be a work of art
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Something made by an artist as a beautiful work of art. It can be used as irony.
To be adamant
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To be determined to keep an opinion or position.
The director was adamant: I can’t raise your salary."
To be bamboozled
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To be tricked.
"He is completely bamboozled by their extreme cleverness and doesn’t notice."
To be devoid of something
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To lack or be without something that is necessary or usual.
"He seems to be devoid of compassion."
To blow up on someone
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To let someone know that something becomes furious or violent.
"The application blew up an error on me."
To brag about something
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To speak with pride about something one has done or something one possesses.
To give a hoot about something
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To care about something.
"Nobody gives a hoot who you are married to."
To grasp something
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To understand something complicated.
"They don’t grasp the implications of these changes."
To have credentials
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To have abilities and experience that make someone suitable for a particular job.
"This young man had great credentials and a very pleasant demeanor."
To kick this something out of the ditch and get it going
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To remove something not working well and get something new or fresh to work instead.
"Let’s kick this container out of the ditch and get it going."
To lump something together
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To group something together
"They are lumped together with the troublemakers and written off."
To scram
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To leave or go away.
"I usually have more free time to scram."
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To shut down in an emergency.
To spin up something
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To power up, launch, or instantiate something.
"Let’s spin up the application."