Idioms > Ιδιωματισμοί (EN > EL)

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get your arms around something = βγάζω άκρη
There are so many different aspects of the energy situation that it's hard to get your arms around it.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/get+arms+around

 

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can't hold a candle/a stick to someone/something = δεν πιάνω μια μπροστά σε κάποιον, κάποιος είναι εκτός συναγωνισμού, ασυναγώνιστος
These pop bands that you hear nowadays can't hold a candle to the groups we used to listen to in the sixties.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/candle

 

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cup one's hands together = κάνω τα χέρια μου χούφτα
He cupped his hands together and scooped up the water.
You have to cup your hands together if you want a drink.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/cup+hands+together

 

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pay somebody back in their own coin = πληρώνω κάποιον με το ίδιο νόμισμα
Worrell knew very well why Buller had been picked and decided to pay them back in their own coin.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/pay-someone-back-in-their-own-coin

 

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be/go out on the tiles (British & Australian informal)= ξεφαντώνω, ξεπατώνομαι στο χορό, ξεσαλώνω, τα σπάω
'My head is thumping.' 'Oh yes? Were you out on the tiles last night?'
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/tile

 

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it looks like rain = για βροχή το πάει

 

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come rain or shine = βρέξει χιονίσει
Don't worry. I'll be there come rain or shine. We'll hold the picnic—rain or shine.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/come+rain+or+shine

 

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in the swim of things = μέσα στα πράγματα, μέρος των εξελίξεων
(*Typically: be ~; get [into]~.)
I've been ill, but soon I'll be back in the swim of things. I can't wait to settle down and get into the swim of things.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/in+the+swim+of+things

ODE:
I loved being part of the madness of the rush hour commute - it made me feel in the swim, connected to the rest of the world, part of everyday society.
Hearing aids will put you back in the swim again.
It's good to be back in the swim of things!

 

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swing the lead= λουφάρω, φυγοπονώ
It will always be the case that some people will turn up to work when they are very unwell while others will use the slightest sniffle as an excuse to swing the lead.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/swing+the+lead

 

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trip the light fantastic = λικνίζω το κορμί μου, Facetious. to go dancing.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/trip+the+light+fantastic

This apparently obscure expression originates from the works of John Milton. In the masque Comus, 1637, he used the lines:

Come, knit hands, and beat the ground,
In a light fantastic round.

By 'trip', Milton didn't mean 'catch one's feet and stumble'. The word had long been used to mean 'dance nimbly'. Chaucer used it that way as early as 1386, in The Miller's Tale:

In twenty manere koude he trippe and daunce. (In twenty ways could he trip and dance.)

Clearly, Milton was referring to dancing. He must have liked the imagery, as he used it again in the poem L'Allegro, 1645:

Sport that wrinkled Care derives,
And Laughter holding both his sides.
Come, and trip it as you go
On the light fantastic toe.

The 'light fantastic toe' was the form that was used when the phrase first circulated, as in this extract from The Times, November 1803:

"A splendid ball was also given; where the CONSUL himself tripped it on the light fantastic toe."

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/trip-the-light-fantastic.html

 

[daeman]

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trip the light fantastic :) με ποίηση, μουσική και χορό

 

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to be all skin and bones = είμαι πετσί και κόκαλο

 

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raise/play havoc with someone or something= προκαλώ σάλο / αναστάτωση, προκαλώ / επιφέρω σοβαρές ζημιές / σημαντική βλάβη, αναστατώνω
Manual labour obviously plays havoc with your digestive system.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/havoc?q=havoc

 

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be wreathed in smiles= λάμπω από χαρά, είμαι όλο χαμόγελα
At the checkout, there was an Asian girl wreathed in smiles.
He was wreathed in smiles as he accepted the award.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/wreathe?q=wreathe
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/be-wreathed-in-smiles

 

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roll prices back= κατεβάζω τις τιμές
The store rolled all its prices back for the sale.
The protesters demanded that the big oil companies roll back their prices.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/roll+prices+back

 

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put a damper on someone/something= αποθαρρύνω, κόβω τη φόρα/τον ενθουσιασμό, παραλύω, χαλώ
The bad news really put a damper on everything.
The rainy weather put a damper on our picnic.
Steve lost his wallet so that rather put a damper on the evening.
We were both ill while we were in Boston, which put a bit of a dampener on things.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/put+a+damper+on

 

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hit/pound the books (sl.)= στρώνομαι/ξεπατώνομαι στο διάβασμα
I spent the weekend pounding the books.
I gotta go home and hit the books.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hit+the+books

 

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take attendance = παίρνω παρουσίες
The teacher took attendance before starting the class.
I will take attendance each day.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/take+attendance

 

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school/university of hard knocks = το πανεπιστήμιο της ζωής
I didn't go to college, but I went to the school of hard knocks. I learned everything by experience.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/school+of+hard+knocks

 

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Put that in your pipe and smoke it! = χώνεψέ το
Well, I'm not going to do what you want, so put that in your pipe and smoke it!
I'm sick of you, and I'm leaving. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Put+that+in+your+pipe+and+smoke+it!