常用英語習語及典故

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1 a back number
2 a bad egg
3 a bag of bones
4 a baker’’s dozen
5 a bear for
6 a bed of roses
7 a big fish
8 a big heart
9 a bird
10 a bit
11 a bitter pill to swallow
12 a black eye
13 a black sheep
14 a blank cheque
15 a blood-bath
16 a blue-stocking
17 a body blow
18 a bone to pick
19 a boy of a girl
20 a brain storm
21 a bread-and-butter letter
22 a brick
23 a Briton
24 a broken reed
25 a budding
26 a bull in a china shop
27 a bull of Bashan
28 a butter mountain
29 a call box
30 a case in point
31 a case of the pot calling the kettle black
32 a cat
33 A eat has nine lives.
34 a cat-o’’nine-tails
35 a cat’’s paw/a catspaw
36 a chain-srrioker
37 A change is as good as a rest.
38 a chapter of accidents
39 a chip in broth
40 a chip on one’’s shoulder
41 a Christmas stocking
42 a cock and bull story
43 a cock sparrow
44 a cog in the wheel
45 a colt
46 a copy-cat
47 a crocodile
48 a crook
49 a cross in life
50 a crown of thorns
51 a crumb of comfort
52 a cup and saucer
53 a dark horse
54 a day’’s grace
55 a dead shot
56 a death’’s head at the feast
57 a deep one
58 a desk general
59 a devil of a jocb
60 a dog（lying）in the manger
61 a-dollar-a-year man
62 a drawing card
63 a drop in the bucket
64 a dry old stick
65 a fair-haired boy
66 a fair treat
67 a family tree
68 a fancy man
69 a far cry
70 a far cry from sth
71 a fat chance
72 a feather in sb’’s cap
73 a few sticks of furniture
74 a figure of fun
75 a fire-bug
76 a flash in the pan
77 a flea bite
78 a flea in sb’’s ear
79 a fly in the ointment
80 a flying dog
81 a flying pig
82 a fly on the wheel
83 a foreign body
84 a fork in the road
85 a frame-up
86 a full house
87 a gay dog
88 a ginger group
89 a glass jaw
90 A glass of port,and look slippy.
91 a gold-digger
92 a golden opportunity
93 a gold-mine
94 a good bedside manner
95 a good few
96 a good lay
97 a good mixer
98 a good shot
99 A good show！
100 a（/the）good thing to do
101 a good-time girl
102 a gooseberry
103 a grass widow
104 a great idea
105 a green hand
106 a green winter
107 a green wound
108 a grey area
109 a hairy story
110 a half-backed girl
111 a handful
112 a hard unt to crack
113 a hat trick
114 a hatchet job
115 a hate boat
116 a head on beer
117 a heart of oak
118 a heart of stone
119 a heart-throb
120 a heart-to-heart talk
121 a hearty person
122 a hen party
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