英语口语：常用短语（俚语）大全四

　　每一门语言都有许多的俚语和丰富的口语词汇，小编在这里为大家整理了现代日常生活中常用到的地道短语和俚语,还有例句哦.

　　· be in full swing达到高潮，全面展开

　　China has opened its door to the outside world for twenty years. Reforms in every walks of life are in full swing.

　　· be asleep at the switch玩忽职守

　　The goal-keeper was asleep at the switch and let the rival team goal at the last minute.

　　· suit...to a T对……再适合不过了

　　This new job suits me to a T.

　　· turn the tables扭转局势

　　Don't worry, your husband knows how to turn the tables and crack down on those guys.

　　· drink someone under the table把某人灌醉

　　He has a hollow leg. He can drink all of us here under the table.

　　· keep tabs on something/someone掌握情况,密切关注

　　He has subscribed ten newspapers in order to keep tabs on the new developments in market management.

　　· keep someone down a notch挫某人的傲气

　　The monitor likes to order us around. He needs to be kept down a notch.

　　· Take it out on someone拿别人出气

　　The boy was reprimanded by his father. He took it out on his ball.

　　· An old wives’ tale无稽之谈

　　Do you think the existence of life on Mars is an old wives’tale?

　　· Be the talk of the town满城风雨

　　The death of the Princess Diana has been the talk of the town.

　　· Leave a bad taste in someone’s mouth给人留下坏印象

　　Once I went to a famous university. But the untidy campus left a bad taste in my mouth.

　　· Crocodile tears假惺惺的眼泪

　　Some of my business partners came to comfort me when I lost almost everything in one bad deal.