Come straight from the heart From the bottom of my heart Have eyes only for sb / Only have Yêu nhau say đắm / thầm thương trộm nhớ / yêu thầm dấu bụng The apple of one's eye A person
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Used to say that when you are away „
from sb you love, you love them more
A person you particularly like because
he has the same interests as you
Be a person or thing that sb is very fond | Say như điếu đổ / chết mê chết mệt /
Be close / near / dear to sb's heart
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Come straight from the heart
From the bottom of my heart
Have eyes only for sb / Only have
Yêu nhau say đắm / thầm thương trộm
nhớ / yêu thầm dấu bụng
The apple of one's eye
A person, usually a child, who sb love
very much
Cục cưng của tôi The way to sb's heart The way to make sb like or love you Duong vao con tim
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As happy as the day is long
As jolly as a shoe brush
Be generous, cheerful and pleasant,
especially in a difficult situation
Lạc quan yêu đời
Be a sight for sore eyes
Be a person or thing that you are
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Be in high spirits
In the heat of the moment
To be bitten by the bug
Beam / Grin / Smile from ear to ear
Be smiling a lot because you are very pleased about sth
Ngoác miệng tới mang tai
Bright - eyed and bushy tailed
Lively and cheerful, pleased and
Do sb's heart good
Make sb feel happy, more cheerful,
hopeful Feel like a million dollars Feel / look very good Vui như trăng rằm
Be very happy about sth
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enjoyment out of sth
Glad to see the back of sb
Happy when you no longer have to deal with sb / sth because they are annoying or unpleasant
Như trút được gánh nang
Grin like a Cheshire cat
Smile widely in a foolish or self-
satisfied way
Cười nhăn nhở
Have a time of your life
Have a whale of time
Enjoy yourself, be very happy or
excited
Vui long ha da
Have stars in your eyes
Happy and excited about future because you believe that you will be
successful and famous
Mặt tươi như hoa
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Like the cat that got / stole the cream
Very pleased or satisfied with
yourself
Như bắt được vàng
On the edge of your seat
Very excited and giving your full
laughter
Laugh a lot, laugh loudly Cười như nắc nề
The more the merrier
The more people or things there are,
the better the situation will be or the
more fun people will have
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Have a sudden feeling of happiness or
Down in the dumps Feeling unhappy or without hope Mat may u é /iu xiu nhu banh da nhting
nước /u xìu như bánh bao chiều
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Down 1n the mouth Miệng méo xệch
Drown one's sorrows
People drink a lot to forget their pain, problems or unhappiness Đắm chìm trong đau khổ
Have one's head in one's boots
Be dispirited, deeply depressed, timorously anxious about sth
Mat may u dot
Tiu ngiu nhu méo bi cat tai / tiu ngiu
như chó cụp đuôi Sob your heart out
Cry noisily for a long time because you are very sad
Khóc đứng khóc ngồi
That Monday morning feeling
A feeling of being depressed because you have to start a new week back at
work
Ly di như ông Từ giữ đền
With a heavy / sinking heart With a feeling of sadness or fear Mat nang nhu da deo
IV/ HATRED:
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Avoid sb / sth like the plague
Keep somebody at arm's length
Avoid sb / sth completely Tránh nhu tranh hui
Can't stand the sight / sound of sb / sth Dislike or hate to (see / hear) sb / sth Ghét cay ghét đắng
Hate sb's guts
Hate the sight of sb/ sth
Dislike sb very much
Ghét nhau như chó với mèo / như mat
trăng với mặt trời / như nước với lửa
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sb”s face
Add fuel to the fire /flames
Do or say sth which makes sb even more angry
Đổ thêm dẫu vào lửa
Nóng như Trương Phi / mặt đồ như gấc/
mặt đó như gà chọi / mặt đó như vang
At each other throats
Angrily fighting or arguing with each
Be a thorn in your flesh / side
Be a person or thing that repeatedly annoys you or stops you doing sth
Cái gai trong mat
Give sb grief about / over sth
Annoy or criticize sb a lot Mắng vuốt mặt không kip
Be on the warpath Be angry and ready for an argument or a
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Jump down one's throat
Speak to sb angrily without a good
reason
Nổi trận lôi đình
Blow your top / Blow your stack
Fly into a rage / temper
Fly into a tantrum
Fly off handle
Have / throw a tantrum / See red
Suddenly become angry
Nổi máu xung thiên / nổi cơn tam bành/ giận đó mặt / đó mặt tía tai
Cut sb dead
Pretend not to see sb or not to greet sb to
Do sb 's head 1n
Make sb feel confused, upset, and / or
For crying out loud
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Get a person's back up
Give somebody / Get the hump
Make sb annoyed M6 dai ngựa / trêu ong chọc rắn
Get in sb' s hair
Annoy sb by preventing them from doing
sth
Kỳ đà cán mũi Get on your high horse Be annoyed because you think that sb
has not treated you with enough respect
Bam gan tím ruột
Get one's goat Annoy sb very much Tức lộn ruột
Get out of bed on the wrong side /
Get up on the wrong side of the bed
Be bad — tempered from the moment
Get steamed up (about sth) Become very angry or excited about sth A? Ne ^
SÔI øan nổi mật
Show one’s teeth
Feel very angry and upset about sth, especially because you cannot get what you want
Nghiến răng nghiến loi / nghién răng
trèo treo /nhe nanh giơ vuốt
Go ape Become extremely angry or excited Tuc nhu bo da
Go ballistic
Go bananas / Have a pink / blue fit
Become very angry Nổi máu xung thiền ns z oA
Go off deep end Get into a state of violent emotion of
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Have / throw a fit Become very excited or angry Điên tiết lên
Be very angry with sb and punish them severely for sth they have done
Tức trào máu họng
His bark is worse than his bite
Sb is not really as angry or unkind as they seem
His blood is up
Hit the roof / ceiling / Raise the roof
Make sb's blood boil
Suddenly become very angry Sôi máu lên /nóng máu
Used for telling sb who is angry or very excited about sth to keep calm
Ha hoa
Kick up / Make / Create / Raise a
situation, often by protesting in public
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Like a bear with a sore head Very bad — tempered Hung hang con bo xit
Like a red rag to a bull
Causing a person to be excitedly and
their ear
(Refuse sb’s request) angrily
Shake the dust from one's feet
Leave a place without request or with relief or generally in anger or disgust
Smooth somebody's ruffled feathers Make sb feel less angry or offended Nuốt giận làm lành
Spit blood venom
Show that you are very angry, speak in
an angry way
Gắt như mắm tôm
Take sth amiss
Feel offended about sth, perhaps because you understand in a wrong way
say that you no longer care about sb/ sth Biến đi cho khuất mắt!
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Turn in his / her grave Likely to be shock or angry
As shy as a school girl
E lệ thẹn thùng /e thẹn như con gái mới
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Make a song and dance about sth
A lot of anger or worry about sth that is
Be /Feel like Jelly
(of legs or knees) feel weak because you are nervous or frightened
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Be frightened / nervous / scared of
your own shadow
Be very easily frightened, be very
Like a cat on hot bricks
On pins and needles
Tense, excited, nervous or restless Như ngồi trên đống lửa
Drive sb out of their mind / wits
Make sb crazy or very nervous or
Chim phai sd canh cay cong / phai
một cái, rái đến gia
Frighten / Scare the life out of sb Frighten sb very much Sợ khiếp đảm
Get / Have the jitters
Feel anxious and nervous, especially before an important event or before having to do sth difficult
Như ngồi phải cọc
Get / Have butterflies in your stomach Get / have nervous feeling in your
stomach before doing sth Kiến bò trong bung /ruột rối như tơ vò
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Go hot and cold all over
Suddenly feel very worried, upset or frightened when you remember sth very unpleasant
Lạnh cả người
Have ants in your pants
Be unable to stay still because you are
anxious or excited about sth
Đứng ngồi không yên / nóng ruột sốt
lòng
Have cold feet
No longer want to continue what you intended or have started because you
are nervous or afraid
Ăn không ngon, ngủ không yên / sốt
ruột sốt gan /ruột nóng như lửa
He cannot say /cry Bo to a goose
He is so timid that he can never utter a word to assert himself on any point however small and against anybody
Jump out of your skin Make a quick, sudden movement
because sth has suddenly frightened Nhảy dựng lên / giật bắn người / như
giảm phải lửa
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you
Lead sb a merry dance Cause sb a lot of trouble or worry Lo cuống cà kê
Make one's flesh creep
Make sb's skin crawl
Make you feel afraid or full of disgust
Hoảng kinh hồn vía /hồn siêu phách
Scared / Frighten sb out of his wits Frighten sb very much Dọa cho hồn vía lên mây
Stand in terror of sth
Stop sb in their tracks
Suddenly make sb stop by frightening
or surprising them; suddenly stop because sth has frightened you
Đứng chết trân / đứng sững như trời trồng / đứng như bị chôn chân / đứng trơ như phỗng
Too close for comfort
So near that you become afraid or
anxious
With bated breath
Hardly able to breath because you are very anxious about sth
Lo sốt vó
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Your heart is in your mouth You feel very anxious or afraid Sợ mất mật
Ghen mặt xanh mày xám / ghen lồng ghen
lồn
Green with envy
Very jealous (wanting sth that sb else
has)
Con gà tức nhau tiếng gáy / ghen ăn tức ở /
ghen ăn ghét uống
Keep up with the Joneses Try to have all the possession and social achievements that your
neighbors or other people around you have, especially by buying what they
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Trâu buộc ghét trâu ăn / vô duyên ghét kẻ
có duyên / không tiền ghét kẻ có tiền cầm Sick with jealousy
tay