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| glimpses of the truth | a captivating smile | hit sb.on the raw | work by fits and starts |
| every movement and every action | big profit with small capital | follow a prescribed pattern in speech or action | scrupulous and methodical |
| may be triggered at any moment | fastidiousness | to punish one person as a warning to a hundred others | make clean riddance of |
| fixed; rigid; unalterable | expect results overnight; accomplish sth. in one move | undo | to have plenty of guts |
| set the tune with one beat of the gong | meeting repeated difficuities | pun | only slightly acquainted with (a person) |
| of one heart and mind | minor success | cannot possibly go wrong | stupid person may once in a while have a good idea |
| Trinity | to hit back at sb. | be in the forefront | in a state of disunity like a sheet of loose sand |
| when one starts singing,all the others join in | Flash in the pan | each sticks to his own version | smatter |
| to go ahead bravely without looking back | to die of illness | hoodwink the public | a few children |
| weak force | in one day | Nanke dream(from the story of a man who dreamed that he became governor of Nanke in the Kingdom of the Ants); illusory joy; fond dream | a monolithic bloc |
| (literally) one singing and three sighs--an expression to describe a deeply touching literary work | to produce a male heir by a woman in her first child birth | be faithful to husband till death | echo and support each other |
| be utterly ignorant of | a thousand li a day | hypostatic union | hit the mark with a single comment |
| have a nodding acquaintance with sb. | to hit the nail on the head | while life shall last | fool's paradise |
| unable to agree or decide which is right | gain considerable fame among one's contemporaries for a time | complete with everything | be not soiled with a particle of dust |
| be of one heart and one mind | be one up (on sb.) | rush | catch a glimpse of |
| kill two birds with one stone | Brainstorm | solemn promise | serve a double purpose |
| unilateral willingness | dictatorial | The fall of a single leaf ushers in the autumn | stoniness |
| to commit one mistake after another | promise that will be kept | singleness of purpose | speak unhurriedly and clearly |
| run in the same groove | maitain harmony all round | One command draws a hundred answers (said of wealthy of powerful person with a large number of attendants) | spend lavishly |
| run in a rut | pitch-dark | even a wise man sometimes makes a mistake | even a fool may sometimes have a good idea |
| possible mistake or mishap | thoroughly | in one voice | not worth a curse |
| as far as one can see | steadiness | whole story as it had happened | have nothing going for one |
| be all in a [one, the same] story | getting more serious | one word is worth a thousand taels of gold | when one learns one thing you can learn a hundred |
| day in, day out | It's written all over his face. | be head over heels in love | a person who can shoulder the important task |
| decided to fight to death | The ratio between the diameter and the circumference is roughly 1:3 according to an ancient Chinese calculation | be all the fashion | one-sided story |
| a head-on blow | some official appointment | collapse at the first encounter | from six months o a year (said of a relatively short time) |
| read ten lines at a glance | one in a thousand | to finish writing an aricle or drawing a painting very quickly | press on to the finish without letup |
| be ready to go into action in their hundreds | a single post cannot bear the burden | too many leaders in a country or organization | press forward with indomitable will |
| fall into step (with) | collapse after one setback | every facial expression of a VIP | round up the whole gang at one fell swoop |
| pushiness | wrong decision made in a moment of weakness with serious consequences | lay a wager of thousand taels of gold at one throw of the dice | collapse at the first blow |
| click | (literally) One moment is worth a thousand pieces of gold.--Time is precisous | depart from one's normal behaviour | with the sword of Damocles above one's head |
| flat country | That's flat. | (literally) The mouth agrees with the mind.--to speak one's mind frankly | adios |
| have met only once | One is very capable, while the other is extremely incompetent | once for ado | (literally) A single glance takes inall--a panoramic view |
| be tarred with the same brush | lump together under one head | have one's heart in | derived from the same origin (said of lineage, philosophy, etc.) |
| disarray | to concentrate or focus one's attention, thought, or efforts | Odd bits | bite the dust |
| contemn | be perfectly spotless | fall in love at first sight | fixed pattern |
| insignificant | (literally) as far as the arrow flies--a short distance | wield absolute power in a part of a country,province | do not know the simplest character |
| click | someday | too many to be enumerated | A day absent from you is like three seasons |
| be a bundle of negatives | never amount to anything | laugh off | keep silent |
| laugh away | a drop in the bucket | to have no inkling | nothing one does not know |
| commit sth. to the flames | gang up | found a new school of thought | the best part of somthing |
| do not take anything for oneself not rightfully his (said of integrity of public servants) | be done over night reach Heaven at a single bound | a notch above others | skin a flint |
| make an example of sb. | not worth a penny | a word to the wise is sufficient | without a rap |
| have a style of one's own | not a penny | to complete in one breath (said of a literary piece, painting, etc. so that it is characterized by unity in style and coherence in thought) | do not stick to one pattern |
| not make chalk of one and cheese of the other | Fight dog, fight bear. | be brought about in a rush | prepared for any eventuality |
| drop many metres in one fall | a clear view | come crowding in | Nothing for nothing. |
| to achieve nothing or gain nothing (after all the efforts made) | silence | neither rhyme nor reason | act as one speaks |
| cause a great flutter | in facsimile | take on an entirely new look | make a false countercharge |
| (worries, doubts) completely removed | out of court | handsome or dashing | do not worth even a laugh |
| act otherwise than one says | see better days | punish one as a warning to others | worthless |
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