Словарь американских идиом (8000 единиц)
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[go to waste] <v. phr.> To be wasted or lost; not used. * /The strawberries went to waste because there was nobody to pick them./ * /Joe's work on the model automobile went to waste when he dropped it./ Compare: IN VAIN.
[go to wrack and ruin] <v. phr.> To fall apart and be ruined; to become useless. * /The barn went to wrack and ruin after the farmer moved./ * /The car will soon go to wrack and ruin standing out in all kinds of weather./
[go under] <v.> 1. To be sunk. * /The ship hit an iceberg and went under./ 2. To fail; be defeated. * /The filling station went under because there were too many others on the street./
[go under the hammer] <v. phr.> To be auctioned off. * /Our old family paintings went under the hammer when my father lost his job./
[go up] <v.> 1. To go or move higher; rise. * /Many people came to watch the weather balloon go up./ * /The path goes up the hill./ 2. To be able to become heard; become loud or louder. * /A shout went up from the crowd at the game./ 3. Grow in height while being built; to be built. * /The new church is going up on the corner./ 4. To increase. * /Prices of fruit and vegetables have gone up./
[go up in smoke] or [go up in flames] <v. phr.> To burn; be destroyed by fire. 1. * /The house went up in flames./ * /The barn full of hay went up in smoke./ 2. Disappear; fail; not come true. * /Jane's hopes of going to college went up in smoke when her father lost his job./ * /The team's chances to win went up in smoke when their captain was hurt./
[go up in the air] <v. phr.> To become angry; lose one's temper. * /Herb is so irritable these days that he goes up in the air for no reason at all./
[gourd] See: SAW WOOD or SAW GOURDS.
[go with] <v.> 1. To match; to look good with. * /A yellow blouse goes with her blonde hair./ * /The woman bought a purse to go with her new shoes./ 2. To go out in the company of. * /Tom goes with the girl who lives across the street./
[go without] See: DO WITHOUT.
[go without saying] <v. phr.> To be too plain to need talking about; not be necessary to say or mention. * /It goes without saying that children should not be given knives to play with./ * /A person with weak eyes should wear glasses. That goes without saying./
[go wrong] <v. phr.> 1. To fail; go out of order. * /Something went wrong with our car and we stalled on the road./ 2. To sink into an immoral or criminal existence. * /In a large city many young people go wrong every year./
[gown] See: TOWN AND GOWN.
[grab bag] <n.> 1. A bag from which surprise packages are chosen; a bag in which there are many unknown things. * /The woman paid a quarter for a chance at the grab bag./ * /The children brought packages to be sold from the grab bag at the school carnival./ 2. A group of many different things from which to choose; a variety. * /The TV program was a grab bag for young and old alike./
[grab off] <v.>, <informal> To take quickly; take or grab before anybody else can; choose for yourself. * /The people who got to the show first grabbed off the best seats./ * /The women hurried to the store to grab off the things on sale./ * /The prettiest girls at the dance were grabbed off for partners first./ Compare: SNAP UP.
[grabs] See: UP FOR GRABS.
[grace] See: FALL FROM GRACE, IN ONE'S BAD GRACES, IN ONE'S GOOD GRACES, WITH BAD GRACE, WITH GOOD GRACE.
[grace period] or [period of grace] <n.> The time or extra time allowed in which to do something. * /Most insurance companies have a grace period of one month for payments./ * /The teacher gave the class a week's period of grace to finish workbooks./
[grade] See: MAKE THE GRADE.
[grain] See: AGAINST THE GRAIN, TAKE WITH A GRAIN OF SALT.
[grand slam] <n.> A home run hit when there are three men on the bases. * /Tony's grand slam won the game for the Yankees, 4-0./
[grandstand] <v.>, <slang>, <informal> To show off, to perform histrionics needlessly. * /Stop grandstanding and get down to honest work!/
[grandstander] <n.>, <slang>, <informal> A showoff, a person who likes to engage in histrionics. * /Many people think that Evel Knievel is a grandstander./
[granted] See: TAKE FOR GRANTED.
[grasp at straws] or [clutch at straws] <v. phr.> To depend on something that is useless or unable to help in a time of trouble or danger; try something with little hope of succeeding. * /To depend on your memory without studying for a test is to grasp at straws./ * /The robber clutched at straws to make excuses. He said he wasn't in the country when the robbery happened./
[grass] See: LET GRASS GROW UNDER ONE'S FEET, SNAKE IN THE GRASS.
[grasshopper] See: KNEE-HIGH TO A GRASSHOPPER
[grass is always greener on the other side of the fence] or [grass is always greener on the other side of the hill] We are often not satisfied and want to be somewhere else; a place that is far away or different seems better than where we are. * /John is always changing his job because the grass always looks greener to him on the other side of the fence./
[grave] See: ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE, TURN IN ONE'S GRAVE or TURN OVER IN ONE'S GRAVE.
[graveyard shift] <n. phr.> The work period lasting from sundown to sunup, when one has to work in the dark or by artificial light. * /"Why are you always so sleepy in class?" Professor Brown asked Sam. "Because I have to work the graveyard shift beside going to school," Sam answered./
[gravy] See: PAN GRAVY.
[gravy train] <n.>, <slang>, <informal> The kind of job that brings in a much higher income than the services rendered would warrant. * /Jack's job at the Athletic Club as Social Director is a regular gravy train./