전화영어
gobble sth up
- to use a lot of your supply of something, usually money:
The mounting legal costs quickly gobbled up their savings.
proliferate
/prəˈlɪf.ər.eɪt/
- to increase a lot and suddenly in number:
Small businesses have proliferated in the last ten years.
BBC Learning English - The English We Speak
Donkey's years
- The phrase comes from rhyming slang – donkey's years rhymes with donkey's ears
- donkey's ears are long and when we say we haven't done something for 'donkey's years' we mean we haven't done something for a long time.
I haven't driven a car for donkey's years; I hope I can remember what to do.
interjections
- These are mostly sounds we make to express sudden emotions such as surprise, delight, displeasure, disappointment, pain, things like that. We use them more when we speak than when we write.
Expressing pleasant surprise: Wow!
Expressing sudden pain: Ouch!
Expressing a negative reaction to unpleasant sensations of sight, touch, smell or taste: Ugh!
Expressing delight with an outcome: Yippee!
Expressing positive relief: Phew!
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