我们在日常英语交流中有没有碰到或说过下面这些语句呢？你有没有通过字面意思的理解来回答别人而导致了尴尬的事情呢？
让我们一起来学习学习吧。
Pull one’s leg
字面意思是：拉后腿，但是它的真正意思是开玩笑。
When he said that he would invite the whole class to his birthday party,we
wondered whether he was pulling our leg.
当他说要请全班同学参加他的生日宴会,我们想他大概是在开玩笑吧.
Eat one’s words
字面意思是：吃某人的话，但它的真正意思是收回前言。
If you are right. I'll eat my words.
如果你是对的，我就收回我说过的话。
handwriting on the wall
字面意思是：大字报，但它的真正意思是不祥之兆
I could see the handwriting on the wall when they called me in.
他们叫我进去的时候，我就感到了不祥的预兆。
bring down the house
字面意思是：推到房子，但它的真正意思是博得全场喝彩。
Whenever we have a family gathering, my father always tells jokes that bring down the house.
我们每次家庭聚会时，我爸总是会讲笑话，使家里笑声满堂。
have a fit
字面意思是：试穿，但它的真正意思是勃然大怒。
He'd have a fit if he knew what we were up to!
要是他知道我们在干什么会气疯了的。
pull up one's socks
字面意思是：提起某人的袜子
You have to pull your socks up and get out there and sell more stuff.
你们必须立刻振作起来到外面去加紧推销你们的产品。
make one's hair stand on end
字面意思是：使头发竖立起来，真的意思是令人恐惧，令人毛骨悚然
Some of those ghost stories make my hair stand on end; even though I don't believe in ghosts.
有几篇鬼故事使我毛骨悚然，虽然我并不相信鬼。
wear two hats
字面意思是：戴两顶帽子，真正意思是身兼两职
He is wearing two hats, being as the attorney for the company as well as the president of a charity organization.
他身兼两职，既是公司的法律顾问，也是一家慈善机构的主席。
no skin off one’s nose
字面意思是去掉某人的鼻子，真实意思是与某人无关
it's no skin off my nose if Susie's going out now with that guy!
要是苏琪在跟那个家伙好，一起出去玩的话，这可跟我没有一点关系。
speaking of the devil
字面意思是：说魔鬼，真正意思是说曹操，曹操到
He's already twenty-five minutes late. Shall we go? Oh, speak of the devil, here he is now.
他已经晚了25分钟了，我们要不就走吧？噢，他来了，真是说到曹操，曹操就到。
各位条友们，不知道大家还有其他补充吗？
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