Category: Translations

Get together (with someone): meet and spend time with someone

Tom: My family and I are getting together for the holidays. What are you up to?

Sam: Same thing. It should be fun.

Find something out: learn or discover something

Tim: Hey can you find out when is the next examination? I want to take a placement test.

Sam: Sure, let me check when it’s available.

Year after year: regularly for many years

Rick: I don’t like this city too much.

Sam: What’s wrong with it?

Rick: Year after year, it snows a lot and makes the roads too icy. 

 

Search for someone or something: look everywhere for someone or something

Tim: What are you doing?

Rick: I‘m searching for my reading glasses, but I cannot seem to find them anywhere.

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Live through something: survive something

Rick: How is your mother?

Sam: She’s doing better now. She battled cancer for quite some time now, but she lived through the treatment. 

Rick: She’s quite strong.

 

Give birth (to a baby): have a baby

Susan: Kate is having a baby?

Noriko: Yeah, I heard. When is she giving birth?

Susan: Sometime next month. 

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Be pregnant: be going to have a baby

Noriko: Have you heard about Kate? 

Susan: No, what happened?

Noriko: She‘s pregnant.

Susan: Really? How many months?

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Face-to-face: in direct contact; in person

Noriko: I don’t like the recent email culture nowadays.

Susan: What do you mean?

Noriko: I prefer meeting people face-to-face. 

Be scared of someone or something: fear; be afraid of someone or something.

Rick: Is there anything you’re really afraid of?

Noriko: Yes, I am scared of spiders.

 

A close call: a narrow escape

Noriko: Wow did you see those two cars? They almost got into an accident.

Susan: Yeah, I saw that. Talk about a close call, huh?