WORDS AND USAGE

  •Chase rainbows/a rainbow (idiom) -

  To pursue some goal or accomplishment that is utterly unrealistic or unlikely to happen.(做白日夢,異想天開)

  Examples:  

  1.You can't chase rainbows your whole life - you need to pick a stable career and start being an adult.

  2.It feels like the government is chasing a rainbow in its efforts to overhaul the tax legislation.

  •Stop at nothing (idiom) -

  Used to say that someone will do anything to achieve a goal or purpose, even if it is very bad.(不擇手段,無所不用其極)

  Examples:  

  1.They will stop at nothing to get him elected.  

  2."I assure you, ma'am, we will stop at nothing to catch that thief," the police officer said.

  •Barefaced (adverb) –

  Not show any shame about, or does not try to hide, bad behaviour. (露骨的,厚顏無恥的)

  Examples:  

  1.How does he make so barefaced a lie appear to be a truth?

  2.This is one of the most barefaced acts of historical rewriting ever.

  •Throw one's weight about/around (idiom) -

  If someone throws their weight around/about, they act aggressively and use their power over other people more than they need to.(耀武揚威,專橫跋扈)

  Examples:  

  1.The boss came in, yelling and generally throwing his weight about.  

  2.The PE teacher was a tyrant who threw his weight around when it came to punishing his students.

  •Make an issue (out) of sth (idiom) -

  To argue about something or insist that something be treated as an important problem even it is not.(拿…說事,拿…做文章)

  Examples:  

  1.There's nothing wrong with your hair, so stop making an issue out of it.

  2.I knew they'd made a mistake, but I was too tired to make an issue of it.