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由国际台首席英文主播、金话筒奖得主、资深英语教师曼玲与外籍主持人精心挑选地道英文表达，以轻松愉快的聊天形式让听众过耳不失，学以致用。

由国际台首席英文主播、金话筒奖得主、资深英语教师曼玲与外籍主持人精心挑选地道英文表达，以轻松愉快的聊天形式让听众过耳不失，学以致用。

Meaning: A feeling or guess based on intuition rather than known facts.

Meaning: Perform a difficult and grueling series of tests at someone else's request or command.Origin: The image here is of performing animals doing tricks. Such an act is first recorded in English in the late eighteenth century, but the expression used to describe having to do something difficult or complicated to get what you want is from the early twentieth century.

Meaning: Briefly make or renew contact with someone.Origin: Baseball. Has a base which you have to touch.

Meaning: To enjoy, to find delight in (something exciting)Origin: On a kick could mean an extended period of using alcohol or drugs. From James Jones' Here to Eternity (1951).

Meaning: To pass an important or difficult point and begin to improve.

Definition: It is too late and pointless to change the past.Origin: The origin of the idiom "water under the bridge" is an ancient one; this saying is derived from an even older one that dates back to ancient Greece.

Definition: Someone who is prepared for an opportunity to do something that they've known about for some time.Origin: The expression refers to theater productions where people wait for their turn to come on stage. The term wings refer to the backstage production area. The phrase itself means in the background and available on short notice.

Definition: The scheme/secret or deception is revealed or foiled.Origin: The expression suggests that the dance (the dance) is over and that the time has come to pay the fiddler. However, its derivation is more complicated. 'Jig' is a very old term for a lively dance, but in Elizabethan times the word became slang for a practical joke or a trick. 'The jig is up' - meaning your trick or game is finished, has been exposed, we're onto you now - derives from this obsolete slang word, not the 'jig' that is a lively dance.