Coasting along 滑行 随波逐流After Usain Bolt was assured of winning the 100m in the Beijing Olympics, he coasted to the finish line.After Amber quit her job she coasted along before aggressively finding a new job.After winning the lottery, Peter coasted along before the money ran out.Definition: To act or move aimlessly with little effortEtymology: It's derived from sliding down an incline by gravity or without using propelling power******A red herring 转移注意力 瞎扯The Agatha Christie Novel, The Murder on the Orient Express, is littered with red herrings to throw the readers off the real murderer.Cathy, the lawyer, had to detect clues and red herrings when she looked at the crime scene.The movie World War Z plants many red herrings for Brad Pitt to investigate.Definition: It's something that misleads or distracts from the relevant or important issue in a book or movieEtymology: A red herring was actually a kipper with a very strong smell. When trainers would train a dog to follow a scent, they would test the dog by distracting it with the scent of a red herring. Red herrings would have a strong scent that confused the dog. The dog eventually learned to follow the original scent rather than the stronger scent.******Running gag 流行笑话 In the first two seasons of Modern Family, there is a running gag of the character Phil tripping on the staircase.The British slap-stick comedy has a running gag of a person impersonating Craig David and saying the name "Craig David".The Comedy Big Bang Theory features a running gag of the character Penny giving an expression like she is smelling feces after she doesn't understand nerd talk.Definition: An amusing joke or a comical reference and appears repeatedly throughout a work of literature or other forms of storytelling.Etymology: Gag means a joke. Running means recurring.