"i was diagnosed on a wednesday, had surgery thursday, was released friday night, had a press conference announcing to the world that i had cancer on monday morning, started chemo* on monday afternoon"とは 意味・読み方・使い方

a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., `he is a snake' may once have been a metaphor but after years of use it has died and become a new sense of the word `snake')

a nebula that was once thought to be a star with its planets but is now thought to be a very hot star surrounded by an expanding envelope of ionized gases that emit a fluorescent glow because of intense radiation from the star

I only get a holiday once in a (long) while [I don't get many holidays], so you might at least let me take it easy [have a good rest] at home when I do have one.

a secret or indirect payment made in return for a business favour, such as a payment to a radio broadcaster so that he/she will use his/her influence to promote one's cause

Of course he thought it was a joke and let it slide with a "hm?" but he was seriously annoyed. (I mean, just don't say things like that even as a joke!)

This morning I had a bit of a disagreement with my wife. I didn't think it was a big deal, but seeing what she's like this evening I think I must have upset her.

It came in a handsome wooden box and contained a rack for test tubes, glass bottles of powerful powders, a little packet of sensitive paper (litmus, I think), a glass rod, the manual and suitably exciting poison labels.

Knowing very well that his wife wanted to go to a movie, the husband, who was a dog in the manger, cooked up a scheme whereby they had to stay at home waiting for a certain visitor who was not expected to come.

one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)

play the cards of (a suit) so that the last trick on which a hand can follow suit will be taken by a higher card in the hand of a partner who has the remaining cards of a combined holding

There's a possibility that a former significant other might send a marriage registration without my consent, so I used the system in place to prevent unauthorized marriage and divorce registration.

a code (a series of characters or digits) that must be entered in some way (typed or dialed or spoken) to get the use of something (a telephone line or a computer or a local area network etc.)

a new religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard in 1955 and characterized by a belief in the power of a person's spirit to clear itself of past painful experiences through self-knowledge and spiritual fulfillment

After he cleared each of his three previous heights at 2.24, 2.27 and 2.30 meters on his third attempt, it was hard for him to make three jumps at his final height.

a severe and rapid and sometimes fatal hypersensitivity reaction to a substance (especially a vaccine or penicillin or shellfish or insect venom) to which the organism has become sensitized by previous exposure

a boy who never received a proper musical education but plays the piano beautifully, a brilliant student at the world's top-ranked music school, an exceptionally talented piano player who stopped playing the piano after her mother died, and more.

We live in a machine age; motorcars, TV sets, clothes, and books, to name but a few [to mention only a few], are all machine‐made products.

While one of them sped around major parts of the property on the mower, a second made a few sweeps at some tall weeds on the edge of my wife's garden and the third got into the truck and smoked a cigarette.

Oh my. However much it's just a P.E. class if you don't face it in real earnest then when it comes to a real fight it won't do you any good.

Our child was born just after April 1st , so he entered school one year later than our neighbor's son who was born in February.

For example, when two players say "a little bit thinner," one player may mean 0.3 millimeters thinner while another player may mean 0.4 millimeters.

When you want to say "I promise", if you say "koko ni chikaimasu" you'll sound more like a native.

N-no it's not that ... it's that there could be someone who would need me for what I am, for my true self, I hadn't even thought of that possibility.

one who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone

This work of mine has been severely criticized by the so‐called experts, but I laugh in their faces these days, asking them if they could match it.

Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done- Ernie Kovacs

His utter failure at the last peace conference has taught him to arm himself to the teeth with new tricks and tactics.

Looks, brains, reflexes, rich family and, for good measure, vice president of the student committee - in other words he's 'perfect'.

As Kanda was off sick for about three weeks last month, the progress of the work has been delayed, and now that the deadline is drawing near the pressure is really on us.

Fifty years ago to the day, the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous "I have a dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.