女房が映画に行きたがっていることがよくわかったので、いじわるな亭主は一計を案じ、くるあてもない来客を家で待つことにした。の英語

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.

The angry wife was on the warpath; she hit her husband with a broom for coming home late and drunk.

Many times, a hen-pecked husband doesn't know his problems until he talks to a happy bachelor.

Many time a hen - pecked husband doesn't know his problems until he talks to a happy bachelor.

The landlord told me a cock and bull story about why we didn't have heat for three days.

My daughter, who was pretending to be a princess, wore my skirt as a dress, dragging it on the ground as she walked towards me.

Everytime her husband looked at me, he almost asked me: "For what purpose have you come here?"

The person who descended from the coach was a woman of about 22 or 23 with, if I had to say, a plain appearance. At a glance, I knew that she was a guest coming from Paris. She was alone.

The moment she made her appearance, my room was transformed from its usual bleakness into a cheerful place, as if a ray of sunshine had suddenly shone into it.

without more ado Barker borrowed a knife from his brigade Major and honed it on a carborundum stone as coolly as a butcher

it was a mere glance, but the eye contact was enough to tell her that he was desperate to leave

The actress high-tailed to her villa when reporters began to follow her to the restaurant

of a geisha, the action of traveling from the house in which she is kept to the place where her services have been requested

One evening, however, when Miss Baker got back to the college a few minutes before the time by which all students had to be in, she found another car in her parking space.

She therefore came up on this side, opened her own window and tapped her horn lightly to draw attention to the fact that she was there.

Miss Baker knew that the young man would have to leave very soon, so she decided to ask him to move his car a bit, so that she could park hers in the proper place for the night before going to bed.

The dean sighed and said: "I think that this woman is perhaps... my own cousin".

It was unheard of for a literary master, of all people, to get in financial trouble and fall in ruins.

As he was drinking he got very merry and kept telling everybody just how much he hated hospitals.

He was still mumbling something about hospitals at the end of the party when he slipped on a piece of ice and broke his left leg.

Apparently, you can hear a girl's sobs coming from the closed-off washroom in that school building at midnight.

I turned around and there, a few hundred feet away, was our government minder, Li Wong Su, huffing and puffing toward us

He didn't intend to let her drive but she pestered him so much that he finally gave in.

Miss Burney protested indignantly, her long thin nose turning pink with mortification at this irreverent piece of mimicry

At the party, one of his political opponents humiliated him in the presence of many guests.

As the young man's car was close to the fence, Miss Baker had to drive up beside it on the other side, where the girl was sitting.

The moment he appeared on the stage, the audience stopped their chattering, and a dead silence fell over the theater.

The victim of blackmail has been paying hush money for years, but now he realizes it is foolish, and he has decided not to pay a red cent more.

After reading her letter, doubt(s) rose in my mind as to whether she still loved him [a doubt as to whether she really loved him began to raise its head].

The girl snapped up the package and pointed to a little old man standing beside her.