Slangs

Slang is informal, often entertaining language.

To start off, here is a small selection of some slang ad idiomatic languag that you might hear or use yourselves.

Air-head
A vacuous person

All hell broke loose
Things becom very turbulent, noisy, dangerous

All the way
From start to finish

To bitch about something
To complain bittely about something

Bummed out
Disappointed, depressed

To come clean
To tell the truth

To Be / Get mixed up
To be / become confused.
- Did you have any difficult finding the way?
- Not much. I just got mixed up when I looked at the signs.
- I get mixed up when there are many people talking to me at the same time.

To be on the tip of one's tongue
To be about to remember
- How come you forgot his name?
- It was one the tip of my tongue but I couldn't say it!

Not to know beans about
To know absolutely nothing about
- We asked Mr. Smith to look after our pet.
- Are you crazy? He doesn't know beans about parrots.

To be Greek to
To be inconmprehensible to
- How about your motorcycle?
- Well, the mechanic tried to explain what the problem was, but everthing was Greek to me.

Get the Works
Get a lot of something
- I think I got the works. Every was included.

Go off half-cocked
Do / Say something without thinking
- It's dangerous to have Amanda in the meeting because she sometimes goes off half-cocked.

Up for grabs
Available to everyone
- The prize this week is up for grabs just about anyone can win it.

Rise and shine: acorde e levante-se.
-Rise and shine! Breakfast's ready and you're late.

Odds and sods: tralha
-Paul's garage is full of odds and sods.

Ups and downs: altos e baixos
-Married life is full of ups and downs.

Six-pack and pecs: barriga de tanquinho e peitorais bem definidos
-Amanda likes guys with a nice six-pack and pecs.

An arm and a leg: olhos da cara
-This dress cost me an arm and a leg.

Wake up and smell the coffee: "se toca"
-Hey, wake up and smell the coffee! How many people have been fired recently in your country?