Well put that one on the back burner for a bit.

Well put that one on hold for a little. ,

Intriguing [ntri:g] [adj]. Sth that is intriguing is very interesting because it is

strange, mysterious, or unexpected; SYN)
Facsinating

You lead a very intriguing life : Your life is always amazing/

So many unusual things happen to you

To be taken aback [adv]. To be very surprised or shocked by sth

I wont be taken aback : I wont be astonished/You wont be able to surprise me.

To knock/throw sb for a loop [inf]. To surprise and upset sb

Youve just thrown me for a loop! : Youve just blown my mind!/I was just knocked off
my feet by you!

Ive accepted a job in South America: I got an offer to work in South America

I leave tomorrow : I take off tomorrow/My departure is scheduled for tomorrow.

A: Ive got unbelievable news. ## yourself.

B: You lead a very ## life. I wont be taken ##.

A: Ive accepted a job in South America. I leave tomorrow.

B: I was wrong. Youve just ## me for a ##.

Discombobulated [dskb:bjletd] [adj]. Completely confused-used

humorously

I get discombobulated: I get very confused/I become really disoriented

You manage your life with such ease: Your life seems so well controlled/
Your life is very well managed.

Im impressed: Its very impressive/I think thats extremely impressive of you

Ive discovered: Ive found out/Ive learned/It seems to me that/Ive come to learn that

Worrying never helps: worrying about things is not very useful/theres no use in
worrying
When things go wrong: when problems are happening/if things around me are not
going well

Train yourself to V: Make yourself practice so that you can/Force yourself to

Slow down: take it easy/handle things step-by-step/stay in control

Think calmly: use common sense/think rationally/use rational thinking

A: You manage your life with such ease. Im impressed.

B: Ive discovered that worrying never helps.

A: I get ## when things go wrong.

B: Train yourself to slow down and think calmly.

Zealot [zelt] [cn]. Sb who has extremely strong beliefs, especially religious or
political beliefs, and is too eager to make other people share
them; zealotry [UN]

To be wrapped up in Sth [phv]. To give so much of your attention to sth that

you do not have time for anything else

Ive become an on-line shopping zealot: Im totally wrapped up in shopping on the

Internet.

Addicted [dktd] [adj]. to be addicted to sth: unable to stop taking a harmful

substance, especially a drug or doing sth as a habit

Its easy to get addicted to: A shopping addiction is easy to acquire/Its easy to get
caught up in that.

Unstoppable [nstpbl] [adj]. unable to be stopped

To hit the nail on the head [phv, inf]. Used to say that what sb has said is
exactly right

Youll hit the brakes: Youll stop/Youll put a stop to it/Youll hang it up

When you get the bills: when it comes time to take care of the bills

A: Ive become an on-line shopping ##.

B: Its easy to get ## to. Its so convenient.

A: Thats just it. Click after click after click. Im ##

B: Youll hit the ## when you get the bills.

Rundown [adj, not before noun]. Sb who is run-down is tired and not healty

I feel rundown: I feel exhausted/Ive a serious lack of energy

To bottom out [phv]. If a situation, price etc bottoms out, it stops getting worse
or lower, usually before improving again

My energy is gone/I have no more energy remaining

To level off/out [phv]. To stop going up or down and continue at the same
height

Push [vt]. To encourage or force sb to do sth or to work hard;

Athletes who push their bodies to the limit.

Hes been pushing himself too hard, working 12-hour days.

Around/round the clock [n]. All day and all night without stopping

Kim has been working round the clock to finish it in time.

Thats too much: Thats over the top/Thats beyond the limit

Developmentd [dvelmnt] [cn]. A new event or piece of news that changes a

situation

This is a recent development: This feeling is something new/Ive not felt this way
before

Well keep you informed of developments.

To catch/pick up/get a bug [inf]. An illness that people catch very easily from
each other but is not very serious

Maybe working is catching up with you: Its likely that working hard is having an
effect on you

A: I feel ##. My energy has ## out.

B: You ## yourself ## the clock. Thats too much.

A: This is a recent ##. Maybe I caught a ##.

B: It could be or maybe work is catching up with you.

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45. to bear sth/sb out [phv]. If facts or information bear out a claim, story,
opinion etc, they help to prove that it is true;
SYN) support

Ex) These were people who had been brought up on the rule You get what

you pay for and who had seen that rule borne out over and over in

their lives.

461. restless [`restls] [adj]. Unwilling to keep still or stay where you are,
especially because you are nervous or bored;
SYN) fidgety [`fti], become/grow/get restless

Ex) I had decided to attend the meeting to observe the kind of compliance tactics
used in recruitment lectures of this sort and had brought along an interested friend, a
university professor whose areas of specialization were statistics and symbolic
logic. As the meeting progressed and the lectures explained the theory behind TM, I
noticed my logician friend