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[์ผ์ƒ์ƒํ™œ์—์„œ ์ž์ฃผ ์“ฐ์ด๋Š” 30๊ฐ€์ง€ ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๊ณ  ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ์˜์–ด ๊ด€์šฉ๊ตฌ(Idioms) ์ •๋ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ]-[Let's Learn English! Topic๏ผš Fun and Quirky English Idioms ๐Ÿฐ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ‡ (Lesson Only)]

Learn English with Bob the Canadian ยท B1 ยท

Situational Spoken English
๋˜๋Š” ์›น๋ฒ„์ „์œผ๋กœ ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•˜์„ธ์š” โ†’

๐Ÿ“‹ Summary

์ผ์ƒ ์† ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๋Š” ์˜์–ด ๊ด€์šฉ๊ตฌ ์™„์ „ ์ •๋ณต

์˜์–ด ํ•™์Šต์—์„œ ๊ด€์šฉ๊ตฌ(Idioms)๋Š” ์–ธ์–ด์˜ ๋ง›์„ ์‚ด๋ ค์ฃผ๋Š” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์š”์†Œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ•์˜์—์„œ๋Š” ์ผ์ƒ์—์„œ ์ž์ฃผ ์ ‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” 30๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋…ํŠนํ•˜๊ณ  ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ด€์šฉ๊ตฌ๋“ค์„ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

1. ๊ฑด๊ฐ•๊ณผ ์„ฑ์‹คํ•จ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„

  • An apple a day keeps the doctor away: โ€œํ•˜๋ฃจ ์‚ฌ๊ณผ ํ•œ ์•Œ์ด๋ฉด ์˜์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š” ์—†๋‹คโ€๋Š” ๋ง๋กœ, ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋จน์œผ๋ฉด ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™„๋ฒฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์•„๋‹์ง€๋ผ๋„ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์‹์Šต๊ด€์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Live a little: ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€ ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๋Š” ์ผ์„ ์ฃผ์ €ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์—๊ฒŒ โ€œ์ธ์ƒ์„ ์ข€ ์ฆ๊ฒจ๋ผโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ถŒ์œ ํ•  ๋•Œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

2. ์ธ๋‚ด์™€ ์†Œํ†ต์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„

  • Hold your horses: ์ƒ๋Œ€๋ฐฉ์—๊ฒŒ โ€œ์ž ๊น ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ คโ€, โ€œ์ง„์ •ํ•ดโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•  ๋•Œ ์“ฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€ ์„ฑ๊ธ‰ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ–‰๋™ํ•˜๋ ค ํ•  ๋•Œ ์œ ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Spill the beans: ๋น„๋ฐ€์„ ๋ˆ„์„คํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๋œป์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„œํ”„๋ผ์ด์ฆˆ ํŒŒํ‹ฐ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋น„๋ฐ€์ด ์œ ์ง€๋˜์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Hit the nail on the head: ์ •๊ณก์„ ์ฐŒ๋ฅด๋‹ค, ์ฆ‰ ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ๋‹ต๋ณ€์„ ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์˜ฌ๋ฐ”๋ฅธ ์ง€์ ์„ ํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

3. ์˜คํ•ด์™€ ์‹ค์ˆ˜์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„

  • Bark up the wrong tree: ์—‰๋šฑํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์„ ์˜์‹ฌํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ž˜๋ชป๋œ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ํ‘œํ˜„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Pull someone's leg: ์žฅ๋‚œ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฑฐ์ง“๋ง์„ ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋†๋‹ด์„ ๋˜์งˆ ๋•Œ ์”๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Go off the rails: ํ†ต์ œ๋ ฅ์„ ์žƒ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ์ž˜๋ชป๋œ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ํ˜๋Ÿฌ๊ฐˆ ๋•Œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์น˜ ๊ธฐ์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ํƒˆ์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์—์„œ ์œ ๋ž˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Cut corners: ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ ˆ๊ฐํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ฒŒ์œผ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ผ์„ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜์—ฌ ์ •์„๋Œ€๋กœ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๋•Œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Sweep it under the rug: ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ์ˆจ๊ธฐ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์€ํํ•˜๋ ค ํ•  ๋•Œ ์“ฐ๋Š” ํ‘œํ˜„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

4. ์œ„๊ธฐ ์ƒํ™ฉ๊ณผ ํฌ๊ธฐ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„

  • To be on thin ice: ์‚ด์–ผ์ŒํŒ์„ ๊ฑท๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์œ„ํ—˜ํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ, ์ฆ‰ ์ž˜๋ชป๋œ ํ–‰๋™์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ง•๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ธฐ ์ง์ „์˜ ์ƒํƒœ๋ฅผ ์˜๋ฏธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Throw in the towel: ๊ถŒํˆฌ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์—์„œ ์œ ๋ž˜ํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„์œผ๋กœ, โ€œํ•ญ๋ณตํ•˜๋‹คโ€ ํ˜น์€ โ€œํฌ๊ธฐํ•˜๋‹คโ€๋ผ๋Š” ๋œป์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Miss the boat: ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋†“์น˜๋‹ค๋ผ๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ๋กœ, ์–ด๋–ค ์ผ์„ ์‹œ๋„ํ•˜๊ธฐ์— ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋Šฆ์—ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • In hot water: ๊ณค๊ฒฝ์— ์ฒ˜ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ์ผ์œผ์ผœ ๋น„๋‚œ์„ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๋œปํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Throw someone under the bus: ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ž˜๋ชป์„ ๋ชจ๋ฉดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์„ ํฌ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ๋– ๋„˜๊ธธ ๋•Œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

5. ์‹œ์ž‘๊ณผ ๋ณ€ํ™”์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„

  • Back to the drawing board: ์‹คํŒจ ํ›„ ์ฒ˜์Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ๋•Œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Out of the blue: ์˜ˆ๊ณ  ์—†์ด, ๊ฐ‘์ž๊ธฐ ์ผ์–ด๋‚œ ์ผ์„ ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Jump the gun: ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์„ฑ๊ธ‰ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ผ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ–‰๋™ํ•  ๋•Œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Get the ball rolling: ์–ด๋–ค ์ผ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•  ๋•Œ ์“ฐ๋Š” ๋ง์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

6. ์ผ์ƒ ์—…๋ฌด์™€ ์ƒํƒœ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„

  • Piece of cake: ๋งค์šฐ ์‰ฌ์šด ์ผ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Cost an arm and a leg: ๋งค์šฐ ๋น„์‹ผ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ง€๋ถˆํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ๋•Œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Under the weather: ๋ชธ ์ƒํƒœ๊ฐ€ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์•ˆ ์ข‹๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ปจ๋””์…˜์ด ์ €์กฐํ•  ๋•Œ ์”๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Break the ice: ์–ด์ƒ‰ํ•œ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊นจ๊ณ  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ํŽธ์•ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค ๋•Œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ํ‘œํ˜„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Bite off more than you can chew: ๊ฐ๋‹นํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์„ ์ •๋„๋กœ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ์€ ์ผ์„ ๋ฒŒ์ผ ๋•Œ ์”๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Once in a blue moon: ์•„์ฃผ ๊ฐ€๋”, ๋“œ๋ฌผ๊ฒŒ ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๋Š” ์ผ์„ ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Walk on eggshells: ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€์˜ ๋น„์œ„๋ฅผ ๋งž์ถ”๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ํ–‰๋™ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Have your hands full: ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ฐ”๋น ์„œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ผ์„ ํ•  ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ์—†์„ ๋•Œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Play it by ear: ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์„ธ์šฐ์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์œ ์—ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€์ฒ˜ํ•  ๋•Œ ์”๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Keep your fingers crossed: ํ–‰์šด์„ ๋นŒ์–ด์ค„ ๋•Œ ์†๊ฐ€๋ฝ์„ ๊ผฌ๋Š” ํ–‰๋™์—์„œ ์œ ๋ž˜ํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„์œผ๋กœ, ์ผ์ด ์ž˜ ํ’€๋ฆฌ๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ž€๋‹ค๋Š” ๋œป์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ด€์šฉ๊ตฌ๋“ค์€ ์›์–ด๋ฏผ๋“ค์ด ์ผ์ƒ ๋Œ€ํ™”์—์„œ ์ž์ฃผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ํ‘œํ˜„๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋งž๊ฒŒ ์ ์ ˆํžˆ ํ™œ์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋” ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์˜์–ด ์‹ค๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐ŸŽฏKey Sentences

1
But there is a little bit of truth to this.
ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์•„์ฃผ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ง„์‹ค์€ ๋‹ด๊ฒจ ์žˆ๊ธด ํ•ด.
2
I'll be with you shortly.
๊ณง ๊ฐˆ๊ฒŒ์š”.
3
That's exactly the right answer.
์ •๋‹ต์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
4
You're barking up the wrong tree.
ํ—›๋‹ค๋ฆฌ์งš๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹œ๋„ค์š”.
5
Things are going wrong.
์ผ์ด ๊ผฌ์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด.
๋ชจ๋‘ ํŽผ์น˜๊ธฐ

๐Ÿ“Key Phrases

1
hold your horses
์ง„์ •ํ•ด์š”
2
spill the beans
๋น„๋ฐ€์„ ํ„ธ์–ด๋†“๋‹ค
3
hit the nail on the head
ํ•ต์‹ฌ์„ ์ฐŒ๋ฅด๋‹ค
4
bark up the wrong tree
ํ—›๋‹ค๋ฆฌ์งš๋‹ค
5
pull someone's leg
๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋†€๋ฆฌ๋‹ค
๋ชจ๋‘ ํŽผ์น˜๊ธฐ

๐Ÿ“– Transcript

Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson where we're going to talk about 30 different fun and quirky idioms.
If you don't know what quirky means it means unique or strange or a little bit funny.
Um these are idioms that will be familiar to you but also some of these will probably be brand new.
There's probably ten in here that you'll know. there's probably 20 that you probably don't know.
So you'll have to see, as we go through this English lesson, which ones you know and which ones you don't know.
But they should be fun.

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