Spring

Diary? 03/05 Talk Turkey

Diary? 03/10 Know Your Onions

Diary? 03/14 Bee’s Knees

Diary? 04/03 Flogging a Dead Horse

Diary? 04/07 Eye Broccoli

Diary? 04/28 Out to Lunch

Diary? 04/29 Elephant in the Room

Diary? 05/02 In the Soup

Diary? 05/09 Dead Presidents

Diary? 05/14 Bad Apple



Summer

Diary? 06/01 All ears

Diary? 06/04 Hard Cheese

Diary? 06/16 Golden Parachute

Diary? 07/01 Pain in the Neck

Diary? 07/18 Sweet Fanny Adams

Diary? 07/20 Break a Leg

Diary? 07/27 Round Trip Meal Ticket

Diary? 08/06 Chinese Whisper

Diary? 08/10 Goodnight, Vienna

Diary? 08/20 Up in Annie’s Room



Autumn

Diary? 09/01 3S Lady

Diary? 09/03 A few cans short of a Six-pack

Diary? 09/14 Dog My Cats

Diary? 09/16 Casting Couch

Diary? 09/22 Tommy Atkins

Diary? 10/11 Zip

Diary? 10/13 Tall Order

Diary? 10/17 Kill Two Pigs with One Bird

Diary? 10/31 Grain of Salt

Diary? 11/23 Conversational Blue Balls

Diary? 11/30 Jump the Shark



Winter

Diary? 12/01 In A Nutshell

Diary? 12/20 Drop the Ball

Diary? 12/23 Jump On the Bandwagon

Diary? 01/08 Enragement Ring

Diary? 01/10 Achilles Heel

Diary? 01/11 My Salad Days

Diary? 01/29 Hair Migration

Diary? 01/31 Pig Out

Diary? 02/01 Love Handles

Diary? 02/07 Fecal Touch

Diary? 02/14 John Doe

作者序



　　僅以此書獻給我的好友及所有對英文俚語有興趣的朋友！



　　在對話當中使用英文俚語的時候，我之前從來沒有認真想過這些俚語的由來，或是其背後是否有怎樣的故事。一直到我念大學的時候，我有一位好友問了我為什麼這一個俚語在英文中是這樣說的。他還告訴我就像是成語多半都有其典故，那英文中俚語的特殊用法也應該會有其來源或是一些故事吧。當時的我只以搞笑、胡謅的解釋應對了過去，之後找了資料，我才發現真的像成語故事一般，許多俚語都有一些故事或是特殊的起源。



　　就跟成語故事一樣，了解俚語所發生的背景，或是故事，對於其應用及記憶是有相當大的幫助。然而俚語又是不斷的跟著時間在變化，一旦有一段時間沒有接觸，往往就會有跟不上的感覺。所以我在寫這一本書的時候，也學到了不少新的用法。我衷心的希望本書能對讀者有幫助，也感謝您和我一起學英文俚語！