5 AUGUST

clutching at straws- clutch/grasp at straws

1. to try any method, even those that are not likely to succeed, because you are in such a bad situation. He's hoping that this new treatment will help him but I think he's clutching at straws. (usually in continuous tenses)
2. to try to find reasons to feel hopeful about a situation when there is no real cause for hope. She thinks he might still be interested because he calls her now and then but I think she's clutching at straws. (usually in continuous tenses)
   

quiz
quiz [kwɪz] n (= game) → concurso: (TV, RADIO) → programa-concurso (= questioning); interrogatorio
vt → interrogar
verb-- question
season the soup .. add salt and pepper
season .. sea·son . [ˈsiːzn] n [of year] → estación f;
(sporting etc) → temporada;
(gen) → época, período
vt [+ food] → sazonar;
to be in/out of season → estar en sazón/fuera de temporada;
the busy season (for shops, hotels etc) → la temporada alta;
the open season (HUNTING) → la temporada de caza or de pesca
genius. [ˈdʒiːnɪəs]
jelous – envious
envious . en·vi·ous [ˈɛnvɪəs] adj → envidioso; [look] → de envidia
jealous jeal·ous [ˈdʒɛləs] adj (gen) → celoso (= envious); envidioso;
to be jealous → tener celos
grave – [greɪv] – (gräv) --
“a tight budget”
budget [ˈbʌdʒɪt] n → presupuesto
vi to budget for sth → presupuestar algo;
I'm on a tight budget → no puedo gastar mucho;
she works out her budget every month → planea su presupuesto todos los meses
“a burning ambition”
ambition Noun 1. strong desire for success 2. something so desired; a goal [Latin ambitio a going round (of candidates)]
burning . Adjective 1. intense; passionate 2. urgent; crucial: a burning problem
“crucial”- vital
a tip – piece of advice
tip [tɪp] n (= end) → punta (= gratuity); propina;
(BRIT) (for rubbish) → vertedero (= advice); consejo
vt [+ waiter] → dar una propina a (= tilt); inclinar (= empty) (also: tip out) → vaciar, echar (= predict) [+ winner] → pronosticar: [+ horse]; recomendar;
he tipped out the contents of the box → volcó el contenido de la caja
tip off vt → avisar, poner sobreaviso a
tip over vt → volcar
vi → volcarse
“go off the beaten track”
beat·en (btn) beaten: Worn by continuous use; familiar and much traveled: a village located well off the beaten path.

stick with staying --- continue to do it

1. stick with someone/something: to continue to be closely involved with someone or something

1. stick someone with someone/something: to force someone to do something or to have responsibility for someone. She claims that big power companies cut costs and stick their customers with high prices. They go out dancing and stick me with the baby.

“drifted into teaching” dift into =become involved in without planning
“all my papers were muddled up ” -- disorganised
mud·dle muddle [ˈmʌdl] v. muddle up
I'm all in the muddle-- I'm confused















sad.
feeling a bit blue ---

• blue - causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
• dismal, drear, dreary, disconsolate, gloomy, dingy, drab, sorry, grim, dark
• cheerless, depressing, uncheerful - causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place"
  

be a bit down in the dumps ---

• down in the dumps Informal feeling depressed and miserable [probably from Middle Dutch domp haze]
• Examples: I'm sorry to hear that you are so down in the dumps. - Jack has really been down in the dumps lately, see if you can cheer him up.
  

felling a bit low/down today

Happy

I'm over the moon

• over the moon: extremely pleased and happy. When he sent me flowers and a note, I was over the moon.

ecstatic - ec·stat·ic [ɛksˈtætɪk]
adj.

1. Marked by or expressing ecstasy.
2. Being in a state of ecstasy; joyful or enraptured.
   

full of the joys of spring - joy [dʒɔɪ]

• be full of the joys of spring (British & Australian, humorous) to be very happy. He bounced into the office, full of the joys of spring.

Ill/sick

under the weather --

• not healthy. It's hard to keep working when you're under the weather.

be cook – australian
fell off colour--

• off colour. Adjective
  

1. slightly ill; unwell
2. slightly indecent: an off colour joke
   

Tired/ low energy

worm out

shattered. Adjective/ Informal

1. completely exhausted
2. badly upset: he was shattered by the separation
   

felling a bit low/down today

High energy

full of beans

1. Energetic; frisky: The children were too full of beans to sit still.
2. Badly mistaken: Don't believe him; he's full of beans.
   

angry

be like a bear with a sore head (British & Australian, humorous)

• to be in a bad mood which causes you to treat other people badly and complain a lot. If his newspaper doesn't arrive by breakfast time he's like a bear with a sore head.
• sore [sɔːʳ] adj (= painful) → doloroso, que duele (= offended); resentido