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"In a family way" nghĩa là gì?
22 Oct, 2014
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| Gabrielle Union. Photo courtesy caydee. |
'In a family way' (thường là be ~; get someone ~) nghĩa là mang thai.
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I've heard that Mrs. Smith is in a family way. Our dog is in the family way.
Never mind that there are women in this reality that are desperate to have children, poor potential mothers who go through the humiliation of being tested and retested for fertility. Not to mention resorting to help from the medical community to increase their chances of getting in a family way.
Jane has a boyfriend, but at the ripe old age of 23, she’s thus far managed to keep him sexually at bay (giữ không cho lại gần). So she has some ’splainin’ to do when a pap smear (kiểm tra ung thư cổ tử cung) performed by a love-struck (si tình), distracted ob-gyn is mixed up with an artificial insemination (thụ tinh nhân tạo), leaving her in a family way that grandma, at least, first wants to embrace as a sign from God.
Newlyweds Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade are not quite in a family way just yet… so the actress says. The star of BET’s “Being Mary Jane” is explaining that the poof around her abdomen seen in her Thursday photo with hubby Dwyane Wade was the result of a loose-fitting dress…and not a baby bump as some of her followers believe.
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Tags: phrase
- abdomen: bụng
- baby bump: bụng to (vì mang thai em bé)