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"Like a cat on a hot tin roof" nghĩa là gì?
10 Jul, 2020
Photo courtesy hiromitsu morimoto.
'Like a cat on a hot tin roof/hot brick' = như con mèo trên mái tôn/viên gạch nóng -> nghĩa là hay hoảng sợ, lo lắng, bồn chồn, khó mà ngồi yên được (to be nervous and unable to keep still).
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Sidhu is moving around the house like a cat on a hot tin roof, an expression he often uses for batsmen playing on an unfavourable pitch.
Skipper Glenn Ashby, who says he has been like "a cat on a hot tin roof" waiting to get out on the water, was happy to finally get back into action after leaving New Zealand two weeks ago.
As the governor said, “Fiscal reform is hard. It requires people to have some courage.” Until they do, this legislative session will continue to feel like a cat on a hot tin roof.
The positioning of the main room, surrounded by gallery windows, balconies and doors that lead to constant intrusion replicates well the sense of suffocation and claustrophobia (nỗi lo sợ mình bị giam giữ) in the characters, feeling, as they so often proclaim, ‘just like a cat on a hot tin roof’.
Here the question may be, whatever for, does one need a hard-copy, when one is not passing out print-outs of the presentation compiled, since conferences, as in real, face-to-face symposiums way past the lunch buffet, when Containment is the order of the day?! Well, for some, as in many, despite the mind-numbing repetitious denial, ‘matter’ on paper, thumb-tacked to the board overhead one’s ‘home work-station’ make things easier. A quick glance at the standstill black and white data/documentation: Best tool to remember by rote, stilling that, as they say, like a cat on hot bricks mind.
In this context, Trump, with employment rate a strong factor aiding his re-election, is like a cat on hot bricks, eager to re-open the country's economy. Despite the soaring infection rate, American leadership is pushing citizens to return to work physically. But apparently, the resumption of work is not enough to revive the economy.
Here the question may be, whatever for, does one need a hard-copy, when one is not passing out print-outs of the presentation compiled, since conferences, as in real, face-to-face symposiums way past the lunch buffet, when Containment is the order of the day?! Well, for some, as in many, despite the mind-numbing repetitious denial, ‘matter’ on paper, thumb-tacked to the board overhead one’s ‘home work-station’ make things easier. A quick glance at the standstill black and white data/documentation: Best tool to remember by rote, stilling that, as they say, like a cat on hot bricks mind.
In this context, Trump, with employment rate a strong factor aiding his re-election, is like a cat on hot bricks, eager to re-open the country's economy. Despite the soaring infection rate, American leadership is pushing citizens to return to work physically. But apparently, the resumption of work is not enough to revive the economy.
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