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"Quake like a leaf" nghĩa là gì?
03 Sep, 2018
Photo courtesy Nicholas Cardot.
'Quake/shake like a leaf' có từ quake là rung động, run rẩy (vì rét, sợ) —> nghĩa là run như tàu lá; run bần bật, run toát mồ hôi (to tremble violently with fear or nervousness).
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She is left 'crying and shaking like a leaf' when a nearby mum with children say they hadn't seen anything.
He needed only a $15,000 mortgage to buy it, but even that made him "shake like a leaf" when it was approaching time to refix.
After turning up at 3am at The Hawley Arms I saw the ex with her ex and I saw red mist. I was shaking like a leaf and decided to get leathered while she sat there inebriated and on the lap of her ex.
"The luxury hotel building where we were staying began to shake. When we ran outside, we saw the entire building swaying, like a leaf in the blowing wind," Datta Gojamgunde, a leading pediatrician from Latur in the Marathwada region said.
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