"Long drink of water" nghĩa là gì?

Khát thì làm một ngụm cho sảng khoái!! Photo by: Boxed Water Is Better on Unsplash

"Long drink of water" = ngụm nước dài -> nghĩa là dáng người cao, mảnh khảnh. Có thể hiểu theo nghĩa khác là một người tẻ nhạt, nhàm chán/không thú vị.

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The funeral (đám tang) was a time to remember and to be thankful. I'm thankful for many things. Most of all that I'm married to Diane's cousin. I'm a long drink of water. My wife isn't. On our first date, my future mother-in-law (mẹ vợ) looked at us and said we didn't match. I'm becoming shorter just to please her.

He's what used to be called a long drink of water—six-foot-one and still thin (gầy) at the age of 76, a vegan (người ăn chay) who exercises daily, meditates (thiền), and does yoga.

Taylor Noll is what some might call a long drink of water. The tall, lanky (gầy, cao lêu nghêu) 23-year-old Oregon resident keeps his shock of brown hair tamed beneath (bên dưới) a white cowboy hat and describes himself humbly as “just a pig farmer.”

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