"There's nobody home" nghĩa là gì?

"There's nobody home" hoặc "the lights are on, but nobody's home" = đèn sáng mà không ai ở nhà -> nghĩa là chỉ người lơ đãng, ngốc nghếch không hiểu bạn đang nói gì, đầu óc để đi đâu. 

Ví dụ 

He stared up at her. Blanky. 'Great. All the lights are on, but nobody's home.' He tried to sit up, but Joan restrained (kiềm chế) him with her hands on his shoulders. “Don't move. Something besides your Cessna could be broken.” 

This is not working, Hodges thinks. There's nobody home. Still, he has to try. He grasps her shoulders. “Holly, I want to catch the guy who did this. I want to make him pay. Will you help me?” She nods. There's no expression on her face. 

It's like there's nobody home. The only time I ever came close to having a problem with the company was when a CPU I wanted to buy had to be back-ordered. But it was delivered to me in a reasonable time when it became available. 

Momma walked into the cottage (nhà tranh), then toward her bedroom, moving so lightly I wouldn't have believed she was there if I hadn't seen her come in. But I'd looked in her eyes for a moment. Her slack (uể oải) face was best described by my father's expression, “The lights are on, but nobody's home.” 

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