“Be smashed to smithereens” nghĩa là gì?


“Be smashed to smithereens” có smithereen là mảnh nhỏ, mảnh vụn -> cụm từ này nghĩa là bị đập tan, phá vỡ thành từng mảnh nhỏ.

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Eoghan will reach another milestone against Ulster at The Sportsground tomorrow; a 100th appearence for his province which, considering his knee was smashed to smithereens even before he had earned his half-century, represents an achievement to cherish.

Take what happens when you drop and break an Apple Watch. When the screen is smashed to smithereens, and you just know you shouldn’t be using it (because it’s broken glass), Apple can charge well over half the wearable’s outright (toàn bộ, rõ ràng) price to replace the screen if you don’t have AppleCare, but will drop the price back to something closer to a quarter the cost if you do.

Finally, leaving the best to last, “whiskey” or “whisky” from the Irish for “water”, uisce,more specifically, uisce beatha, “water of life”, for which the Irish are rightly renowned and that features famously in the song and story of “Finnegan’s Wake”, where our protagonist (vai chính) (the unfortunate bricklayer, Tim Finnegan, poor slob, who, after imbibing some quantity of said spirit, falls from his ladder and dies) and central figure of his own funeral party, stood up in finest linen shirt, trousers and best brogues, late o’clock, food, drink and tobacco galore, a hubbub breaks out, liquor bottles are smashed to smithereens and Tim, showered in whiskey is waked from the dead. Some craic!

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