"Rough as guts" nghĩa là gì?
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"Rough as guts" có rough là thô ráp -> cụm từ này nghĩa là thiếu tinh tế, không lịch sự, thô thiển.
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To hammer this home, MacLean recounted (thuật lại) a time when he and some friends went salmon fishing on the River Tweed in the winter. He bought a cheap bottle of Scotch from a local grocer, the only thing he could find, and it was, in his words, “rough as guts and cheap as chips.”
He was rough as guts, good as gold. Not every Rabbitohs supporter had the welcome mat out for Bennett, and this guy was one of the objectors (người phản đối). He told man’s best friends: “We’ve got a new coach, boys! Wayne F … ing Bennett!”
This film, set in 1925 in isolated (bị cô lập) Montana, places a newly-married woman and her son into a psychosexual pressure-cooker involving two men, one rough as guts and one highly refined.
Everyone’s rough as guts and I am living for it. FINALLY we get a brief flashback (hồi tưởng) of what exactly happened the night before – and it basically looked like the tail end of my Year 10 Formal.
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