Определение someone в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
- some person
Is someone there?.
- A partially specified but unnamed person
The someones under discussion were eventually arrested.
- If you say that a person is someone or somebody in a particular kind of work or in a particular place, you mean that they are considered to be important in that kind of work or in that place. `Before she came around,' she says, `I was somebody in this town'. be someone to be or feel important
- {i} person, human, human being
- pron. some person, somebody
- a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
- You use someone or somebody to refer to a person without saying exactly who you mean. Her father was shot by someone trying to rob his small retail store I need someone to help me If somebody asks me how my diet is going, I say, `Fine'
- someone else
- Some other person
- someone's
- The possessive adjective for someone
- someone's
- someone is
- someone's
- someone has
- someone's bad books
- (deyim) Meaning: To be in disgrace or out of favour. Origin: Originally black books, which is where a list of people of disrepute were kept
- someone else
- {i} somebody else, some other person
- someone is to blame
- someone is responsible, someone must be held accountable
- sock it to someone
- (Slang) hit someone hard; harshly criticize someone
- I knew someone when
- Used upon hearing of a success of an acquaintance, often ironically for minor successes
Well, congratulations. On the speech, everything. She stood up straighter and forced a smile. I can always say I knew him when..
- ME
- Medical examiner, or coroner
- ME
- Montreal Exchange, a futures and derivatives exchange (formerly also a stock exchange)
- ME
- Maine, a state of the United States of America
- ME
- Middle English
- MY
- Motor Yacht - diesel-driven yacht
- SB
- 傻屄 literally "stupid pussy"
- SB
- season best (this season's personal best)
- SB
- The statistic reporting the number of stolen bases
- SB
- sideband
- Someone.
- so
- apple of someone's eye
- A favourite, a particular preference, or a loved one; the object of somebody's affections
Sara was never the same after losing her daughter, the apple of her eye.
- at someone's service
- Fully available to help or to be of use to someone, or some organisation
John will be at our service for the duration of the visit.
- at someone's service
- By way of introduction on first meeting another person
James Bond. At your service.
- beat someone's brains out
- To beat someone very severely
- behind someone's back
- Without somebody's knowledge; secretly
The employees talked about their boss behind his back.
- bite someone's head off
- To severely berate someone
- blow smoke up someone's ass
- Alternative form of blow smoke
- blow someone out of the water
- To trounce; to defeat someone thoroughly, at a game or in battle
With a garden hose, you can blow your opponent out of the water, if he only has a squirt gun.
- blow someone's mind
- To astonish someone, to flabbergast someone
- break someone's heart
- To cause a person to feel grief or sadness
Baby you're not that kind.
- breathe down someone's neck
- To follow or supervise someone too closely, making it uncomfortable for them
My boss never lets me get on with my work. He's always breathing down my neck and checking up on me.
- bring someone to book
- To penalise someone for a punishable offence
The perpetrators of this atrocity must be brought to book.
- burst someone's bubble
- To disillusion; to disabuse someone of a false notion or rationalization that has grown comfortable
I hate to burst his bubble, but he is going to be disappointed if he tries that idea.
- bust a cap in someone's ass
- Alternative form of pop a cap in someone's ass
- buy someone out
- To purchase someone's property (particularly real estate) or someone's share of a property, partnership, company, etc
- buy someone out
- To close someone's contract by paying him or her a sum of money, the terms of which are often stated in the contract itself
- call someone's bluff
- To take action on the basis that another person is bluffing
- carry someone's water
- To do someone's bidding; to serve someone's interests
- cat got someone's tongue
- Why are you not saying anything?
Why don't you tell me that secret? Cat got your tongue?.
- catch someone napping
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- catch someone's eye
- To capture someone's attention
- clean someone's clock
- To defeat decisively, in a physical fight or other competition or negotiation
The heavily-tattooed Perez never recovered, getting nailed with flush head shots before a clean-up left hook cleaned his clock.
- clear someone's name
- To prove innocence of a person previously considered or suspected to be guilty
- come to someone's rescue
- To rescue (or save) someone from further harm
- cover someone's ass
- To make preparations or take precautions to ensure that a person is not blamed or punished for his or her conduct
Killian kept the files because he was trying to cover his ass, Via said. He was always worried something would come back on him..
- cramp someone's style
- to restrict someone's free actions, or to give the impression of such
I don't want my Mum to go to the party - she'd really cramp my style.
- creep someone out
- To make uncomfortable or afraid
That janitor who's always talking about blood creeps me out.
- cross someone's palm
- To give money to a person, especially as a bribe or as an inducement to perform a service
After crossing his palm with a donation, I felt entitled at least to ask where he was from.
- cross someone's palm with silver
- Alternative form of cross someone's palm
- cross someone's path
- To meet by chance
None of the sportsmen who have crossed my path have made as great an impact on me as Bob.
- cry someone a river
- To try to obtain the sympathy of another person by complaining or sniveling
Port Authority Transit should cry me a river. Before raising fares it should cut an unnecessary expense.
- cry someone a river
- To weep profusely or excessively in the presence of another person
It is rather shaming to be quite so wet over nothing in particular, but at least Fielding does it too. He cries gallons over slow-motion bits at the ends of films, especially Gladiator, and begins to worship Roman values, then Italian footballers kissing in slo-mo to the strains of Nessun Dorma. Sniffle, sniffle. And QPR being relegated in 1996. He can cry you a river over that one, and over a darling little clump of daffodils growing by the traffic island.
- curl someone's hair
- To frighten, dismay, or excite someone thoroughly
Yanking open the door to the bathroom, I was greeted with a stink foul enough to curl my hair.
- cut someone some slack
- To make allowances for someone, and not treat a failure severely
- darken someone's doorstep
- to enter somebody else's home uninvited
- do someone dirt
- Alternative form of do someone dirty
- do someone dirty
- To deliberately treat someone in an unfair or harmful manner
She was cheating on him—doing him dirty.
- do someone proud
- To cause someone to feel pride, admiration, or satisfaction
I was absolutely delighted with the way we competed and the players did me proud.
- do someone's head in
- To frustrate, irritate or disturb someone
Please stop reading the name of every sign we came across, it's doing my head in!.
- drink someone under the table
- To drink more alcohol than (someone)
She had class, but she could drink most of the guys under the table.
- drive someone crazy
- to cause to be infatuated
- drive someone crazy
- to cause insanity onto someone
- drive someone crazy
- to annoy or irritate
- drive someone up the wall
- To make a person very angry or bored; to infuriate
There is nothing and no one that's going to shut him up. That's what makes Tucker funny. It's also what can drive you up the wall about him. - , 1998.
- eat from someone's hand
- Alternative form of eat out of someone's hand
- eat out of someone's hand
- To behave in a docile, submissive way towards somebody
Violetta is well aware of all this and goes out of her way to charm him. . . . He eats out of her hand and would not notice is she fed him rocks.
- eat someone out of house and home
- To consume such a portion of one's store of food that little is left for the owner
or I will ride thee o' nights like the mare.
- eat someone's dust
- To get one to be on a losing end
- eat someone's dust
- To be outrun
You better move fast before you eat his dust.
- fill someone's shoes
- To do (somebody's) job; to perform or assume (somebody's) role
I don't think anyone could ever fill her shoes, doing all she does.
- fix someone's wagon
- To cause injury, distress, or inconvenience to someone, especially as punishment or as a comeuppance
According to Mr Breeden, Lord Black said that the libel laws in the UK and Canada would permit him to sue and indicated he would go after the houses of board members. . . . He was going to fix their wagon good, said Mr Breeden.
- follow in someone's footsteps
- To follow the same path as someone
- force someone's hand
- Bring about a situation which necessitates an agent to act, often causing a plan to be executed prematurely
- fuck someone off
- To snub
As for her boss, she decided to fuck him off instead of meet with him under such unjustifiable circumstances.
- fuck someone off
- To annoy someone greatly; to piss someone off
- fuck someone over
- to exploit somebody in a way which result in an advantage to oneself, at the cost of the other party gaining a considerable disadvantage
He really fucked me over when he sold me that car for $3,000.
- get in someone's hair
- To hinder someone or interfere with their actions
- get in someone's hair
- To annoy someone
- get inside someone's pants
- To have sex with (someone), especially for the first time
- get into someone's pants
- To have sex with
My groupie has been trying to get into my pants for ages. Maybe one day I’ll give in to her demands.
- get off someone's back
- To cease pestering or criticizing someone, i.e. to leave them alone
- get on someone's last nerve
- Alternative form of get on someone's nerves
- get on someone's wick
- to annoy or upset someone, usually by repeated disagreeable actions
His silly questions are really getting on my wick.
- get someone's back up
- To annoy a person either deliberately or inadvertently
Telling someone that her child can and should be doing better and not offering some solutions immediately gets my back up.
- get someone's goat
- To annoy, infuriate, bother, or incense
It really gets my goat when inconsiderate people litter.
- get someone's number
- Alternative form of have someone's number
- get up someone's nose
- To annoy someone; to get on somebody's nerves
- give someone a big head
- To flatter someone excessively; to overpraise someone, usually resulting in them becoming proud, arrogant or conceited
Please stop telling me how smart I am - you'll give me a big head!.
- give someone five
- To slap someone's hand
- give someone grief
- To hassle, abuse
Fred was giving me grief over the money I owed him.
- give someone grief
- To cause pain
Her elbow has been giving her grief.
- give someone his head
- To allow (someone) to act without constraint: to give (someone) free rein
- give someone the chair
- To execute a person by means of the electric chair
Joseph O'Dell, convicted of a brutal rape and murder, was sentenced to death after a Virginia prosecutor told the jury that if they didn't give him the chair, he'd one day get out and be free to kill again.
- give someone the creeps
- To give someone a feeling of uneasiness or mild fright
Walking through the graveyard late at night gave me the creeps.
- give someone the eye
- To show flirtatious signs with one's eyes
I saw him giving me the eye as soon as I entered the room.
- give someone the shits
- to annoy or frustrate someone
Can you stop sending me text messages at two in the morning? You're giving me the shits!.
- give someone what for
- To punish; to rebuke
'e gived 'em up, an' repented somethin' horrid — there still bein' the buns to come — but Miss Soapy she gave 'im what- for-proper, she did!.
- go over someone's head
- To take up an issue with another person's boss or other superior rather than beginning or continuing to deal with the original person
She went over his head and took her complaint directly to the president of the company.
- go to someone's head
- To strongly affect a person, especially to the detriment of their senses or mental faculties
For I am a man of many sorrows. Yet there is no necessity for me to sit sobbing and sighing in someone else's house. Unremitting grief is tiresome and I'm afraid some of your maids or you yourself might lose patience with me and conclude it was the wine that had gone to my head and released this flood of tears.
- go with someone
- to date someone regularly and exclusively
The junior high boy shyly asked the girl he had a crush on, Will you go with me? To which she replied, Yes, I'll go with you..
- go with someone
- to accompany someone to a given place
Mother asked the teen-aged boy, Would you please go with your little brother to the park to play?.
- grease someone's palm
- To bribe a person
We arrived at Almaty Airport, and from the moment the customs officer made it obvious in his fractured English that our entrance would be made easier if we greased his palm, we realised that all our Anglo-Saxon assumptions about how societies are run were not very relevant here.
- hand someone his head
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- harden someone's heart
- To make someone more resistant to something
And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
- have a word in someone's ear
- To speak to someone in private
- have a word in someone's ear
- When you get a moment I'd like to have a word in your ear
- have got someone's back
- To be prepared and willing to support or defend (someone)
- have someone by the short hairs
- To have someone in a difficult situation in which he or she is without alternatives and can be controlled
The Saudis know that as long as we consume 7 billion barrels per year (4 billion of them imported from abroad), they have us by the short hairs.
- have someone's back
- To be prepared and willing to support or defend (someone)
- have someone's guts for garters
- To reprimand severely
If you go out and play and get your clothes dirty, I'll have your guts for garters!.
- have someone's hide
- To punish or subdue someone
Why doesn't The St. Petersburg Times scrape together $30 million and purchase football's Tampa Bay Buccaneers? Then, when I tell John McKay how to coach, he'd listen or I'd have his hide.
- have someone's number
- To understand a person's character, capabilities, or situation
Llodra, a doubles specialist who is ranked 38 in singles, was charging to the net at every opportunity and played some brilliant shots but Murray seemed to have his number at that stage.
- her
- The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc
The lady with the green feathers in her hat. A big Gainsborough hat. I am quite sure it was Miss Hartuff..
- her
- Belonging to her
This is her book.
- him
- he when used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
She treated him for a cold (direct object).
- his
- That which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun
The decision was his to live with.
- his
- Used erroneously in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in s, to express the possessive case
Ahab his mark for Ahab's mark.
- his
- Belonging to him
This is his book.
- hit someone for six
- Be affected in a devastating way by some unexpected news
When I heard about the accident, it hit me for six.
- hit someone for six
- To hit another person very hard
When he swore at me again, I couldn't hold back. So, I hit him for six.
- hold over someone's head
- To harp on; to remind continuously (especially of a misstep or defeat)
I get one parking ticket and he holds it over my head for six months.
- hold someone's feet to the fire
- To maintain personal, social, political, or legal pressure on someone in order to induce him or her to comply with one's desires; to hold someone accountable for his or her actions
He kept tabs on presidents, monitored members of Congress, held bureaucrats' feet to the fire.
- hook someone up
- To supply someone with goods or services
Hey man, can you hook me up with some weed?.
- hurt someone's feelings
- To offend or hurt someone
- in someone's shoes
- in someone's situation
I wouldn't personally repose much trust in that boon companion of yours who contributes the humorous element, Dr Mulligan, as a guide, philosopher and friend if I were in your shoes.
- in someone's wheelhouse
- Matching a person's interests or abilities well
But the subject matter was right in his wheelhouse — politics and all the moving parts.
- it
- most fashionable
With Hit Girl, Moretz is this year's It Girl, alternately sweet, savage and scary.
- it
- The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object. (known as the dummy pronoun)
He saw to it that everyone would vote for him.
- it
- Used to refer to oneself when identifying oneself, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation
It's me. John.
- it
- The person or people who chase and try to catch the other players in the playground game of tag
In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it….
- it
- Italian
- it
- The game of tag itself
Let's play it at breaktime.
- it
- The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement. (known as the dummy pronoun or weather it)
It’s lonely without you.
- it
- Italy
- it
- The third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a non-human entity, to an inanimate thing with no or unknown sex or gender
Take each day as it comes.
- it
- The third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a human entity of unknown sex or gender
She took the baby and held it in her arms.
- jolly someone along
- To make someone happy or compliant, as by encouragement or flattery
When there was a shipping delay, the salesman jollied the purchasing agent along to keep him from canceling the order.
- jump someone's bones
- to have sex
- jumped someone's bones
- Simple past tense and past participle of jump someone's bones
- jumping someone's bones
- Present participle of jump someone's bones
- jumps someone's bones
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jump someone's bones
- keep someone company
- To remain with or accompany someone, especially to make them feel more comfortable with a certain situation
I'm a bit nervous, could you keep me company while I wait for my blind date to arrive?.
- keep someone in the dark
- To deliberately not tell someone details about something
- keep someone in the loop
- To furnish someone with sufficient relevant information and include them in the decision-making process
- keep someone on ice
- to keep someone uninformed or uncontacted
- kick someone when they are down
- To make things worse for someone who is going through a difficult time
- kiss the ground someone walks on
- To praise someone highly
Yes ; they cross themselves, bow down their heads level with their heels, kiss your feet, grovel on the very ground, and kiss the earth you walk on.
- knock someone's socks off
- To impress greatly; amaze; stun
You wouldn't expect teenagers to sing opera, but these kids will knock your socks off.
- know someone from Adam
- To know or recognise someone at all
Well, he said, do you know me from Adam?.
- lead someone down the garden path
- To deceive, hoodwink
'It was thought that the early origins of the idiom was founded on the tendency for one village to marry off their unsuccessful brides to unknowing bachelors. The superstition of the groom not being able to see his veiled bride until the marriage proclamation had been made was widely practiced. To that end the bride remained veiled throughout the ceremony. When the veil was lifted, the groom would learn that he had been married to a stranger. Many ceremonies took place in private gardens and as such the tendency to deceive with intent had evolved to the idiom of leading someone down the garden path.'.
- leave someone in the lurch
- To abandon somebody; especially, to abandon somebody and leave him or her in a difficult situation
He left me in the lurch and I had to finish the whole project by myself.
- let someone have it
- To attack someone with great force
At dawn we really let 'em have it with a 30 minute artillery barrage.
- let someone have it
- To verbally assail someone
When I came home, he let me have it for wrecking the car.
- light someone's fire
- To excite, to turn on
He’d prowled Houston’s titty bars for more than a decade, and he’d found the one woman who really lit his fire.
- make someone cry
- To willfully cause someone to cry, usually after berating or yelling at him/her intensely
The young woman's boss was stern and old-school, and he was out to make her cry after refusing to tolerate her mistakes.
- make someone's day
- To make someone happy or to be a source of satisfaction
Thank you for the unexpected gift. It really made my day.
- make someone's hair curl
- Alternative form of curl someone's hair
- make someone's skin crawl
- To disturb or bother; to frighten or disgust
The sound of fingernails on a chalkboard just makes my skin crawl.
- make someone's teeth itch
- To bother or unsettle a person; to put someone on edge
The squeaking won’t do any harm, but if it makes your teeth itch, oil the hinge.
- me
- As the complement of the copula (“be”, “is”)
It wasn't me.
- me
- As the object of a preposition
Come with me.
- me
- As the direct object of a verb
Can you hear me?.
- me
- As the subject of a verb, used with and
Me and my friends played a game.
- me
- Preceding a noun, marking ownership
Wilfred Owen (1893–1918), The Letter - And give us back me cigarette!.
- me
- As a reflexive direct object of a verb
- me
- As the subject of a verb, used without and
- me
- As a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative
- me
- As the indirect object of a verb
He gave me this.
- mop the floor with someone
- To trounce or defeat thoroughly or in a humiliating manner
She moppped the floor with her opponent, defeating him 68 to 2.
- music to someone's ears
- Some good news; a spoken expression or a sound which is pleasing; a welcome remark or information
We should aim for a lower ambition, Dannatt said. . . . Not what you might call music to his boss's ears.
- my
- Belonging to me
I recognised him because he had attended my school.
- none of someone's business
- A matter that someone is not entitled to be involved in or informed about
He asked what I was talking to Sam about. I told him it was none of his business.
- one could be someone's parent
- Said to emphasize age disparity of a couple, usually to express disapproval and imply the possibility of choosing a partner with closer age
- one's
- belonging to one
- our
- Belonging to us; of us
Paying no attention to Lizzy, Mrs. Gibson began calling out our names in alphabetical order.
- our
- Of, from, or belonging to the nation, region, or language of the speaker
Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.
- our
- used before a person's name to indicate that the person is in one's family, or is a very close friend
I'm going to see our Terry for tea.
- out to get someone
- deliberately causing another person problems
The supervisor keeps telling me off. He’s out to get me.
- pick someone's brain
- To seek information from someone knowledgeable; to ask questions of someone
After I spent a couple of hours picking his brain, his scheme started to make sense.
- piss in someone's pocket
- To say flattering or fawning things to a person in the hope of gaining favour with them. This is often found in the negative, denying that one's words are meant as flattery
Everyone will piss in your pocket when they think you are going to be the next big thing.
- piss on someone's bonfire
- To disappoint
- play someone like a fiddle
- To manipulate (a person) skilfully
He played you like a fiddle.
- pop a cap in someone's ass
- To shoot someone with a gun
I been sayin' that shit for years. And if you heard it, that meant your ass. I never gave much thought to what it meant. I just thought it was some cold-blooded shit to say to a motherfucker before I popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin' made me think twice.
- pop someone's cherry
- To deflower someone
- pull someone down a peg
- To lower someone's high self-opinion
She longed to pull him down a peg or two.
- put hair on someone's chest
- Alternative form of put hair on somebody's chest
- put oneself in someone's shoes
- To try to look at a situation from a different point of view; as if one were the other person. To empathise
If you could just put yourself in his shoes for a moment, perhaps you would understand why it is not as easy as you seem to think.
- put someone down as
- to assume someone has a particular character from very little information
I put him down as ignorant, but then discovered he is, in fact, a university professor!.
- put someone in mind of
- To remind someone of; to inspire a mental image or awareness of; to cause thoughts concerning
With this weekend's whack of snow, Torontonians will be put in mind of last year's chaos.
- put someone's back up
- To annoy someone deliberately
You really put her back up there, John.
- put the shits up someone
- To scare someone, or give them a fright
He would put the shits up me by phoning me in the middle of the night.
- put words in someone's mouth
- To imply or state that has said a thing; to erect a straw man
- putty in someone's fingers
- Alternative form of putty in someone's hands
- putty in someone's hands
- One who is readily manipulated or controlled by another person
e clocks on at 8.30 pm with the opening guitar notes of his most famous song, ‘Purple Rain’. Everyone is instantly putty in his hands.
- putty in the hands of someone
- Alternative form of putty in someone's hands
- queer someone's pitch
- To make a task more difficult for the speaker
- rain on someone's parade
- To disappoint or discourage someone
I hate to rain on your parade, but lots of people have tried that strategy and it hasn't worked yet.
- raise someone's consciousness
- To increase a person's awareness of, and often sympathy for, an issue, cause, or condition
Raised in an Old Left family, I was taught about male chauvinism and thought I knew something about it, but at the beginning of feminism's Second Wave in the 1970's, I concluded that I needed to raise my consciousness.
- raise someone's hackles
- To anger someone
Every time I hear him talk, he just raises my hackles.
- rattle someone's cage
- to demand attention; to nag, nudge, or remind
Nobody has corrected the problem yet, so it's time to rattle their cage.
- read someone's mind
- To guess or deduce what someone is thinking
- ride someone's ass
- to find fault with someone, to constantly criticise
If he doesn't quit riding my ass over this dumb shit, I'm gonna punch him right in his face.
- right up someone's alley
- Alternative form of up someone's alley
- ring someone's bell
- To physically traumatize someone with a strong blow, especially a concussive blow to the head
Redman took Kenny Lofton's left shoulder on his jaw and saw every color of the rainbow but teal. That sent me down. I was kinda dizzy, Redman said . . . You take a shot like that, it's going to ring your bell a bit..
- rub salt in someone's wounds
- To make a painful situation even worse (even with the best of intentions)
John already feels guilty for what he did to you. Don't rub salt into his wounds.
- run someone through
- To stab someone completely through the torso, usually with a sword (typically used as a threat)
- run someone through
- To inform or educate someone, typically of a new concept or a concept particular to an organization or industry
- run someone through
- To train someone, typically of a particular task
- s.o.
- significant other
- save someone's bacon
- to prevent an undesirable occurrence
- save someone's bacon
- To save someone's life
the tide being fortunately in our favour, we reached the Saint Vincent in good time, going up the accommodation ladder on the port side, which, as you know, is devoted to the use of the lower deck portion of the crew, just as Eight Bells struck. Ha, my lads, cried the Jaunty, who stood by the entry-port, you've just saved your bacon!.
- save someone's skin
- To save someone's life
- save someone's skin
- to prevent an undesirable occurrence
- see someone through
- To suffice for a time
Two full bags should be enough to see the family through.
