2011-08-20

pixelate

画像をモザイク処理することをpixelateと表現するようだ。
Home owners, for example, can ask Google to pixelate their houses in Street View.

2011-07-23

2011-01-10

resent

To feel indignantly aggrieved at.

indignation: Anger aroused by something unust, mean, or unworthy

aggrieved: Feeling distress or affliction; Treated wrongly, offended

distress: Anxiety or mental suffering

affliction: A condition of pain, suffering, or distress

2011-01-03

go belly up

破産する、諦める
She is like an animal that goes belly up when threatened, hoping the predator will lose interest and go away.

harangue

a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
If her daughter continued to harangue her, she could indicated that she was uncomfortable with the way her daughter was treating her.

torment

I feel tormented and I can't sleep.

steps to becoming

There are four steps to becoming a happier person.

2010-12-21

paraprosdokian

A paraprosdokian (from Greek "παρα-", meaning "beyond" and "προσδοκία", meaning "expectation") is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. - from Wikipedia

2010-12-20

ultracrepidarian

Ultracrepidarianism is the habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one's knowledge. - from Wikipedia
It's an inkhorn term.
c.f. The cobbler should stick to his last.

2010-12-08

African American saying about brokenness

From the episode titled "A Louse in a Wrestling Jacket", here are ways to say "I don't have money" in African American communities.
  • I'm so broke I couldn't buy a louse (or flea or mosquito) a wrestling jacket.
  • I'm so broke I couldn't buy a crippled crab a crutch if I had a forest of small trees.
  • I'm so broke that the soles of my shoes are so thin that if I step on a dime I could tell whether it's heads or tails.
  • I'm so broke that I cannot afford to pay attention.