random word of the day: to SCARE THE BEJESUS OUT OF SOMEBODY

 

random word of the day: to SCARE THE BEJESUS OUT OF SOMEONE – 

potwornie kogoś wystraszyć

(to make someone extremely scared)

THE BEJESUS – używane, aby wzmocnić wypowiedź; potwornie, strasznie (used as an intensifier; completely, very much, hard)

(1) You scared the bejesus out of me!

(2) It annoys the bejesus out of me that so many so called “cheese alternatives” actually contain dairy. Dairy refers to milk and any part of milk that comes from cows and other mammals. So to be dairy-free, a product must have no milk and no part of milk.

to contain – zawierać (to include)

dairy – nabiał (milk products)

to refer to – oznaczać (to mean)

a mammal – ssak (any animal of which the female gives birth to babies, not eggs, and feeds them on milk from her own body)

(3) It would bore the bejesus out of me being at home. I plan to stay in Oz for a few days until the surgeon gives me the all-clear to travel.

to bore someone – zanudzać (not to be of interest to someone, to be dull)

Oz – informal for Australia

a surgeon – chirurg (a doctor who operates on patients)

the all-clear – pozwolenie, zgoda (a permission, information that it is okay to do something)

(4) Kosilek says the reason other inmates leave him alone is cause he beat the bejesus out of another inmate with a broomstick.

an inmate – więzień (a prisoner)

a broomstick – miotła (something you use to sweep /clean/ the floor and, in the world of magic, fly)

(5) But most importantly, I wanted to hold both of my babies safely in my arms and kiss the bejesus out of them.

(6) There are a lot of celebs who wear watches way too big for them. And they also wear the bejesus out of certain brands for a year or two, and then they aren't 'cool' anymore...

(7) In crowd-funding you work the bejesus out of your social networking platforms to get people to give you money.

social networking platforms – sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.

(8) Someone is going to sue the bejesus out of this quack, and they are going to make a ton of money.

to sue someone – pozywać (to take someone to court)

a quack – szarlatan (a person who dishonestly pretends to have medical skills or knowledge)

 

random word of the day: OVERSHARE

random word of the day: OVERSHARE

to share information that other people neither want nor need to hear, or the result of doing so; can be done online or offline

 (1) Don’t overshare. (…) No, I don’t care to hear about your bodily functions or sad breakup rant. Sorry. Some things are meant to be personal.

bodily – fizjologiczne (relating to the human body)

to be meant to be personal – should be personal

a rant – tyrada (a long, angry and confused speech)

(2) Huh??? You mean you weren't wearing any underwear that whole weekend? Dude, overshare!!!

(3) There always seems to be one person who enjoys oversharing painfully personal experiences in excruciating detail while you are forced to listen.

in excruciating detail – szczegółowo aż do bólu (in too much detail)

(4) - Did I ever tell you about how you were conceived?

- Uh, no, mom, that would be an overshare.

to conceive – począć (to create an embryo by fertilizing an egg)

(5) She always overshares info about her bowels.  We are dieticians, so poop talk is part of the job, but still, I don't need to know every time she has "explosive diarrhea".

a bowel – jelito (the long tube that carries solid waste from the stomach out of the body)

diarrhea – biegunka (an illness in which the body's solid waste is more liquid than usual and comes out of the body more often)

(6) Once upon a Halloween house party, I came under an oversharing spell. As I chatted to a guy dressed as Harry Potter, I found myself exposed – and not just because I was wearing the sexy witch costume I’d picked up at a bargain shop. Thanks to the power of black magic (or alcohol), my secrets vault came unlocked – and I launched into a monologue about the time my first boyfriend dumped me after two years… for a guy. The next day, flashbacks of my overshare haunted me.

Once upon a Halloween house party – jednego roku na imprezie z okazji Halloween  (similar to ‘once upon a time’)

to be under a spell – być zaczarowanym (to behave differently because of magic, to be bewitched)

exposed – odkryta, niczym niechroniona (uncovered)

to pick up – kupić (to buy)

a bargain shop – a shop selling goods at low prices

a vault – krypta, skarbiec (a room, especially in a bank, with thick walls and a strong door, which is used to store money or valuable things in safe conditions)

to launch into – to start

to dump somebody – rzucić (to break up with somebody)

a flashback – wspomnienie (a sudden, clear memory of a past event or time, usually one that was bad)

to haunt – prześladować (to cause repeated suffering or  anxiety) 

to elude – wymykać się, być nieosiągalnym (not able to be understood/ grasped)

cranky – rozdrażniony (easily annoyed or upset)

 

random word of the day: YOU DON'T LOOK IT

random word of the day: YOU DON’T LOOK IT – nie widać po tobie

(you can't see it just by looking at you)

 (1) My student: I was hyperactive as a child.

Me: Really? You don’t look it. (Laughter)

hyperactive – nadpobudliwy (to have too much energy and have problems focusing on one thing at a time)

(2) Dudley’s favourite punching bag was Harry, but he couldn’t often catch him. Harry didn’t look it, but he was very fast.

a punching bag – worek treningowy (a leather bag filled with air hung from a frame or fixed to a stand, used by  boxers  for training or exercise)

(3) Jag doesn’t look it, but he’s quite the cook. If living on his own taught him anything, it’s to make the most out of what little you have.

to be quite the cook – całkiem nieźle gotować (to be able to cook really well)

to make the most (out) of – w pełni coś wykorzystać (to use something well, in a clever and creative way)

what little you have – to, co posiadamy (what we’ve got and not more)

(4) He doesn't look it but inside he's really nervous. He always is. He just never lets anybody see.

(5) Cameron Diaz is 40 and her body definitely doesn’t look it. But then very few Hollywood actresses look their age in this era of personal trainers, nutritionists and pilates programs.

but then (again) – ale przecież, ale z drugiej strony (but when you think about the matter more or in another way)

to look your age – wyglądać na swój wiek (to look in the way that shows how old you are)

a nutritionist – dietetyk, żywieniowiec (a person who specialises in what and how much a person should eat)

(6) I hate it when a bloke is trying to chat me up, then when he asks my age and I tell him, he goes: 'Wow you don't look it!’ You only look about 23/24!' It's the biggest load of bullshit for flattery, and besides, what makes them think I have a problem with being nearly 30 anyway?

a bloke – koleś, gość (a guy)

to chat somebody up – zagadać, poderwać (to talk to someone in a way that shows them that you are sexually attracted to them)

a load of bullshit – pie****enie (a total lie)

flattery – pochlebstwa (saying compliments, saying nice things about somebody)

besides – poza tym (also)

anyway – w ogóle (used for showing that you have come to the end of what you are telling someone)

(7) I am 5’2’’ and currently 139 lbs. When I tell my friends, they say, “Wow, you don’t look it!”

5’2’’ – five feet two inches/ five foot two inches ( 1.58 m)

139 lbs – 139 pounds (63 kg)

(8) To look at me no one would ever say that I was Latino," he said. "Whenever I would tell people that my mother is Colombian, they would say 'Wow, you don't look it. You look like a WASP, you look British or something.

                          

WASP – White Anglo Saxon Protestant – przedstawiciel białej elity amerykańskiej pochodzenia angielskiego (a white American whose family originally came from northern Europe, and is therefore part of a group often considered as having the most influence and the most money in American society)