null阅读中的思想阅读中的思想Animal spirits
Armchair critic: person who passes criticism wihtout being actively involved
Armchair job
Dead-end job
Armed forces
Backstair gossip/influence
Bad shot/time/thin time
Bird's eye view
nullCapital offence
Burning question
Broad daylight
the carrying trade
a close thing
Cold war
Commanding presencenullA country cousin
Dark horse
Diamond wedding
Dizzy height
double Dutch
a down train
Early bird/grave
eternal trianglenullExtra-mural studies
A fair copy/hand
Falling market
Fancy price
Fast color
Fast living
Fellow feeling
A field course/studies/worknullThe fine arts
A flying visit
Foregone conclusion: obvious or inevitable result
A foreign body
Forlorn hope
The fourth estate
Free tradenullOedipal drama
Freudian slip
Fugitive compositions/verses
Going concern
Generation gap
Garbled quotation/statement
Golden opportunity/opinions/weddingnullA good address
A good hand
Gordian knot
A grass widow (temporary absence of husb)
Green-eyed monster
The happy medium
A happy expressionnullA hot line
Hot potato/news/water/goods
Hush money
Idle compliment/talk
An ivory tower
Ill-gotten gains
Knotty problem
Knowing look
nullLatchkey child
Leading article/question
Light reading/literature
Loaded question
The living theatre
In the long run
Maiden speech
Monkey business/tricksnullA moonlight flit
A moot point
A moral certainty
Mother country/tongue
Naked eye/truth
A narrow escape
The new rich
The old man out
nullOpen question/secret/letter/season
Original sin
Package tour/plan
Paper tiger
A party line
A pet aversion
Plain sailing
A practical jokenullA quixotic project
A rainy day
Ready money/pen
The rising generation
Second thoughts
Senior citizen
Settled weather
Sharp practices
nullShort cut
Side issue
The Sixth sense
Small arms/talk
Strong point/language
A Utopian schemeMore MetaphorsMore MetaphorsA bag of bones
Apple of discord
Pandora'x box
A bird of passage
A case in point
The crux of the matter/question
The fall of mannullThe ins and outs
Lion's share
Pros and cons
Ups and downs
The worm of conscience (remorse)
nullSound and fury: a great, tumultuous, and passionate uproar that actually is unimportant or meaningless
Bread and circuses: policies designed to prevent unrest by keeping people happy and thus deflecting concern about troubling issues
Here's a quarter:nullDeus ex machina: surprising turn of events that suddenly makes things turn out all right; an unsatisfying and overly convenient ending
Tabula rasa: something or someone entirely unmarked and uninfluenced
Waterloo: an ultimate, decisive defeat
The emperor's new clothes: the falseness or pretentiousness of somethingnullGolden calf: an idol or any object that is worshipped even though it is not worthy of worship
Svengali: person who exercises excessive control or influence over another person
Loaves and fishes: an almost miraculous abundance in the face of seeming scarcitynullNoble savage: person who has not been corrupted by society or civilization
Burning bush: a medium through which the voice of absolute authority speaks
Tower of Babel: any noisy confusion
Handwriting on the wall: indication that doom or misfortune is comingnullSour grapes: the attitude of a person who has been disappointed or thwarted; the person bitterly rationalizes that what he or she had wanted was probably not so great after allnullProper NounsProper NounsBoxing Day
The Dark Ages
Deep South
The Eternal City
The Four Freedoms (sp, relg, fear, want)
The Golden Age
The Great Crash (1929)nullThe Great Lakes
Bollywood/Wall Street/Broadway/Fifth Avenue/Silicon Valley/Madison Avenue
The Iron Curtain/Cold War
The Ivy League
Uncle Sam /John Bull
The Melting Pot
The New World/Third World
nullThe West End
The White HousenullHomer
Socrates, Socratic method, q&a, dialectical method
Plato, Platonic love, idealism, ideas
Aristotle, Aristotelian, form, Poetics
Sophists, Epicurean (pleasure), Stoics (hardships), Archimedes, Cynics
Julius Caesar
Virgil
The Panthenon, Acropolis of Athens
nullArmenia, Mesopotamia, Mediterranean
Byzantium, Constantinople, Pompeii, Rome, Jerusalem, Islam, Christianity, anti-semitism
Colosseum, amphitheatre, the Pantheon
Judeo-Christian tradition, Hebrew, Old Testament, the Fall of MannullNoah's Ark, Ten Commandments, Gospel, Ecclesastes, Constantine, cruxifixion
The Dark Ages, the Middle Ages, medieval,
Renaissance, Catholic, Crusades
Charlemagne, Alfred the Great, Alexander the Great, Alexandria, Macedonia, epic, Ulysses, Odyssey, GaulnullDante, Gothic, Classical, Greco-, latinate
Pope, papal, Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, Last Supper, Michelangelo, Raphael
Reformation, Henry VIII, Calvnist, Lutheran, Martin Luther, Presbyterian, Protestant Revolt
Montaigne, Cervantes, Don Quixote, quixoticnullThomas More, utopia, William Shakespeare, Hamlet's Soliloquy, Romeo and Juliet, Christopher Columbus
Niolaus Copernicus, Copernican, orbit, heliocentric, Ptolemaic system (geocentric), heresy, Scripture, Johannes Kepler (ellipse, planetary motion), Newton, gravitational pull, Galileo, law of inertia, law of falling bodies
nullCalculus, spectrum, law of universal gravitation
Descartes, Cartesian account of matter/theory, dualism, Francis Bacon, Hobbes, the Laws of Nature, Leviathan
Rembrandt, englightenment, Voltaire, Rousseau, Russell, Wlofgang von Goethe, Schiller, Immanuel KantnullHaydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky
Marx, Darwinism, natural selection, survival, hereditary, taxonomy
Charles Dickens
The Great Depression, Sigmund Freud, unconscious, libido, OedipalnullAngry young man
Beat generation
The Beatles, John Lennon, Elvis Presley
Alienation, Jackson Pollock, drip techniquenullnullnullnullnullnullnullnullnullnullnullnullnullnull