"hit it off" = "죽이 맞다"

 

"hit it off"는
"사이 좋게 지내다, 죽이 맞다" 

라는 뜻을 가진 

이디엄입니다.

 

아래 대화를 통해 그 사용법과

다른 이디엄을 익혀봅시다.

 

 

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Rachel: I like your friend.

She's down to earth.

 

(down to earth:

분별이 있는, 가식이 없는)

 

 

 

Wendy: I know. She's swell.

We really hit it off.*

 

(swell: 멋진)

 

 

 

Rachel: I don't like her other friend.

She really turns me off.

 

(turn someone off:

~를 불쾌하게 하다)

 

 

 

Wendy: I'm surprised they're so buddy-buddy.

 

(buddy-buddy: 절친)

 

 

 

Rachel: I saw her the other day and

she gave me the cold shoulder.

 

(give someone the cold shoulder:

~를 차갑게 대하다, ~를 냉대하다)

 

 

 

Wendy: You're putting me on!

 

(put someone on: ~를 놀리다,

~를 믿게하기 위하여 과장하다)

 

 

 

Rachel: No. That's about the size of it.

 

(the size of it: 그대로다)

 

 

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* hit it off

 

=

 

to be friendly with each other

immediately

 

(서로 재빨리 친해지다)  

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(예문)

 

We had similar idea about the show,

and the two of us hit it off right away.

 

(우리 둘은 그 쇼에 대해 유사한

생각을 갖고있어 바로 죽이 맞았다.) 

 

<자료: Cambridge Dictionary>

 

 

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Excerse 1  Complete the sentences

with the correct idiom.

 

 

a) gave me the cold shoulder,

b) turned her off,  c) swell,

d) putting me down,  e) hit if off,

f) the size of it,  g) down-to-earth,

h) buddy-buddy

 

 

1. She's friendly and sensible.

She's _______________.

 

2. They have been very good friends

for years and always go places together.

They are ______________.

 

3. She didn't like her sister's new boyfriend

at all. He ________________.

 

4. Debbie and Mike enjoy each other's company.

I'm glad __________________.

 

5. We were at a convention and

he igonored me. He __________.

 

6. You got a raise? That's ______.

 

7. I don't believe you got tickets for a cruise.

You're _________________.

 

8. There's nothing you can do.

He doesn't want to go to college.

That's about ____________.

 

 

 

Answers

 

1. g,  2. h,  3. b,  4. e, 

5. a,  6. c,  7. d,  8. f

 

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Excerse 2  Rewrite the phrase in italics,

using the proper idiomatic expression.

 

 

1. That's a terrific idea.

 

2. They are very rich but not fancy

or pretentious.

 

3. They're very friendly.

 

4. I can't eat that food. It repels me.

 

5. That's the way it is.

 

6. I don't believe you got all A's.

Don't exaggerate.

 

7. At the party, he was very

unfriendly towards me.

 

8. The first time they met,

they got along very well.

 

 

 

Answers

 

1. swell,  2. down-to-earth,

3. buddy-buddy,  4. turns me off,

5. the size of it,  6. put me on,

7. gave me the cold shoulder,

8. hit it off