POKER JARGON

• River: The final card dealt in a poker hand (in Texas hold ‘em style, this is the fifth card placed in the center of the table).
• Call: To match a bet from another player.
• Big blind: The larger of two set amounts of betting.

FOOTBALL JARGON

• Safety: A slightly rarer form of scoring points, in which an offensive player is tackled in his own end zone while holding the football; worth 2 points.
• Facemask: A penalty of gripping an opponent’s protective mask over his mouth; worth 15 yards.
• Wide receiver: A player on the offense who generally runs downfield to catch the football.

MUSICAL JARGON

• Allegro: Cheerful or brisk tempo.
• Coda: Ending section of music.
• Piano vs. forte: Quiet vs. loud.

MATHEMATICAL JARGON

• Q.E.D: Quod erat demonstrandum in Latin, meaning “which was to be demonstrated,” and placed at the end of mathematical proofs.
• Vanish: To take on the value of 0.
• Deep vs. elementary: A proof is deep if it requires concepts more advanced than the original concept to explain that original concept, while it is elementary if the proof only needs fundamental concepts to explain something.

ARCHITECTURE JARGON

• Chimera: A fantastical or grotesque figure used for decorative purposes in a building.
• Molding: Decorative finishing strip at transitions between surfaces.
• Narthex: A passage between the main entrance and main body of a church.

WHAT A JARGON IS?

Jargon is a specialized set of terms and language that is used in a particular context and setting. It is especially common to find jargon in an industry, such as in law, medicine, academia, or an art or sport. People who are not a part of this industry or group may not be able to understand the jargon used, as the words are either obscure terms or have different definitions than the regular usage of the word

Hands Idioms

1-)  Hands were tied

Example: The thief was guilty, so his lawyer hands were tied. 

2-) Safe pair of hands
Someone who you can´t trust to do an important job well.

Example: That is an important project, you can´t assignment to Jorge, He is a new employer, He is a safe pair of hands.

3- To lend you a hand
To help one; to give one assistance

Example: Hi lends you a hand, are you ok?

4-) Lifts a finger

5-) Old hand

Example: He has been working there for a long time. He has a old hand.

6-) Rub shoulders 
Spend time with royal, rich or famous people.

Example: I heard you were rubbing shoulders with the governor last Saturday.

7-) Long arm of the law
The police; the law

8-) The back of your hand

9-) As a rule of thumb

Example: A good rule of thumb is to plant your seedlings around the end of May.

10-) Point the fingers

Example: I have to point me finger to that thief.

A phrasal verb is a phrase that’s made up of a verb and another word or two, usually a preposition but sometimes an adverb. So before we can talk about phrasal verbs, it’s important to understand what verbs, prepositions and adverbs are:

• A verb is an action word. It describes something happening (i.e. hearing, seeing), a state of being (i.e. to live, to sleep), or an action being done (i.e. to read, to sing).

• A preposition is a word that describes the relationship between two words. For example, the bees are above the table or under the table, but not inside the table (hopefully). Prepositions mainly deal with location or direction (i.e. on, through, around) and time (i.e. “by” or “around” a certain time).

• An adverb is a word that describes a verb. For example, you can run quickly or slowly and arrive to class early or late.

Some Examples

Call off — To cancel something. “The picnic was called off because of the rain.”

Come up (with something) — To think of an idea. “I came up with this idea for a TV show about a woman living with her best friend and daughter. I call it ‘Two and a Half Women.’”

Come up — To bring up a topic, or when something happens unexpectedly. To bring up a topic: “I wanted to tell her that I got a new job but the chance never came up.” Unexpected occurrence: “I was going to meet my friends for dinner, but something came up so I had to cancel.”

Cut (it) out — This phrase has the same meaning as saying “Stop it.” “Hey, cut it out! I was watching that movie, so stop changing the channel!”

Cut in — To interrupt someone when they are speaking. “I was about to ask that girl on a date, but her friend cut in and I lost the chance.”

Get away — To escape. You may have heard the phrase “getaway car.” That’s the car used by criminals to run away from a crime scene, like a bank robbery. “Carmen’s neighbor tried to show her pictures of all her cats, but Carmen managed to get away.”

Get around — To solve a problem by avoiding the main issue. This phrase can also be used very informally to refer to someone who has many sexual partners. As you can imagine, it’s not very nice to say that someone “gets around”! “Some people know all the different ways to get around tax laws.”

Get along (with) — To have a friendly relationship with someone. “Some people are surprised that I get along with my mother-in-law really well!” Give in — To surrender, especially in a fight or argument. “Ben’s mother gave in and let him stay out late with his friends.”

Give away — To hand things out for free. (Can be separated by the item being given away.) “When Linda’s cat had kittens, she gave them all away to good homes.”

Put out — This phrase can mean to extinguish a fire, or to irritate someone by asking them for a favor. (In the case of annoying someone, can be separated by the person getting annoyed.) Be aware that in very informal slang, this phrase has a more offensive meaning. To extinguish a fire: “The firefighters managed to put out the fire before it spread to other houses.” To irritate someone: “I’d ask you to make me dinner but I don’t want to put you out.”

Halloween Idioms

1-) That new guy in IT is a bit of a weirdo, he gives me the creeps.

2-) It turns out that the squeaky clean senator actually has a few skeletons in her closet. 

A hidden and shocking secret.

3-) I get so angry when I see people being cruel to animals, it makes my blood boil.

To cause one to feel extremely angry

4-) If Mozart knew his music was being used for car advert, he would turn in his grave.

To show enormous disfavor for something that has happened after one's death.

5-) Are you ok there Dave? You look like you have seen a ghost.

To look terrified, shocked, or pale from fright.

6-) This place has been like a ghost town since the students went home for the summer.

A town permanently abandoned by its inhabitants, as because of a business decline or because a nearby mine hasbeen worked out.

7-) I jumped out of my skin when I saw my neighbor’s face at the window.

 To react strongly to shock or surprise.

8-) Speak of the devil, we were just talking about your performance last night.

Talk about a certain person, and that person appears

Animal Idioms

1-) Two shakes of a lamb´s tail: Very quickly 

If you don´t return in two skakes of a lamb´s tail I will tell your supervisor.

2-) A leopard cannot change (its) spots

My mom said, this chihuahua dog is different but I know that a leopard cannot change its spots.

3-) A lambs to the slaughter

That baby is a lambs to the slaughter.

4-) Rat race: A fierce struggle for success, especially in one's career or business

My father work is a rat race. He and his coworkers make competitions daily.

5-) Smelling a rat: Suspect that something is wrong.

6-) Go to the whole hog

She has been the best student at school. Now she would like to enter a private high school I think She goes to the whole hog.

7-) Wolf something down

8-) Stop the monkey business 

9-) The boy who cried wolf

Pay no attention. She's just crying wolf again. Don't cry wolf too often. No one will come.

10-) As strong as ox

11-) As busy as a beaver

12-) As sly as a fox

The policeman was as sly as a fox, he caught the thief.

13-) A bull in a china shop

14-) Scared as a rabbit

15-) A cash cow

Idioms Catalogue

1- Sock away

Meaning:

To save or reserve something, especially money, for future use. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "sock" and "away."

Example:

If you can sock away even 100 colones each month, it will go a long way toward our vacation at the end of the year. 

2-) On the spur of a moment

Meaning:
It was a spur-of-the-moment decision. It was like, let's do something with the kids before school starts.

Example:

It was a spur-of-the-moment decision. It was like, let's do something with the kids before school starts.

3-) Throw in the towel

Meaning:

To quit or abandon something; to admit defeat or failure; you stop trying to do something, because you know that you cannot succeed.

Example:

After trying their hand in the mobile market for just a few years, the company is already throwing in the towel after finding very little success.

4-) Salt of the earth

Meaning:

A person or group considered as embodying simplicity and moral integrity. Simple, honest person without pretensions.

Example:

Robert is still the salt of the earth. He donates most of his salary to charity and volunteers weekly at the hospital.

5-) Down the drain

Meaning: 

To waste or lost something.

Example: 

They were aware that their public image was rapidly going down the drain.

6-) Get one´s ducks in a row

Example:

Tomorrow, Jack will go the beach. He had his ducks in a row before he go.

7-) As free as a bird

Meaning:

Completely free and without responsabilities. 

Example:

Jack will be free as a bird next Friday. He is single!

8-) Jack of all trades 

Meaning: 

Person who does many different types of jobs. Work skills.

Example: 

My father could fix cars, build furniture, and program computers—he was a jack of all trades.

9-) Lose one´s marbles

Example:

My grandmother is old. She has been losing her marbles.

10-) It costs an arm and a leg: Very Expensive

Example: The goPro camera costs an arm and a leg.

11-) She let the cat out of the bag // spilled the beans.

12-) He is a couch potato

13-) He is catching some some z´s.

14-) Don´t look a gift horse in the mouth.

Don´t be ungrateful when you received a give.

15-) His bark is worse than his bite.

Actions will not be as severe as the things that someone said.

16-) She wears her heart on her sleeve 

To make your fellings and emotions obvious.

17-) I bend over backwards to help people.

To try extremely hard to help someone.

18-) He drives me up the wall.

Make me crazy.

19-)  The math course was the icing on the cake.

Amazing at the end, it was the best.

20-) I´m on the fence about it.

You don´t know what to do.

21-) Made the cake from scratch

We made this blogg from scratch.