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# ์˜์–ด๋กœ ๋งํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋‚œ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์–ด๋ ค์šด ํ‘œํ˜„๋“ค์ด ์ˆ™์–ด๋‚˜ ๊ด€์šฉ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ๋‹ค.
# ๋ชจ๋ฅด๋ฉด ๋‹น์—ฐํžˆ ๋…ํ•ด๋„ ์•ˆ๋˜๊ณ  ๋“ค๋ ค๋„ ๋ฌด์Šจ๋œป์ธ์ง€ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค
# ์›์–ด๋ฏผ๋“ค๋„ ๋งŽ์ด ์“ฐ๋Š” ์˜์–ด Idiom ์˜ ๋œป๊ณผ ์˜๋ฏธ์™€ ์˜ˆ๋ฌธ์„ ์•Œ์•„๋‘๊ณ  ์ ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์จ๋จน์–ด ๋ณด์ž!


Have a cow / Have kittens


To be very worried, upset or angry. ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฑฑ์ •๋˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์–ธ์งข๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ™”๊ฐ€๋‚˜๋‹ค.

My father had a cow when I stayed out late yesterday.

He had a cow when he saw the mess we made.


Keep the wolf from the door

๊ฒจ์šฐ ๊ตถ์ฃผ๋ฆผ์„ ๋ฉดํ•˜๋‹ค. ์ž…์— ํ’€์น ํ•˜๋‹ค. ๊ฒจ์šฐ ๊ตถ์ฃผ๋ฆฌ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์–ผ์–ด์ฃฝ์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์‚ด๋งŒํ•œ ๋ˆ๋งŒ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค ๋ผ๋Š” ๋œป์ด๋‹ค

Forty percent of the country's population receive part-time wages that barely keep the wolf from the door.

I don't make a lot of money, just enough to keep the wolf from the door.


Lame duck

๋‚จ์˜ ๋„์›€์„ ํ•„์š”๋กœ ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ. ์ž„๊ธฐ ๋ง๊ธฐ์˜ ์ •์น˜์ธ. ํŠนํžˆ ํ›„๊ณ„์ž๊ฐ€ ์ •ํ•ด์ง„ ๋’ค์— ๋งŽ์ด ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•จ.

You can't expect much from a lame duck. As a lame duck, there's not a lot I can do.

What do you expect from a lame duck mayor?


Let sleeping dogs lie

์ž๋Š” ๊ฐœ๋Š” ๋ˆ„์›Œ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋‘์ž. ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งํ•ด ๊ธ์–ด ๋ถ€์Šค๋Ÿผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์ง€ ๋ง์ž. ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ์•ผ๊ธฐํ• ๋งŒํ•œ ์ผ์€ ๋งŒ๋“ค์ง€ ๋ง์ž. ๋ผ๋Š” ๋œป์ด๋‹ค.

It would be best to let sleeping dogs lie and not discuss the problem any further.

We decided to let sleeping dogs lie.


Let the cat out of the bag

์˜๋„์น˜ ์•Š๊ฒŒ ํ˜น์€ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋กœ ๋น„๋ฐ€์„ ๋ˆ„์„คํ•˜๋‹ค.

She wasn't supposed to know about it. Someone must have let the cat out of the bag.

I wanted it to be a surprise, but my sister let the cat out of the bag.


Lion's share

๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ๋ถ€๋ถ„. ์ œ์ผ ์ข‹์€ ๋ชซ. ์•Œ์งœ. ๋™๋ฌผ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์ด ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋‹น์—ฐํžˆ ํฌ๊ณ  ํž˜์„ผ ๋™๋ฌผ์˜ ์™• ์‚ฌ์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ข‹๊ณ  ํฐ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ƒ๊ธด ํ‘œํ˜„์ธ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. 

The gang stole a lot of money from the bank. But the lion's share of money went straight into the leader's pocket. 

The elder boy always takes the lion's share of the food.




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