介绍:
1) FREUDIAN SLIP
David meant to say "I'm glad you're here," but what came out was a Freudian slip. Instead he said "I'm mad you're here."
"For seven and a half years I've worked alongside President Reagan. We've had triumphs. Made some mistakes. We've had some sex... uh... setbacks."
-A Freudian slip by President George H.W. Bush An example of freudian slip as a Misspelling: "I wish you were her." (I wish you were here)
MEANING:
A mistake in speech or action in which a person supposedly shows his or her true subconscious desires. an error in speech, memory, or physical action that is interpreted as occurring due to the interference of an unconscious ("dynamically repressed") subdued wish, conflict, or train of thought guided by the ego and the rules of correct behaviour.
Slips of the tongue and of the pen are the classical freudian slips, but psychoanalytic theory also embraces misreadings, mishearings, temporary forgettings, and the mislaying and losing of objects. an unintentional error regarded as revealing subconscious feelings.
ETYMOLOGY:
Named after psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. in his 1901 book The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, described and analyzed a large number of seemingly trivial, bizarre, or nonsensical errors and slips Freud never named an idea, discovery, or concept after himself, instead calling his therapies psychoanalysis.
It is unknown who first coined the term "Freudian slip", but it has since come to be used around the world and has been found in various pop-culture references and even found its way into everyday speech.
2) THICK AS THIEVES
Saly and my wife are as thick as thieves.
Tom and his supervisor are as thick as thieves.
Bill and Ted have known each other since they were 9 years old. That's why they are as thick as thieves.
MEANING:
If people are thick as thieves, they are very close friends who have no secrets from each other.
Close friends with; sharing confidences.
ETYMOLOGY: first appeared in print in the early 19th century. The original form of the idiom was "thick as two thieves," "thick" in this case meaning "close, sharing confidences, intimate and familiar by association," as two criminals working together would be forced to conspire and operate in isolation from normal social life. This "thick" is found in several other phrases meaning "very close, intimate" that were common during the 19th century. Involves a figurative use of "thick" in the sense of "closely packed, crowded".
3) LAST STRAW
Tom never took out the trash, was really loud, constantly had questionable people coming round the flat, and when he couldn't pay the rent, it was the last straw, so his flatmate kicked him out.
Jeff forgot Valentine's Day is always getting drunk, and was caught kissing another woman. When he started secretly using online dating, that was the last straw, and his wife divorced him.
When Tom lost his Job, it was the last straw. so he killed himself.
MEANING: The last straw is the final problem that makes someone lose their temper or the problem that finally brought about the collapse of something. A small addition to a burden which causes it to exceed the capacity.
ETYMOLOGY: It comes from an Arabic story, where a camel was loaded with straw until a single straw placed on the rest of the load broke its back.
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