SLANG 2007

Keep you hair on!

- Keep your hair on! = Calm down! or remain calm!

Kick the bucket

- Kick the bucket = to die

Bury the hatchet

- Bury the hatchet = seppellire l'ascia di guerra, far pace. - TO BURY = seppellire - To be buried alive = essere sepolto vivo - He was buried in his home town = fu sepolto nella sua città natale - To bury a treasure = sepellire un tesoro - The chalet was buried unter the snow = lo chalet era sepolto sotto la neve - HATCHET = ascia

A big-head

- A big-head = Pallone gonfiato - someone who tells you about his successfuk or how wonderful he is. - To have a big-head = essere presuntuoso, darsi delle arie, essersi montato la testa

Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

- Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed = sveglio e pinpante - Not only am I not tired, but |I am ready for this.

Get humpy

to get annoyed or upset with someone because you think they have done something bad to you

How are you doing?

How are you doing ? I'm good I'm fine I'm pretty good I'm not too bad What's up ? Not much Nothing new What's going on ? Nothing

- I am off to the Land of nod (old fashioned) - I am going to bed - I am going to get horizontal - I am going to catch some zeds

- To nod off = to fall asleep = appisolarsi - I nodded off during the show = mi sono appisolato durante lo spettacolo - To nod = annuire, far cenno di si (col capo), far cenno - Everyone nodded in agreement = tutti annuirono concordemente - I nodded to the assembled company and sat down = salutai col capo i presenti e mi misi a sedere - He nodded the group to step forward = fece cenno al gruppo di avanzare - The Land of nod = il sonno, il regno di Morfeo - In the land of the living = nel mondo dei vivi

- I am bored to death sometimes

Averne fin sopra i capelli di qualcuno To be sick to death of someone To be bored to death of someone

- I am just going to take forty winks - I am dog-tired

- Wink = nap - Forty winks = sonnellino, pisolino (a nap) - Not to sleep a wink / Not to get a wink of sleep = non chiudere occhio Schiacciare/fare un pisolino To have / To take forty winks (spec durante il giorno) To nap To have / To take a nap To snooze To have a snooze - Dog-tired = Exhausted = stanco morto, esausto, stremato - To feel dog-tired = sentirsi fiacco

I tried ringing you a thousand times

- I have told you a thousand times = te l’ho detto un indefinito numero di volte - I told him a thousand times = glielo ho ripetuto mille volte che doveva far presto - A thousand times no! = mille volte no! - No, I tell you, a thousand times no = no e poi no

I was hopping mad = (essere fuori di se, essere furioso) I was really angry

- He was hopping mad = Ha un diavolo per capello

Gotcha = (I got you) ti ho beccato, ti ho preso

Airhead = a stupid person (testa vuota, zuccone)

Believe it or not, Dave can sometimes act like an airhead!