1. 賺錢養家：Bring home the bacon.
You can't sit on your ass all day, someone has to bring home the bacon.
你不能每天無所事事啊，總得有個人賺錢養家吧
2. 幫某人解圍：save someone's bacon
thanks for standing up for me, you've saved my bacon.
謝謝你為我出頭，幫我解圍。
3. 芝麻蒜皮的爭執 a chicken and egg argument.
4. 老大不小了：no spring chicken
Daniel is no spring chicken, but he did a pretty good job of playing a school boy in that movie.
Dianiel也老大不小了，但是他在電影裡演學生演的很好。
5. a meat market 人肉市場、男女風月的地方
Don't go to the club down there, it's literally a meat market, it makes me sick.
別卻那個club，那兒就是個風月場，讓我覺得噁心。
6 . someone is dead meat 某人死定了
e.g. Timmy cheated on his wife, he would be dead meat when she finds out what he did.
Timmy揹著他的老婆偷情，如果他老婆發現的話，那Timmy就死定了。
7. run around like a headless chicken. 忙得像只無頭蒼蠅、手忙腳亂、瞎忙
means someone is really worried and/or he is panicked.
8. One man's meat is another man's poison. 蘿蔔青菜各有所好。
e.g. Hey, stop saying that his girlfriend is ugly, one man's meat is another man's poison.
喂，別再說他的女朋友醜了，青菜蘿蔔各有所愛。
9. Meat and drink. 易如反掌、是有樂趣的事
Doing math homework makes me sleepy, but it's meat and drink to my sister. She really loves working with numbers.
我一做數學題就犯困，但是對我妹妹來說卻是享受。她真的很喜歡數字。
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