1. 赚钱养家：Bring home the bacon.
You can't sit on your ass all day, someone has to bring home the bacon.
你不能每天无所事事啊，总得有个人赚钱养家吧
2. 帮某人解围：save someone's bacon
thanks for standing up for me, you've saved my bacon.
谢谢你为我出头，帮我解围。
3. 芝麻蒜皮的争执 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，但是他在电影里演学生演的很好。
5. a meat market 人肉市场、男女风月的地方
Don't go to the club down there, it's literally a meat market, it makes me sick.
别却那个club，那儿就是个风月场，让我觉得恶心。
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背着他的老婆偷情，如果他老婆发现的话，那Timmy就死定了。
7. run around like a headless chicken. 忙得像只无头苍蝇、手忙脚乱、瞎忙
means someone is really worried and/or he is panicked.
8. One man's meat is another man's poison. 萝卜青菜各有所好。
e.g. Hey, stop saying that his girlfriend is ugly, one man's meat is another man's poison.
喂，别再说他的女朋友丑了，青菜萝卜各有所爱。
9. Meat and drink. 易如反掌、是有乐趣的事
Doing math homework makes me sleepy, but it's meat and drink to my sister. She really loves working with numbers.
我一做数学题就犯困，但是对我妹妹来说却是享受。她真的很喜欢数字。
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