| pass out | (=faint, lose consciousness) | 기절하다, 의식을 잃다 |
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| Today is so hot that I feel as if I may pass out at any moment. | ||
| pave the way for | (=make possible or easier) | 길을 열다, 토대를 닦다 |
| The negotiations will pave the way for restoring economic ties. | ||
| pay off | (=bribe; produce good results; pay in full) | 매수하다; 좋은 결과를 낳다 , 보상받다; 다 갚다, 청산하다 |
| The man wouldn't give evidence; I think someone paid him off. | ||
| His hard work paid off when he got a big raise in salary. | ||
| He finally paid off the 30-year mortgage on his house. | ||
| pick up on | (=understand, catch on to) | 이해하다, 알아차리다 |
| He failed to pick up on the humor in my remark. | ||
| play along with | (=pretend to agree with) | ~에 동의하는 척하다 |
| He pretended to be a celebrity and his friends played along with hime. | ||
| play down | (=make little of) | 경시하다, 가볍게 여기다 |
| At first the authorities played down the threat to public health. | ||
| play it by ear | (=do as a situation develops) | 임기응변으로 대처하다 |
| I can't give you any advice, so you'll have to play it by ear. | ||
| play up to | (=flatter; seek favor with) | 아부[아첨]하다 |
| He always plays up to his boss to get promoted | ||
| poke fun at | (=make fun of, mock, tease) | 놀리다, 조롱하다 |
| Most of his novels poke fun at the upper class. | ||
| pop into one's head | (=suddenly think of) | 갑자기 생각나다[떠오르다 ] |
| While I was taking a shower; a good idea popped into my head. | ||
| prevail on | (=persuade) | 설득하다 |
| He prevailed on me to believe in his innocence. | ||
| pull[tear] down | (=demolish, destroy) | (건물 등을) 부수다, 헐다 |
| They pulled[tore] down several old office buildings downtown. | ||
| pull in | (=drive in and stop, arrive) | 차를 대다[멈추다], 도착하다 |
| We'd better pull in at the next gas station to refill the gas tank. | ||
| pull off | (=succeed in a difficult task) | (어려운 일을) 잘해내다 |
| The task seemed impossible, but he managed to pull it off. | ||
| pull one's leg | (=fool, play a trick on) | (남을) 놀리다, 속이다 |
| He was pulling my leg when he said he had won the lottery. | ||
| pull oneself together | (=become emotionally stable) | 마음을 가라앉히다 |
| After crying for an hour, she began to pull herself together. | ||
| pull over | (=drive to the side of the road to stop) | 차를 길가로 붙이다 |
| We pulled over to ask a passerby for directions. | ||
| pull through | (=survive a crisis or an illness) | (난관, 병) 이겨내다 |
| If we just stick together, we can pull through this hardship. | ||
| put in for | (=officially ask for) | ~을 공식적으로 요구하다 |
| The labor union put in for a pay raise of 20%. | ||
| put the cart before the horse | (=reverse the logical order of things) | 앞뒤가 뒤바뀌다, 본말을 전도하다 |
| When the salesman wanted money for goods the hadn't delivered, I told him he was | ||
| putting the cart before the horse. | ||
| put through | (=connect by telephone; cause to suffer) | (전화를) 연결하다; (시련 등을) 격게 하다 |
| If he's not in, can you put me through to his secretary? | ||
| We put all new recruits through a very rigorous training. | ||
| read A into B | (=believe A to be meant through not expressed by B) | B를 A의 뜻으로 (확대) 해석하다[추측하다, 짐작하다] |
| Please don't read any criticism into what I'm about to say to you. | ||