cotton on (to)
British, informal.
: to begin to understand something : to catch on
It took a while, but they are finally starting to cotton on.
It wasn't until he started laughing that they cottoned on! [VERB PARTICLE]
—often + to
She cottoned on to the fact that I like her.
I'd only just cottoned on to the fact that they were having a relationship.
She had already cottoned on to the fact that the nanny was not all she appeared. [VERB PARTICLE + to]
докумекать до..., дотумкать...
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/cotton-on.html
AmE:
cotton (on)to (someone or something)
1. To like someone or something; to view someone or something favorably.
It takes me a while to cotton to new people—I have to get to know them first.
After we explained our plan again, the rest of the group seemed to cotton onto it.
Phrasal-prepositional verbs
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fob someone or something off/fob off something (on or onto someone) - to get rid of someone or something by
transferring that someone or something to someone else:
- Don't try to fob your girlfriend off on me!
- He also fobbed off a bad car on Jane.
To List 1
glom on to - grab hold of ; appropriate to oneself
fob someone or something off/fob off something (on or onto someone) - to get rid of someone or something by
transferring that someone or something to someone else:
- Don't try to fob your girlfriend off on me!
- He also fobbed off a bad car on Jane.
To List 1
glom on to - grab hold of ; appropriate to oneself
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stoke up on - to eat a lot of a particular food in order to avoid feeling hungry or weak later
The movers [workmen employed by a moving company] would stoke up on bacon, eggs, toast, flapjacks, biscuits and gravy before heading back out to their vans to face another busy day of moving disgusted citizens out of town and unsuspecting souls in.
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See also:*in on something
1. involved with something, such as an organization or an idea; informed about special plans. (*Typically: be ~; come ~; get ~; let someone ~.) There is a party upstairs, and I want to get in on it. I want to get in on your club's activities. Mary and Jane know a secret, but they won't let me in on it.
2. receiving a share of something. (*Typically: be ~; come ~; get ~; let someone ~.) I want to get in on the new European business that is supposed to develop. We will all want to get in on the scheme.
bring someone in (on something)
to include someone in some deed or activity. I'm going to have to bring a specialist in on this. Please bring in several specialists to advise on this case. Let's bring an expert in before we go any further.
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Also, in the idiom go in on something (with someone):Yety пишет: ↑19 авг 2022, 07:22 in on something
1. involved with something, such as an organization or an idea; informed about special plans. (*Typically: be ~; come ~; get ~; let someone ~.) There is a party upstairs, and I want to get in on it. I want to get in on your club's activities. Mary and Jane know a secret, but they won't let me in on it.
Rus. скинуться на (купить вскладчину)We all went in on the gift together.
Do you want to go in on a wedding present for Doug and Cheryl with us?
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Origin:https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/fork-out пишет:If you fork out for something, you spend a lot of money on it.
[informal]
He will have to fork out for private school fees for Nina. [V P + for/on]
You don't ask people to fork out every time they drive up the motorways. [VERB PARTICLE]
Britons fork out more than a billion pounds a year on toys. [V P n + for/on]
What's the origin of the phrase 'Fork out'?
The expression 'fork out' entered the language in England in the mid-19th century. On the face of it there doesn't appear to be a connection between forking and paying/handing over.
The connection is that fork was a slang term for 'pickpocket'.
...
To properly fork out money you should hold it between your fingers, as a pickpocket would do.
The term 'fork-out' came to be used to mean 'pay/surrender' or 'hand over' money. The allusion was to the fingers of one's hand being used to hold the money, like a pickpocket.
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Aslo,
fork (some money) out (for something) (to List 2)
Do you think I'm going to fork twenty dollars out for that book?
Forking out lots of money for taxes is part of life.
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peer out at (someone or something)
2. To be or become partially visible to someone or something (from behind or beneath something).
The moon peered out at us from behind the clouds.
From behind the black paint, some splotches of the mural's color still peers out at the city streets.
2. To be or become partially visible to someone or something (from behind or beneath something).
The moon peered out at us from behind the clouds.
From behind the black paint, some splotches of the mural's color still peers out at the city streets.
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Роман Молти пишет: ↑27 дек 2020, 16:57 walk in on
Другие вариации: barge in on someone, burst in on someone.
и далее по цитате.
Note taken - застукал-таки предков "за делом")))
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Да, я потом увидел в поиске, поэтому заменил на другое.
peg (one) down to (something)
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To force someone to conform to something, such as a standard, a set of rules, a course of action, etc.
Anyone trying to peg him down to a logical, consistent ideology is on a fool's errand.
I know the artist doesn't like being pegged down to any one genre or style.
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В словаре и чисто глагольное (без частичек/предлогов) предлагается
Ещё этимиологические объяснения запутанные:
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/peer1. To look intently, searchingly, or with difficulty. See Synonyms at gaze.
2. To be partially visible; show: The moon peered from behind dark clouds.
Ещё этимиологические объяснения запутанные:
эти значения могли немного смешаться в peer out at someone, так что вроде и как бы частично виднеется и при этом ещё и как бы на кого-то выглядывает[Sense 1, perhaps a variant of Early Modern English pire (from Middle English piren; perhaps akin to Low German piren, to search closely), Sense 2, perhaps a variant of Early Modern English pear (from Middle English peren probably alteration of apperen, to appear; see appear).]
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