A golden key opens every door
"Look what I
found!" Albert cried. "Why, it's a golden key!" Officer Mutt
observed. "It reminds me that a golden key
opens every door," Albert smiled. "Yes, I think it will
open a door for you at my nice jail, " Mutt replied. Actually, the golden
key here is money for it is assumed that money
will let a person do anything he wants.
A golden parachute
Winston has just been given a
golden parachute. He's absolutely thrilled, of course, and I think you'd be
thrilled, too, if you were given one because a
golden parachute is a large sum of money
given to an employee to encourage him to leave his position before retirement
age. "Wheeeeee, " Winston whooped.
A lame duck
A person described as being a lame duck is helpless.
If he is in a position of authority, he lacks power. " Shirley is such a
lame duck. She can't do anything without ebing supervised. " ( Helpless ). "Harry's term of office ends
next year. meanwhile, he's a lame duck president and none of his plans stands a
chance of ebing acted up. " ( Powerless
)
A peeping Tom
When a little boy peeps
through fences or windows he is probably just being curious. When a man does
the same thing it's often because he has indecent intentions. A man who snoops like that is called a peeping Tom. "The neighbors are convinced
that we have a peeping Tom in the area."
A scandal sheet
Felix was telling Teddy about
a time in his youth when he worked as a reporter for one of the town's leading
scandal sheets. "What's a scandal sheet ?" Teddy asked. Felix
blushed. He was so embarassed that he didn't want to explain. That's understandable
because a scandal sheet is a newspaper that features lots of gossip and sensationalism,
but very little real news.
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