Idioms - Court Interpreters Exam
Backhanded complement - ✔️✔️a criticism that is phrased in such a way that it
appears to be a compliment
Bats in your belfry - ✔️✔️Crazy
Beat a hasty retreat - ✔️✔️go away quickly from an unpleasant place/situation
Behind the eight ball - ✔️✔️In trouble
Bens someones ear - ✔️✔️talk for a long time
Beat the bushes - ✔️✔️to search exhaustively
Beyond the pale - ✔️✔️Outside the bounds of acceptable behavior
Big wheel - ✔️✔️important person
At bay - ✔️✔️At a distance
at sixes and sevens - ✔️✔️in a state of confusion and disorder
At the bottom of the hour - ✔️✔️at the 1/2 hour (11:30am)
At arms length - ✔️✔️at a dstance
Caveat emptor - ✔️✔️"let the buyer beware" - buyer is responsible to examine the
goods
Common property / tenancy - ✔️✔️when 2 or more people own property and their right
does not end at death. Property passes to their heirs.
Joint tenancy - ✔️✔️when 2 or more people own property and their right ends with
death. Therefore, all rights are passed to the other joint tenants.
According to Hoyle - ✔️✔️By the rules
following the rules
, Acid test - ✔️✔️An acid test is something that proves whether something is good,
effective, etc, or not.
After the fashion - ✔️✔️poorly
All over but the shouting - ✔️✔️finished
As the crows fly - ✔️✔️Direct
Fee simple - ✔️✔️absolute ownership of property
Free and clear - ✔️✔️owning something without restrictions
Goods and Chattels - ✔️✔️personal property
Have (someone) dead to rights - ✔️✔️prove someone guilty
In abeyance - ✔️✔️Halted temporarily
Stay of execution - ✔️✔️A court order temporarily stop another order or judgement.
Vicariuos liability - ✔️✔️The liability of one person through the act of another
All wet - ✔️✔️Completely wrong
Ax to grind - ✔️✔️To have a grievance, a resentment and you want to get revenge or
sort it out.
Blue law - ✔️✔️A law that regulates personal behavior (dancing, drinking, gambling)
Run/blow hot and cold - ✔️✔️to have mixed feelings
Bum steer - ✔️✔️False information or directions
Burn the candle on both ends - ✔️✔️to overwork oneself
By the seat of ones pants - ✔️✔️to accomplish something by luck
Cast pearls before swine - ✔️✔️To give something of value to someone who will not
appreciate it
Checkered past - ✔️✔️a personal history that includes both successes and failures
Backhanded complement - ✔️✔️a criticism that is phrased in such a way that it
appears to be a compliment
Bats in your belfry - ✔️✔️Crazy
Beat a hasty retreat - ✔️✔️go away quickly from an unpleasant place/situation
Behind the eight ball - ✔️✔️In trouble
Bens someones ear - ✔️✔️talk for a long time
Beat the bushes - ✔️✔️to search exhaustively
Beyond the pale - ✔️✔️Outside the bounds of acceptable behavior
Big wheel - ✔️✔️important person
At bay - ✔️✔️At a distance
at sixes and sevens - ✔️✔️in a state of confusion and disorder
At the bottom of the hour - ✔️✔️at the 1/2 hour (11:30am)
At arms length - ✔️✔️at a dstance
Caveat emptor - ✔️✔️"let the buyer beware" - buyer is responsible to examine the
goods
Common property / tenancy - ✔️✔️when 2 or more people own property and their right
does not end at death. Property passes to their heirs.
Joint tenancy - ✔️✔️when 2 or more people own property and their right ends with
death. Therefore, all rights are passed to the other joint tenants.
According to Hoyle - ✔️✔️By the rules
following the rules
, Acid test - ✔️✔️An acid test is something that proves whether something is good,
effective, etc, or not.
After the fashion - ✔️✔️poorly
All over but the shouting - ✔️✔️finished
As the crows fly - ✔️✔️Direct
Fee simple - ✔️✔️absolute ownership of property
Free and clear - ✔️✔️owning something without restrictions
Goods and Chattels - ✔️✔️personal property
Have (someone) dead to rights - ✔️✔️prove someone guilty
In abeyance - ✔️✔️Halted temporarily
Stay of execution - ✔️✔️A court order temporarily stop another order or judgement.
Vicariuos liability - ✔️✔️The liability of one person through the act of another
All wet - ✔️✔️Completely wrong
Ax to grind - ✔️✔️To have a grievance, a resentment and you want to get revenge or
sort it out.
Blue law - ✔️✔️A law that regulates personal behavior (dancing, drinking, gambling)
Run/blow hot and cold - ✔️✔️to have mixed feelings
Bum steer - ✔️✔️False information or directions
Burn the candle on both ends - ✔️✔️to overwork oneself
By the seat of ones pants - ✔️✔️to accomplish something by luck
Cast pearls before swine - ✔️✔️To give something of value to someone who will not
appreciate it
Checkered past - ✔️✔️a personal history that includes both successes and failures
