10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HAVE A MONKEY ON ONE'S BACK»
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Rajpal Dictionary Of English Idioms & Phrases
... head: Have a strange fancy or whim * There is not point in discussing the
scheme with him as he has a maggot in his head and may not be agreeable to
our views Have a monkey on one's back: Be drug addict; bear a grudge * A man
having ...
... to fall off the back of a lorry M IS i ffl U (Your camera is too cheap I think it fell off
the back of a lorry. Vfifi?M m^m) • ) to get off someone's back T- WMiS.^ A, to
have a monkey on one's back JL MONKEY to have one's back to the wall PS ...
Have a monkey on one's back Sample Sentences a. To have a monkey on one's
back means to be bothered by a persistent or nagging problem. Which of the
following might be termed a "monkey"? 1. new car 2. unpaid debt 3. duty
unfulfilled ...
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Objective Englidh for Competitions
To have a monkey on one's back — (be a drug addict). Raman's company with
Rajan has made him to have a monkey on his back. 63. To give away— (hand
over). The bride was given away by her parents. 64. To give up— (abandon the ...
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Beyond Borders: Translations Moving Languages, Literatures ...
As an example of this, we can take the English idiom have a monkey on one's
back/get a monkey off one's back 'have/put an end to a serious problem that
makes your life difficult', which contains such a vivid metaphorical image that its ...
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From Polysemy to Semantic Change: Towards
a Typology of ...
Occitan is still more concrete: one "loads" it (carga la mineto), a simile that is to be
sometimes found in English concerning a particular form of intoxication in the
expression to have a monkey on one's back "to be drug-addicted" (Robert ...
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Chambers concise dictionary
[16c] ♢ have a monkey on one's back slang to be addicted to drugs, make a
monkey out of someone colloq to make them seem ridiculous; to make a fool of
them, not give a monkey's slang not to care at all. monkey business > n, colloq
mischief ...
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The Nelson Contemporary English Dictionary
... man 2 (colll a mischievous child v to meddle with get one's monkey up to get
angry have a monkey on one's back to bear a grudge make a monkey of to make
somebody look silly monkey business (colll trickery monkey engine n a pile driver
...
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Domestication and Foreignization in Translation Studies
... apina selässäja saldo avaamatta lit. 'But still our crew has a monkey on its back
and the account unopened' ~ En. to have a monkey on one's back 'have a
serious problem that makes your life difficult' (http://www.pandalook.fi/index.
Hannu Kemppanen, Marja Jänis, Alexandra Belikova, 2012
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Concise English Dictionary
have a monkey on one's back to be addicted to drugs; have, get, one's monkey
up to be angry; make a monkey (out) of to make a fool of; not to give a monkey's (
vulg. slang) not to care, be interested, at all. [Perh. from M.L.G. moneke. conn. Sp.
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