Wednesday, April 11, 2012

New wors/ phrases in the song: "United Breaks guitars"

tarmac: /ˈtɑr·mæk/ n [U]an area of ground covered with a hard surface, esp. the areas of an airport where aircraft park, land, and take off.

liable /ˈlɑɪ·ə·bəl/ adj [+ to infinitive] likely to do, happen, or experience something.

"pass the buck": to leave a difficult problem for someone else to deal with.

wild-goose chase(idiomatic) (figuratively) A futile search, a fruitless errand; a useless and often lengthy pursuit.
I went on a wild-goose chase all over the town looking for that adapter until I discovered they no longer make them.
A task whose execution is inordinately complex relative to the value of the outcome. Diagnosing this software application's problems is a wild-goose chase because it is built in an environment that has poor debugging tools.

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