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Word of the Day | Week 76
Word | Expression
Korean
Usage
Notes
(어리석은) 실수(를 하다)/ 터무니없는 실책
I think you made a blunder when you bought
that new car / My co-worker’s a blundering
idiot!
Made a mistake - or can be used to
say someone always makes stupid
mistakes (‘blundering idiot’)
~을 망치다
We’ve cocked-up our figures for this month /
Apple cocked-up the launch of the new
iPads
made a mistake
상속인(자), 계승자
JY Lee is Lee Geun Hee’s heir / She’s the
heiress to the family fortune
The person who will inherit the family’s
money or title.
겨울같은, 추운
Today’s weather is very wintery / We’re
having some pretty awful wintery weather
this week
Weather that is like winter
(어떤 사람이나 장소에 서려 있는 독특한) 기운
There’s an aura of success around him /
There’s a funny aura in that room
atmosphere
요행(수), 운이 좋은, 소 뒷다리로 쥐 잡은 격
It was a fluke that Suwon Samsung beat FC
Seoul last weekend / We fluked the sales
figures last month
were lucky - ‘fluked’ is informal were
would normally say ‘it was a fluke that
we …’
정말 슬픈, 눈물나는 (영화, 책, 드라마, 이야기)
신파(극)
Titanic is a tearjerker movie / I do not like
watching tearjerkers
TV shows, books or movies that make
you cry
Blunder
A cock-up
Heir / heiress
Wintery weather
Aura
Fluke
A tearjerker
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corker / cracker / cracking
let bygones be bygones
tantrum
tax rebate
fits the bill
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