work

give someone the works

1 give someone everything.

2 treat someone harshly.

informal

have your work cut out be faced with a hard task.

2013Derek LoweCorante-In the Pipeline The clinical trials for the biggest diseases in this area are well-known to be expensive and tricky to run. You've got your work cut out for you over there.

in the works being planned, worked on, or produced. chiefly North American

2003N. Y. Magazine Movie-star-of-the-moment Jennifer Lopez…is in talks to star in Monster in Law, a new comedy in the works at New Line Cinema.

☞ For other idioms containing work, see the entry for the main word in the idiom (for example, make short work of at short).

词组	work
释义	work give someone the works 1 give someone everything. 2 treat someone harshly. informal have your work cut out be faced with a hard task. 2013Derek LoweCorante-In the Pipeline The clinical trials for the biggest diseases in this area are well-known to be expensive and tricky to run. You've got your work cut out for you over there. in the works being planned, worked on, or produced. chiefly North American 2003N. Y. Magazine Movie-star-of-the-moment Jennifer Lopez…is in talks to star in Monster in Law, a new comedy in the works at New Line Cinema. ☞ For other idioms containing work, see the entry for the main word in the idiom (for example, make short work of at short).
随便看	do what comes naturally do what it says on the tin down down and dirty down and dirty down and out down at heel down below down below downgrade downhill down in the dumps down in the dumps down in the mouth down in the mouth down on your luck down on your luck down the drain down the hatch down the hatch down the road down the road down the tube down the tube (or tubes) down the tube (or tubes)