raise

☞ For idioms containing raise, see the entry for the main word in the idiom (for example, raise Cain at Cain).

rake

rake and scrape be extremely thrifty; scrimp and save. black English

rake over (old) coals (or rake over the ashes) revive the memory of a past event which is best forgotten. chiefly British

a rake's progress a progressive deterioration, especially through self-indulgence.

☞ A rake is a fashionable or wealthy man with dissolute or promiscuous habits. A Rake's Progress was the title of a series of engravings by William Hogarth (1697–1764). They depicted the rake's life progressing from wealthy and privileged origins to debt, despair, and death on the gallows.

thin as a rake (of a person or animal) very thin.

词组	raise
释义	raise ☞ For idioms containing raise, see the entry for the main word in the idiom (for example, raise Cain at Cain). rake rake rake and scrape be extremely thrifty; scrimp and save. black English rake over (old) coals (or rake over the ashes) revive the memory of a past event which is best forgotten. chiefly British a rake's progress a progressive deterioration, especially through self-indulgence. ☞ A rake is a fashionable or wealthy man with dissolute or promiscuous habits. A Rake's Progress was the title of a series of engravings by William Hogarth (1697–1764). They depicted the rake's life progressing from wealthy and privileged origins to debt, despair, and death on the gallows. thin as a rake (of a person or animal) very thin.
随便看	thank your lucky stars thank your lucky stars that that beats the Dutch that beats the dutch that cat won't jump that cat won't jump that makes two of us that's about the size of it that's a lie that's all she wrote that's big of you that's flat that's - for you that ship has sailed that ship has sailed that sinking feeling that's life that's (or them's) the breaks that's someone's funeral that's that that's the breaks that's the story of my life that's the stuff that's the stuff (or the stuff to give the troops)