F2F Class Notes 18th November (Celeste) [3]

posting / fortnight / roughly / assume / repercussion / to eyeball

I put a posting up roughly a fortnight ago which was an article about quitting jobs. My mother eyeballed it and she assumed I wanted to quit my own job. So she called me and asked me to hold on cause there will be repercussions.

to eyeball / scan / check

fortnight / 2 weeks ago

posting / submitting / sending / uploading

roughly / or so / a little bit ago / almost / about

Vocabulary

one on one / 1-1

I paid 2000 yuan to buy the class. – I paid 2000 yuan worth of classes.

fainted /  passed out

cap off / cut off = maximum

cap it off – cut it off 

eg. The studio caps off the classes at 15 people. = The studio caps it off at 15 people.

eg. The bar cuts you off at 2am.

I haven’t meet this situation yet. = I don’t know it hasn’t happened to me yet.

can’t handle sth/sb = unbearable; sth really hard

can’t deal with sth/sb =  can’t cope with

can’t put up with sth/sb = eg. Some girls can’t put up with their boyfriend’s awful behavior and manners, so they break up with them.

I want to be in shape. = I want to be healthy.

I want a nice body/physique/figure.

bicep / biceps n. –  the one at the front of the upper arm

fingers > hands > wrists > lower arms > elbows > upper arms / biceps > shoulders

tickets to the gun show = phrase that ppl to show off their arms/biceps