【托福写作提分】托福写作掌握常用经典短语和例句（三）
在我们写托福作文的时候常常会觉得有些词不够用，托福写作词汇是在托福写作备考中十分重要的一个环节。那么，现在我们就为大家整理一些托福写作中常用的经典短语和例句，希望能为大家的备考带来帮助。
21.all dressed up with nowhere to go
准备充分，但没机会去做
If funding dries up ,the opera houses will be all dressed up ,but with nowhere to go .
22.do something at the drop of a hat
卤莽行事
23.a drop in the ocean/bucket
微不足道，沧海一粟
The size of the grants have been attacked by groups as merely a drop in the ocean.
24.be all ears
洗耳恭听
Now you can say ,I am all ears.
25.down to earth
现实，实际
He is blunt,outspoken,practical and down to earth.
keep somebody in the dark
不让某人知道
26.get egg on one’s face
感到窘迫，羞耻
Steve didn’t expect to win .He just didn’t want to get egg on his face .
27.a white elephant
(形容新的建筑，计划)是浪费的，无用的
This project is completely a white elephant
28.a big fish
大人物，重要角色
The four who were arrested here last September were described as really big fish by the U.S.Drug Enforement Agency.
29.drink like a fish
酒量很大 When I was young I could drink like a fish and eat like a pig.
我年轻时酒量和食量都很惊人。
30.a fool and his money are soon parted
(形容花钱不理智)
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