介绍:
Let it slide
After John stole from barry, barry decided to let it slide.
When Tina broke up with Jeff he was heat broken, but he let it slide and decided to remain friends.
Ted was cross about the crude remarks his colleagues were making about him but he let it slide.
Meaning: choose not to react to an action or remark
Etymology: derived from let it go, imagine your problem being a physical entirety and just letting it slide past you and out of your life.
Drop a penny
Ben read that book 3 times before I dropped the penny.
Last night the movie we watched was so complicated. My friend had to help me drop a penny.
Dave has got a very strange sense of humor, whenever he makes a joke I rarely drop a penny.
Meaning: To understand something.
Etymology: This comes from old-fashioned pay phones (or any other vending-type machine, like a drugstore gumball machine), where sometimes you'd put the money in and it'd get stuck, so you'd have to try various strategies
Make ends meet
After getting fired from his job John was worried about making ends meet.
The price of food keeps rising so it seems to be harder and harder to make ends meet.
Barry said it was a lot harder to make ends meet after he had children.
Meaning: to have enough money to live on.
Etymology: this Buzz Lingo was originally to do with wearing a shorter (tighter) belt presumably because you have been frugal, and are eating less, your belt would more easily fasten.
