介绍:
1) Moral compass
-The bankers that caused the financial crisis need to regain a moral compass.
-Luke was useful to his boss, because he lacked a moral compass and could schmooze clients.
-Perhaps one reason China and other nations are starting classes in classics, is that ancient philosophers and heroes serve as a moral compass in the present.
Definition: a natural feeling that makes people do the right thing
Etymology: based on morals and , the instrument of a compass
2) Going ape
-Japanese women are going ape after the handsome gorilla in a zoo
-The audience went ape over the band.
-Gavin is going ape over Becka.
Definition: to become very excited over something
Etymology: It fancifully equates frenzy with an ape's behavior.
3) When hell freezes over
-No matter how hard Obama campaigns, America will only get stricter gun control laws when hell freezes over.
-The couple will only get back together when hell freezes over.
-The day the bully gets straight A's is the day hell freezes over.
Definition: something impossible
Etymology: based on the idea that hell (a very hot place )can never freeze
