Twas the Nightshift before Christmas Chapter 2 PART 4

She rooted through/among the papers on her desk./The pigs rooted for acorns in the forest.

A slowing economy is kryptonite for the U.S. dollar./His personal kryptonite comes in the form of a romantic entanglement.

There's raw sewage running directly into the water!

Ona szkoli psy policyjne.

She conditions sniffer dogs.

Stallard poddał 6 podejść w ostatnich pięciu uderzeniach.

Stallard gave up six runs in the first five innings.

On był zamieszany w tę sytuację z mojego powodu./Ona nie jest zamieszana w nic nielegalnego.

He came into this situation because of me. /She doesn't come into anything illegal.

Zajęło mi tylko cztery tygodnie, żeby sprawić, byś był bezradny.

It took me just four weeks to render you helpless.

She gazed/stared vacantly into space/ahead.

tacit agreement/approval/support

A good nurse has to be attuned to the needs of his or her patients./Politicians must be highly attuned to these dangers./Teenage slang is of interest to socially attuned linguists.

We've created a cheat sheet of cool gadgets that can make campus life more productive and fun./Cheat sheets, once written on the palm of the hand, now can be stored on programmable calculators and watches.

Francis suffered all his life from a recurring nightmare that he was trapped in a falling house./The father-daughter relationship is a recurring theme in her novels./For much of his life he suffered from recurring bouts of depression.

She copped out of the parachute jump at the last minute with some feeble excuse.

That outlier data threw me off the scent for a while, but I think my research is back on track now.

The mafia accountant managed to throw the authorities off the scent of the mob's money laundering for years, but they finally caught up with him after an anonymous source tipped them off.

Czuję odrobinę imbiru w tej herbacie.

I can taste a hint of ginger in this tea.

Krab umknął pod kamień, gdy przechodziliśmy obok.

A crab scuttled under a rock as we passed./The children scuttled off as soon as the headteacher appeared.

On jest szczerym mężczyzną, zawsze mówi prawdę.

He's a straight man, he always tells the truth.

Podłączyłem telefon do ładowarki./Czy możesz pomóc mi podłączyć drukarkę do laptopa?

I hooked the phone to the charger. / Can you help me hook my printer to the laptop?

Nie możesz brnąć przez ten śnieg. Jest zbyt głęboki./Zdejmij buty zanim dobrniesz na górę.

You can't trudge through this snow. It's too deep. / Take your boots off before you trudge up the stairs.

The boss gave the staff a pep talk this morning in an attempt to boost sales.