juice is fruit juice, out of juice is not juice up?

If you hear foreigners say My phone is out of juice. Do not think he can phone missing juice. In fact, in addition to juice Juice of the word, there can be many other means.


1

out of juice

out of battery


Here, juice equivalent to the spoken language of power, out of juice = out of power is no electricity mean, this is a very colloquial expression.


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Examples:

His phone had run out of juice during the school day, and so he had taken a seat near an electrical outlet. 

His cell phone has been used in the daytime fast out of power, so he sat in a place near a power outlet.


2

On the juice

Binge


The first reaction of many small partners are "on the juice", juice fact, here the equivalent of wine, so it really means is alcoholism.


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Examples:

She won't be able to return your call. I'm afraid she's on the juice again.

She will not give you a call back. I worry that she was drinking again.


3

Stew in one's own juice

Self-inflicted

 

Stew: stew with a soup, stew, beef stew beef stew

The literal meaning of this phrase is to stew in their own juice themselves, in fact, self-inflicted, meaning boomerang.


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Examples:

He knew he'd be in trouble with the bank if he overspent again; I've helped him before but this time I'm leaving him to stew in his own juice. 

He knew then he would be overrun with the bank in trouble, I've helped him, but this time I can only give him the self-inflicted.


4

Juice up

Energetic


In addition to fruit juice, and "vitality; power; influence" and other means, juice up here suggest vigor, the spirits.


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Examples:

His story was juiced up with witty remarks.

He spent a lot of one-liners to make his story vividly active.


5

Juice loan

usury

 

This phrase does with the relevant borrow money, but tend to borrow money with the underworld, he said that "usury, Lvda Gun."


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Examples:

It’s a juice loan, not a low-interest loan.

That is usury, not low-interest loans.


6

Juice man


With the "juice loan" learn to do, we should know that this person is not a phrase expressing drink juice, but is related to the expression of spoken American underworld described, that "loan-sharking debt collection or thugs."


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Examples:

The juice man is a real fiend on collecting the loan for his boss.

Usury dun dun for his master at the time was quite a devil.

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