Small words make a big difference?Issue 21?piss?off

On May 23, 2017, the American drama "Baby Daddy" aired the final episode of its sixth season. At this point, this family light comedy comes to an end. In the 100 episodes of laughter, we can feel the difficulty of being a parent. At the same time, some of the words spoken by the characters in the play are also humorous.

For example, in the fourth episode of the third season, the heroine said this:

I love having a boyfriend that pisses off other women.

This sentence may express the dreams of many women: I like my boyfriend to make other women’s noses angry.

In the sentence, "piss off" certainly cannot be understood literally. It actually means "to make someone angry", that is, "to make someone angry."

In fact, there are many idioms related to "off" in English that cannot be understood literally.

For example, bite one's head off. Of course it does not mean "bite the head off", but like "piss off", it means "to get angry at someone", that is, "to respond to someone with anger that is often sudden or unprovoked".

When we are reprimanded by the boss for no reason, we can say: What's wrong with the boss today? I just tried to ask him a question, and he totally bit my head off.

Generally speaking, when a person is angry, he may actually have the urge to bite his head off. But when we are amused, do we also "laugh" our heads off?

The answer is "yes".

In English, "laugh one's head off" is often used to describe a person "to laugh hysterically or hysterically".

For example, when praising someone else's joke for being funny, we can say: Your jokes are perfect for your speech tonight. You'll have them laughing their heads off.

After saying "head" ", let's talk about "feet". Wearing socks on your feet is normal. But in English, “knock one’s socks off” is used to mean “to surprise or startle someone; to overwhelm someone”. This may be because the shock of one thing was so powerful that it knocked the socks off my feet.

Let's look at a specific example:

That movie really knocked my socks off—I didn't expect it to be so good.

It can be seen that, The movie in this sentence is indeed shockingly good.