data-palooza

Reader's　Digest 10月号の記事 "The Spy in Your Car" からの引用です。

For car owners, the upside of this data-palooza has come in the form of smartphone apps that allow them to check a car's location when, say, they forget where it is parked; to lock and unlock the vehicle remotely; and to turn it on or off.

辞書には "data-palooza" は見当たりませんでしたが、"datapalooza" はUrban Dictionaryに次の説明がありました。

A palooza of data collected by nation states, organisations or individuals collecting data from citizens and end-users, or scraping data from public information sources, such as social media apps.
Organisations used public health emergency information collection apps as a datapalooza where they could get all of the data they wanted about people and more.

まだ一般の辞書には掲載されていない新語の様です。

raring to

Reader's　Digest 10月号の記事 "The Nicest Place in America" からの引用です。

Space is tight, so Vera prefers to work alone--though not for lack of volunteers. Kabul's fall in 2021 saw an influx of refugees to Silver Spring, a Washington, D.C., suburb of about 80,000. It's home to families, young professionals, retirees like Vera, and a large community of immigrants and refugees raring to make Montgomery County home.

"raring to" を調べます。

・Oxford English Dictionary: raring to do something very enthusiastic about starting to do something: She is raring to get back to work after her operation.
・Collins Dictionary: If you are raring to do something or are raring for it, you are very eager to do it or very eager that it should happen.: Sarah's here and raring to meet you.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to be very enthusiastic about starting something: I've bought all the paint for decorating the bedrooms and I'm raring to get started.

"raring" は形容詞ですね。そして、以前（1/15/2010）既に pick-me-upと一緒に取り上げていました。

parlay into

The Japan Times Nov. 27の記事からの引用です。

Biden hopes to parlay Lebanon ceasefire into a broader regional peace
With a deal to end more than a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, the U.S. leader turns his attention back to halting the war in Gaza before leaving office.

"parlay" で辞書を見ましたが、"parlay into" の句動詞として理解した方が良いようです。

・Oxford English Dictionary: to use or develop something such as money or a skill to make it more successful or worth more: She hopes to parlay her success as a model into an acting career.
・Collins Dictionary: to exploit (an asset) successfully: to parlay one's voice into fame
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to use or develop money, skills, etc. in a way that makes more money or leads to success: They parlayed a small inheritance into a vast fortune.
・Vocabulary.com: If you parlay a bet, then you take the winnings from one bet and bet it again on something else. You might have seen a gambler on TV parlay her winnings into a huge fortune.
The verb parlay is often used to talk about gambling, but it can be used more broadly to describe any initial stake that you turn into something much larger. You might parlay your early investment in your brother’s company into a high-paying leadership role. Parlay also has a noun form that describes these kinds of transactions. You might notice your Uncle Bob once again betting a baseball parlay.

be still/been stilled

Reader's　Digest 10月号の記事 "Life in these United States" からの引用です。

I loved the commercials during the last Super Bowl, especially the one that recalled my youth, At one point, I texted my sons, "VW Beetles and Neil Diamond! Be still, my beating heart!"
My oldest brought me down to earth, replying, "The hearts of most of the people who loved those two have probably already been stilled."

私はTVのコマーシャルが嫌いなので民間放送は定期的な番組は笑点と卓球ジャパン、不定期な放送はラグビーの中継位しか見ません。しかも録画でしか見ないのでコマーシャルは飛ばして見ています。スポンサーの会社さん、ごめんなさい。会社が嫌いなのではなく、コマーシャルが嫌いなのです。

eon

Reader's　Digest 10月号の記事 "Life in these United States" からの引用です。

After standing in line at the car rental for what seemed like eons, I was told by the clerk that I would be given a free upgrade because of my wait.
Later, when I told my husband why we got a free upgrade, he seemed confused, asking, "How do they know how much you weigh?"

"weigh" の名詞は "weight" で "wait" と同じ発音でしたね。
"eons" は米国英語の綴りで、 2009/9/12に取り上げた "aeon" の綴りは英国での綴りの様です。

mansplaining/mansplain

桐野夏生の "OUT" を読み終えました。想像を絶する事件でした。後半は結末をどう締めるのか気になりましたが、普通この様な悪いことをした人は、死んで終わりと想像していましたが、海外に逃げることを示唆して終わりましたね。確かに、死体をバラバラにしたり、悪いことをした後外国に逃げる話は実際にニュースで聞き実際にあることなのですね。
さて、Reader's Digest 10月号を読んでいます。Department of Witの記事から引用します。

"Why don't you write an article about mansplaining?"
"Did you know that mansplaining is a portmanteau of man and explaining and describe the act in which a man provides a condescending explanation of something to a woman who already understands it?"
"Yes."
"Well, did you know this? Women such as yourself don't much care for mansplaining."

"mansplaining" の意味は記事内に説明がありますが、辞書でも確認します。
"mansplain/mansplaining" の項目がありました。

・Merriam-Webster: (of a man) to explain something to a woman in a condescending way that assumes she has no knowledge about the topic: Try your best not to ‘mansplain’ everything and just listen to women.
・Wiktionary: To explain (something) condescendingly (to a female listener), especially to explain something the listener already knows, presuming that she has an inferior understanding of it merely because she is female.: Positioning himself as the white guy mansplaining to a black woman what’s best for her,...

cotton on

Natsuo Kirinoの "OUT" を読んでいます。

As he peered in at them, cigarette in hand, they shrank away. He remembered how Anna had accused him of treating her like a lapdog. For just a moment, he missed the smooth skin and perfect features of the woman he'd turned into the top girl at Mika. The top pet in the shop.
Anna herself had known that once she'd cottoned on to this, she would never be able to keep that position, however hard she tried. That was just the way things worked.

"cotton on" は以前に取り上げていますが（2009/9/2）、忘れていたので再度辞書を見ます。

・Oxford English Dictionary: to begin to understand or realize something without being told: I suddenly cottoned on to what he was doing.
・Collins Dictionary: If you cotton on to something, you understand it or realize it, especially without people telling you about it.: It wasn't until he started laughing that they cottoned on!
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to begin to understand a situation or fact: I'd only just cottoned on to the fact that they were having a relationship.

そう言えば "cotton to" も "5/31/2012" に取り上げていました。

・Collins Dictionary: If you cotton to someone or something, you start to like them.: His style of humor was very human, and that's why people cotton to him.
・Farlex Dictionary of Idioms: To like someone or something; to view someone or something favorably.: It takes me a while to cotton to new people—I have to get to know them first.

high on the hog

Natsuo Kirinoの "OUT" を読んでいます。

"Don't worry about it," Yoshie told her, patting her ample shoulder. "We all had a bad time."
"So you really got \500,000?"
"I really did," Yoshie nodded. But Kuniko noticed she avoided her eyes. She's lying, she thought.
"Then how can you afford to be living so high on the hog?"
"High on the hog? What are you talking about?" she said, astonished.
"I'm talking about all the things you've been doing. It looks to me as though you got more than \500,000."


"hog" に豚の意味があるのは知っていますが、"high on the hog" だとどんな意味になるのでしょうか？　辞書を見ます。

・Wiktionary: Well off; living comfortably or extravagantly due to great wealth or financial security.: Ever since his promotion, they’ve been living high on the hog.
・Merriam-Webster: in a luxurious style: Those movie stars live pretty high on the hog.
・Urban Dictionary: Living life to it's fullest extent.: I just bought a Mercedes-Benz, now I am living high on the hog.

語源についてはこんな記述もありました。（Phrase Finder）: "The source of this phrase is often said to be the fact that the best cuts of meat on a pig come from the back and upper leg and that the wealthy ate cuts from ‘high on the hog’, while the paupers ate belly pork and trotters. ..." 説明はこの後も続き長いので引用しませんが、興味のある方は "Phrase Finder" を見て下さい。

God forbid

Natsuo Kirinoの "OUT" を読んでいます。

"Did you get the money?"
"I've got it right here," he said. From his back pocket he produced a brown paper bag, the kind used for penny candy. "It's exactly six million; I told them we couldn't do it unless we got the whole amount up front."
"Well done," she said. "But what happens if, God forbid, the body's found later on."
"Then we'll have to give the money back. But there are still some people who'll wind up with egg on their faces and you can be sure they'll find other ways to make me pay."

"God forbid" は直訳すると「神が禁じる」で "God forbids" となっていないのも不思議です。何れにせよ慣用句的用法ですね。
辞書の説明を見ます。
・Collins Dictionary: If you say God forbid, you are expressing your hope that something will not happen.: [feelings]: If, God forbid, something goes wrong, I don't know what I would do.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: a way of saying that you hope something does not happen: If there was a fire, God forbid, we’d be able to respond to the disaster.
・Merriam-Webster: used in speech to say that one hopes a bad thing will not happen: Heaven forbid that something bad should happen.

なるほど、嫌な事が起きて欲しくない時に言う表現ですね。最後に引用した辞書の例文にあるように、Godの代わりにHeavenも使われるのですね。

entrails

Natsuo Kirinoの "OUT" を読んでいます。死体をバラバラにするのにチェインソーを使おうとは凄い発想ですね。

Unfortunately, they soon realized they wouldn't be able to use the power saw Jomonji had acquired for cutting the bones. During the trial run, it sent a fine mist of bone and flesh flying in their eyes. They would need goggles if they were going to use it in the future. As the work progressed, the room became saturated with blood, and the air was filled with a foul stench from the entrails, just as had the horror associated with it was somehow less accurate.

さて、最後の文に出てきた "entrails" の意味は何でしょう？

・Collins Dictionary: (plural noun) The entrails of people or animals are their inside parts, especially their intestines.: Open the belly lengthwise and remove all the entrails.
・Wiktionary: an internal organ of an animal.: Those blackguards have no more respect for an entrail, or a sinew, or a vital organ, than if they were gutting dog-fish.
・Merriam-Webster: (plural): the interior or internal parts of something: hairy entrails of the sofa

"entrails" が何だかはっきりすると "foul stench" がますます嫌な臭いになって来ました。