Tham khảo tài liệu 'colloquial english idioms phần 6', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | For more material and information please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc at A little bird is a facetious term for an anonymous informer hence A little bird tells told me means know it from anonymous sources. A little bird tells me you re getting married next month. D. E. S. But I don t see how you know. George closed the other eye. A little bird Lady Curven. J. G. He has so wanted to have a son himself. A little bird has always told me that. J. G. Inducing a person to talk and so to reveal a secret may be put in this way to draw a person out to make him talk and so reveal a secret She expressed no surprise nor emotion at Sir Charle s overnight decision. Nor could Mr. Satterthwaite draw her out on the point. A. Chr. to pump someone to question persistently to try to obtain all information possible You ve roused all Aunt Dagmar s suspicions. She was pumping you but like an idiot you couldn t see it. A. Chr. Miss Milton. That was her name. Perhaps he ld tell some more. It s no good pumping. Is that all you re after H. W. .have you you nasty man come just to pump me about murders A. Chr. 14 SUSPICION DECEPTION DISBELIEF Suspicion may be expressed by these colloquial phrases in common use to be look sound fishy to be look sound suspicious or doubtful 78 For more material and information please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc at fishy arousing suspicion suspicious of a disreputable or doubtful character I don t like that. It sounds a bit fishy to me. A. W. You mean that in your belief Jackqueline de Bellefort shot madame Doyle Poirot asked. That s what it looks like to me. It all sounds rather fishy to me. A. Chr. There was something fishy about Dondolo s solicitude something frightening. S. H. He was a new man Sir Bartholomew had only him a fortnight and the moment after the crime he disappears vanishes into the air. That looks a bit fishy doesn t it A. Chr. This is a fishy story. A. H. to smell a rat--to become suspicious to have suspicions No Sir
