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Tongue in cheek?

If someone says something and they do so with "tongue in cheek", they mean to tell it like a joke.

Breaking bread

To break bread means to have a banquet together.

Beijing will “take off the gloves”

In short, when the gloves are off, somebody could seriously get hurt.

Ends justifying means

If the end result is good, then all is good – the method you've been using to achieve the result must be good or be accepted as good.

专家点评：“撸起袖子加油干”有几种译法？

我们以今年贺词中最热门的一句话“撸起袖子加油干”的英译为例，邀请专家做点评。

Finding a way

Finding a way means discovering how to do something difficult or achieve one's goal in spite of difficulties.

Sound and fury

“Sound and fury” as an idiom means mere noise, without meaning or significance.

Truth flies out the window

If truth or something else good and treasurable, such as reason, morality, justice, etc. is said to go or fly out the window, it's gone.

Cut her to the quick?

In "cutting to the quick", the quick refers to the living, sensitive part.

Dead air?

If a meeting or conversation produces "a lot of dead air", it is not very productive. In other words, there's no agreement.

Final curtain?

That's the final curtain, signaling that the whole show is over.

To-do list

A to-do list is just a list of things you say you are going to do some time in future.

Sounds canned?

Canned laughter are pre-recorded and replayed at will.

All the cards?

By holding all the big cards in hand, it has the situation under control.

Hold court?

Holding court becomes synonymous with anyone whose presence commands everybody's attention in a meeting room or elsewhere.

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