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taper off
To come to an end little by little; become smaller toward the end.
The river tapers off here and becomes a brook.
To stop a habit gradually; do something less and less often.
Robert gave up smoking all at once instead of tapering off.
tar and feather
To pour heated tar on and cover with feathers as a punishment.
In the Old West bad men were sometimes tarred and feathered and driven out of town.
tax trap
Predicament in which taxpayers in middle-income brackets are required to pay steeply progressive rates of taxation as their earnings rise with inflation but their personal exemptions remain fixed, resulting in a loss of real disposable income.
Everybody in my neighborhood has been caught in a tax trap.
teach a lesson
To show that bad behavior can be harmful.
The burns Tommy got from playing with matches taught him a lesson.
When Johnny pulled Mary's hair, she taught him a lesson by breaking his toy boat.
teach one's grandmother to suck eggs
Учить учёного, "яйца курицу не учат".
I tried to teach my friend about computers but he is a computer expert. It was like teaching my grandmother to suck eggs.
Я пытался научить моего друга кое-чему, связанному с компьютерами, но он эксперт в этой области. Было такое ощущение, что яйцо учит курицу.
Yesterday I taught my teenage students how to use Microsoft Word processor. Awful. It was like teaching my grandmother to suck eggs.
Вчера учил своих студентов-подростков использовать текстовый редактор Microsoft Word. Ужасно. Как будто яйцо учит курицу.
team up with
To join with; enter into companionship with.
My brother prefers to do business by himself rather than to team up with anybody else.
tear around
To be constantly on the go; dash around.
No one can understand how she manages to tear around from one social event to another and yet be a good mother to her children.
tear down
To take all down in pieces; to destroy; to demolish.
The construction company had to tear down the old hotel in order to build a new office building.
The owners had to tear the house down after it burned down in a fire.
The workmen tore down the old house and built a new house in its place.
To take to pieces or parts.
The mechanics had to tear down the engine, and fix it, and put it together again.
To say bad things about; criticize.
"Why do you always tear people down? Why don't you try to say nice things about them?"
Dorothy doesn't like Sandra, and at the class meeting she tore down every idea Sandra suggested.