COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS

Straight shooter

Straight shooter is a colloquial expression that refers to a honest person, it is composed by the union of the words Straight that means direct and shooter that means a person who fires a gun.


The honest people are not so well accepted in society, because we say: “we like people be honest” but when people say the truth bother us the majority of times, we deny that it is true because “The truth hurts”


Some honest person doesn’t think, they just say it spontaneously and often abrupt, it´s not what they say if not the way they say it.


At present with high levels of violence and intolerance that lives in streets, schools and families, the honest people are in the middle of conflicts. The people to be well with others and to belong to a group lose their personal integrity and what defines them as unique and irreplaceable beings.



Being a honest person is a good choice.

My mother is the more straight shooter.

Pesky

The word Pesky associate to something or someone that disturb, not only define to a person, also can be a noise, a situation, a smell. This is considered irritating, it's very relative to each person, its pleasure, state of mind, experience previous, personality among others.

My friend is pesky with the girls.

Gut feeling

Gut feeling is compound for the words Gut that means punch and Feeling is a sensation, it´s define colloquially as a presentiment, that is to, a emotion very common that generally happens in difficult situations, not expected in which the concern and the stress play a important role in our organism, in the same way producing something physical that can be a vacuum, tightness or nervousness.

It´s a word that also affect us positively, that is to say, there are Gut feeling good of faith and expectation.

There isn't logical or rational reason that can define a Gut feeling.

There are Gut feelings that accomplish, other only are presentiment without result in our lives.

Philosophers as Descartes have searched the correct definition of the concept “Gut feeling”, that accomplish in a near future, but they have failed to define why most people have these kind of thinking or emotion.

I have a Gut feeling about my mother's health

I am gut feeling with health status of my mother.

PHRASAL VERB LIST

Sit down

Exchange of position to be supported on the gluteus on horizontal surface, in the sitting position it´s not standing or laying down.

He asked me to sit down beside her.

Go back

Go a place or a situation where was previously.

My sister left his book at home and she had to go back to get it.