slip out of down deep dyed-in-the-wool duck out of take a backseat hideaway proactive nook instinct coolheaded hard-headed
────────────────────────────── slip out of, …から抜け出す ────────────────────────────── If you slip out of a place, you leave it for a short while, usually quietly.
ex) I slipped out to phone the police.
────────────────────────────── down deep, 心の奥底では ────────────────────────────── If you know something deep down or deep down inside, you know that it is true, but you are not always conscious of it or willing to admit it to yourself.
ex) Deep down, we had always detested each other.
────────────────────────────── dyed-in-the-wool, 骨の髄までの、根っからの ────────────────────────────── If you use dyed-in-the-wool to describe someone or their beliefs, you are saying that they have very strong opinions about something, which they refuse to change.
ex) He was a dyed-in-the-wool conservative.
────────────────────────────── duck out of, …から逃れる ────────────────────────────── If you duck out of something that you are supposed to do, you avoid doing it. [INFORMAL]
ex) George ducked out of his forced marriage to a cousin.
────────────────────────────── take a backseat, (人に)首位を譲る ────────────────────────────── [ODE] take a back seat take or be given a less important position or role
ex) in future he would take a back seat in politics.
"NHKラジオ ビジネス英会話 Quiet CEO (2) 4/18-19 2007"
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