be short with sb

be short with sb to speak to someone using very few words, in a way that seems rude or unfriendly对某人说话简慢无礼:•Sorry I was short with you on the phone this morning.对不起，我今天上午在电话里怠慢了你。

• read someone's lips
• photoprotons
• basketballing
• citizen's arrests
• linoleum block
• myrtle green
• faute de mieux
• tobacco pipes
• running light
• gutsy
• borscht
• bingle
• frank discussions
• in the interests（或 interest）of something
• proof spirit
• Atlantica
• diestruss
• sheep-pen
• half-truths
• acetonemias
• hypostatical
• Zapatismo
• Acaridiae
• catrig
• saltimbocca
• urban archeology
• strain figures
• fall-offs
• fidgeti ness
• sulphates
• cordlike
• incandescent sand flow
• -ase
• lobotomist
• economizings
• examinational
• Durhams
• sumpter-mule
• demystifiers
• logarithmic spiral
• Nathan, George Jean
• s.ra
• conchologies
• fetichistic
• be in (too) deep
• hold your own (against sb)
• arezzoes
• cryonic
• win by a neck/nose
• cerium-142
• wadsetter
• jube
• classlessnesses
• apsidal motion
• hyperactive
• direct broadcast satellite
• ratlings
• pressured
• miss out on
• woodchips
• take a/the load off one’s feet
• tithingman
• worm
• indenture
• operating virus
• acapu
• cut and dry
• hippopotamuses
• pernios
• bottom gear
• mea culpa
• domestic prelates
• beep-beep
• graphologists
• ring roads
• Nearctic region
• take a (或the) hint
• heaos
• chalk player
• nardoos
• firefanged
• topaz quartz
• Laffite, Jean
• geezers
• incommensurable
• in one's power
• bottom ice
• battiness
• ABU
• loon trousers
• amicron
• Arnoldson, KlasPontus
• cytosome
• one-point compactification
• jump down sb's throat
• savourer
• frantically
• bovrilize
• immingle
• prem.