(Often Disapproving) : What Would Happen If

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STT Cụm từ Nghĩa Ví dụ Mở rộng

1 Be none the wiser | not be any 1. Không thể hiểu I've read the Be wise after the event
the wiser (mặc dù đã được instructions, but I'm (often disapproving) 
giải thích) still none the wiser.  tỉnh ngộ, hiểu ra (chỉ
sau khi sự việc đã xảy
2. Không thể biết, If you put the money ra)
không thể phát giác back, no one will be
(việc làm xấu của any the wiser. E.g. It doesn’t help to be
ai) wise after the event.

Be/get wise to
somebody/something
 biết tỏng ai không
thành thật

E.g. He thought he could


fool me but I got wise to
him.
2 Received wisdom Quan điểm chung; Received wisdom = conventional/popular
niềm tin chung has it that higher oil wisdom
prices are bad for
economic growth.
3 Wishful thinking [U] Điều mơ tưởng I've got a feeling that Dread to think  thấy
Alex likes me, but sợ khi nghĩ tới điều gì;
that might just be không muốn nghĩ tới
wishful thinking. điều gì
E.g. I dread to think
what would happen if
there really was a fire
here.

To think (that…) 
thật ngạc nhiên/kinh
ngạc
E.g. To think that my
mother wrote all those
books and I never knew!

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