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clearance sale - 在庫処分セール

clearance sale

  • 〔商品の〕クリアランスセール、在庫一掃[処分・整理]セール
  • an event at a store, during which it sells products at a lower price than usual in order to get rid of them:
  • clearance : 在庫一掃[処分]

Examples

  • Save up to 60% on appliances during our storewide clearance sale.
  • New 2016 iPhone SE for $249? Apple's clearance models sell out fast
  • It's not known how many iPhone SE devices Apple had in stock, but the company sold out of 32GB and 128GB models by Sunday, three days after they popped up on Apple's clearance page.

budget (adj.) - 手ごろな価格の、cheap

budget (adj.)

  • 手ごろな価格の
  • low in price; cheap
  • 格安航空会社LCC (Low-Cost Carrier)のことを、No-frills carrier, Budget carrierともいう。

Examples

  • Budget airlines have forced major airlines to lower some of their prices.
  • Given that Apple is also rumored to be working on a new iPad mini, along with an updated version of the budget iPad, so introducing a new budget iPhone with a 4-inch display would fit in with this pattern of refreshing the bottom-end of the product line up.

at odds - 不一致で、不和で、対立して、争って

at odds

  • 不一致で、不和で、対立して、争って
  • to disagree

Examples

  • They're at odds over the funding of the project.
  • Her version of events was at odds with (= very different from) the police report.
  • Rimini Street and Oracle were once again at odds in the courtroom yesterday, as the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the pair's long-running copyright battle.

bang for the buck - 努力に見合うだけの価値, good value for money

bang for the buck

  • 努力・出費に見合うだけの価値
  • value in return for your money
  • = good value for money : 購入・投資価値のあるもの

Examples

  • The company spent lots of money in the past, but now its products give more bang for the buck.
  • One of the best “bang-for-the-buck” forex trades tends to be the dollar/Japanese yen cross (USDJPY) after some important US economic data.
  • America’s system of anti-poverty programs is relatively good value for money.

crow's feet - 目じりの小じわ

crow's feet

  • 目じりの小じわ
  • the narrow lines at the outer edge of a person’s eyes

Link

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health.howstuffworks.com

Examples

  • You can call crow's feet "laugh lines" or "character lines," but these slightly more flattering terms still refer to the same, inevitable sign of aging: the wrinkles that begin to form at the outside corners of your eyes when you hit your mid-twenties.
  • When you get older, crow's feet often form around your eyes.

abusive - 虐待的な

abusive

  • 虐待的な
  • treating someone badly or cruelly, esp. physically

Examples

  • He was a very strict parent, but never abusive.
  • Everyone in Tesla is in an abusive relationship with Elon Musk.
  • I was in an abusive relationship for 2 years because I was too scared and ashamed to ask for help.