"Work Like a Charm" nghĩa là gì?

Con cái hư đâu cần phải đánh vào mông, khi đã có... voi*. Photo courtesy peasap

Charm nghĩa là bùa ngải, bùa mê. 'Work like a charm' có nghĩa là thành công tốt đẹp và nhanh chóng, y như có bùa phép vậy.

Ví dụ
“I don’t believe in spanking (đánh vào mông) my child or yelling at him. Instead, I send him to his room to sit alone, calm down and reflect on what he’s done. It worked like a charm (hiệu nghiệm ngay lập tức). It’s so effective that, when he starts misbehaving (hư đốn), I only have to remind him of the punishment I’ll have to give him and he stops acting up almost instantly.”

“Making our sales quotas every month used to be a challenge. Then, we changed our system. Now we reward our salesmen for any increases in the amount of merchandise they sell to our customers. It’s working like a charm. The store is more profitable than ever before.”

VOA


* trong ảnh không phải voi thật, chỉ là bức tượng.
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