Posts tagged as "animals"
Too Much Knowledge
0The leopard cannot change his spots. Как волка ни корми, а он все в лес смотрит. Горбатого могила исправит. Too much knowledge makes the head bald. Много будешь знать — скоро состаришься. [...]
30.10.2003 / Proverbs
Riddles
0Today I am happy to present five beautiful pieces of English classical riddles. I hope you will enjoy them. Try to resist a temptation to have a peep at the answer (which you can make visible by selecting the hidden text), let your brains get it for you! Good luck! 1. Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it, can neither see nor feel it. [ [...]
28.10.2003 / Rack Your Brains
Chicken Feed
0chicken feed — курам на смех (про объем, величину чего-либо) It was not easy to fake the photograph, I can tell you, and those five hundred bucks was chicken feed for this work. Это было не просто подделать снимок, доложу я вам, и те пять сотен баксов — курам на смех за такую работу. be about as much of use as a chocolate fireguard/teapot — быть полезным, как прошлогодний снег I've tried to contact the company's hotline, [...]
23.03.2003 / Idioms
Dead Cert
0to shoot the messenger — найти "стрелочника" When a government claims that the newspapers are obsessed with scandal and corruption, that government is probably trying to shoot the messenger. Когда какое-то правительсво заявляет, что газеты переполнены скандалами и историями о коррупции, оно, вероятно, пытается найти "стрелочника". to burn the midnight oil — работать до полуночи или позже Eva was burning the midnight oil last night typing her thesis. Ева вчера работала допоздна, печатая свою диссертацию. a dead [...]
09.09.2002 / Idioms
