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Unit 54.
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| It’s my cup of tea | Это мне нравится | 'My cup of tea' is just one of the many tea-related phrases that are still in common use in the UK, such as 'Not for all the tea in China', 'I could murder a cup of tea', 'More tea vicar? ', 'Tea and sympathy', 'Rosie Lee', 'Storm in a teacup' and so on. |
| Butter fingers | Неуклюжий человек | |
| To go bananas | Рассердиться | When apes are given a bunch of bananas, they eat them with tremendous enthusiasm, as though they've lost their minds. |
| It's no picnic | Нелегкое дело | I was on welfare for a year, and it's no picnic. |
| To sell like hot cake | Быстро распродавать | A 'hotcake' is a pancake -- flour and egg and milk cooked in hot pan. It's not clear why 'hotcakes' are used as a model of popularity and high demand. It's probably because hotcakes taste best when they are fresh and hot, so when someone is cooking 'hotcakes' you have to run to get them as they're coming off the stove. |
| The apple of one's eye | Важный, любимый человек | In old English the eye's pupil was known as the apple because it was thought to be spherical and solid. Since the pupil is a crucial and indispensable portion of the eye, it serves as a symbol of something cherished. |
| As easy as pie | Очень легко | 'Pie' is a tasty, sweet dish that is easy to make, and even easier to eat. |
| To save one's bacon | Помочь кому-то избежать крупных проблем | To the mediaeval mind, 'bacon' was meat from anywhere on the body of the animal - more akin to what we now call pork. This was the origin of the slang term 'bacon' meaning the human body. 'Saving your bacon' was simply saving your body from harm. |
| Cauliflower ears | Деформированные уши | A cauliflower ear is so called because it looks a little like cauliflower, the vegetable |
| To bit more than one can chew | Пытаться сделать больше, чем можешь | It's just a natural folk metaphor; surely we have all, at some time or another, bitten off a bigger and/or tougher mouthful than we could manage. |
| To know one's onions | Разбираться в предмете | If the 'onions' referred to in the phrase is indeed human rather than vegetable, there is another Mr. Onions that could be our man. S. G. Onions (they were strong on initials in those days) created sets of coins which were issued to English schools from 1843 onwards. These were teaching aids intended to help children learn £.s.d. (pounds, shillings and pence). They looked similar to real coins and had inscriptions like '4 Farthings make 1 Penny' or, as in the example pictured, '12 Pence make 1 shilling'. We can imagine that 'knowing your Onions' might be coined, so to speak, in those circumstances. |
| Money for jam | Легкий способ зарабатывать деньги | |
| A bad egg | Непутевый, никудышный человек | In this phrase, 'egg' means 'person' or 'individual'. This is probably because the human head looks a lot like an egg. A bad egg, then, is a simply a bad person. |
| It's a piece of cake | Это легко, приятно | The choice of cake or pie as a symbol of ease and pleasantry is well represented in the language. |
| In apple-pie order | Аккуратный и организованный | The phrase may originate from the French 'nappes pliees' = neatly folded, or from 'cap-a-pie order'. |
| As red as a beetroot | Покраснеть от стыда | A beetroot is a small, round vegetable that is a very dark red/purple colour. |
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