Category: ანბანური საძიებელი

To curb: Fig: To ban, to forbid, to restrain, to curb; to confine; to limit; To put a cap on; to gather all the reins of power in one’s hands;… Read more »

Fig: That’s where the trouble lies; That’s where the hen scratches! a) That accounts for the milk in the coconut (, Br.); b) That’s where the shoe pinches (, Br.)…. Read more »

Lit: A mess, disorder in cloister/ abbey/monastery/ friary. Fig:  Mess, dismay, dust up; disobedience,  hurly-burly. Lit: Conflit , querelle, dans le couvent. Fig:  Bagarre,  désordre, non respect В монастыре возникли… Read more »

Lit: To spend day and night Fig: To struggle without  taking a break. Lit: être toujours ailleurs, ne jamais être chez soi. Fig: Lutter sans arrêt, un lutteur inleissable. se… Read more »

Lit: Survivor / somebody survived after being hanged thousand times. Fig: To be through the mill (hell, wringer). To survive fire and water. An extremely experienced person; To overcome all… Read more »

Fig: To be seldom happy; Have no hope for better. To have rare luck. Fig: Il est rare que je sois heureux. Ничего не меняется в лучшую сторону Аутсайдер (разг.) Лузер (разг.,… Read more »

Lit: A thousand to one, almost no chance. Fig. Very seldom. One (out) of a hundred. Once in a blue moon. Lit: une fois sur mille. Fig: Très rare. Из… Read more »

Lit: for thousand purses. Fig: not for any price (money); not for anything; not for the world; not on your life; nothing shall induce me! not for love or money;… Read more »

Lit: A purse/jar full of thousand coins. Fig: A lot of/countless money, glut of wealth. Lit: Avoir les sacs pleins d’argent . Fig: Toucher le pactole, gagner beaucoup d’argent. Тысяча банок/кошельков … Read more »

Fig: You can’t convince a person with a long and endless speech. To cut no ice. Fig: Quoi que tu dises, quoi que tu fasses je ne te crois pas …. Read more »

Fig: To have to respond to a lot of challenges, to deal with a lot of problems. To provide services to many people at the same time. Fig: Il y… Read more »

Lit: To provide services to many people at the same time; to be cut into thousand pieces Fig: To tackle a dozen jobs at once; To have many irons in… Read more »

To have no idea of, have not the faintest idea of smth, not to know a person from Adam, have not the vaguest idea, not to have the faintest idea;… Read more »

Lit: To cast an evil eye. Lit: Jeter le mauvais œil. Дурной глаз – Разг. По суеверным представлениям: взгляд человека, причиняющий вред, приносящий несчастья. Сглазить, сглаз. Недобрый глаз, порча. Лихой… Read more »

Lit:To know what is evil and what is good, to distinguish virtue from evil. To tell wrong from right. Fig: To be conscious, to realize, to know everything, to be… Read more »

Lit: To be on fire Fig: To get angry, to get frustrated. To hit the roof. to be raving with anger; To kick over the traces; to hit the ceiling… Read more »

Lit: To be struck down by illness Fig: An illness laid me low, illness laid me low. Not  to be able to recover, not to be able to get over…. Read more »

Fig: Prematurely deceased; untimely deceased To be brought to an early grave, die an early die. Fig: Décédé jeune, mort jeune. Без времени скончавшийся Безвременно ушедший, почивший (устар.) – рано… Read more »

As old as Adam When (since) Adam was a boy When Queen Anne was alive In the year dot (one) De longue date. Qui remonte loin dans le temps …. Read more »

Lit: Success to our family Fig: Ironically– we will be ruined Lit: Succès à notre famille Fig: Nous sommes ruinés (avec l’ironie). Семью построить/обустроить (досл.) На свою голову – Экспр…. Read more »