Angel- Lit: messenger, herald. devine, asexual, Fig: Calm, obedient, sweet, kind. Ange gardien; calme; obedient; obéissant; gentil. Lit:Messager, héraut, devin.asexué, sans sexe Fig: Calme, obéissant, doux, gentil. Ангел – происходит… Read more »
Not to know B from a bull’s foot Fig: To know nothing; to be illiterate; to be ignorant. Fig: être ignorant; illettré, analphabète. Fig:Ne rien savoir(connaître) ; être illettré. N’y… Read more »
Lit: One is expected to die soon (usu. because of serious illness, old age etc) Fig: To be not long for this world, not to have long (much longer) to… Read more »
Fig: To come round, to recover, to get over. To return (to come back) from the grave (the dead). To rise from a sickbed Fig: Recouvrer [la santé] ; se… Read more »
To be not long for this world Not to have long (much longer) to live. To depart for a better world. To launch into eternity. To pass away; Il n’en… Read more »
To root something out: to uproot- Fig: to damage somebody; to ruin, to destroy. To raze to the ground; To eliminate (annihilate, obliterate, wipeout) Faire table rase – Fig: causer… Read more »
Lit: To leave/to move from/ to shun/ to part from the world/village Fig: To forsake the vanities of the world; to renunciate (Relig) Lit: Passer d’un pays à l’autre, s’éloigner, prendre… Read more »
fig: To slap in the face; to cuff/box ears (of) To give sb a clip (on the ear) (coll). To give sb a thick ear (coll) fig: Gifler, frapper qqn… Read more »
By sweat of (one’s) brow Fig: To earn an honest livelihood; To turn an honest penny. Fig: Gagner honettement sa vie. Gagner son pain. Потом и кровью (добыть) –… 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: 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 »