expressions that should not be taken bukvalno.Eti phrases need to know everyone who wants to bring up the level of spoken English and to understand what is being said in a conversation, movies, or books.
Website gathered in the common English idioms that do not translate word for word is not to get into an awkward position.
- Against the clock - virtually race against time - it means "to do something very quickly," in the short term.
- To eat one's word - you can not eat your words, but take it back - it is.
- Break a leg - sometimes in the movies, you can hear someone advises hero "break a leg", in fact it's good luck: no fluff, no pen!
- The apple of one's eye - literally translated scary, but the phrase means something like "the diamond of my soul," very loving someone and treasure it.
- To feel it in one's bones - this is the case when you instinctively feels that something will happen. In Russian, a hunch there another place in the English - bones.
- When pigs fly - a phrase about flying pigs many recall the situation "when the cancer on the mountain whistles" or "after rain in Thursday. " That is, ever.
- To scratch someone's back and that someone will scratch in return - this expression literally translates as "scratch my back to another, that he scratched your back," then there is a quid pro quo: to make a man a good deal in the hope that he will respond the same.
- To walk a mile in my shoes - it is not an offer to walk in other people's shoes, you are asked to "stay in my shoes," imagine yourself in someone else's place.
- To cost an arm and a leg - so they say, when something is too expensive. You literally have to sell part of the body to afford this thing.
- To count one's chickens before they hatch - count ahead of time for success, even when nothing is clear. We have a similar expression "chickens before they are hatched».
- It's raining cats and dogs - is ridiculous to imagine a rain of cats and dogs, but they say, when it's pouring .
- Rat race - «rat race" - by and large, our whole life. It means "to be in a constant state of haste and rivalry," chasing success / money - to whom it.
- In a nutshell - if you want to say something briefly, then this expression is perfect to express in a few words.
- The grass is always greener on the other side (of the fence) - can be translated as "well where we do not." Many of a notice that the grass is always greener - this is the same feeling.
- Quick and dirty - in our language have the same capacious phrase "cheap and cheerful".
- To shake a leg - so they say, when you need to hurry up and do something quickly: "Come on!».
- Not your cup of tea - « is not your element," when the soul does not belong to something or something can not be done. Literally, "is not your cup of tea," and need to find its.
- Curiosity killed the cat - overly curious person can often hear this. In Russian - curious Varvara in the market nose torn off, no cat was not injured.
- To take the cake - do not rush to take the cake, it means "to beat all" (in a good or a bad sense). Vaguely reminiscent of Russian "take off the shelf a pie».
- A leopard can not change its spots - as a person can not change his nature, he "such as it is", and leopard I can not change the spots on the skin. A good argument for those who do not want to change.
- Blood, sweat, and tears - it is an expression of tremendous efforts and hard work. Literally "blood, sweat and tears": in Russian there are close "seven pots went off».
- Pushing the envelope - it is the expression of a man who always offers something new and out of the ordinary.
- To save your breath - literally "Save your breath," then it's not worth wasting time and talk about what is not will benefit. Better to remain silent and not to shake the air.
- To know where the bodies are buried - when you hear it, do not worry - in this proposal there is nothing about these graves, Russian analogue of "that's where the shoe pinches" - is to understand the essence of things.
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