Идиомы – Idioms – это тридцать первое учебное пособие из серии Английский язык. Теория и практика.Освоив теоретический материал, представленный в данной серии и выполнив более 600 упражнений для самоконтроля, Ваш словарный запас будет состоять из более, чем 6 000 английских слов и выражений, что позволит Вам успешно сдать такие международные экзамены по английскому языку, как TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language), IELTS (International English Language Testing System) и другие.
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Английский язык. Теория и практика. Идиомы
Идиомы, или устойчивые выражения, делают речь живой и эмоциональной, заменяя длинное описание ярким образом, понятным каждому.
Ниже представлены наиболее значимые идиомы английского языка:
Идиомы, связанные с деньгами
from rags to riches –
One doesn't go from rags to riches overnight. –
money talks –
We learned that money talks when the rich couple got a reservation at the famous restaurant although we could not. –
money to burn/rolling in money –
The man has money to burn and is always buying something new. –
born with a silver spoon in her mouth –
Yes, well, some of us weren't born with a silver spoon in our mouths. –
gravy train –
Why get off the gravy train, right? –
cost a pretty penny –
It cost us a pretty penny to fix the car. –
worth every penny –
It's kind of expensive, but I promise you, it's worth every penny. –
to go dutch –
Just so it doesn't get uncomfortable when the bill comes, can we agree we'll go Dutch on this one? –
hit the jackpot –
My friend hit the jackpot when she bought a lottery ticket last week. –
highway robbery –
Two thousand is highway robbery and you know it. –
buy (something) for a song –
It's a very cheap house; we practically bought it for a song. –
to make ends meet/to live from hand to mouth –
Steven had neither work nor home and was living from hand to mouth. –
flat broke –
Alfred lost all of his money at gambling and was flat broke. –
scrape together –