cut and run
To abandon an unfavorable situation.
When the price of coffee dropped sharply many investors wanted to cut and run.
cut-and-dried
cut and dried
open and shut
Decided or expected beforehand; following the same old line; doing the usual thing; boring.
The decision of the judge was cut-and-dried.
The ways of the king's court were cut-and-dried.
People at the convention heard many cut-and-dried speeches.
The results of the national election were rather cut and dried; the Republicans won easily.
A job on a factory assembly line is certainly cut and dried.
day and night
night and day
For days without stopping; continually.
Без перерыва; постоянно; все время.
Some filling stations on great highways are open day and night 365 days a year.
The three men took turns driving the truck, and they drove night and day for three days.
The woman was thinking about her missing child day and night.
Женщина всё время думала о своем пропавшем ребенке.
Every day and every evening.
The girl knitted day and night to finish the sweater before her mother's birthday.
day in and day out
day in, day out
year in, year out
month in, month out
week in, week out
Regularly; consistently; all the time; always.
He plays good tennis day in and day out.
During the month of April, it rained day in and day out.
Also used with several other time words in place of day: week, month, year.
Year in and year out, the weather in San Diego is the best in the nation.
Every summer, year in, year out, the ice cream man comes back to the park.
dead and buried
Gone forever.
Slavery is dead and buried in twentieth-century America.
dime store
five-and-dime
five-and-ten
A store that sells things that cost little.
Charles bought a pencil at the five-and-dime.
dirty one's hands
soil one's hands
To lower or hurt one's character or good name; do a bad or shameful thing.
The teacher warned the children not to dirty their hands by cheating in the examination.
I would not soil my hands by going with bad people and doing bad things.
dog and bone
Телефон
May I use your dog and bone?
Можно воспользоваться вашим телефоном?