Christmas card
A speeding ticket.
Smokey just gave a Christmas card to the eighteen wheeler we passed.
a few bricks short of a (full) load
a few cards short of a deck
A pejorative phrase meaning not very intelligent or of questionable mental capacity.
дословно: "несколько карт не хватает до колоды"
Не очень умный, немного сумасшедший, слабоумный; "не все дома".
Не очень умный, немного сумасшедший, слабоумный; "не все дома".
The man often does very strange things. He is a few cards short of a deck.
Этот мужчина всегда совершает очень странные поступки. Он немного не дружит с головой.
He says he's going to start a business selling bees as pets—I think he may be a few bricks short of a load.
Он говорит, что собирается начать бизнес по продаже пчел в качестве домашних животных. Думаю, у него не все дома.
Tom: Joe thinks he can build a car out of old milk jugs.
Mary: I think Joe's a few bricks short of a load.
Mary: I think Joe's a few bricks short of a load.
Том: Джо думает, что он может построить машину из старых молочных бидонов.
Мэри: Я думаю, Джо немного сумасшедший.
Мэри: Я думаю, Джо немного сумасшедший.
bingo card
A response card, bound into a periodical, containing numbers keyed to editorial or advertising matter, giving the reader the opportunity to send for further information by marking the numbers of the items he is interested in; such a card can be mailed free of charge.
Jack thinks he is saving time by filling out bingo cards instead of writing a letter.
card up one's sleeve
ace up your sleeve
Another help, plan, or argument kept back and produced if needed; another way to do something.
Туз (козырь) в рукаве. Припрятанный аргумент, план и предъявленный при необходимости; альтернативный путь сделать что-нибудь.
John knew his mother would lend him money if necessary, but he kept that card up his sleeve.
Bill always has a card up his sleeve, so when his first plan failed he tried another.
The manager has an ace up her sleeve. She'll surprise us with it later.
У нашей управляющей есть козырь про запас; она нас им еще удивит.
drawing card
The most important figure in a multi-person event; the top entertainer during a show; the best professor or researcher at a university, etc.
During the concert series Barbra Streisand was the biggest drawing card.
The biggest drawing card at many a university is the resident Nobel Laureate.
flash card
A card with numbers or words on it that is used in teaching, a class.
The teacher used flash cards to drill the class in addition.
house of cards
Something badly put together and easily knocked down; a poorly founded plan, hope, or action.
John's business fell apart like a house of cards.
in the cards
on the cards
To be expected; likely to happen; foreseeable; predictable.
It was in the cards for the son to succeed his father as head of the business.
John finally decided that it wasn't in the cards for him to succeed with that company.