lit up like a Christmas tree
To be drunk.
On New Year's Eve Ned was lit up like a Christmas tree.
look like a million dollars
To look well and prosperous; appear healthy and happy and lucky; look pretty and attractive.
Выглядеть или чувствовать себя очень хорошо; быть здоровым и преуспевающим; "выглядеть на миллион долларов".
John came back from Florida driving a fine new car, tanned and glowing with health. He looked like a million dollars.
Dressed in the new formal and in a new hairdo, Betty looked like a million dollars.
With a tan and a new hairstyle, she looked like a million dollars.
Загорелая, с новой прической, она выглядела потрясающе.
The woman looked like a million dollars when she went to accept the award.
Женщина выглядела на миллион, когда пошла получать награду.
Martha looked like a million dollars when I saw her the other day.
Марта прекрасно выглядела, когда я недавно с ней виделась.
look like death warmed over
Выглядеть очень больным.
Tim was very pale and looked like death warmed over, so I couldn’t help asking him what the matter was.
Тим был очень бледным, выглядел больным, так что я не мог удержаться от вопроса, что с ним случилось.
look like something the cat dragged in
Выглядеть потрепанным, ветхим, измученным.
The dress Cora bought at the sale looked like something the cat dragged in.
Платье, которое Кора купила на распродаже, выглядело весьма потрепанным.
You looked like something the cat dragged in after the flight.
Он выглядел очень измученным после перелета.
look like the cat that ate the canary
look like the cat that swallowed the canary
To seem very self-satisfied; look as if you had just had a great success.
Выглядеть очень довольным; выглядеть как если бы вы только-что добились большого успеха; выглядеть как кот нализавшийся сливок.
Peter bet on the poorest horse in the race and when it won, he looked like the cat that ate the canary.
When she won the prize, she went home looking like the cat that swallowed the canary.
There was a big smile on Jimmy’s face and he looked like the cat that ate the canary.
Джим широко улыбался и имел очень довольный вид.
mind like a steel trap
A very quick and understanding mind, which is quick to catch an idea.
Henry is not fond of sports, but he has a mind like a steel trap.
A successful lawyer must have a mind like a steel trap.
nothing succeeds like success
Success in one thing makes success in other things easier; people like a successful person. A proverb.
The girls all like Bob because he is football captain. Nothing succeeds like success.
out like a light
Fast asleep; to sleep very quickly.
Крепко спать, "спать как убитый", быстро заснуть.
Tom got so much fresh air and exercise that he went out like a light as soon as he lay down.
As soon as the lights were turned off, Johnny was out like a light.
He is out like a light.
Он спит как убитый.
In a faint; unconscious.
Johnny was hit by a ball and went out like a light.
After she read that Tom had married another girl Jean was out like a light for several minutes.