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easy does it
Let's do it carefully, without sudden movements and without forcing too hard or too fast; let's try to just hard enough but not too hard.
Что-то осторожно, без резких движений и без лишнего напряжения; попытаться что-то сделать не прикладывая достаточно усилий, не не переусердствуя. "Тише едешь - дальше будешь."
"Easy does it," my father said as we were moving a large bookcase away from the wall.
"Медленнее и осторожнее" - сказал мой отец, когда мы отодвигали огромный книжный шкаф от стены.
"Easy does it," said the boss as they moved the piano through the narrow doorway.
Pull the table over this way - easy does it, don’t scratch the paint.
Пододвинь стол сюда - осторожно, не торопись, не поцарапай краску.
easy mark
A foolishly generous person; one from whom it is easy to get money.
Bill is known to all the neighborhood beggars as an easy mark.
easy money
Money gained without hard work; money that requires little or no effort.
The movie rights to a successful play mean easy money to the writer of the play.
Young people who look for easy money are usually disappointed.
easy to come by
Найти с легкостью.
A good job is not easy to come by.
Хорошую работу найти нелегко.
easygoing
easy-going
Amiable in manner; relaxed; not excited.
Благожелательный; непринужденный; не возбужденный.
Because Al has an easygoing personality, everybody loves him.
Larry is easy-going and fun to be with.
Ларри - общительный человек, и с ним весело проводить время.
eat away at
To psychologically gnaw at; to worry someone.
Fear of the comprehensive examination was eating away at Sam.
eat away
To rot, rust, or destroy.
Cancer ate away the healthy flesh.
Rust was eating away the pipe.
To gradually consume.
The ocean waves were gradually eating the volcanic rocks away until they turned into black sand.
eat crow
To admit you are mistaken or defeated; take back a mistaken statement.
Дословно: съесть ворону. Признавать свою ошибку или поражение. Брать назад ошибочное высказывание.
Fred said he could beat the new man in boxing, but he lost and had to eat crow.
He had no option but to eat crow and admit that his analysis was wrong.
Ему ничего не оставалось, кроме как проглотить свою гордость и признать, что его анализ был ошибочным.
John had boasted that he would play on the first team; but when the coach did not choose him, he had to eat crow.
Therapist counsel: "Call your boyfriend and eat crow. Tell him it was a knee-jerk decision."