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blue in the face
Very angry or upset; excited and very emotional.
Дословно: до посинения.
Быть очень сердитым; быть очень возбужденным и эмоциональным.
Быть очень сердитым; быть очень возбужденным и эмоциональным.
I’ve been arguing with my friend for 5 hours until I was blue in my face.
Я спорил со своим другом 5 часов до посинения.
Mary scolded Jane until she was blue in the face, but Jane kept on using Mary's paints.
Tom argued with Bill until he was blue in the face.
bone to pick
crow to pick
have a bone to pick
pick a bone
A reason for dispute; something to complain of or argue about. Often used jokingly.
"I have a bone to pick with you," he said.
I accept your apology and will let bygones be bygones. However, I do have a bone to pick with you.
There was always a crow to pick about which one would shave first in the morning.
bonehead
An unusually dense or stupid person.
John is such a bonehead - small wonder he flunks all of his courses.
boot strap
by one's own bootstraps
drag oneself up by one's bootstraps
pull oneself up by the bootstraps
pull oneself up by one's own bootstraps
To succeed without help; succeed by your own efforts.
He had to pull himself up by the bootstraps.
bore to tears
To fill with tired dislike; tire by dullness or the same old thing bore.
Mary loved cooking, but sewing bores her to tears.
The party was dull and Roger showed plainly that he was bored to tears.
born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
Born to wealth and comfort; provided from birth with everything wanted; born rich.
Родиться в богатой и знатной семье.
Princes Harry and William Windsor were born with silver spoons in their mouths.
Принцы Гарри и Вильям Виндзор родились с серебряными ложками во рту.
The boy was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and he has never worked in his life.
Мальчик был рожден в достатке и никогда в жизни не работал.
The stranger's conduct was that of a man who had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
born yesterday
Inexperienced and easily fooled; not alert to trickery; easily deceived or cheated. Usually used in negative sentences.
I won't give you the money till I see the bicycle you want to sell me. Do you think I was born yesterday?
When Bill started the new job, the other workers teased him a little, but he soon proved to everyone that he wasn't born yesterday.
boss one around
To keep giving someone orders; to act overbearingly toward someone.
"If you keep bossing me around, darling," Tom said to Jane, "the days of our relationship are surely numbered."