baptism of fire
крещение огнём ( первый опыт часто трудный или неприятный)
When I started my own small business, I went through a baptism of fire.
Другие идиомы:
- back the wrong horse
- badger (someone)
- bark up the wrong tree
- best-laid plans of mice and men
- bet on the wrong horse
- black sheep of the family
- bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
- bull in a china shop
- buy a pig in a poke
- by shank's mare
- bat out of hell
- bats in the belfry
- bird brain
- bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- birds and bees