carrot and stick
жёсткая политика, "политика кнута и пряника"
The idea of a carrot-and-stick approach to the strikers is all wrong.
Другие идиомы:
- acquire a taste for (something)
- as busy as popcorn on a skillet
- as cool as a cucumber
- as easy as apple pie
- as flat as a pancake
- as nutty as a fruitcake
- as sour as vinegar
- as sweet as honey/sugar
- as thick as pea soup
- as warm as toast
- at one sitting
- back to the salt mines
- best bib and tucker
- big cheese
- big enchilada