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• meal ticket
  кто-либо \ что-либо, что обеспечивает безбедную жизнь

  I believe my degree in accounting to be my meal ticket to a good salary.
• meat and potatoes
  безыскусный, простой

  To my mind the best approach to life is meat-and-potatoes one.
• melt in one's mouth
  быть очень вкусным, таять во рту

  The chocolate I ate melted in my mouth.
• milk (someone) for (something)
  давить на кого-либо с целью получения чего-либо

  Mike is a regular Gigolo and he is milking women for as much money as he can.
• milk of human kindness
  сострадание, доброта, сердечность

  My Grandmother has always been full of the milk of human kindness; everybody likes her.
• not for all the tea in China
  на за что (на свете)

  Uriah will not for all the tea in China lend his car to anybody.
• not know beans about (someone or something)
  ничего не знать о ком-либо \ о чём-либо

  I did not know beans about my friend's private life.
• not one's cup of tea
  что-либо, что (не) нравится

  Washing the dishes is not my cup of tea, so I'd rather my sister did it.
• not worth a hill of beans
  бесполезный, никудышный, ничего не стоящий

  Cora is not a reliable person, and what she promises is not worth a hill of beans.
• on a diet
  на диете

  I have been on a diet several times this year, but nothing helps me to lose weight.
• one man's meat is another man's poison
  что полезно одному, то вредно другому

  One man's meat is another man's poison and while my friend doesn't like fish, I love it.
• out of the frying pan and into the fire
  из огня да в полымя

  Ron jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire when he didn't pay his bank loan; now his problems are much more serious.
• out to lunch
  сумасшедший, "тронутый"

  "You must be out to lunch to suggest our sailing during the storm."
• packed in like sardines
  в тесноте, "как селёдки в бочке"

  The place is extremely crowded; the people are packed in like sardines here.
• pie in the sky
  не практичная цель или план

  "Your project is a pie in the sky; I am not going to invest into it."
• piece of cake
  лёгкий (ая)

  That English book was a piece of cake. It was the easiest book that I had ever read.
• polish the apple
  льстить, стараться заслужить чьё-либо расположение

  Nora tried to polish the apple with Dick Barstow; she wanted to get into his favor.
• put all one's eggs in one basket
  рисковать всем, поставить всё на карту

  Jeffrey Archer put all his eggs in one basket by investing into a Canadian company.
• put on the feed bag
  поесть что-либо

  They immediately put on the feed bag when they came home.
• put weight on
  прибавлять в весе, поправляться

  Rita kept to a diet of vegetables and fruit so that she may not put on weight.
• rotten to the core
  прогнивший насквозь, бесполезный

  The house had to be pulled down as it was rotten to the core, and it was useless to repair it.
• rub salt in (someone's) wound
  растравлять чью-либо рану, сыпать соль на рану

  Hugo's wife rubbed salt in his wound for having broken their car.
• salt (something) away
  припрятывать, "складывать в кубышку"

  I have been salting away some money, so that I can go on a holiday to Spain.
• salt of the earth
  соль земли (основательные, добрые люди)

  The majority of the people in our company is the salt of the earth; they are hard-working and friendly.
• save (someone's) bacon
  помочь, спасти от провала

  I don't understand much about computers; and I was grateful to Steve as he saved my bacon when he came to help me.
• sink one's teeth into (something)
  начать серьёзно работать (над проектом, проблемой)

  I sank my teeth into my research.
• slice of the cake/pie
  доля чего-либо

  Kelly demanded that she be given a slice of the cake in their family business.
• slow as molasses in January
  быть очень медлительным

  My granddaughter is as slow as molasses in January when she walks to school in the morning.
• small potatoes
  что-либо небольшое или незначительное

  The amount of money for the road is small potatoes compared to the cost of the bridge.
• so clean you can eat off the floor
  очень чисто

  I did up my bedroom and it became so clean you could eat off the floor.
• soup up (something)
  придавать силу, увеличивать мощность чего-либо

  I decided to soup my motorcycle up, making it more powerful.
• spill the beans
  выдать секрет

  My friend spilled the beans about my smoking though he had promised not to tell my Mom about it.
• spoon-feed (someone)
  чрезмерно опекать кого-либо, "кормить с ложки"

  The young mother is too considerate and literally spoon-feeds her ten-year-old daughter.
• square meal
  сытная еда

  In English families dinner, which is eaten between 6 and 7, is usually a square meal.
• stew in one's own juice
  страдать из-за своих проступков

  "You'll be stewing in your own juice if you get into trouble again."