like getting blood out of a stone
очень трудно получить что-либо от кого-либо (так же, как выжать слезу из камня)
It is like getting blood out of a stone to try and ask my father for money.
Другие идиомы:
- like a ton of bricks
- like mad
- look like something the cat dragged in
- like one of the family
- make (someone's) blood run cold
- like greased lightning
- in one's blood
- one's flesh and blood
- like looking for a needle in a haystack
- like taking candy from a baby
- blood is thicker than water
- out for blood
- like two peas in a pod
- too rich for (someone's) blood
- like hell