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 lambs to the slaughter
- too rich for (someone's) blood
- smell blood
- like an open book
- have (someone's) blood on one's hands
- like it or lump it
- like taking candy from a baby
- like a deer caught in the headlights
- like nothing on earth
- like pulling teeth
- new blood
- look like the cat that swallowed the canary
- like crazy
- like a bump on a log
- like father, like son