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 one of the family
- like a bat out of hell
- like a house on fire
- look like something the cat dragged in
- like two peas in a pod
- curdle (someone's) blood
- make (someone's) blood boil
- taste blood
- out for blood
- like mad
- like a bolt out of the blue
- like greased lightning
- bad blood (between people)
- like a bump on a log
- like taking candy from a baby