Idioms

Question 1

🇬🇧Idiom
to feel ill

Answer 1

be/feel under the weather
плохо себя чувствовать
I’m feeling a bit under the weather - I think I’m getting a cold.

Question 2

🇬🇧Idiom
to be good at gardening and making plants grow well

Answer 2

«have green fingers» (UK)
«have a green thumb» (USA)
быть умелым садоводом

Question 3

🇬🇧Idiom
rarely

Answer 3

«once in a blue moon»
раз в год по обещанию, очень редко
We only go out once in a blue moon.

Question 4

🇬🇧Idiom
if something has a good result or finally succeeds, previous problems are not important

Answer 4

all’s well that ends well
все хорошо, что хорошо заканчивается
I’m sorry that it took so long to finish, but all’s well that ends well.

Question 5

🇬🇧Idiom
to remove unnecessary things so that you are ready for action

Answer 5

clear the decks
расчистить место и готовиться к действиям
Let’s clear the decks and then we can start cooking dinner.

Question 6

🇬🇧Idiom
to start to write

Answer 6

put pen to paper
начать писать
It’s time you put pen to paper and replied to that letter from your mother.

Question 7

🇬🇧Idiom
to leave a place or begin a journey

Answer 7

hit the road
отправляться в путь
I’d love to stay longer but I must be hitting the road.

Question 8

🇬🇧Idiom
said to tell someone to wake up and get out of bed

Answer 8

rise and shine
проснись и пой
Wakey wakey, rise and shine!

Question 9

🇬🇧Idiom
said to encourage someone to continue to do something many times, so that they will learn to do it very well

Answer 9

practice makes perfect
повторение - мать учения

Question 10

🇬🇧Idiom
if you are determined enough, you can find a way to achieve what you want, even if it is very difficult

Answer 10

where there’s a will there’s a way
где есть воля, там есть и путь

Question 11

🇬🇧Idiom
to be very busy with something

Answer 11

be up to my eyeballs in
погрязнуть в
I’m up to my eyeballs in reports.

Question 12

🇬🇧Idiom
to be close to doing something

Answer 12

be on the way to sth
быть на пути к
I’m well on the way to completing the report.

Question 13

🇬🇧Idiom
used after the question words how, what, when, where, who, and why to emphasize that you are very suprised or annoyed.

Answer 13

on earth
как же/что же/почему же и т. д.
How on earth did this happen?
What on earth is that awful noise?

Question 14

🇬🇧Idiom
to move to the front of a line of people who are waiting for something, so that you are served or dealt with before them

Answer 14

jump the queue
проходить вне очереди

Question 15

🇬🇧Idiom
to not understand a situation correctly

Answer 15

get the wrong end of the stick
неправильно понять
Her friend saw us arrive at the party together and got the wrong end of the stick.

Question 16

🇬🇧Idiom
to manage to understand something

Answer 16

get your head round/around
пытаться разобраться
It’s hard to get your head round these new tax laws.

Question 17

🇬🇧Idiom
quickly forget the information

Answer 17

go in one ear and out the other

If I have to listen to something I don’t understand, it just goes in one ear and out the other.

Question 18

🇬🇧Idiom
a situation that is not clear or where the rules are not known

Answer 18

grey area

The difference between gross negligence and recklessness is a legal grey area.

Question 19

🇬🇧Idiom
to have no knowledge about something, or to be unable to remember something

Answer 19

not have a clue

I don’t have a clue what I did with my baseball glove.
He doesn’t have a clue about how to fix a car.

Question 20

🇬🇧Idiom
to guess the truth about a situation from what you have seen or heard

Answer 20

put two and two together

How did you know they were having an affair? I’d seen them out together a couple of times, so I just put two and two together.

Question 21

🇬🇧Idiom
a person with two very different sides to their personality, one good and the other evil

Answer 21

Jekyll and Hyde

The professor was a real Jekyll and Hyde - sometimes kind and charming, and at other times rude and obnoxious.

Question 22

🇬🇧Idiom
extremely silly or stupid

Answer 22

(as) mad as a hatter
(as) mad as a March hare

Question 23

🇬🇧Idiom
a man who helps someone with their work and is loyal and can be trusted

Answer 23

man Friday

Question 24

🇬🇧Idiom
to move your hands in an awkward way

Answer 24

be all fingers and thumbs
be all thumbs

I’m all fingers and thumbs today. That’s the second plate I’ve dropped this morning.

Question 25

🇬🇧Idiom
to love someone very much, usually used to tell someone how much you love them

Answer 25

love someone to the moon and back

You mean the world to me and I love you to the moon and back.

Question 26

🇬🇧Idiom
something that deserves serious attention, esp. an amount of money

Answer 26

nothing to sneeze at
что-либо, что следует принимать серьёзно
An extra two thousand bucks a year is nothing to sneeze at.

Question 27

🇬🇧Idiom
said to encourage people to keep trying

Answer 27

never say die

You still have three full days of practise so never say die.

Question 28

🇬🇧Idiom
a friend who helps you when you really need help is a true friend

Answer 28

a friend in need is a friend indeed
Друг в нужде — истинный друг

Question 29

🇬🇧Idiom
said when the person who is in charge of a place is not there, and the people there behave badly

Answer 29

while the cat’s away, the mice will play
Когда кошки нет, мыши резвятся.

Question 30

🇬🇧Idiom
Легкий кошелек — это тяжелое проклятие

Answer 30

a light purse is a heavy curse

Question 31

🇬🇧Idiom
От пустого кошелька лицо покрывается морщинами

Answer 31

an empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

Question 32

🇬🇧Idiom
Из экономии получается обладание

Answer 32

from saving comes having

Question 33

🇬🇧Idiom
Нет усердия — нет достижения

Answer 33

no pain, no gain

Question 34

🇬🇧Idiom
He попотев, сладкого не получишь

Answer 34

no sweet without sweat

Question 35

🇬🇧Idiom
having new ideas, opinions, or ways of living long before most other people do

Answer 35

ahead of your time
опередить свое время
He was really ahead of his time.

Question 36

🇬🇧Idiom
to start doing something enthusiastically

Answer 36

get stuck in

You really got stuck into your food (= ate your food quickly) - you must have been hungry.

Question 37

🇬🇧Idiom
facing the right/wrong way

Answer 37

wrong way round
right way round
наоборот
правильно
He put the wheel on the right/wrong way round.

Question 38

at any time that someone wants or needs something

Answer 38

on demand

We tend to watch movies on demand via streaming services.

Question 39

to stay up all night, especially to study or work

Answer 39

pull an all-nighter

She pulled an all-nighter to study for an exam.