Английский - простой, но очень трудный язык. Он состоит из одних иностранных слов, которые к тому же неправильно произносятся.
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Так ему и надо! - it serves him right
так или иначе - in any event: “I’ll call you in any event.”
так сказать - so to speak: “Mr. Stout was, so to speak, the real boss, though he was only the company’s vice president.”
танец живота - a belly-dance: a dance in which the dancers rotate their hips
таскать каштаны из огня - to pull the chestnut out of the fire: “He wants us to pull the chestnut out of the fire for him. And I am not going to do this.”
творить чудеса - to work wonders/to work lake magic: “A day on the water worked wonders on them.”
телячья любовь - calf love/puppy love: the first adolescent love-affair
тем хуже - so much the worse
темная лошадка - a dark horse: “Do you have any idea who this dark horse is?”
тертый калач - an old hand: “Walt will finish the roof very quickly. He is an old hand at that kind of work.”
только пятки сверкают - to show a clean pair of heels: “As soon as I asked them for money, they showed a clean pair of heels.”
тонкости профессии - the tricks of the trade: “The old man knew a lot of tricks of the trade that you can’t learn out of book or at college.”
топтаться на месте - to mark time: “The member of the Senate committee had to mark time until the Chairman arrived.”
точь-в-точь - for all the world like: “Carol stood there in her mother’s long white dress, for all the world like her mother when she was Carol’s age.”
третий лишний - two is company, three is none: when there are three in a company there is always a tendency for two of them to make friends at the expense of the third
тридцать сребреников - thirty pieces of silver (the money paid to Judas Iscariot for betraying Jesus Christ): “You are a traitor. They bought you for thirty pieces of silver.”
троянский конь - the Trojan horse: a treacherous gift
трястись как осиновый листочек - to shake like a leaf: to tremble with fear
тут как тут - on the spot: “The police were on the spot when I had a car accident.”
ты бы помалкивал, сам тоже хорош - a case of the pot calling the kettle black
Ты что, язык проглотил? - Have you lost your tongue?
тянуть время - to play for time: “We do not know the answer yet. I can play for time until Bill comes and help us.”
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