● Bring home the bacon – прокормить се
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мью; добиться успеха, победить.
Meaning: to support a family by working; to
earn a living; to earn or win something of value; to
succeed.
Both Richard and Stephanie got jobs to bring home the bacon for their children. Origin: There are two theories about where this
expression came from. One was from the contest
at early American country fairs of chasing after a
greased pig. If you caught it, you could take it home
as your prize. Another possibility is that it came from
a practice in the early 1300s. A baron willed that if
any married person in Dunmow, England, swore at
the church door that they had not had a single quar
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rel for a whole year and a day, they would get free
side bacon to take home.
● Creature comforts – житейские / малень
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кие радости.
Meaning: material things like good food and ac
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commodation which make life pleasant.
I hate camping. I can’t do without my creature comforts. Origin: It has been a commonplace since the sev
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enteenth century. In “Nicholas Nickleby”, Charles
Dickens played on the meaning of creature, that is
alcoholic spirits, to pun that Mr. Squeers, the sadis
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tic schoolmaster, had been seeking forgetfulness in
creature comforts, which turned out to be brandy
and water.
● Mind over matter – сила воли. Meaning: the power of your mind is stronger
than the body.
Giving up smoking is just a question of mind over matter. Origin: Virgil, a Roman poet who was born in
70 BC, used this expression in his famous poem,
“The Aeneid”.
Mind means brain, thoughts, and
willpower.
Matter means a physical object, and it
can also mean trouble or difficulty. Notice also that
mind and
matter both begin with
m , and alliteration
helps make a saying more popular (Шитова, 2011,
с.20, 32, 79) [3].
В современном английском языке больше
используется переносное значение слов, чем их
реальное значение. Большинство слов, составля
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ющих идиомы, имеют именно переносное зна
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чение. Многообразие идиоматических единиц
как по структуре, так и по оттенкам значения
и выразительности является основным аспек
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том, обеспечивающим богатство возможностей
их стилистического употребления. Идиомы ис
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пользуются практически во всех стилях лите
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ратурного языка. Но наиболее широкое поле
использования этих единиц – это, конечно, ху
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дожественный стиль. К примеру, выражающие
любовь, ненависть, сарказм, насмешку, смех,
грусть и другие идиоматические единицы, в ко
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торых преобладают оттенки значения, довольно
распространенные в художественной литерату
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ре. Речевые теги (