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крупица правды кристально честный человек be as honest as the day (is long) W You can be as honest as the day is long and still get into trouble i f you fill in your tax form incorrectly. критическая точка // пик/апо¬ гей fever pitch companies like I B M . W Your rent is chicken feed in comparison with mine. W This salary is peanuts. крохобор // скряга a cheapskate (n inf) W Tension reached fever pitch as reports came in of further bomb attacks in the north. кричать караул (возмущать¬ ся) scream/shout blue/bloody murder (inf) W I'm having nothing to do with a cheapskate like him! W None of the girls like to go out on a date with him because he is a cheapskate. крошечный/малюсенький teeny-wee/teeny-weeny (adj) W Somebody took the child's ice-cream away and he started screaming bloody murder. W When we put him in an office without a window, he screamed bloody murder. W Readers screamed blue murder when the price of their daily paper went up. кровь из носа // любой ценой // во что бы то ни стало come hell or high water // come what may W The factory girls were soldering teeny-wee electronic components with great dexterity. W She carried a teeny-wee poodle in her arms. кругленькая сумма a tidy sum W Have you seen what they've done to their house? That must have cost them a tidy sum. круглые сутки round/around the clock W I am going to get my autobiography published come hell or high water! W I shall be there tonight come what may. крокодиловы слезы crocodile tears W Doctors and nurses worked around the clock to help the people injured in the train crash. W I f we are to get this book published we'll have to work round the clock. круглый дурак // дурак наби¬ тый a fool through and through W Emlyn is a fool, through and through. круглый отличник a straight-A student W Sylvia seemed very upset at her father-in-law's funeral. No, they were crocodile tears. She never liked the old man. крохи/копейки // гроши chicken-feed (n) // peanuts (n Am inf) W For my sister, it is easy to be a straight-A student. крупица правды a grain of truth W Investments of20,000 dollars are chicken feed to massive W There's a grain of truth in what he says but it's greatly exaggerated. 105