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ORIGIN: You can’t find anything in the telephone book because it’s filled with alphabet soup. The allusion is to a tinned soup fed to children which contains letters of the alphabet made of pasta. also ran вечный неудачник; сошедший с круга M E A N I N G : someone who is unsuccessful or unimportant Peter felt that he was one of life’s also rans. His education had ended unsuccessfully; he had taken a number of uninteresting and poorly paid jobs. ORIGIN: This is a description used in reporting horse racing results describing any horse which fails to gain one of the first three places. as cool as a cucumber спокойный как танк M E A N I N G : very calm, not nervous or emotional Roslyn was as cool as a cucumber when she got the award from the President of the United States. ORIGIN: As early as the 1500s this expression was used to describe calm and composed people. When thermometers were invented, scientists showed that cucumbers are often 10 degrees cooler inside than outside air. as different as chalk and / from cheese небо и земля; лёд и пламень M E A N I N G : the lack of similarity between two people or things despite a superficial resemblance Our relationship works because we are very aware of our differences. We accept that we are chalk and cheese. ORIGIN: In the Middle Ages one test of sanity was to see if the patient could taste the difference between chalk and cheese. 8