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in the backseats of chauffeur driven cars. The backseat passenger gave orders to the front seat driver: where to go, what road to take, how fast to drive, and so on. Today backseat driver refers to any aggressive person, in or out of a car, who tries to tell others what to do. bag and baggage со всеми пожитками / манатками / потрохами M E A N I N G : the entire belongings of a person departing or departed from a place, usually forever She threw him out of the house bag and baggage. ORIGIN: As a military term in the past it meant the complete possessions of an army which, in honorable retreat, would go without leaving anything behind for the enemy. baker’s dozen чёртова дюжина M E A N I N G : thirteen of anything for the price of twelve At the garage sale, we charged 75 cents per baseball card or $9 for a baker’s dozen. ORIGIN: Hundreds of years ago some English bakers cheated their customers by baking air pockets into loaves of bread, making them lightweight. In 1266 the English Parliament passed a law that said that bakers who sold underweight bread would be severely punished. To protect themselves bakers began to add an extra loaf to each dozen sold. baptism of fire боевое крещение M E A N I N G : a painful initiation I was given a million dollar project to manage in my first month. It was a real baptism of fire. ORIGIN: In France it was traditionally used to describe a soldier’s first experience of battle. It may originally 12