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ORIGIN: This expression goes all the way back to the 1500s when hunters hired people called beaters to drive small animals or the birds out of the bushes so the hunters could get a better shot at them. beat the living daylights out of someone избить до полусмерти; живого места не оставить M E A N I N G : to punish someone with physical violence I’ll beat the living daylights out of anyone who scratches my new car! ORIGIN: It has been suggested that daylights means eyes in boxing slang, but it is more probable that the phrase is a corruption of an older threat to beat the liver and lights out of someone, the lights being the lungs. bee’s knees пуп земли MEANING: ORIGIN: the best, most attractive, talented person I know Phil is quite good looking, but I wish he wouldn’t admire himself in the mirror so much. He obviously thinks he’s the bee’s knees! Originating in the early nineteenth century, this may be connected with an eighteenth century saying: As big as a bee’s knee, a jocular allusion to a small thing or person, but its main attraction seems to be the rhyme and the ludicrous image. before you can / could say Jack Robinson в мгновение ока M E A N I N G : very quickly Before you could say Jack Robinson, he’d taken my wallet and dashed out of the room. ORIGIN: It is unknown who Jack Robinson actually was. beggar description не поддаваться описанию M E A N I N G : impossible to express in words 14