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ORIGIN: Bob’s father wouldn’t buy him a VW for his birthday so Bob built himself a Heath Robinson car out of a bath, a motor bike engine and six bicycle wheels! He was really pleased with the result. W. Heath Robinson was a British artist who lived from 1872 to 1944. He became famous for his incredible cartoon drawings about inventors and their mad inventions. Today his name entered the English language to describe any machinery or contraption which looks like part of one of his cartoons. highway robbery грабёж среди бела дня M E A N I N G : an extremely high price or charge for something Three pounds for an orange juice? It’s highway robbery! ORIGIN: During the time of William Shakespeare and the early 16th century, it was common for travelers on the open road to be held up and robbed by armed highwaymen. With time, the phrase highway robbery came to be associated with charges for goods and services that were so expensive that the buyer felt they were being robbed by the seller. Hobson’s choice принудительный ассортимент M E A N I N G : a situation in which there appears to be a choice when actually there is none at all The menu looks very varied but it’s always Hobson’s choice. They never have anything available but fish and chips! ORIGIN: This expression was inspired by an Englishman called Thomas Hobson who lived in Cambridge during the early 17th century. He earned his living by working as a liveryman, hiring out horses to many of the university students. To make sure that every horse was used equally Hobson invented a special 57