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1973 when humans as well as parrots were affected. In the 18th century the phrase melancholy as a parrot was current.
sight for sore eyes душа радуется (глядя на к л / ч л)
MEANING:
ORIGIN:
a most welcome, unexpected sight; a pleasant surprise You’re a sight for sore eyes – all dressed up in your new outfit. In the 1700s an imaginative writer wrote that a welcome sight could figuratively cure sore eyes. Today, if you’re in some kind of trouble, and into your view comes someone or something that can help, that’s a sight for sore eyes.
sink or swim пан или пропал
MEANING:
ORIGIN:
to fail or succeed by one’s own efforts without anyone’s help or interference I moved to a faraway city and had to sink or swim without my parents’ help. The phrase is extremely old. In the 14th century there was a cruel and bizarre old time practice of throwing a person suspected of being a witch into deep water. The accused were usually women. If the woman sank (and drowned), she was innocent. If she floated, then the devil must have helped her and she was guilty. Geoffrey Chaucer, an English poet, used the phrase float or sink in his writings in the 1300s.
sitting duck лёгкая добыча; удобная мишень (для критики)
MEANING:
an easy target; someone or something likely to be attacked and unable to put up a defense
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