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ORIGIN:
Don’t stay by yourself in the schoolyard after school. You’ll be a sitting duck for all the bullies. A duck hunter knows that if a duck is sitting still, it’s a much easier target than a duck in flight. By the first half of the 20th century the expression was used figuratively, transferred to any person who was an easy mark for someone who wanted to cheat or do them any harm.
sitting pretty хорошо / ловко устроился
MEANING:
ORIGIN:
taking advantage of a favorable situation; to be in a lucky, superior, or advantageous position; be in a good situation, usually because you have a lot of money They bought their house when prices were much lower so they’re sitting pretty. This American colloquialism comes from the early 1900s. To the person who made up this phrase, sitting pretty must have suggested an easy, favorable position. The phrase is often used cynically by people in a less fortunate situation. It was the name of a musical in the 1920s.
six of one and half a dozen of the other что в лоб, что по лбу; без разницы
MEANING:
ORIGIN:
the same, two identical things described differently; nothing to choose between I don’t care if we eat Italian or Chinese food. To me, it’s six of one and a half dozen of the other. Charles Dickens, an English novelist, used this phrase in one of his books in 1852, but it has been known since 1800s. Six equals a half dozen, no matter which way you say it. So we can use this expression to refer to two things that offer no real choice because there isn’t real difference between them.
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