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Y you can bet your boots можешь не сомневаться; верняк M E A N I N G : to be very sure of something You can bet your boots she won’t apologize. ORIGIN: Boots were held to be the most prized possession of American cowboys and gold miners. If they gambled on their boots, they were confident of not losing. yuppie преуспевающий / состоявшийся молодой человек M E A N I N G : a young fashionable ambitious person; young rich person who works in a well paid job There is a new shop in the High Street which sells beautiful but very expensive clothes. All the yuppies go there. ORIGIN: Yuppie is an acronym based on “Young Urban Professional Person”. It was invented in America and became popular in Britain during the 1980s. Its fame spread through such books as The Yuppie Handbook which described this social group and its status symbols. As the 1980s and 1990s began to be dubbed greedy and selfish years, yuppie acquired an increasingly negative connotation. 145