* Данный текст распознан в автоматическом режиме, поэтому может содержать ошибки
smart as a whip smart as a whip семи пядей во лбу • Little Brian is smart as a whip; he's only three and already learning to read. smell a rat (inf) почуять неладное • The police set up a trap, but the thieves smelt a rat and drove away. smell fishy не внушать доверия; казаться сомнительным/подозрительным • Webber's account of what he was doing that evening smells a bit fishy to me. smelling of roses/smelling like a rose (Am) как ни в чем не бывало • The businessman was suspected of dealing illegally in weapons and was given a security check, but he came out of it smelling of roses. smoke like a chimney дымить как паровоз • It's not surprising that Charlie has a bad cough. He smokes like a chimney - at least forty a day. smoke off and on баловаться курением • Mark was eleven and had been smoking off and on for two years. snap (v) щелкнуть; снять (сфотографиро¬ вать) • I snapped her standing in front of the fountain. soaked to the skin до ниточки промокший • What a downpour; I'm soaked to the skin. sober as a judge трезвый как стеклышко • They were all drunk except for the un¬ lucky man who had promised to drive them home, and was sober as a judge. sod's law закон подлости • bought a new watch, day he dropped it and that's sod's law, isn't (humor) He had just but the same broke it. Well, it?
soft/sweet nothings милые глупости • He was whis¬ pering sweet nothings into the ear of the prettiest girl there. softie/softy (Am inf n) тряпка; слабак • In business you can't afford to be a softie. soft-pedal (v) спустить на тормозах • The gov ernment is soft-pedalling (on) the wages issue until after the election. soft-soap smb (v) подлизываться; подмазаться • Don't try to soft-soap me because I won't lend you the money. somehow or other так или иначе • Difficult though it might be, she intended to get to Baghdad somehow or other. sound like a broken record заладить (одно и то же); звучать как заезженная пластинка • The headmaster had told the children so many times not to throw snowballs that he was beginning to sound like a broken record.
142
