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worth a thousand words: The newspaper editor decided to devote more space to photographs of the disaster than to text, since a picture is worth a thousand words.
Sixty-four thousand dollar question (inf) - вопрос на засыпку; самый важный и трудный вопрос
The expression dates from the 1940s and was originally the sixty-four dollar question; something that is not known and on which a great deal depends; a difficult but important question: Will she marry you? — Ah, that's the 64 000 dollar question. * Will conversion make the society a better business? That is the $64,000 question.
Thousand and one - тысяча, множество, много, масса, уйма (по названию сборника арабских сказок)
Very many; a large number: I can think of a thousand and one reasons why I do not want to travel with my friend.
Upper ten thousand - верхушка общества, аристократия; «верхние десять тысяч»
MILLION
Chance in a million - мизерный шанс
Either no chance at all or a very slim chance, a tremendous fluke.
Feel like a million bucks/dollars - прекрасно себя чув¬ ствовать, на все сто
Feel great, feel well and healthy: Ifeel like a million dollars today and I plan to go swimming. * Helen came back from her winter vacation feeling like a million dollars.
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