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to sow ones wild oats( ) : , , ; , . .

 

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I was not one of those young men who sow a large crop of wild oats.

I was a fairly decent youth. (H. Wells. The Secret Places of the Heart)

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, , , . To pull somebodys leg , to joke; to put ones best leg foremost , to endeavour; to shake a leg to dance. to die , to go the way of all flesh.

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1) , : , , , . , dead letter, ; blue stocking, ; the lions share, ; body and soul, ( ); in the seventh heaven, ; to gild (to sugar) the pill, () ; to play with fire, ; not to see the wood for the trees, .

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through thick and thin

tooth and nail ,

its raining cats and dogs ,

to be caught red-handed


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: not to lie on a bed of roses ( ) ; to make ones mouth water ( ) .

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It wont be skin off my nose. (R.P. Warren. All Kings Men)

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as sure as God made little green apples. ( )

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Pillsbury kept the pot boiling. ( )

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