4 года назад
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain
In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and inquired after my friend’s friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as requested to do, and I hereunto append the result. I have a lurking suspicion that Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth; that my friend never knew such a personage; and that he only conjectured that, if I asked old Wheeler about him, it would remind him of his infamous Jim Smiley, and he would go to work and bore...
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bet your bottom dollar   to be absolutely certain of something гарантировать что-то, не сомневаться, спорить на что угодно, дать голову на отсечение I'd bet my bottom dollar that he will be on time. Голову даю на отсечение, что он будет вовремя. bring home the bacon supply material support преуспеть, добиться успеха, зарабатывать на хлеб с маслом You've got to get to work if you're going to bring home the bacon.  Ты должен начать работать, если хочешь добиться успеха. burn your fingers to suffer financially as a result of foolish behaviour обжечься на (чем-л...