634. be death on, to розм. І) бути вправ­ ним у чомусь, бути знавцем чогось); 2) пал­ ко любити, бути до краю захопленим.

635. be deep in love, to див. В-7'88.

636. be delivered of a boy (або a girl, a child), to див. В-590.

637. be dependent on one's nod, to див. B-460.

638. Bed of dust, the див. L-105.

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639. bed of honour, the (тж. honour's bed) могила солдата, що загинув у бою.

640. bed of Procrustes, the (тж. the Pro­ crustean bed; Procrustes' bed) прокрустове ложе; мірка, під яку штучно підганяють явища та факти, перекручуючи їх; [етим. міф.]; див. тж. М-382;

A certain set of highly ingenious resources are, ,\vith the Prefect, a sort of Procrustean bed, to which he forcibly adapts his designs (E. Poe).

641. bed of roses, а щасливе, безтурботне життя, ^ не життя, а масляна (звич. вжив. в заперечних реченнях) [вираз виник в зв'яз­ ку із звичаєм багатіїв у стародавньому Римі усипати свої ложа пелюстками троянд]; див. тж. В-643 та L-715;

My life hasn't been a bed of roses (Th. Dreiser).

642. bed of state, а ліжко, лежачи в яко­ му король приймав придворних.

643. bed of thorns, а неприємне, важке становище, тяжке життя; див. тж. В-641;

One mild May evening, Caroline passing near about moonrise, and feeling, though weary, unwil­ling yet to go home, where there was only the bed of thorns and the night of grief to anticipate, sat down on .the mossy ground near the gate, and gazed through towards cedar and mansion (С/г. Bronte).

644. be dog (або old dog) at something, to

заст. добре знати щось, добре знатися на чомусь; ^ зуби з'їсти на чомусь.

645. be done with (one, something), to по­ кінчити з (кимсь, чимсь);

If the world could not keep them alive any other way it ought to kill them at once and be done with it (U. Sinclair).

646. be down in the world, to занепасти; займати незначне суспільне становище;

Why should you be down in the world? (H. Wood).

647. be down on one (like a hammer), to див. F-185, 2).

648. (be) down on one's luck, (to) (тж. off one's luck; out of luck) (бути) розоре­ ним, у безпорадному стані, в біді;

Mouldy, he gets down on his luck (J. Greenwood).

649. be down on one's marrow bones, to див. В-1275.

650. be down on one's upj^jrs, to див. В-1290.

651. be (або go) down the wind, to заст. бути у стані занепаду, занепадати.

652. be drenched (або soaked, wet) to the marrow (або to the marrow of one's bones, to the skin, through, through to the skin), to промокнути до нитки, до кісток, наскрізь;

It was obvious that in a few minutes she must be drenched to her skin (A. Cronin).

She suddenly noticed that he was soaked to the skin (G. Trease).

You must be wet through, Mr. Whitford (G. Mere­dith).

As Owen strode rapidly along, his mind filled with these thoughts, he was almost unconscious of the fact that he was wet through to the skin (R. Tressell).

653. be drunk to the premise, to див. В-769.

654. bedside manner уміння обходитися з хворими (про лікаря);

"Let me alone," said Denny sullenly. "Don't use your blasted bedside manner on me. I've used it plenty in my time" (A. Cronin).

655. be eaten up with something, to аж

палати (з заздрощів, цікавості тощо);

The boys were all eaten up with envy (M. Twain).

656. beef tea міцний м'ясний бульйон;

On Saturday you are able to swallow a little beef tea, and to sit up on deck (Jerome K. Jerome).

657. be endowed with brains, to мати го­ лову на плечах, не бути дурним;

Hope, despite his undergraduate humour and a natural tendency to flippancy, was well endowed with brains (A. Cronin).

658. bee in one's bonnet (або рідк. in the brain), а дивацтво, примха, забаганка; те, на чому людийа схибнулася (звич. вжив, у виразі to have a bee in one's bonnet);

"Tuts! Renwick," remarked Gibson soothingly, "don't get a bee in your bonnet. I could see nothing wrong with the girl to-day" (A. Cronin).

659. bee line (тж. bee-line) пряма лінія, найкоротша відстань;

The young man saw the cow coming first, and he gallantly struck a bee line for the fence, leaving the girl to manage for herself (H. Lawson).

660. be enthroned in the hearts, to панува­ ти в серцях.

661. be equal (або rise) to the occasion

(або emergency), to бути на висоті станови­ща, не розгубитися в складних обставинах;

William, shrinking in his youth and inexperience from arguing upon topics so momentous, was not equal to the emergency (H. Wood).

Dyer was no weakling. The problem presenting, he rose to the emergency (S. White).

662. beer and skittles святкові розваги (звич. вжив, в заперечних реченнях); див. тж. L-715;

І had been chased for my life; and for all my pains I was back where I had started. Oh, no. life on the road is not all beer and skittles... (/. Lon­don).

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663. beetle browed (тж. beetle-browed) із звислими бровами; див. тж. В-664;

The man who had entered the shop was a short, slightly hunched, beetle browed man with long arms and very short bandy legs (H. Wells).

664. beetle (або beetling) brows [гас. bushy brows (або eyebrows)] (звислі) густі брови;

He wore a loose great-coat, called, at the time, a wraprascal, and his slouched hat was pulled over his beetle brows (W. Ainsworth).

He blinked rapidly under his black bushy brows (A. Cronin).

665. beetle crushers розм. І) великі ноги, ножища; широкі ступні; 2) великі чоботи, чоботища.

666. beetling brows див. В-664.

667. be even hands with one, to див. В-668.

668. be (або get) even with one, to (тж. шотл. to be even hands with one) розквита­ тися, звести рахунки з кимсь; помститися комусь;

Her little boy will be ever so even with his Vivvums for this (B. Shaw).

669. be fathoms deep in love, to див. В-788.

670. be fed-up (with), to розм. переситити­ ся (чимсь), мати огиду (до чогось);

Once he said to Shaw: "You're probably fed-up doing nothing" (J. Aldridge).

671. be finger and thumb, to заст. бути щирими, нерозлучними друзями; ^ водою не розлити.

672. be fired, to [тж. to be laid off; to get one's ticket; to get one's time; to get one's walking orders (або papers, ticket); to get one's walking-orders (або walking-papers, wajking-ticket); to get the big bird; to get (або have) the bird; to get the boot (або the order of the boot); to get the mitten (або the sack); заст. to get (або receive) the canvas; заст. to get the hoof (або the kick, the knock, the^push); діал. to get the bag; шотл. to get one's leave; амер. to get the pink slip; сл. to get the bullet; сл. to go out on one's ear (або neck); амер. сл. to get the bounce (або the gate)] розм. бути звільненим з роботи, посади; див. тж. G-1090, 1);

І wasn't important enough to be fired in the (M П7^Р- ^S° * ^{QUit to keep my self}-^resP^ect

Within ten days the men were laid off and the camps were shut down (D. Carter).

I come get my time," replied the riverman humbly.

jjWhat for?" inquired the lumber man.

I have been over to Howard City!" confessed Dan (S. White).

"I hope he doesn't fire you when we get back to New York," she said

"Maybe he's the one who'll get his walking papers," Billy replied (Beth McHenry and Frederick N. Myers).

He should not, of course, tell her that he had been detected in stealing; he must say he had "got the big bird" for cheeking the foreman (I. Gals­worthy).

Has your young man had the bird? (7. Gals­worthy).

There'd be more rejects, more break-downs. He'd get the sack (7. Sommerfield),

Too shy and proud to ask for recommendation from Conglomerated Journals, he could never bring himself to explain why he had "got the hoof" (I. Galsworthy).

Why, everyone's got the bullet (J. Lindsay).

Be here tonight, six o'clock sharp. I warn you I've had assistants before. None of them were any damn good. They went out on their ear (A. Cronin).

One of the girls was telling me a cook started agitating six months ago, and he went out on his neck at once (/. Lindsay).

673. be fish out of water, to (тж. to be fish- out-of-water) бути як риба без води, почу­ вати себе ніяково, бути не в своїй стихії;

We're bumping against new people, and then set up to be gentlefolks — etiquette dinners and all the rest of it. They give themselves airs and expect us to be fish-out-of-water (H. Wells).

674. be flesh and blood, to бути людиною; мати людські почуття, слабості.

675. be flush of coin (або money), to [тж. to be made of money; to have money to burn; to roll (або wallow) in money (або riches, wealth); прострч. to stink of (або with) money (або сл. brass); сл. to be in the gravy] мати багато грошей, бути дуже багатим; ^ грошей кури не клюють; див тж. Н-716, Н-717 та В-974;

І suppose the young chaps are not too flush of coin (W. Thackeray).

"I suppose," said the constable, looking round, "that no gentleman here can give evidence as to whether he's been flush of money of late" (Ch. Dickens).

You know we are not made of money, Robert (A. Cronin).

Say why don't you get married with all this money to burn (J. London).

They all claimed to be very poor, when as a mat­ter of fact they were rolling in wealth (Th. Dreiser).

"George," she cried, "the things women are! Do I stink of money?" (H. Wells).

Langton is so much in the habit of going about among the country families, and these novi homines of manufacturers who stink of brass, as they say in these parts, that he forgets there is such a thing as having to look carefully at ways and means, my dear Ashurst, and make both dovetail (E. Yates).

Oh yes! Since he changed his job he's been in the gravy (A. Worrall).

676. be flush with one's money, to си­ пати, розкидатися грошима.

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677. be fond of a jovial bowl (або of one's glass, of the bottle), to мати при­ страсть до спиртних напоїв, любити ви­ пивати;-

І saw him down at the hotel shouting the drinks for Sam. I think he's pretty fond of the bottle now (7. Aldridge).

678. be fond of (або love) one's own way,

to любити діяти самостійно, незалежно, на власний розсуд.