User:CopperKettle/idioms1

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Idioms[edit]

  • to be barely out of the starting blocks
    • "In evolutionary terms this means the human race is barely out of the starting blocks compared with these venerable competitors" (some other species)
  • to have/get the key of the street
    • (from Dickens) to be left without logding; to be homeless;
  • the first sod is turned on a $12 mn project; to turn the first sod on smth.

In Russian[edit]

  • Играть в шашки на дороге