Смысл: ad hominem

ad hominem[͵ædʹhɒmınem]
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<Í> 1. рассчитанный на чувства или предубеждения, а не на разум (об аргументации)
2. являющийся личным выпадом, а не возражением по существу

mine Идиома

back to the salt mines

back to work, humorous expression to express going back to unpleasant work Well, lunch is over so let

Your guess is as good as mine

Idiom(s): Your guess is as good as mine.

Theme: CERTAINTY - LACKING

Your answer is likely to be as correct as mine. (Informal.)
• I don't know where the scissors are. Your guess is as good as mine.
• Your guess is as good as mine as to when the train will arrive.

gold mine of information

Idiom(s): gold mine of information

Theme: KNOWLEDGE

someone or something that is full of information.
• Grandfather is a gold mine of information about World War I.
• The new encyclopedia is a positive gold mine of useful information.

either feast or famine

Idiom(s): either feast or famine

Theme: AMOUNT

either too much (of something) or not enough (of something). (Also without either. Fixed order.)
• This month is very dry, and last month it rained almost every day. Our weather is either feast or famine.
• Sometimes we are busy, and sometimes we have nothing to do. It's feast or famine.

cross-examine

Idiom(s): cross-examine sb

Theme: LEGAL - COURTROOM

to ask someone questions in great detail; to question a suspect or a witness at great length.
• The police cross-examined the suspect for three hours.
• The lawyer plans to cross-examine the witness tomorrow morning.

bound and determined

Idiom(s): bound and determined

Theme: DETERMINATION

determined. (Fixed order.)
• We were bound and determined to get there on time.
• I'm bound and determined that this wont happen again.

Back to the salt mine

If someone says they have to go back to the salt mine, they have to return to work.

Canary in a coal mine

(UK) A canary in a coal mine is an early warning of danger.

Feast today, famine tomorrow

If you indulge yourself with all that you have today, you may have to go without tomorrow.

back to the salt mines|back|mine|mines|salt|salt m

informal Back to the job; back to work; back to work that is as hard or as unpleasant as working in a salt mine would be.

An overworked phrase, used humorously. The lunch hour is over, boys. Back to the salt mines! "Vacation is over," said Billy. "Back to the salt mines."

feast or a famine|a feast or a famine|either a fea

n. phr. Plenty or very little; big success or bad failure. In this business it's either a feast or a famine. He is very careless with his money, it is always a feast or a famine with him.

mine of information|information|mine

n. phr. A person, a book, etc., that is a valuable source of information. A dictionary can be a mine of information. He is a mine of information on the stock market.

bound and determined to

bound and determined to
Firmly resolved to, as in He was bound and determined to finish the assignment before taking on another. This phrase is a redundancy used for emphasis, as bound and determined here both mean “resolved to.” Also see bound to, be.

determine

determine
see bound and determined to.

famine

famine
see feast or famine.

feast or famine

feast or famine
Also, either feast or famine. Either too much or too little, too many or too few. For example, Free-lancers generally find it's feast or famine—too many assignments or too few, or Yesterday two hundred showed up at the fair, today two dozen—it's either feast or famine. This expression, which transfers an overabundance or shortage of food to numerous other undertakings, was first recorded in 1732 as feast or fast, the noun famine being substituted in the early 1900s.

get one's head examined

get one's head examined
Also, have one's head examined. One is crazy or absolutely wrong. For example, You like this food? Go get your head examined, or If you believe that story, you should have your head examined. This hyperbolic and usually jocular expression of disagreement may, thought Eric Partridge, allude to the now discredited field of phrenology, which holds that the configurations of the skull reveal mental and emotional characteristics. [Early 1900s]

gold mine

gold mine
A rich, plentiful source of wealth or some other desirable thing, as in That business proved to be a gold mine, or She's a gold mine of information about the industry. [First half of 1800s]

mine

mine
see back to the salt mines; gold mine; your guess is as good as mine.