battered child syndrome[ʹbætəd͵tʃaıldʹsındrəʋm]
<Í> синдром жестокого обращения (с ребёнком)

problem child Идиома

in one's second childhood

Idiom(s): in one's second childhood

Theme: CHILDHOOD

being interested in things or people that normally interest children.
• My father bought himself a toy train, and my mother said he was in his second childhood.
• Whenever I go to the river and throw stones, I feel as if I'm in my second childhood.

expecting a child

Idiom(s): expecting (a child)

Theme: PREGNANCY

pregnant. (A euphemism.)
• Tommy's mother is expecting a child.
• Oh, I didn't know she was expecting.

child's play

Idiom(s): child's play

Theme: EASY

something very easy to do.
• The test was child's play to her.
• Finding the right street was child's play with a map.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

A bad experience will make people stay away from certain things.

Spare the rod and spoil the child

If you don't punish a child when he does wrong, you will spoil his character.

It takes a village to raise a child

It takes many people to teach a child all that he or she should know.

With child

(UK) If a woman's with child, she's pregnant.

a wild child

a young adult who goes to lots of parties: "Emma is a bit of a wild child."

A burnt child dreads the fire.

A mistake can be a great teacher.

burnt child dreads the fire|bitten|burnt|child|dre

A person who has suffered from doing something has learned to avoid doing it again.

A proverb. Once Mary had got lost when her mother took her downtown. But a burnt child dreads the fire, so now Mary stays close to her mother when they are downtown.

problem child

1. A adolescent who is decumbent to agrarian or contrary behavior. I apperceive it's adamantine to accept now that he's a acknowledged lawyer, but Timmy was a absolute botheration adolescent and consistently got into trouble! Debbie aloof keeps disobedient no amount what we do—do you accept any suggestions for ambidextrous with a botheration child?2. One aspect of a aggregation that is not assuming as able-bodied as others. At this point, our retail abundance has become such a botheration adolescent that administration is apparently activity to abutting it down afore it bankrupts us.3. A artefact that requires a lot of absorption and allotment in adjustment to be successful. I apperceive you all see this book as a botheration child, but I absolutely do anticipate that it can a album with the appropriate business approach.Learn more: child, problem

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problem child Идиома

in one's second childhood

expecting a child

child's play

A burnt child dreads the fire.

Spare the rod and spoil the child

It takes a village to raise a child

With child

a wild child

A burnt child dreads the fire.

burnt child dreads the fire|bitten|burnt|child|dre

problem child

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