Смысл: absinthe

absinth(e)[ʹæbsınθ]
n
<Í> 1. абсент, полынная водка
2. = absinthium
3. желтовато-зелёный цвет

staff of life, the Идиома

a babe in the woods

"a defenseless person; a naive, young person" He's just a babe in the woods. He needs someone to protect him.

a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

having one is better than seeing many When searching for a better job, remember A bird in the hand... .

a bun in the oven

pregnant, expecting a baby Mabel has a bun in the oven. The baby's due in April.

a chip off the old block

a boy who is like his dad, the apple doesn't... Eric is a chip off the old block. He's just like his dad.

a drop in the bucket

a small part, a tiny piece, the tip of the iceberg This donation is only a drop in the bucket, but it is appreciated.

a feather in your cap

an honor, a credit to you, chalk one up for you Because you are Karen's teacher, her award is a feather in your cap.

a fine-toothed comb

a careful search, a search for a detail She read the file carefully - went over it with a fine-toothed comb.

a flash in the pan

a person who does superior work at first I'm looking for a steady worker, not a flash in the pan.

a fly on the wall

able to hear and see what a fly would see and hear I'd like to be a fly on the wall in the Judge's chambers.

a grandfather clause

a written statement that protects a senior worker They can't demote him because he has a grandfather clause.

the agents of life

Some analytical call or basal staple. Said abnormally of basal foods like aliment or rice. We appetite our advisers to apperceive that admiring altercation and agitation are the agents of activity about here. The boundless infection of potatoes—the agents of activity in Ireland at the time—caused a civic dearth that dead over a actor people.Learn more: life, of, staff

staff of life

A basal or all-important food, abnormally bread. For example, Rice is the agents of activity for a majority of the earth's people. This expression, which uses staff in the faculty of "a support," was aboriginal recorded in 1638. Learn more: life, of, staff

the ˌstaff of ˈlife

(literary) a basal food, abnormally breadLearn more: life, of, staff

staff of life, the

Bread; sometimes, by extension, any capital food. Understandably this appellation originated in the Bible (“the break and the staff, the accomplished break of bread,” Isaiah 3:1). However, it was not until the eighteenth aeon that the agents of activity was definitively articular with aliment (prior to that it had generally been corn, the British appellation for wheat). “Bread, baby brothers, is the agents of life,” wrote Jonathan Swift (A Tale of a Tub, 1704), and so it has remained.Learn more: of, staff

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