Смысл: abacuses

abacus[ʹæbə|kəs]
n (pl -ci, -cuses [-{ʹæbə}kəsız])
<Í> 1. абак(а); счёты
2. архит.
1) абак(а), верхняя часть капители колонны
2) мозаичная панель
3. мат. номограмма

elbow grease, to use Идиома

a full house (cards)

a pair plus three of a kind, e.g., 2 kings and 3 aces In our last game of poker, you dealt me a full house.

a grandfather clause

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

a household name

"a name everyone knows; name of a famous person" Mario Lemieux, the hockey star, soon became a household name.

a lost cause

a goal or project that is not worth working for That video store is a lost cause. It has never made a profit.

an offer I couldn't refuse

an offer that contains a threat or force, a request that is a command The border guards invited me to stay for further questioning - it was an offer I couldn't refuse.

as poor as a church mouse

very poor, having little, the wolf is at the door How can they refuse to help her? She's as poor as a church mouse.

as useless as a fifth wheel

not useful, not needed, redundant, (four wheels are sufficient) I sat there watching the four of them play bridge, and feeling as useless as a fifth wheel.

as useless as tits on a boar

not useful, not necessary, having no function Our toenails are useless - as useless as tits on a boar.

be used to (+Ving/noun)

" be accustomed to; not uncomfortable with."

bring the house down

cause much laughter in the audience The comedian brought the house down with his jokes about the lost dog.

elbow grease

1. Active scrubbing, about to apple-pie something. You'll never get that blight off after some bend grease.2. By extension, any strenuous, effortful concrete assignment bare to do or achieve something. It took some bend grease, but I assuredly got this old agent up and active again. I apperceive we're active out of time, but if we all use a bit of bend grease, I anticipate we'll be able to get the abode congenital afore the deadline.Learn more: elbow, grease

elbow grease

Fig. adamantine scrubbing. Tom: What did you use to get your car so shiny? Mary: Just approved wax and some bend grease. Joe put a lot of bend grease into charwoman the kitchen.Learn more: elbow, grease

elbow grease

Strenuous concrete effort, as in You'll accept to use some bend grease to get the abode corrective in time. This appellation alludes to active use of one's arm in cleaning, polishing, or the like. It anon was continued to any affectionate of adamantine work, and Anthony Trollope acclimated it still added figuratively ( Thackeray, 1874): "Forethought is the elbow-grease which a biographer ... requires." [First bisected of 1600s] Learn more: elbow, grease

elbow grease

Elbow grease is the adamantine concrete assignment of charwoman something. It took a ample bulk of brightness and bend grease afore the assumption shone like new. These articles are advised to booty the bend grease out of cleaning.Learn more: elbow, grease

ˈelbow grease

(informal) the accomplishment acclimated in concrete work, abnormally in cleaning: The ablution was so old and decrepit that we couldn’t get it apple-pie no amount how abundant bend grease we used.Learn more: elbow, grease