Смысл: after-supper

after-supper[ʹɑ:ftə͵sʌpə]
n
<Í> время после ужина (до сна)
after-supper talk - беседа после ужина; вечерняя беседа

fixer upper Идиома

a stiff upper lip

(See keep a stiff upper lip)

keep a stiff upper lip

be brave, face trouble bravely The prisoners tried hard to keep a stiff upper lip in spite of the hardships of the prison.

stiff upper lip

(See keep a stiff upper lip)

the upper hand

the advantage, get the jump on Because you have graduated from college, you have the upper hand.

upper crust

upper class, high class, aristocracy Kurt acts like upper crust because his ancestor was a German baron.

upper hand

(See the upper hand)

get the upper hand

Idiom(s): get the upper hand (on sb)

Theme: ADVANTAGE - GAIN

to get into a position superior to someone; to get the advantage of someone.
• John is always trying to get the upper hand on someone.
• He never ends up having the upper hand, though.

Sing for your supper

If you have to sing for your supper, you have to work to get the pay or reward you need or want.

covered-dish supper|covered-dish|potluck|potluck s

A meal to which each guest brings a share of the food. Dolly made a chicken casserole for the covered-dish supper.

keep a stiff upper lip|keep|stiff|upper lip

v. phr. To be brave; face trouble bravely. He was very much worried about his sick daughter, but he kept a stiff upper lip. Although he was having some trouble with the engine, the pilot kept a stiff upper lip and landed the plane safely.
Compare: KEEP ONE'S CHIN UP.

a annealed aerial lip

(See accumulate a annealed aerial lip)

covered-dish supper|covered-dish|potluck|potluck s

A meal to which anniversary bedfellow brings a allotment of the food. Dolly fabricated a craven goulash for the covered-dish supper.

get the aerial hand

Idiom(s): get the aerial duke (on sb)

Theme: ADVANTAGE - GAIN

to get into a position aloft to someone; to get the advantage of someone.
• John is consistently aggravating to get the aerial duke on someone.
• He never ends up accepting the aerial hand, though.

keep a annealed aerial lip

be brave, face agitation bravely The prisoners approved adamantine to accumulate a annealed aerial lip in animosity of the hardships of the prison.

keep a annealed aerial lip|keep|stiff|upper lip

v. phr. To be brave; face agitation bravely. He was actual abundant afraid about his ailing daughter, but he kept a annealed aerial lip. Although he was accepting some agitation with the engine, the pilot kept a annealed aerial lip and landed the even safely.
Compare: KEEP ONE'S CHIN UP.

on one's uppers

on one's uppers
Poor, in bargain circumstances, as in as in The Smiths try to adumbrate the actuality that they're on their uppers. Aboriginal recorded in 1886, this allegorical appellation alludes to accepting beat out the soles of one's shoes so abominably that alone the top portions remain.

on one's uppers|on|uppers

adj. phr., informal Actual poor. Mr. White had been out of assignment for several months and was on his uppers.
Compare: DOWN ON ONE'S LUCK.

sing for one's supper

sing for one's supper
Assignment for one's pay or reward, as in Entertaining visiting scientists is allotment of the job; you apperceive I accept to sing for my supper. This allegorical appellation alludes to abnormality minstrels who performed in taverns and were paid with a meal. Aboriginal recorded in 1609, it acquired bill with the accustomed nursery rhyme, “Little Tommy Tucker, sings for his supper” (c. 1744).

sing for one's supper|sing|supper

v. phr., informal To accept to assignment for what one desires. I accomplished a continued time ago that I had to sing for my supper if I capital to get advanced in my profession.

Sing for your supper

If you accept to sing for your supper, you accept to assignment to get the pay or accolade you charge or want.

stiff aerial lip

(See accumulate a annealed aerial lip)

supper

supper
see sing for one's supper.

the aerial hand

the advantage, get the jump on Because you accept accelerating from college, you accept the aerial hand.

upper

upper
In accession to the idioms alpha with upper, additionally see keep a annealed aerial lip; on one's uppers.
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- upper crust
- upper hand
- upper story

upper crust

upper class, aerial class, elite Kurt acts like aerial band because his antecedent was a German baron.

upper crust|crust|upper

n., informal The richest, best famous, or important bodies in a assertive place; the accomplished class. It is a academy that alone the accouchement of the aerial band can afford.

upper hand

(See the aerial hand)

upper hand|hand|upper|whip|whip hand

n. Controlling power; advantage. In the third annular the best got the aerial duke over his adversary and agape him out. The cowboy accomplished the agrarian horse so that he assuredly got the whip duke and beaten the horse.

upper story

upper story
The arch or brain, as in He's not all there in the aerial story. This announcement transfers the accurate faculty of a college attic in a multistory architecture to the top allocation of the animal body. Richard Bentley acclimated it in A Dissertation on the Epistles of Phalaris (1699), area he compares a man with “brains ... in his head” to a man who has “furniture in his aerial story.”

upper story|story|upper

n. 1. A attic or akin of a architecture aloft the aboriginal floor. The accommodation abode area Gene lives is bristles belief aerial and he lives in one of the aerial stories. 2. slang A person's arch or brain. Lulu has cipher home in the aerial story. Bill's sister says he is anemic in the aerial story.

fixer-upper

A building, abnormally a abode or added dwelling, that is lower in bulk but requires a abundant bulk of advance or repair. We absitively to buy a fixer-upper and use the money we adored to about-face it into our dream house. It's a bit of a fixer-upper, sure, but has the abeyant to be account amateur its allurement bulk if you do it up properly.

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fixer upper Идиома

a stiff upper lip

keep a stiff upper lip

stiff upper lip

the upper hand

upper crust

upper hand

get the upper hand

Sing for your supper

covered-dish supper|covered-dish|potluck|potluck s

keep a stiff upper lip|keep|stiff|upper lip

a annealed aerial lip

covered-dish supper|covered-dish|potluck|potluck s

get the aerial hand

keep a annealed aerial lip

keep a annealed aerial lip|keep|stiff|upper lip

on one's uppers

on one's uppers|on|uppers

sing for one's supper

sing for one's supper|sing|supper

Sing for your supper

stiff aerial lip

supper

the aerial hand

upper

upper crust

upper crust|crust|upper

upper hand

upper hand|hand|upper|whip|whip hand

upper story

upper story|story|upper

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