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3 go up like a rocket and come down like a stick
"взлететь как ракета, а упасть как хворостина", взлететь высоко и больно шлёпнуться (ср. хорошо поёшь, где-то сядешь) [первонач. амер.; выражение создано Т. Пейном (Th. Paine, 1737-1809); см. цитату]And the final event to himself has been that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like a stick. (Th. Paine, ‘Letter to the Addressers, Referring to Edmund Burke’, 1792, HBQ) — Так вышло, что Эдмунд Берк блистательно начал и плачевно кончил.
He has risen like a rocket and he will come down like a stick. (J. G. Lockhart, in review of the Pickwick Papers in the Quarterly Review, HBQ) — Диккенс взлетел вверх как ракета, а упал как хворостина.
I will watch for that stick, Mr. Lockhart, and when it comes down, I will break it across your back. (Ch. Dickens, on meeting Lockhart for the first time after the publication of the review referred to above, HBQ) — Я буду следить за этой хворостиной, мистер Локхарт, и, когда она упадет, я обломаю ее на вашей спине.
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