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1 all beer and skittles
Life isn't all skittles and swipes. — Жизнь - это не только забавы и развлечения.
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2 life is not a bed of roses
посл.(life is not a bed of roses (тж. life is not all beer and skittles))в жизни не одни только радости (ср. жизнь прожить - не поле перейти) [выражение life is not all beer and skittles создано Т. Хьюзом; см. цитату]; см. тж. a bed of rosesLife isn't all beer and skittles. (Th. Hughes, ‘Tom Brown's Schooldays’, ch. II) — В жизни не одни только радости.
A parochial life is not a bed of roses, Mrs. Mann. (Ch. Dickens, ‘Oliver Twist’, ch. XVII) — В приходском приюте отнюдь не райское житье, миссис Мэн.
Married life is not all beer and skittles. (E. Waugh, ‘Decline and Fall’, part I, ch. XIII) — Семейная жизнь отнюдь не сплошное безоблачное счастье.
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3 кот
муж. tom(-) cat не все коту масленица, придет и великий пост посл. ≈ all good things must come to an end;
you have to take the rough with the smooth;
after dinner comes the reckoning сиамский кот купить кота в мешке кот наплакал
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