Shannon Fife
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-f-/aphorism-2716

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The hardest people to convince they are at retirement age are children at bedtime.

spill the beans
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/rus/english/idioms/american/i_s/7461-spill-the-beans

#esl #английский #неформальное #глагол

spill the beans (https://www.sky-net-eye.com/rus/?redir=7461-spill-the-beans)  {v. phr.},  {informal}
Раскрывать секрет тому, кто не должен о нем знать.
John's friends were going to have a surprise party for him, but Tom spilled the beans.
Ср.:
GIVE AWAY (https://www.sky-net-eye.com/rus/~google/GIVE+AWAY) (3),
LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG (https://www.sky-net-eye.com/rus/?redir=4727-let-the-cat-out-of-the-bag),
TELL TALES OUT OF SCHOOL (https://www.sky-net-eye.com/rus/~google/TELL+TALES+OUT+OF+SCHOOL).
Категории:

friends (https://www.sky-net-eye.com/rus/~tag/friends)

{informal} (https://www.sky-net-eye.com/rus/~tag/%7Binformal%7D)

Warren Bennis
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-b-/aphorism-2860

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U.S. leadership guru
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

F. Dostoevsky
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-d-/aphorism-5297

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I like them to talk nonsense. That's man's one privilege over all creation. Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

Faith Whittlesey
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-u-/aphorism-3519

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U.S. politician
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.

Margaret Turnbull, Alabaster Lamps
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-t-/aphorism-3399

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No man is responsible for his father; that is entirely his mother's affair.

Linda Ellerbee
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-e-/aphorism-2473

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U.S. journalistTV anchor
If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

Since Adam was a boy
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/rus/english/proverbs/S_p/Since-Adam-was-a-boy

#учиманглийский #пословица

С того времени, когда Адам был ребенком. (Т. е. с незапамятных времен.)
Ср. Со времен царя Гороха.

E.B. White
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-u-/aphorism-2476

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(1899-- 1985)
English writer
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the by-laws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

play possum
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/rus/english/idioms/american/i_p/6220-play-possum