Словарь американских идиом (8000 единиц)
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[stick to one's ribs] or [stick to the ribs] <v. phr.>, <informal> To keep you from getting hungry again too quickly. * /Doctors say you should eat a good breakfast that sticks to your ribs./ * /Farmers eat food that sticks to the ribs./
[stick to the point] <v. phr.> To stay on course during a discussion; adhere to the topic; not talk about extraneous matters. * /Stick to the point and stop telling us your life history!/ See: COME TO THE POINT.
[stick up] <v.>, <informal> To rob with a gun. * /When the messenger left the bank, a man jumped out of an alley and stuck him up./ Syn.: HOLD UP. * /In the old West, outlaws sometimes stuck up the stagecoaches./
[stick-up] <n.>, <informal> A robbery by a man with a gun. * /Mr. Smith was the victim of a stick-up last night./
[stick up for] See: STAND UP FOR.
[stick with] <v.>, <informal> 1. or [stay with] To continue doing; not quit. * /Fred stayed with his homework until it was done./ * /Practicing is tiresome, but stick with it and some day you will be a good pianist./ Compare: STICK TO. 2. To stay with; not leave. * /Stick with me until we get out of the crowd./ * /For two months Bill's boss could not pay his salary, but Bill stuck with him because he thought the company would soon succeed./ 3. To sell (someone) something poor or worthless; cheat. * /Father said that the man in the store tried to stick him with a bad TV set./ 4. To leave (someone) with (something unpleasant); force to do or keep something because others cannot or will not.
– Usually used in the passive. * /When Harry and I went to the store to buy ice cream cones, Harry ran out with his cone without paying and I was stuck with paying for it./ * /Mary didn't wash the dishes before she left so I'm stuck with it./ * /Mr. Jones bought a house that is too big and expensive, but now he's stuck with it./
[stick with] <v. phr.> To unfairly thrust upon; encumber one with. * /In the restaurant my friends stuck me with the bill although it was supposed to be Dutch treat./
[sticky fingers] <n. phr.>, <slang> 1. The habit of stealing things you see and want. * /Don't leave money in your locker; some of the boys have sticky fingers./ * /Don't leave that girl alone in the room with so many valuable objects around, because she has sticky fingers./ 2. Ability to catch a ball, especially football forward passes. * /Jack is very tall and has sticky fingers. He is an end on the football team./
[stiff] See: KEEP A STIFF UPPER LIP, SCARE OUT OF ONE'S WITS or SCARE STIFF.
[still] See: HEART STAND STILL.
[still life] <n. phr.> A term used by artists to describe a motionless picture of a bowl of fruit, flowers, etc. * /One of van Gogh's most famous still lifes is a vase of yellow flowers./
[still waters run deep] Quiet people probably are profound thinkers.
– A proverb. * /He doesn't say much, but he sure looks smart. Well, still waters run deep, isn't that true?/
[stir up] <v.> 1. To bring (something) into being, often by great exertion or activity; cause. * /It was a quiet afternoon, and John tried to stir up some excitement./ * /Bob stirred up a fight between Tom and Bill./ Compare: WHIP UP(2). 2. To cause (someone) to act; incite to action or movement; rouse. * /The coach's pep talk stirred up the team to win./ * /When Mary heard what Betty said about her, she became stirred up./
[stir up a hornet's nest] <v. phr.> To make many people angry; do something that many people don't like. * /The principal stirred up a hornet's nest by changing the rules at school./
[stitch] See: IN STITCHES.
[stock] See: IN STOCK, OUT OF STOCK, TAKE STOCK, TAKE STOCK IN.
[stock-in-trade] <n. phr.> The materials which one customarily deals, sells, or offers. * /Imported silk blouses from the Orient are the stock-in-trade of their small shop./ * /Anecdotes are often an after-dinner speaker's stock-in-trade./
[stomach] See: EYES BIGGER THAN ONE'S STOMACH, BUTTERFLIES IN YOUR STOMACH, TURN ONE'S STOMACH.
[stone] See: CAST THE FIRST STONE, HAVE A HEART OF STONE, KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE, LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED, PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES SHOULD NOT THROW STONES, ROLLING STONE GATHERS NO MOSS.
[stone-blind] <adj. phr.> 1. Completely blind. * /Poor Al is stone-blind and needs help to get across the street carefully./ 2. Highly intoxicated. * /George drank too much and got stone-blind at the office party./ See: GET STONED, THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND.
[stone-broke] or [dead broke] or [flat broke] <adj.>, <informal> Having no money; penniless. * /Jill wanted to go to the movies but she was stone-broke./ * /The man gambled and was soon flat broke./
[stone-cold] <adj.> Having no warmth; completely cold.
– Used to describe things that are better when warm. * /The boys who got up late found their breakfast stone-cold./ * /The furnace went off and the radiators were stone-cold./
[stone-dead] <adj.>, <informal> Showing no signs of life; completely dead. * /Barry tried to revive the frozen robin but it was stone-dead./
[stone-deaf] <adj. phr.> Completely deaf. * /Sam is stone-deaf so let him read your lips if you know no sign language./
[stone wall] or [brick wall] <adj.> Something hard to overcome; an idea or belief that is hard to change. * /The students ran into a brick wall when they asked the principal to put off the examination./ * /Dick tried to change Father's mind about letting him use the car Saturday night, but he was up against a stone wall./
[stone's throw] or [within a stone's throw] <adv. phr.> Within a very short distance. * /They live across the street from us, just within a stone's throw./ See: HOP, SKIP AND A JUMP.
[stool pigeon] <n.> A criminal who informs on his associates. * /The detective was able to solve the crime mainly through information obtained from a stool pigeon./
[stop] See: PUT AN END TO(1), or PUT A STOP TO.
[stop at nothing] <v. phr.> To be unscrupulous. * /Al will stop at nothing to get Nancy to go out with him./
[stop by] See: DROP BY.
[stop cold] or [stop dead] or [stop in one's tracks] <v. phr.>, <informal> To stop very quickly or with great force. * /The hunter pulled the trigger and stopped the deer cold./ * /When I saw Mary on the street, I was so surprised I stopped dead./ * /The deer heard a noise and he stopped in his tracks./
[stop off] <v.> To stop at a place for a short time while going somewhere. * /We stopped off after school at the soda fountain before going home./ * /On our trip to California we stopped off in Las Vegas for two days./