Page 51 - Міністерство освіти і науки України

“thriver”, he will enjoy his tea or coffee break around about 11. The tea or coffee is
usually brought to the factory bench or office desk.
Then, at mid-day, everything stops for lunch. Most offices and small shops
close for an hour, say from 1 to 2, and the city pavements are thronged with people
on their way to cafes. Factory workers usually eat in their canteens.
The usual mid-day usually consists of two courses – a meat course
accompanied by plenty of vegetables, followed by a sweet dish, perhaps fruit
pudding and custard with tea or coffee to finish. Most Englishmen like what they call
“good plain food, not messed about with”. They must be able to recognize what they
are eating. Otherwise they are likely to refuse it. Usually they like beef steaks, chops,
roast beef and Yorkshire pudding and fried fish and chipped potatoes.
They are in the main not overfond of soup, remarking that it fills them without
leaving sufficient room for the more important meat course. Then back to the work
again, with another break in the middle of the afternoon, once again for tea or coffee,
sometimes with a cake or biscuit.
The working day finishes at time between 4 and 6, with the “thrivers” usually
first home and the “strivers” last. On arrival home, many Englishmen seem to like to
inspect their gardens before their evening meal.
This goes under various names - tea, high tea, dinner or supper depending
upon its size and also the social standing of those eating it. Usually a savoury meat
course is followed by stewed fruit or cake and tea. His evening meal over, the
Englishman might do a bit of gardening and then have a walk to the "local" for a
"quick one". The "local" means the nearest beer house while a "quick one" means a
drink (alcoholic, of course!) taking anything from half-an-hour to three hours to
imbibe! There is plenty of lively, congenial company at the "local" and he can play
darts, dominoes, billiards or discuss the weather or the current situation.
But if the Englishman stays at home, he might listen to the radio, watch
television, talk, read or pursue his favourite hobby. Then at any time between 10 and
12 he will have his “nightcap” – a drink accompanied by a snack – and then off to
bed ready for tomorrow.

4. Suggest Ukrainian near equivalents for the idiomatic expressions below:
1. To kill two birds with a stone. 2. A good beginning makes a good ending (A
good beginning is half the battle). 3. To kiss the post. 4. To know as one
knows one’s ten fingers/ to have something at one’s finger tips. 5. To laugh
the wrong side of one’s mouth. 6. To lay something for a rainy day. 7. He that
diggeth a pit for another should look that he fall not into it himself. 8. To lick
one’s boots. 9. Lies have short legs. 10. Life is not a bed of roses. 11. To make
one’s blood run cold. 12. Measure twice and cut once. 13. More royalist than
the king. 14. As naked as a worm. 15. Nobody home. 16. No sooner said than
done. 17. Not to lift a finger. 18. An old dog will learn no new tricks. 19. Old
foxes need no tutors. 20. To buy a pig in a poke. 21. To play one’s game. 22.
To pour water in (into, through) a sieve. 23. To praise smb. beyond the

49