Silver Idioms

Add colour to your language using these idioms related with 'silver'.

To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth

Born into a wealthy family.

Перевод: родиться в сорочке.

Пример: Maybe for you, but I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

To give/hand something on a silver plate/platter

To allow someone to get something very easily, without having to work for it.

Перевод: на блюдечке с голубой каемочкой.

Пример: If you sell your share in the company now, you're handing the ownership to him on a silver plate.

The silver screen

A term for the cinema.

Перевод: на большом экране.

Пример: Do you fancy going to watch that movie on the silver screen tonight?

Genius without education is like silver in the mine

Superior intellectual power is a wasted resource unless it is nurtured by education.

Перевод: Гений без образования подобен серебру, что еще в руднике. (Франклин).

Пример: The school was set up to feed the minds of exceptionally gifted students, on the principle that genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Every cloud has a silver lining Even the most unpleasant experience or depressing situation may have a consoling aspect or hopeful prospect; used to raise somebody’s spirits, or said by those who discover a hidden advantage in their misfortune.

Перевод: нет худа без добра.

Вариант: the darkest cloud has a silver lining.

Синонимичная пословица: april showers bring may flowers.

Пример: I was devastated when the accident put an end to my sporting career, but in the idle days that followed I discovered I had a talent for writing. Every cloud has a silver lining, so they say.