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Task 1. Study the following examples and try to understand the underlined idioms in context. Find their Russian equivalents.
The sources close to the Government of Uzbekistan report a serious staff shuffle in the upper echelons of state power.
The real estate tycoon was never seen without his expensive car.
Because of its prominence as one of New York City’s top independent schools, over the years, and still today, many famous “movers and shakers” in entertainment, politics, news, business and the arts have sent their children to Fieldstone.
In this spy thriller, the top brass at the Central Intelligence Agency get an alarming message: a nuclear weapon is missing from the U.S. arsenal.
My boss is a typical yuppie from Manhattan with the expensive flat, financed car and the latest model of mobile phone.
Unknown terrorists gun down a leader of Philippine Communist Party, sending shock waves in the party rank and file.
“You’re not just a cog in a machine,” said David Foote, sales manager of THT Inc., when his assistant prevented him from doing the wrong step.
Let me explain the square peg in a round hole problem I often experience here, in overcrowded company headquarters.
They’ve taken on some financial whizz-kid who’s going to sort all their problems out.
My brother has been working for DHL Company for 15 years, but I am a real rolling stone: I have changed 10 places for the same period.
Our sales manager is a real cowboy; he never does the job properly.
Recently, I sat down with Brian Berson, the big cheese in Extensis, to ask him a few questions about his experience with software development, the future of font management, and even a bit about his accent.
Los-Angeles neighborhood with its million-dollar estates, is full of fat cats.
He wasn’t so important in the big city but now in the small town he is a big fish in a small pond.
Task 2. Match the following idioms with their corresponding definitions.
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Task 3. Substitute for the underlined phrase an idiom with the same meaning.
That guy is 23 and he is a CEO of multinational company – What a young person who becomes successful very quickly !
Ruth doesn’t have the skill for this job; she’s someone who is not suited to her position.
Frank knew he was just an unimportant person, or a small part of this giant corporation.
The senior executives are coming in from Washington to see how we do things there.
Don’t act like an important person among your old friends; it may provoke an unexpected conflict.
Hopefully it’s not too late and Richard has at last listened to his Dad, rather than his young well-paid drinking mates from Lan Kwai Fong.
During the past few months fringe independent parties, political careerists and their ordinary people in an organization who have no special position, masses increasingly followed the trend of going back to their old promises.
Brill Media is no longer [a] somebody whose importance & influence are great only in a restricted situation. Brill Media sold its two dozen local newspapers and real estate guides in Michigan to 21st Century Newspapers for $46 million.
Staff changes in the highest levels of TV and Radio Broadcasting Corporation Kazakhstan: the end of the state "Sufi TV"?
The figure of the media proprietor first became prominent in the 19th century with the development of mass circulation newspapers. In the United States the best known press magnate was William Randolph Hearst.
Kate’s lived in ten cities in as many years - she’s a real person who moves from place to place, from job to job.
Your representative is a real unmanageable but often successful person; dishonest & careless in business – he has forgotten important samples and documents!
In addition to focusing on the important, influential people of San dance community, the documentary also takes time to recognize the societal and cultural forces that have shaped it, including gender and sexual characteristics.
Look at those people who are rich & powerful in the Government; they do not realize what their policy will end with!
Task 4. Complete the sentences with one of the idioms in focus, paying special attention to their form.
A born………………………., Ann Green wants desperately to fit for her new position.
People called ………………...traditionally reap a substantial financial gain from a business, while the people who are employed by it, do not. They often make contribution into political campaigns.
This mechanic engineer is just …………………………………and I won’t stop the work of the whole plant because of his stupid remarks!
It was a place where important Republican Party …………………..could come to relax and to enjoy the favors of very beautiful women.
Pop superstar Christina Aguilera has become the ideal housewife since marrying marketing ………………… Jordan Bratman, brilliant young professional market analyst.
Wait! If you want to take a day-off, you'll have to get permission from our ………………………!
The Russian oil…….……………were well connected entrepreneurs who started from nearly nothing and got rich through participation in the market via connections to the current highly corrupt regime at the time during the transition to capitalism.
Women are still under-represented in ……………………………of United Nations, says office of internal oversight services report.
Ashley is a proverbial……………………….., being the most famous and powerful model in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, her hometown, and absolutely unpopular in the agencies of New-York and Los-Angeles.
The documentary about the April 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster made a plea for the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. to put aside their differences in the wake of the incident. Angry residents called for the death penalty for the ……………………………………… at the nuclear plant.
Even each ……………………….. member of the party had lost the confidence in the leadership.
The restaurant’s modern interior attracted crowds of…………………………who were always ready for something new and expensive.
I haven’t hired her, because it’s her fifth job in this year, and my company is not a warm place for the…………………..............!
I was shocked when got to know that this …………………[manager] develops salary packages for executive, managerial, and professional positions at pharmaceutical company. He is so careless and dishonest person!
Task 5. Translate the following sentences into English using idioms instead of the phrases underlined.
В этом архиве представлены шокирующие факты о том, что на самом деле происходит в высших эшелонах власти Америки.
Связи малазийского магната в строительном бизнесе и в правительстве спасли его от наказания за разрушение многих зданий в результате землетрясения.
По натуре он – перекати-поле, но с другой стороны не могу не восхищаться его управленческими качествами.
Во время работы в Голд Букс мистер Симпсонс был, на самом деле, маленьким винтиком в огромной машине Издательского Дома.
Попав в компанию нью-йоркских яппи, русская супермодель Наталья Волкова посещает дорогие рестораны, бутики и спортклубы.
У Тома ковбойский стиль управления: он игнорирует правила, идет на риск, не думает о последствиях.
Мистер Клуни – большая шишка в нашей компании, он каждый день обедает с генеральным директором и у него есть личный самолет.
Создавая новую партию, Президент и его сильная профессиональная команда проехали всю страну, чтобы привлечь как можно больше граждан.
Мы возлагаем большие надежды на этого одаренного молодого человека, которому в свои 19 лет уже удалось стать директором по продажам.
Все высшее начальство из Киева приглашено на нашу презентацию.
В отделе рекламы мне очень нравился креативный подход к работе, а в бухгалтерии я чувствую себя не в своей тарелке.
Сейчас трудно найти простого человека в высших эшелонах власти – там одни толстосумы!
Наш мэр не поможет вам пройти в Европарламент! Он – шишка местного масштаба.
В связи с юбилеем компании все простые работники получат 5% премии, а начальство – новые автомобили.
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