10 АНГЛІЙСЬКА КНИЖКИ ПОВ'ЯЗАНІ ІЗ «CLING LIKE A LEECH»
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Speaking of Animals:
A Dictionary of Animal Metaphors
CLING LIKE A LEECH to cling (to someone) like a leech. To attach yourself to
someone in a condition of total dependency. Source: LEECH. WNNCD: O.E. The
leech (q.v.), or bloodsucker (q.v.), clings to a fish by means of its suckers and
lives ...
Robert Allen Palmatier, 1995
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Anglické obrazné fráze
a idiomy - English as easy as ABC
LEECH – to stick/cling like a leech – přisát se na někoho jako pijavice “Whenever
we invite our former neighbour to stay with us, we can never get rid of him. He
sticks like a leech.” A leech is a bloodsucking worm. Leeches are still being used
...
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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
To cling like a leech (APP 217; EAP 257; MP 367) 1990 "an American girl has
attached herself to me like a leech." (p. 145) Larsen, Gaylord. Dorothy and
Agatha. 1990. New York: Onyx Books, 1992. 1990 They clung to her and to each
other ...
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder, 2005
Then Brahmanas would come and sing hymns in the corridor outside her
bedchamber. 'Stick. Sink. Cling. Like a leech. Like a crab. Hold on as fire to wood.
' This was an indicator that the womb was no longer ripe and that the husband
should ...
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The Florist and Pomologist:
A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of ...
It grows from seeds freely, and every little bit of its stem will push out roots, and
cling like a leech to wall or rock ; But when it has once got the upper hand, and
shows flower and fruit, the branch that has done this deed, creeps and clings no ...
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The Florist and Pomologist
It grows from seeds freely, and every little bit of its stem will push out roots, and
cling like a leech to wall or rock ; but when it has once got the upper hand, and
shows flower and fruit, the branch that has done this deed, creeps and clings no ...
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Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist
... 'l w' it Which made Brother Richar observe to my Sister, "i't'b" a' That though
they hate titles as much as O'Connor, ' They cling like a Leech to the sound of “
Your H0nour.”-—-'q_ And now for my dress-but mkpaper 's scrawl'd through, “imp
.
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal
They all seem'd amazing] sh of plain Mister; Which made Brother Richar observe
to my Sister, That though they hate titles as much as O'Connor, The cling like a
Leech to the sound of “ Your Honour.”— An now for my dress—but mépaper 's ...
Once she had said to him: "Sometimes I think that for duty's sake you would cling
like a leech." It was true. For thirty long years he had been in one sense
homeless, his wife having lost her reason three years after they were married. In
that time ...
Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker
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Yuletide Engagement &
A Yuletide Seduction
“Gareth is going to cling like a leech,” Ellie warned heavily. Patrick's mouth
tightened. “I agree. He's a parasite.” How embarrassing it was for her that she
had been the previous woman taken in by Gareth's charm! In fact, she would
rather not ...
