merry as a cricket

merry as a cricket
((as) merry as a cricket (as a marriage-bell или as the maids))
очень весёлый, жизнерадостный, полный жизни; ≈ рад-радёшенек [выражение as merry as a marriage-bell создано Дж. Байроном: Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell. (‘Childe Harold's Pilgrimage’, canto III)]; см. тж. chirpy as a cricket

We will... have old Cobs the fiddler, and be as merry as the maids. (W. Scott, ‘Rob Roy’, ch. IX) — Мы... позовем скрипача Кобса и повеселимся на славу.

I have not had all the luck I expected, but am... as merry as a cricket. (Ch. Kingsley, ‘Two Years Ago’, ch. IV) — Мне не так повезло, как я ожидал, но я и этому рад-радешенек.

She was the best-tempered little thing that ever was. Nothing seemed to put her out. She was always as merry as a cricket. (W. S. Maugham, ‘The Gentleman in the Parlour’, ch. X) — У моей бирманки был чудесный характер. Казалось, ничто не могло вывести ее из себя. Она всегда была всем довольна и весела.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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