have quicksilver in one's veins
- have quicksilver in one's veins
быть подвижным как ртуть, быть очень живым, подвижным человеком
‘Where the vengeance are you going now,’ he said, ‘Thou restless boy? That hast quicksilver in the veins of thee to a certainty...’ (W. Scott, ‘The Abbot’, ch. XIX) — - Куда, скажи на милость, ты снова собрался? - спросил Адам Вудкок. - Экий же ты непоседа! У тебя, наверно, ртуть в жилах...
Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа»..
2006.
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