подавать на блюдечке

link 5.11.2009 14:08

Subject: подавать на блюдечке lit.

Пожалуйста, помогите перевести!
"Подавать на блюдечке" как фразеологизм.
Выражение встречается в следующем контексте:
"Никто никогда не подавал мне ничего на блюдечке"
Заранее спасибо.

%&$ ✉

link 5.11.2009 14:15

http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/plate_1
7hand/give/offer somebody something on a plateto let someone get or achieve something easily, without much effort from them:
I worked hard for what I've got. It wasn't handed to me on a plate.

Аристарх ✉

link 5.11.2009 14:16

I have always obtained everything by dint of my own hard toil.

2009iscool ✉

link 5.11.2009 14:16

for nothing?

2009iscool ✉

link 5.11.2009 14:17

http://www.multitran.ru/c/m.exe?a=3&s=��&sc=0&l1=2&l2=1

2009iscool ✉

link 5.11.2009 14:20

прикол:
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/present

а вообще:
give/hand something to somebody on a (silver) platter
to let someone get something very easily, without having to work for it If you sell your share in the company now, you're handing the ownership to him on a silver platter.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/platter

Ниночка ✉

link 5.11.2009 14:52

I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

Nothing has ever been handed to me on a silver platter.

watchkeeper @ work ✉

link 6.11.2009 3:56

I wasn't born with a silver spoon up my ass.

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