catch some Z's

[catch-as-catch-can] {adj. phr.} Using any means or method; unplanned; free. * /Rip van Winkle seems to have led a catch-as-catch-can life./ * /Politics is rather a catch-as-catch-can business./ Compare: [HIT-OR-MISS]. […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

catch-as-catch-can

[catch-as-catch-can] (1) {adv. phr.} In a free manner; in any way possible; in the best way you can. * /On moving day everything is packed and we eat meals catch-as-catch-can./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

catch

[catch] See: [EARLY BIRD CATCHES THE WORM], [FAIR CATCH], [SHOESTRING CATCH]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

catch some rays

[catch some rays] {v. phr.}, {slang}, {informal} To get tanned while sunbathing. * /Tomorrow I'll go to the beach and try to catch some rays./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

Recent updates

в самый раз

[в самый раз] {adv. phr.} [v `samyij `raz] 1. Suitably, properly. * / The jacket suites me properly. - Эта […]

pass

[pass] See: [BRING TO PASS], [COME TO PASS], [FORWARD PASS], [JUMP PASS], [SCREEN PASS].

Spanish proverb

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.

beat one's brains out

[beat one's brains out] or [beat one's brains] {v. phr.}, {slang} To try very hard to understand or think out something […]