John Singer Sargent

(1856—1925)

U.S. artist

A portrait is a painting with something wrong about the mouth.

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mouth

[mouth] See: [BORN WITH A SILVER SPOON IN ONE'S MOUTH], [BUTTER WOULDN'T MELT IN ONE'S MOUTH], [BY WORD OF MOUTH], [DOWN IN THE DUMPS] or [DOWN IN THE MOUTH], [FOAM […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

straight from the horses mouth

[straight from the horse's mouth] {slang} Directly from the person or place where it began; from a reliable source or a person that cannot be doubted. * /They are going […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth

[laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth] or [laugh on the other side of one's mouth] or [laugh out of the other side of one's mouth] {v. phr.}, {informal} […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

wrong

[wrong] See: [BARK UP THE WRONG TREE], [BET ON THE WRONG HORSE], [GET OFF ON THE WRONG FOOT], [GET UP ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE BED], [IN THE WRONG], […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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бешеные деньги

[бешеные деньги] или [безумные деньги] или [сумасшедшие деньги] или […]

pass by the board

[pass by the board] See: [GO BY THE BOARD].

put by

[put by] {v.} To save for the future; lay aside. * /He had put by a good sum during a working lifetime./

Arjay Miller, Dean of Stanford GSB

Don't do anything you wouldn't be willing to explain on television.