exempli gratia

- rookie mistake = a basic mistake, like one that a person with no experience of an activity would make - ошибка новичка [The Office, 2007]

- cougar = an older woman who has sexual relationships with younger men - пума (взрослая женщина, которая предпочитает молодых людей) [The Twilight Saga: New Moon, 2009] 🐆 любой вариант перевода, если он, конечно, есть, приветствуется в комментариях

- detention = a form of punishment in which children are made to stay at school for a short time after classes have ended - задержание после уроков [Normal People, 2020]

- blood in the water = the exposure of a competitive weakness in an opponent that arouses increased competitive aggression in others - кровь в воде (🩸по аналогии с тем, как кровь в воде приманивает акул) [The Crown, 2023]

- any port in a storm = in a difficult situation, people get help from wherever or whoever they can - в беде любой выход хорош/на безрыбье и рак рыба (букв.: в бурю любая гавань хороша) [Nobody Wants This, 2024] https://t.me/for_instance_eng/716

- clink = prison (informal) - зона/тюряга [The Office, 2006]

- to discontinue = to stop making, providing, or selling a particular service or product - прекратить выпуск или продажу/снять с производства [Nobody Wants This, 2024]

- unmentionables = underwear (old-fashioned or humorous) - исподнее [Gone Girl, 2014] 🔞 unmentionable — нечто, что считается неприличным упоминать или обсуждать

- digs = informal for lodgings - хата/берлога (о снимаемом жилье) [Sex and the City, 2002] 💵 а вот тут значение глагола set back

- head over heels = completely in love - по уши влюбленный [The New Pope, 2020] https://t.me/for_instance_eng/382

- to put your money where your mouth is = to show by your actions and not just your words that you support or believe in something - подкрепить слова делом/доказать делом, а не словом [The Office, 2006]

- term of endearment = a kind or friendly name to call someone - ласковое обращение/прозвище [Easy A, 2010]

- subterfuge = deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade - увиливание/уловка/увёртка/отговорка [House of the Dragon, 2024]

- suave = (esp. of men) very polite, pleasant, and usually attractive, often in a way that is slightly false - изысканный/изящный/учтивый/обходительный [Her, 2013] https://t.me/for_instance_eng/709

- freeloader = a person who uses money, food, a room in a house, etc. given by other people, but who gives nothing to them in exchange - халявщик/нахлебник [The Office, 2006]

- AWOL = absent without leave (used to say that a member of the armed forces is away without permission) - самоволка [The Penguin, 2024]

- THE shit = something considered to be excellent or the best of its kind - офигенный/охренительный (💩 обязательно с артиклем the) [Jennifer's Body, 2009]

- petty = having little or no importance or significance - мелкий/незначительный/пустячный [Her, 2013]

- spick and span = very clean and tidy - чистый/опрятный/без единого пятнышка etc. [Notting Hill, 1999]