кровь с молоком

• КРОВЬ С МОЛОКОМ coll

[NP; sing only; usu. subj-compl with быть or modif; fixed WO]

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1. [subj: human]

⇒ (one is) very healthy-looking, with good facial color:

- the (very) picture of health;

- bursting with health;

- (have) the freshest of complexions;

- (have) a country-fresh look;

- [of a woman](as) fresh as a daisy (as the morning dew);

- [of a man] hale and hearty.

     ♦ ...Это был мужчина веселый, краснощёкий, кровь с молоком (Салтыков-Щедрин 2). ...He was a cheerful man, ruddyfaced and the picture of health (2a).

     ♦ ...[Мне] 55 лет, не тот я уже, 27-летний, кровь с молоком, фронтовик, в первой камере спрошенный: с какого курорта? (Солженицын 2). I was fifty-five, and not the twenty-seven-year-old straight from the front and bursting with health, who had been asked in the first cell he saw, "What holiday resort have you just come from?" (2a).

     ♦ [author's usage] Хозяйка дома выбежала сама на крыльцо. Свежа она была, как кровь с молоком... (Гоголь 3). The lady of the house came running out on to the front steps herself. She was as fresh as a daisy... (3a).

2. [subj: лицо, щёки]

⇒ (s.o.'s face is, cheeks are) healthy-looking, rubicund:

- (s.o. has) the freshest of complexions;

- [in refer, to a woman](like) peaches and cream;

- [of a man] ruddy.