не бей лежачего

• НЕ БЕЙ ЛЕЖАЧЕГО highly coll

[VPimper; Invar; usu. subj-compl with быть (subj: работа, служба etc); fixed WO]

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⇒ some work is not hard, requires very little effort:

- работа - не бей лежачего{{}}≈ this is an easy (a soft, a cushy) job;

- this job is a piece of cake;

- this job is no sweat.

     ♦ Муж [Сони] - бывший лётчик, в отставке по болезни. Больно ударила его эта отставка, не мог примириться, что не у дел. Устроился по знакомству каким-то регистратором, работа... "не бей лежачего". А ему подавай дело - привычное, кипучее (Грекова 3). Her [Sonya's] husband was a former pilot, retired because of illness. That retirement had hit him hard. He couldn't live with the fact that he wasn't working. Through connections he got himself a kind of receptionist job, an easy, soft job. But he needed real work, his usual, tough work (3a).