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Значение идиомы make bricks without straw
[make bricks without straw] {v. phr.} To make something without thewherewithal; do something the hard way; do a job under hardconditions.
John could not go to a library, and writing the reportwas a job of making bricks without straw.
It was making brickswithout straw to put on plays in that old barn.
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