with child

[in a family way] or [in the family way] {adj. phr.}, {informal} Going to have a baby. * /Sue and Liz are happy because their mother is in the family […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

child's play

[child's play] {adj.} Easy; requiring no effort. * /Mary's work as a volunteer social worker is so agreeable to her that she thinks of it as child's play./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

child

[child] See: [BURNT CHILD DREADS THE FIRE], [WITH CHILD]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

Benjamin Spock

U.S. doctor and author, in Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 1945 There are only two things a child will share willingly--communicable diseases and his mother's age. www.sky-net-eye.com

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в поте лица (своего)

в поте лица {adv. phr.} [v `pot'e l'i`tca (svoye`go)] {literary} by the sweat of one's face. - Through a hard work. […]

Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest, 1886

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

break in

[break in] {v.} (stress on "in") 1a. To break from outside. * /The firemen broke in the door of the burning house./ 1b. To […]

spine-tingling

[spine-tingling] {adj.} Very exciting; thrilling. * /Our ride up the mountain in a chair lift was spine-tingling./ * /The […]