English to Bulgarian Art/Literary Idioms / Maxims / Sayings Литература

"Outside, workmen were completing a bargain basement improvement to the footpath, changing cracked concrete slabs for gentrified cobbles, row upon row of sickly yellow like a giant bar of Caramac. My old dad would have called it *mutton dressed as mutton*.

My stomach rumbled for the first time as I opened the door, which I thought was pretty good timing. A swarm of flies flittered about the glass like anxious relatives at an incubator."

a giant bar of Caramac: a bar of cream colored chocolate

mutton dressed as mutton- a variation on the idiom "mutton dressed as lamb": commonly used to describe someone who is wearing clothes or make-up designed to make them look younger.

Пак от същия текст. Ясен е смисълът на целия израз. Предложение за превод на български. Или бълг. идиом близък до този. Текстът е от "Divorcing Jack" by Colin Bateman.