В мире фразовых глаголов. Книга первая. Елизавета Хейнонен

take a breath test. He blows, the thing shows: positive. He protests, cries he is a teetotaler, and that the instrument isn’t working properly. He says his wife is also a teetotaler. She blows – again positive. Then he gives it to their little kid on the backseat – also positive! The ashamed policeman lets them go. They take off and the man says to his wife: “And you kept telling me: don’t give the kid any alcohol, don’t give the kid any alcohol!”

      suggest предлагать; apparently по-видимому, по всей видимости, судя по всему; drunken пьяный; fellow парень; take a breath test пройти пробу на алкаголь, подышать в алкотестер; blow дуть; thing здесь: тестер; positive положительно; teetotaler трезвенник; properly правильно, исправно, как следует; kid = child; backseat