не подарок
1.(о человеке, характере)
difficult to deal with
no prize
Example: "What you need," Kristy said, "what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a project, but a prize. You know?"
"I'm no prize," I said, shaking my head.
"Yes," she said, and she sounded so sure it startled me: like she could be so positive while hardly knowing me at all. "You are. What sucks is how you can't even see it." (Sarah Dessen, The Truth about Forever)
no picnic
KAT: The only thing people know about me is that I'm "scary".
PATRICK: Yeah, well, I'm no picnic myself. (Mv: "10 Things I Hate about You")
2. (о ситуации, событии)
no good news
ср.
[accidents waiting to happen]