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  • 1 Г-342

    ПО ГОРЛО coll PrepP Invar
    1. \Г-342 занят, загружен, завален работой и т. п. ( modif or adv (intensif)) (one is) extremely (busy, overloaded with work etc): (be) up to one's neck (ears, eyes, elbows) in sth.
    have one's hands full (be) overburdened
    weighed down, swamped) (with work etc)
    (be) buried under a pile of work.
    Кириллов отвечал поспешно и бойко: «Мне, Ардальон Борисыч, нет времени особенно углубляться в городские отношения и слухи, я по горло завален делом» (Сологуб 1). "I have no time, Ardal'on Borisych," replied Kirillov hurriedly, "to get mixed up in town relations and gossip-I'm up to my neck in work" (1a).
    2. дел, работы, забот и т. п..у кого \Г-342 (quantit subj-compl with copula ( subj / gen: abstr)) s.o. has a great quantity (of work, troubles etc), so much that it deeply concerns him: у X-a дел \Г-342 « X is up to his neck (ears, eyes, elbows) in work
    X has his hands full X has enough work and more X has more than enough to do X is knee-deep in work X is overburdened (weighed down, swamped) (with work etc)
    (Зоя:) Я знаю, что у вас дела по горло (Булгаков 7). (Z.:) I know you are up to your ears in work (7a).
    ...Как случилось, что однажды конвой недоглядел, оставил щель в седьмом вагоне во время стоянки? По-человечески понять можно, у конвоя тоже было дел по горло (Гинзбург 1). Once an extraordinary thing happened: the guards omitted to bar our door at one of the stops. Humanly speaking, this was understandable: they had their hands full all day... (1b).
    Желание сажать есть. Лагерей хватает. Работы, которую могут выполнить заключённые, по горло» (Зиновьев 2). "There is still a desire to put people in prison and there are plenty of camps. There is enough work and more which prisoners could do" (2a).
    Даже вохровцам недосуг заняться охотой или рыбной ловлей. У них дел по горло (Гинзбург 2). Even the armed guards had no time to spare for hunting or fishing. They had more than enough to get through as it was (2a).
    3. бытье, сидеть, увязнуть в долгах - влезать, залезать в долги \Г-342 ( adv (intensif)) (to be in debt, get into debt) beyond any measure
    X в долгах \Г-342 = X is up to his neck (ears) in debt
    X is mired (buried) in debt(s) X is swamped with debts X is deep in the hole (in debt).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > Г-342

  • 2 по горло

    ПО ГОРЛО coll
    [PrepP; Invar]
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    1. по горло занят, загружен, завален работой и т.п. [modif or adv (intensif)]
    (one is) extremely (busy, overloaded with work etc):
    - (be) up to one's neck (ears, eyes, elbows) in sth.;
    - (be) overburdened <weighed down, swamped> (with work etc);
    - (be) buried under a pile of work.
         ♦ Кириллов отвечал поспешно и бойко: "Мне, Ардальон Борисыч, нет времени особенно углубляться в городские отношения и слухи, я по горло завален делом" (Сологуб 1). "I have no time, Ardal'on Borisych," replied Kirillov hurriedly, "to get mixed up in town relations and gossip-I'm up to my neck in work" (1a).
    2. дел, работы, забот и т.п. у кого по горло [quantit subj-compl with copula (subj/ gen: abstr)]
    s.o. has a great quantity (of work, troubles etc), so much that it deeply concerns him:
    - у X-a дел по горло X is up to his neck (ears, eyes, elbows) in work;
    - X is overburdened (weighed down, swamped) (with work etc).
         ♦ [Зоя:] Я знаю, что у вас дела по горло (Булгаков 7). [Z.:] I know you are up to your ears in work (7a).
         ♦...Как случилось, что однажды конвой недоглядел, оставил щель в седьмом вагоне во время стоянки? По-человечески понять можно, у конвоя тоже было дел по горло (Гинзбург 1). Once an extraordinary thing happened: the guards omitted to bar our door at one of the stops. Humanly speaking, this was understandable: they had their hands fiill all day... (1b).
         ♦ "Желание сажать есть. Лагерей хватает. Работы, которую могут выполнить заключённые, по горло" (Зиновьев 2). "There is still a desire to put people in prison and there are plenty of camps. There is enough work and more which prisoners could do" (2a).
         ♦ Даже вохровцам недосуг заняться охотой или рыбной ловлей. У них дел по горло (Гинзбург 2). Even the armed guards had no time to spare for hunting or fishing. They had more than enough to get through as it was (2a).
    3. быть, сидеть, увязнуть в долгах по горло ; влезать, залезать в долги - [adv (intensif)]
    (to be in debt, get into debt) beyond any measure:
    - X is deep in the hole (in debt).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > по горло

  • 3 заваленный работой

    1) General subject: up to (one's) ears in work (We are up to our ears in work!)
    2) Makarov: knee-deep in work
    3) Idiomatic expression: snowed under

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > заваленный работой

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