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жен.; орнит.titmouse, tomtit, blue tit••лучше синица в руках, чем журавль в небе — a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, one today is worth two tomorrows
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СИНИЦА В РУКАХ coll NP sing only) a less-than-ideal object, opportunity etc that a person already possesses or has available to him (and which therefore is preferable to a better object, opportunity etc that he may never get)the proverbial bird in the handa (real (an actual)) bird in the hand.Итак, он давно бы хотел в таможню, но удерживали текущие разные выгоды по строительной комиссии, и он рассуждал справедливо, что таможня, как бы то ни было, всё ещё не более как журавль в небе, а комиссия уже была синица в руках (Гоголь 3). And so he had long been longing to get into the Customs, but had been held back by sundry current benefits accruing from the Building Commission, and he had reasoned, justly enough, that the Customs was, after all, no more than the proverbial two birds in the bush whereas the Building Commission was an actual bird in the hand (3b).From the proverb «Лучше синица в руках, чем журавль в небе». See С-195. -
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• СИНИЦА В РУКАХ coll[NP; sing only]=====⇒ a less-than-ideal object, opportunity etc that a person already possesses or has available to him (and which therefore is preferable to a better object, opportunity etc that he may never get):- a (real < an actual>) bird in the hand.♦ Итак, он давно бы хотел в таможню, но удерживали текущие разные выгоды по строительной комиссии, и он рассуждал справедливо, что таможня, как бы то ни было, всё ешё не более как журавль в небе, а комиссия уже была синица в руках (Гоголь 3). And so he had long been longing to get into the Customs, but had been held back by sundry current benefits accruing from the Building Commission, and he had reasoned, justly enough, that the Customs was, after all, no more than the proverbial two birds in the bush whereas the Building Commission was an actual bird in the hand (3b).—————← From the proverb "Лучше синица в руках, чем журавль в небе". See лучше синица в руках, чем журавль в небе.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > синица в руках
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5 нечто реальное
General subject: a bird in a hand, a bird in the hand (a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush - не сули журавля в небе, дай синицу в руки), concrete, positive, real, reality
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