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a foolish person

  • 1 Иванушка-дурачок

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > Иванушка-дурачок

  • 2 идиот, кретин

    1) Jargon: plumb, couyon (Cajun French term for a foolish person. Also used in Cajun English.)
    2) Invective: tit

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > идиот, кретин

  • 3 Иванушка-дурачок

    ИВАНУШКА-ДУРАЧОК
    Ivan-the-fool простофиля, простак, глупец a simpleton, a foolish person <a well-known Russian folklore and fairy-tale figure, a simpleton who is always victorious in the end>

    Дополнение к русско-английским словарям > Иванушка-дурачок

  • 4 Старые дураки глупее молодых

    A foolish act is most foolish when done by an old person
    Cf: The older the fool, the worse he is (Am.). An old fool is worse than a young fool (Am.). /There is/ no fool like an old fool (Am., Br.). /There is/ no fool to the old fool (Br.)

    Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > Старые дураки глупее молодых

  • 5 Н-119

    как, что, чего и т. п. чья ЛЕВАЯ НОГА ХОЧЕТ/ ЗАХОЧЕТ coll VP subj. these forms only usu. subord clause fixed WO
    (what) a person feels inclined to do, (how) a person feels inclined to act etc
    usu. in refer, to foolish, reckless behavior or arbitrary actions undertaken by a person who follows only his own whims):...как (что, когда и т. п.) Х-ова левая нога захочет = however (what(ever), when(ever) etc) Xpleases what(ever) (however it, when(ever) it) suits X's fancy
    when(ever) the spirit moves X. "...B колхозе - как левая нога у начальства захочет. Захочет - даст, захочет - не даст. Иди в лес, серому волку жалуйся, вот и вся конституция» (Максимов 2). ( context transl) "...In a kolkhoz everything depends on what sort of mood the bosses are in. If they feel like it, you'll get what's due to you - if they don't you won't. Go into the forest and complain to the wolves-that's all the law there is on a kolkhoz" (2a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > Н-119

  • 6 О-110

    ДАВАТЬ/ДАТЬ ОСЕЧКУ (в чём) coll VP subj: human or abstr
    (of a person) to make a blunder, do sth. foolish, (of a method, approach etc) to fail, go wrong
    X дал осечку = person X goofed (slipped up etc)
    thing X went wrong (fell flat, misfired etc) (doing sth.) wasn't one of person X's better (smarter) moves (ideas) (doing sth.) wasn't a smart thing to do (a smart move etc) X missed the mark (was wide of the mark etc).
    Правда, в последние годы то ли под влиянием радиации, то ли ещё что, но негритянские гены, между нами говоря, стали не те. Осечки дают. Нет-нет да и появится смуглячок (Искандер 4). True, in recent years, whether under the influence of radiation, or whatever, Negro genes aren't what they used to be, just between us. They misfire. Every once in a while you get a little brown-skinned baby (4a).
    «Мне не надо было вкладывать деньги в этот кооператив». - «Да, тут ты дал осечку». UI shouldn't have invested money in that co-op." "Yeah, that wasn't one of your better moves."

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > О-110

  • 7 левая нога захочет

    • КАК, ЧТО, ЧЕГО и т.п. ЧЬЯ ЛЕВАЯ НОГА ХОЧЕТ/ЗАХОЧЕТ coll
    [VPsubj; these forms only; usu. subord clause; fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ (what) a person feels inclined to do, (how) a person feels inclined to act etc (usu. in refer, to foolish, reckless behavior or arbitrary actions undertaken by a person who follows only his own whims):
    - ... как( что, когда и т. п.) Х-ова левая нога захочет≈ however (what (ever), when(ever) etc) X pleases;
    - what(ever) (however it, when(ever) it) suits X's fancy;
    - when(ever) the spirit moves X.
         ♦ "...В колхозе - как левая нога у начальства захочет. Захочет - даст, захочет - не даст. Иди в лес, серому волку жалуйся, вот и вся конституция" (Максимов 2). [context transl] "...In a kolkhoz everything depends on what sort of mood the bosses are in. If they feel like it, you'll get what's due to you - if they don't you won't. Go into the forest and complain to the wolves-that's all the law there is on a kolkhoz" (2a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > левая нога захочет

  • 8 левая нога хочет

    • КАК, ЧТО, ЧЕГО и т.п. ЧЬЯ ЛЕВАЯ НОГА ХОЧЕТ/ЗАХОЧЕТ coll
    [VPsubj; these forms only; usu. subord clause; fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ (what) a person feels inclined to do, (how) a person feels inclined to act etc (usu. in refer, to foolish, reckless behavior or arbitrary actions undertaken by a person who follows only his own whims):
    - ... как( что, когда и т. п.) Х-ова левая нога захочет≈ however (what (ever), when(ever) etc) X pleases;
    - what(ever) (however it, when(ever) it) suits X's fancy;
    - when(ever) the spirit moves X.
         ♦ "...В колхозе - как левая нога у начальства захочет. Захочет - даст, захочет - не даст. Иди в лес, серому волку жалуйся, вот и вся конституция" (Максимов 2). [context transl] "...In a kolkhoz everything depends on what sort of mood the bosses are in. If they feel like it, you'll get what's due to you - if they don't you won't. Go into the forest and complain to the wolves-that's all the law there is on a kolkhoz" (2a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > левая нога хочет

  • 9 давать осечку

    • ДАВАТЬ/ДАТЬ ОСЕЧКУ (в чем) colt
    [VP; subj: human or abstr]
    =====
    ⇒ (of a person) to make a blunder, do sth. foolish, (of a method, approach etc) to fail, go wrong:
    - X дал осечку≈ person X goofed (slipped up etc);
    - thing X went wrong (fell flat, misfired etc);
    - (doing sth.) wasn't one of person X's better (smarter) moves (ideas);
    - (doing sth.) wasn't a smart thing to do (a smart move etc);
    - X missed the mark (was wide of the mark etc).
         ♦ Правда, в последние годы то ли под влиянием радиации, то ли ещё что, но негритянские гены, между нами говоря, стали не те. Осечки дают. Нет-нет да и появится смуглячок (Искандер 4). TVue, in recent years, whether under the influence of radiation, or whatever, Negro genes aren't what they used to be, just between us. They misfire. Every once in a while you get a little brown-skinned baby (4a).
         ♦ "Мне не надо было вкладывать деньги в этот кооператив". - "Да, тут ты дал осечку". "I shouldn't have invested money in that co-op." "Yeah, that wasn't one of your better moves."

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > давать осечку

  • 10 дать осечку

    • ДАВАТЬ/ДАТЬ ОСЕЧКУ (в чем) colt
    [VP; subj: human or abstr]
    =====
    ⇒ (of a person) to make a blunder, do sth. foolish, (of a method, approach etc) to fail, go wrong:
    - X дал осечку≈ person X goofed (slipped up etc);
    - thing X went wrong (fell flat, misfired etc);
    - (doing sth.) wasn't one of person X's better (smarter) moves (ideas);
    - (doing sth.) wasn't a smart thing to do (a smart move etc);
    - X missed the mark (was wide of the mark etc).
         ♦ Правда, в последние годы то ли под влиянием радиации, то ли ещё что, но негритянские гены, между нами говоря, стали не те. Осечки дают. Нет-нет да и появится смуглячок (Искандер 4). TVue, in recent years, whether under the influence of radiation, or whatever, Negro genes aren't what they used to be, just between us. They misfire. Every once in a while you get a little brown-skinned baby (4a).
         ♦ "Мне не надо было вкладывать деньги в этот кооператив". - "Да, тут ты дал осечку". "I shouldn't have invested money in that co-op." "Yeah, that wasn't one of your better moves."

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > дать осечку

  • 11 неприятный человек

    1) General subject: beast, blighter, cough drop, lemon, pill, rasper, ugly customer, crabapple (An unpleasant person; a person who is crabby.)
    2) Colloquial: an ugly customer
    3) Australian slang: bandicoot, bastard, drop-kick (АБ), foolish cow, poor cow, rotten cow, silly cow, wowser, wretched cow
    4) Jargon: (someone, something) gives me a pain, Simon Legree, buddy-buddy, fly ball, gerbil (АБ), gives me a pain, rat fink, tub of lard, turkey, weinie, (вещь) bummer (My coach is a real bummer. Mой тренер совсем неприятный человек.), ick, yazzihamper, dingbat, douchebag, bucket, dehorn, hunk of cheese, kook, nudnik, ugly, waffle, weener, weeney, weenie, weiner, wet hen, wienie
    6) Taboo: Douglas ( см. Douglas Hurd), bad-ass nigger, bad-assed nigger, badass, bat, bender, big hunk of crap, birdturd, bouquet of ass-holes, bumface, chunk of crap, crock of shit, dos a reno (перевертыш от sod q.v.), douche-bag, fart, fartass, felcher, flaming asshole, flipper, fuck stick, fuck-pig, fucker, fusser, gib teenuck (перевертыш от big cunt), knob-end, mother, mother-fucker, north end of a horse going south, pain in the ass, pile of shit, piss-pot, pisser, proper bastard, pud-whapper, real bitch, rosy bouquet of assholes, scaly bum (см. bum), sheet (подражание произношению негров из южных штатов), shit, shit-ass, shit-bag, shit-house, shit-sack, shite-hawk, shitsky, shitter, snot, splatt, spunk-gullet, tomtit, toss-prick, tosser, turd, wack-ass, wanker, wankstain

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > неприятный человек

  • 12 Д-259

    В ДОМЕ ПОВЕШЕННОГО HE ГОВОРЯТ О ВЕРЁВКЕ (saying) one should not speak in another person's presence about things that remind that person of his weaknesses, shortcomings etc: - don't mention rope in the house of a hanged man.
    (Шабельский:) Да, я был молод и глуп, в свое время... обличал мерзавцев и мошенников, но никогда в жизни я воров не называл в лицо ворами и в доме повешенного не говорил о веревке. Я был воспитан (Чехов 4). (Sh:1 Yes, I was young and foolish, and in my time I, too...expos(ed) frauds and scoundrels, but I never in my life called a thief a thief to his face, nor mentioned rope in the house of a hanged man. I was properly brought up (4a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > Д-259

  • 13 Д-329

    ДУРАК ДУРАКОМ (ДУРА ДУРОЙ) co// NP these forms only subj-compl with copula (subj: human fixed WO
    1. a very stupid person
    complete (utter, prize) fool
    complete (first-class) idiot.
    «Да, - проговорил он, ни на кого не глядя, - беда пожить этак годков пять в деревне, в отдалении от великих умов!.. Дурак дураком станешь» (Тургенев 2). "Yes," he said, without looking at anyone, "what a calamity it is to have spent five years in the country like this, far from the mighty intellects! One becomes a complete fool" (2c).
    2. a person who ends up appearing stupid or foolish: (one) makes a (real) fool of o.s.
    (one) looks like a (real) fool
    (one) makes an ass of o.s. "...Меня опять обвели вокруг пальца, и я опять дурак дураком, второй раз за этот день...» (Стругацкие 1). "...Icame out looking like an ass again, a real fool for the second time today" (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > Д-329

  • 14 в доме повешенного не говорят о веревке

    [saying]
    =====
    ⇒ one should not speak in another person's presence about things that remind that person of his weaknesses, shortcomings etc:
    - ≈ don't mention rope in the house of a hanged man.
         ♦ [Шабельский:] Да, я был молол и глуп, в свое время... обличал мерзавцев и мошенников, но никогда в жизни я воров не называл в лицо ворами и в ломе повешенного не говорил о веревке. Я был воспитан (Чехов 4). [Sh:] Yes, I was young and foolish, and in my time I, too... expos[ed] frauds and scoundrels, but I never in my life called a thief a thief to his face, nor mentioned rope in the house of a hanged man. I was properly brought up (4a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > в доме повешенного не говорят о веревке

  • 15 дура дурой

    • ДУРАК ДУРАКОМ < ДУРА ДУРОЙ> coll
    [NP; these forms only; subj-compl with copula (subj: human); fixed WO]
    =====
    1. a very stupid person:
    - complete (utter, prize) fool;
    - complete (first-class) idiot.
         ♦ "Да, - проговорил он, ни на кого не глядя, - беда пожить этак годков пять в деревне, в отдалении от великих умов!.. Дурак дураком станешь" (Тургенев 2). "Yes," he said, without looking at anyone, "what a calamity it is to have spent five years in the country like this, far from the mighty intellects! One becomes a complete fool" (2c).
    2. a person who ends up appearing stupid or foolish:
    - (one) makes a (real) fool of o.s.;
    - (one) makes an ass of o.s.
         ♦ "...Меня опять обвели вокруг пальца, и я опять дурак дураком, второй раз за этот день..." (Стругацкие 1). "...Icame out looking like an ass again, a real fool for the second time today" (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > дура дурой

  • 16 дурак дураком

    • ДУРАК ДУРАКОМ < ДУРА ДУРОЙ> coll
    [NP; these forms only; subj-compl with copula (subj: human); fixed WO]
    =====
    1. a very stupid person:
    - complete (utter, prize) fool;
    - complete (first-class) idiot.
         ♦ "Да, - проговорил он, ни на кого не глядя, - беда пожить этак годков пять в деревне, в отдалении от великих умов!.. Дурак дураком станешь" (Тургенев 2). "Yes," he said, without looking at anyone, "what a calamity it is to have spent five years in the country like this, far from the mighty intellects! One becomes a complete fool" (2c).
    2. a person who ends up appearing stupid or foolish:
    - (one) makes a (real) fool of o.s.;
    - (one) makes an ass of o.s.
         ♦ "...Меня опять обвели вокруг пальца, и я опять дурак дураком, второй раз за этот день..." (Стругацкие 1). "...Icame out looking like an ass again, a real fool for the second time today" (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > дурак дураком

  • 17 своя рубаха ближе к телу

    Set phrase: I will not pull the thorn out of your foot and put it into my own, all men row galley way (towards themselves), charity begins at home, every man for himself and God for us all, every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost, every miller draws water to his own mill, every tub must stand on its own bottom, every tub should stand on its own bottom, he cares not whose child cry, so his laugh, he is not wise who is not wise for himself, let every tub stand on its own bottom, look after number one, near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin (a selfish person always thinks first of one's own comfort, prosperity, well-being, problems, troubles), pray for yourself, I am not sick (contrast: we are not born for ourselves) a every man's shirt is nearest to his own skin, self comes first, unselfishness is the business of the foolish, your own comfort comes first and let others get lost!, your own shirt is closer to the body

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > своя рубаха ближе к телу

  • 18 своя рука владыка

    Set phrase: it's up to you (he (she, etc) permits himself to do whatever he likes. usedcriticizingly, ironically if a person permits himself to do harmful, criminal or foolish things), it's your property and your fire - so, burn it if you desire!, we may give advice but we cannot give conduct, you are the master of your destiny

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > своя рука владыка

  • 19 слабоумный

    1) General subject: Feebleminded, anile, batchy, cousin Betty (человек), cretinous, daft (о человеке), deficient, demented, doddering, feeble minded, feeble-minded, foolish, gaga, half wit, half-wit, halfwitted, idiot, imbecile, mentally deficient, moron, moronic, sackless, silly, slow witted, slow-witted, soft, soft (weak) in the head, subnormal, weak minded, weak-headed, weak-minded, witless
    3) Colloquial: caky, daft, numpty
    4) Slang: meat-head
    5) American: retard, retardee
    6) Obsolete: changeling
    7) Rare: doddery, fool
    9) Australian slang: loony, loopy
    10) Psychology: incomplete
    11) Jargon: balmy, half-baked, gomer ("Stop acting like a gomer!")
    13) leg.N.P. lunatic
    14) Aviation medicine: mental defective, mental(ly) defective
    16) Archaic: fatuous

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > слабоумный

  • 20 В-253

    ВОЛЬНОМУ ВОЛЯ coll (sent Invar fixed WO
    (said - occas. with resignation - to or of a person when he acts or is about to act the way he wants to
    often his behavior is considered imprudent or foolish by the speaker) one can do as he wishes: one can (may) do as one likes (pleases) let one have it his (her etc) way it's your (his etc) decision to each his own (in limited contexts) nobody is forcing you (him etc) (when addressed to the hearer only) do as you like have it your way suit yourself.
    Надев фартуки, мы перетирали фарш с водой... Я напоролся в фарше на что-то, порезался: кусочек полуды... «Люди будут есть?» - «Помалкивай. Вольному воля. Пусть не жрут» (Кузнецов 1). After putting on aprons, we kneaded the ground meat in water....1 struck on something in the ground meat and cut myself: a piece of tin...."Are people going to eat that?" "Quiet. They can do as they like. They don't have to" (1a).
    «Я провожу тебя, если ты боишься, - сказал он ей, - ты мне позволишь идти подле себя?» - «А кто те ( substand = тебе) мешает? -отвечала Лиза, - вольному воля, а дорога мирская» (Пушкин 3). Til accompany you if you're afraid," he said. "Allow me to walk beside you?" "Who's to stop you?" Lisa replied. "You may do as you please, anyone is free to use the road" (3b).
    «Пусть государь и его ближайшие слуги выдумывают уставы и определяют необходимый цвет исподнего, чтобы тем самым противостоять европейским заразам. Вольному воля» (Окуджава 2). "Let the tsar and his intimate servants dream up laws that determine the required color for underwear, thereby countering European infections. To each his own" (2a).
    Сойдясь в упор с недвижным взглядом хозяина, (Золотарёв) понял, что тот заранее отказывался долее слушать гостя. «Как знаешь, - выходя, замкнулся Золотарёв, - вольному воля!» (Максимов 1).
    ...Catching Matvei's motionless gaze (Zolotarev) realized that he had already decided not to listen to him any longer. "As you wish," he thought sullenly as he went out, "nobody's forcing you" (1a).
    Reduced version of the saying «Вольному воля, спасённому рай».

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