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a poor affair

  • 1 гиблое дело

    3) American: (smb.) all day with
    4) Jargon: a dead frost, bad job

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > гиблое дело

  • 2 всего-навсе

    ВСЕГО-НАВСЕГО <ВСЕГО-НАВСЕ obs>
    [AdvP; these forms only; used as a restr marker]
    =====
    merely, and nothing more:
    - only;
    - just;
    - [when used as an indep. sent] that's all (there is to it).
         ♦...У бедного Петруся всего-навсего была одна серая свитка... (Гоголь 5) Poor Petro had only one gray jacket... (5a).
         ♦ После некоторых колебаний я... отдал [управдому] паспорта и военный билет, из которого управдом узнал, видимо, с некоторым разочарованием, что я всего-навсего рядовой (Войнович 3). After some hesitation, I gave him [the building manager] the passports and my military service card, from which the building manager learned, apparently with some disappointment, that I was just rank-and-file (3a).
         ♦ Я опоздала на концерт всего-навсего на пять минут, но в зал меня уже не пустили. I was only at most five minutes late for the concert, but they still wouldn't let me in.
         ♦ Вот опять нам пришло на ум уотергейтское дело. Кто из нас, следивших за его перипетиями по передачам зарубежного радио, не приходил в изумление! Боже мой, из-за чего весь сыр-бор? Президент величайшей страны собирается кого-то подслушать. Всего-навсего (Войнович 3). Once again the Watergate affair comes to mind. Who among us, following its peripeteia on the foreign radio broadcasts, was not amazed? My heavens, what was all the commotion about? The President of the greatest country on earth wanted to eavesdrop on someone. That's all there was to it (3a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > всего-навсе

  • 3 всего-навсего

    ВСЕГО-НАВСЕГО <ВСЕГО-НАВСЕ obs>
    [AdvP; these forms only; used as a restr marker]
    =====
    merely, and nothing more:
    - only;
    - just;
    - [when used as an indep. sent] that's all (there is to it).
         ♦...У бедного Петруся всего-навсего была одна серая свитка... (Гоголь 5) Poor Petro had only one gray jacket... (5a).
         ♦ После некоторых колебаний я... отдал [управдому] паспорта и военный билет, из которого управдом узнал, видимо, с некоторым разочарованием, что я всего-навсего рядовой (Войнович 3). After some hesitation, I gave him [the building manager] the passports and my military service card, from which the building manager learned, apparently with some disappointment, that I was just rank-and-file (3a).
         ♦ Я опоздала на концерт всего-навсего на пять минут, но в зал меня уже не пустили. I was only at most five minutes late for the concert, but they still wouldn't let me in.
         ♦ Вот опять нам пришло на ум уотергейтское дело. Кто из нас, следивших за его перипетиями по передачам зарубежного радио, не приходил в изумление! Боже мой, из-за чего весь сыр-бор? Президент величайшей страны собирается кого-то подслушать. Всего-навсего (Войнович 3). Once again the Watergate affair comes to mind. Who among us, following its peripeteia on the foreign radio broadcasts, was not amazed? My heavens, what was all the commotion about? The President of the greatest country on earth wanted to eavesdrop on someone. That's all there was to it (3a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > всего-навсего

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