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21 (to) be banging your head against a brick wall
идиом. биться головой о стену (о чем-л. трудно выполнимом или невыполнимом)Trying to reason with them was like banging my head against a brick wall.
Англо-русский универсальный дополнительный практический переводческий словарь И. Мостицкого > (to) be banging your head against a brick wall
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22 (to) be knocking one's head against a brick wall
идиом. биться головой о стену (о чем-л. трудно выполнимом или невыполнимом)Trying to reason with them was like banging my head against a brick wall.
Англо-русский универсальный дополнительный практический переводческий словарь И. Мостицкого > (to) be knocking one's head against a brick wall
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23 (to) be banging one's head against a brick wall
идиом. биться головой о стену (о чем-л. трудно выполнимом или невыполнимом)Trying to reason with them was like banging my head against a brick wall.
Англо-русский универсальный дополнительный практический переводческий словарь И. Мостицкого > (to) be banging one's head against a brick wall
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24 (to) be banging your head against a brick wall
идиом. биться головой о стену (о чем-л. трудно выполнимом или невыполнимом)Trying to reason with them was like banging my head against a brick wall.
Англо-русский универсальный дополнительный практический переводческий словарь И. Мостицкого > (to) be banging your head against a brick wall
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25 (to) be knocking one's head against a brick wall
идиом. биться головой о стену (о чем-л. трудно выполнимом или невыполнимом)Trying to reason with them was like banging my head against a brick wall.
Англо-русский универсальный дополнительный практический переводческий словарь И. Мостицкого > (to) be knocking one's head against a brick wall
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26 bang one's head against a brick wall
биться головой об стену (безрезультатно добиваться чего-либо)I keep telling her that she should change her job, but I'm just banging my head against a brick wall.
Англо-русский словарь идиом и фразовых глаголов > bang one's head against a brick wall
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27 to bang one's head against a brick wall
пытаться пробить головой стену, стараться напрасноGrace went on writing to her red-haired boy even though he didn't reply to a single letter for a year; she was banging her head against a brick wall. — Грейс год писала своему рыжему избраннику, хотя он не ответил ни на одно письмо; она попусту тратила время.
Англо-русский современный словарь > to bang one's head against a brick wall
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28 to hit one's head against smth
to hit/to strike/to knock one's head against smth стукнуться/удариться головой обо что-либоEnglish-Russian combinatory dictionary > to hit one's head against smth
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29 make head against...
успешно сопротивляться; подниматься, восставать против; продвигаться вперёд, несмотря на противодействиеThey made head against the wind. (Ch. Dickens, ‘Barnaby Rudge’, ch. XXXIV) — Они шли и шли вперед навстречу ветру.
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30 bang (batter or run) one's head against a (brick) wall
битьcя гoлoвoй o cтeнуDon't try to persuade him - you'll just be banging your head against a brick wall: he'll never changeConcise English-Russian phrasebook > bang (batter or run) one's head against a (brick) wall
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31 bang (batter or run) one's head against a (brick) wall
битьcя гoлoвoй o cтeнуDon't try to persuade him - you'll just be banging your head against a brick wall: he'll never changeConcise English-Russian phrasebook > bang (batter or run) one's head against a (brick) wall
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32 batter one's head against a (brick) wall
см. bang one's head against a wallConcise English-Russian phrasebook > batter one's head against a (brick) wall
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33 run one's head against a brick (or stone) wall
см. bang one's head against a brick wallConcise English-Russian phrasebook > run one's head against a brick (or stone) wall
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34 run against
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35 knock smth. on the head
положить конец чему-л., нанести смертельный удар, покончить с чем-л.; ≈ не оставить камня на камне (от аргументации, теории и т. п.)‘Racing!’ said Soames. ‘It's a pity the War didn't knock that on the head.’ (J. Galsworthy, ‘To Let’, part I, ch. I) — - Уж эти мне скачки! - сказал Сомс. - Жаль, что война как следует не ударила по ним.
Secretary of State Acheson knocked on the head the idea that "Point Four" is a program for industrializing backward areas... (W. Foster, ‘Outline Political History of the Americas’, ch. 30) — Государственный секретарь Ачесон полностью развеял иллюзию, что "четвертый пункт" является программой индустриализации отсталых районов...
However, I'm against the theory that Cust committed these crimes without knowing he had done them. You might put that theory forward if it weren't for the letters. The letters knock the theory on the head. They show premeditation and a careful planning of the crime. (A. Christie, ‘The ABC Murders’, ch. XXXI) — И все-таки я против того, что Каст, совершая преступления, не ведал, что творил. С этой версией можно было бы согласиться, если бы не письма. Но письма не оставили от нее камня на камне. Они убедительно доказывают, что мы имеем дело с предумышленным, заранее и тщательно обдуманным преступлением.
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36 make head
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37 lift up one's heel against smb.
редк.(lift up (или raise) one's (или the) heel against smb.)быть готовым раздавить, сокрушить кого-л.; оскорбительно обходиться с кем-л. [lift up one's heel against smb. этим. библ. John XIII, 18, Psalms XLI, 9]Fair Milan within whose veins long ran the viper's palsying venom lifts her heel to bruise his head. (P. B. Shelley, ‘Poems’, ‘Ode to Naples’) — Прекрасный Милан, в жилах которого издавна течет страшный яд этой змеи, готов сейчас раздавить ее.
Large English-Russian phrasebook > lift up one's heel against smb.
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38 knock smth. on the head
пoлoжить кoнeц, нaнecти cмepтeльный удap чeму-л., пoкoнчить c чём-л.; нe ocтaвить кaмня нa кaмнe (oт apгумeнтaции, тeopии и т. п.)'Racing!' said Soames. 'It's a pity the War didn't knock that on the head' (J. Galsworthy). However, I'm against the theory that Cust committed these crimes without knowing he had done them. You might put that theory forward if it weren't for the letters. The letters knock the theory on the head. They show premeditation and a careful planning of the crime (A Christie)Concise English-Russian phrasebook > knock smth. on the head
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39 his head struck the pavement
Универсальный англо-русский словарь > his head struck the pavement
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40 run against
сталкиваться; наталкиваться на; to run one's head against a wall стукнуться головой об стену; fig. прошибать лбом стену* * *перебегать, набегать, наталкиваться на, сталкиваться, напороться* * *случайно встретить кого-л.
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