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1 словно аршин проглотил
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2 чопорный
1) General subject: angular, as stiff as a poker, buckram, ceremonious, chilly, demure, donnish, nice nelly, nice-nelly, niminy piminy, niminy-piminy, old maidish, pokerish, prim, prim and proper, prissy, smug, square toed, square-toed, starched, starchy, stiff, stiff as a poker, stiff as a ramrod, stiff necked, stiff-necked, whalebone, stand-offish, punctilious, stuffy2) Colloquial: offish3) American: priss4) Deprecatingly: uptight5) Jargon: up tight6) Makarov: old-maidish, stilted7) Phraseological unit: cat that ate the canary -
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1) General subject: ( as) proud as Lucifer, aloof, arrogant, assuming, bumbling, cavalier, disdainful, haught, haughty, high minded, high stomached, high-stomached, highty tighty, highty-tighty, hoity toity, hoity-toity, huffish, huffy, imperious, insolent, lofty, lordly, overly, proud, proud stomached, puffed, puffed up, puffed-up, snippy, sovereign, sovran, stiff as a ramrod, sublime, supercilious, upstage, wrapped in cellophane, prancing2) Colloquial: bumptious3) Ironical: high and mighty, proud-stomached4) Rare: high-minded, tossy5) Religion: stiff-necked6) Psychology: superior9) Makarov: as proud as Lucifer, bloated, splendid10) Taboo: stiff-assed -
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Универсальный русско-английский словарь > словно аршин проглотил
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(КАК (БУДТО, СЛОВНО, ТОЧНО)) АРШИН ПРОГЛОТИЛ coll, humor (как etc +) VP adv (variants with как etc) or predic with subj: human (all variants) past only fixed WO(a person who) has unnaturally straight posture (may refer to a permanent or a temporary characteristic)straight as a ramrodramrod-straight stiff as a poker (one) looks like he has a broomstick (a poker) up his butt."Я вот чего хотел-то: разводец бы нам организовать... Да что ты молчишь?» - как будто удивился (Дмитрий)... А она (Маруся) стоит и крикнуть не может... Ведь её - Дмитрий! Как же так?.. «Ну вот, будешь теперь стоять, как аршин проглотила...» (Суслов 1). "What I wanted was this: we should get a divorce.... Why are you so quiet?" he (Dmitry) asked, as if he were surprised....And she (Marusia) stood there and couldn't cry out....It was her Dmitry! How could this be?..."So now you just stand there, stiff as a poker" (1a)....Аршин» is an old Russian measure of length (0.71 meter). The term also refers to a stick or ruler of that length (formerly used by merchants, tailors etc). -
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• (КАК <БУДТО, СЛОВНО, ТОЧНО> АРШИН ПРОГЛОТИЛ coll, humor[( как etc +) VP; adv (variants with как etc) or predic with subj: human (all variants); past only; fixed WO]=====⇒ (a person who) has unnaturally straight posture (may refer to a permanent or a temporary characteristic):- (one) looks like he has a broomstick < a poker> up his butt.♦ "Я вот чего хотел-то: разводец бы нам организовать... Да что ты молчишь?" - как будто удивился [Дмитрий]... А она [ Маруся] стоит и крикнуть не может... Ведь её - Дмитрий! Как же так?.. "Ну вот, будешь теперь стоять, как аршин проглотила..." (Суслов 1). "What I wanted was this: we should get a divorce....Why are you so quiet?" he [Dmitry] asked, as if he were surprised....And she [Marusia] stood there and couldn't cry out....It was her Dmitry! How could this be?..."So now you just stand there, stiff as a poker" (la).—————← " Аршин" is an old Russian measure of length (0.71 meter). The term also refers to a stick or ruler of that length (formerly used by merchants, tailors etc).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > аршин проглотил
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7 будто аршин проглотил
• (КАК <БУДТО, СЛОВНО, ТОЧНО> АРШИН ПРОГЛОТИЛ coll, humor[(как etc +) VP; adv (variants with как etc) or predic with subj: human (all variants); past only; fixed WO]=====⇒ (a person who) has unnaturally straight posture (may refer to a permanent or a temporary characteristic):- (one) looks like he has a broomstick < a poker> up his butt.♦ "Я вот чего хотел-то: разводец бы нам организовать... Да что ты молчишь?" - как будто удивился [Дмитрий]... А она [ Маруся] стоит и крикнуть не может... Ведь её - Дмитрий! Как же так?.. "Ну вот, будешь теперь стоять, как аршин проглотила..." (Суслов 1). "What I wanted was this: we should get a divorce....Why are you so quiet?" he [Dmitry] asked, as if he were surprised....And she [Marusia] stood there and couldn't cry out....It was her Dmitry! How could this be?..."So now you just stand there, stiff as a poker" (la).—————← " Аршин" is an old Russian measure of length (0.71 meter). The term also refers to a stick or ruler of that length (formerly used by merchants, tailors etc).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > будто аршин проглотил
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8 как аршин проглотил
• (КАК <БУДТО, СЛОВНО, ТОЧНО> АРШИН ПРОГЛОТИЛ coll, humor[(как etc +) VP; adv (variants with как etc) or predic with subj: human (all variants); past only; fixed WO]=====⇒ (a person who) has unnaturally straight posture (may refer to a permanent or a temporary characteristic):- (one) looks like he has a broomstick < a poker> up his butt.♦ "Я вот чего хотел-то: разводец бы нам организовать... Да что ты молчишь?" - как будто удивился [Дмитрий]... А она [ Маруся] стоит и крикнуть не может... Ведь её - Дмитрий! Как же так?.. "Ну вот, будешь теперь стоять, как аршин проглотила..." (Суслов 1). "What I wanted was this: we should get a divorce....Why are you so quiet?" he [Dmitry] asked, as if he were surprised....And she [Marusia] stood there and couldn't cry out....It was her Dmitry! How could this be?..."So now you just stand there, stiff as a poker" (la).—————← " Аршин" is an old Russian measure of length (0.71 meter). The term also refers to a stick or ruler of that length (formerly used by merchants, tailors etc).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > как аршин проглотил
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9 словно аршин проглотил
• (КАК <БУДТО, СЛОВНО, ТОЧНО> АРШИН ПРОГЛОТИЛ coll, humor[(как etc +) VP; adv (variants with как etc) or predic with subj: human (all variants); past only; fixed WO]=====⇒ (a person who) has unnaturally straight posture (may refer to a permanent or a temporary characteristic):- (one) looks like he has a broomstick < a poker> up his butt.♦ "Я вот чего хотел-то: разводец бы нам организовать... Да что ты молчишь?" - как будто удивился [Дмитрий]... А она [ Маруся] стоит и крикнуть не может... Ведь её - Дмитрий! Как же так?.. "Ну вот, будешь теперь стоять, как аршин проглотила..." (Суслов 1). "What I wanted was this: we should get a divorce....Why are you so quiet?" he [Dmitry] asked, as if he were surprised....And she [Marusia] stood there and couldn't cry out....It was her Dmitry! How could this be?..."So now you just stand there, stiff as a poker" (la).—————← " Аршин" is an old Russian measure of length (0.71 meter). The term also refers to a stick or ruler of that length (formerly used by merchants, tailors etc).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > словно аршин проглотил
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10 точно аршин проглотил
• (КАК <БУДТО, СЛОВНО, ТОЧНО> АРШИН ПРОГЛОТИЛ coll, humor[(как etc +) VP; adv (variants with как etc) or predic with subj: human (all variants); past only; fixed WO]=====⇒ (a person who) has unnaturally straight posture (may refer to a permanent or a temporary characteristic):- (one) looks like he has a broomstick < a poker> up his butt.♦ "Я вот чего хотел-то: разводец бы нам организовать... Да что ты молчишь?" - как будто удивился [Дмитрий]... А она [ Маруся] стоит и крикнуть не может... Ведь её - Дмитрий! Как же так?.. "Ну вот, будешь теперь стоять, как аршин проглотила..." (Суслов 1). "What I wanted was this: we should get a divorce....Why are you so quiet?" he [Dmitry] asked, as if he were surprised....And she [Marusia] stood there and couldn't cry out....It was her Dmitry! How could this be?..."So now you just stand there, stiff as a poker" (la).—————← " Аршин" is an old Russian measure of length (0.71 meter). The term also refers to a stick or ruler of that length (formerly used by merchants, tailors etc).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > точно аршин проглотил
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11 как аршин проглотил
как (будто, словно, точно) аршин (кол) проглотилшутл., неодобр.smb. looks as if he had swallowed a poker (lit. a yardstick); cf. (as) stiff (straight) as a poker (a ramrod)Стал армейский, вытянулся, точно кол проглотил, щёки надул. (А. Новиков-Прибой, Рассказ боцманмата) — That army chap stood up stiff like he's swallowed a poker, and puffed his cheeks out.
Санька весь завтрак просидел молчаливый, одеревенелый, и Феня даже сказала, что Санька не иначе, как проглотил аршин. (А. Мусатов, Стожары) — Sanka sat stiff and taciturn all through breakfast. Fenya even said he looked as if he had swallowed a poker.
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > как аршин проглотил
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муж.; устар.arshine/arshin/arsheen (= 0.711 m. = 2 ft. 4 in.)как будто аршин проглотил разг. — as stiff as a poker, straight as a ramrod, ramrod-straight
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13 словно аршин проглотил
straight as a ramrod словосочетание:Русско-английский синонимический словарь > словно аршин проглотил
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м. ист.arshin (= 0.71 m)••как / бу́дто / сло́вно арши́н проглоти́л разг. — ≈ as stiff as a poker / ramrod
он сиди́т как арши́н проглоти́л — he sits bolt upright
ме́рить (вн.) на свой арши́н разг. — ≈ measure (d) against one's own yardstick; measure others' corn by one's own bushel
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15 как аршин проглотил
(as) stiff as a poker, (as) straight as a ramrodАмериканизмы. Русско-английский словарь. > как аршин проглотил
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