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as thin as a rake

  • 1 rake

    [reik] 1. noun
    1) (a tool which consists of a usually metal bar with teeth at the end of a long handle, used for smoothing earth, gathering eg leaves together etc.) grablje
    2) (any similar tool: a croupier's rake in a casino.) grabljica
    3) (the act of raking: to give the soil a rake.) grabljenje
    2. verb
    1) (to smooth or gather with a rake: I'll rake these grass-cuttings up later.) grabiti
    2) ((often with out) to remove the ashes from (a fire) with a poker etc.) izgrebsti
    3) (to fire guns at (a target) from one end of it to the other: The soldiers raked the entire village with machine-gun fire.) prerešetati
    - rake up
    * * *
    I [réik]
    noun
    grablje, grabljice, grebljica; strgača, strgalo (za čiščenje čevljev od blata)
    II [réik]
    transitive verb
    grabiti; zgrniti, zgrinjati, zbrati (together, up skupaj); odnesti, prenesti, prepeljati (z vozom) (off, away); poravnati, očistiti z grabljami (up, over); figuratively zbirati, donašati ( from od, iz); prekopati, brskati po, iskati ( for); military & nautical streljati (na daljavo), tolči, biti z ognjem; intransitive verb premetati, prekopati, povsod (pre)iskati, prebrskati (among, in med, v); (o oknu) gledati na
    to rake one's memory — brskati v svojem spominu za...
    to rake a ship military obsuti ladjo s topovskim ognjem
    the window rakes the mountain range — okno gleda na gorsko verigo;
    III [réik]
    1.
    noun
    nagnjenost, nagib, poševna ravnina, poševen položaj (jambora), naklon
    he wears his hat at a rake — on nosi klobuk postrani;
    2.
    transitive verb
    nagibati, nagniti, poševno postaviti; intransitive verb biti nagnjen, poševen; nagibati se (o ladji, jamboru itd.)
    IV [réik]
    noun
    lahkoživec, razuzdanec, nečistnik, razvratnež
    V [réik]
    intransitive verb hunting (o psu) s smrčkom ob tleh zasledovati sled; (o lovu s sokoli) leteti za divjačino; zgrešiti divjačino; hiteti, divjati, vihrati

    English-Slovenian dictionary > rake

См. также в других словарях:

  • thin as a rake — A rake is a garden tool with a long, thin, wooden handle, so someone very thin is thin as a rake …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • thin as a rake —    A rake is a garden tool with a long, thin, wooden handle, so someone very thin is thin as a rake.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • Thin as a rake —   A rake is a garden tool with a long, thin, wooden handle, so someone very thin is thin as a rake …   Dictionary of English idioms

  • thin as a rake — (as) thin as a rake (of a person) very thin …   Useful english dictionary

  • thin as a rake — adjective Incredibly thin, at an unhealthy looking level of thinness …   Wiktionary

  • be as thin as a rake — British, American & Australian, mainly American to be very thin. He eats like a horse and yet he s as thin as a rake. She s as thin as a rail from all that running …   New idioms dictionary

  • rake —    One of the instant nicknames which children bestow on a tall thin person. See also spindleshanks.    The phrase ‘as thin as a rake’ has been in use since the fourteenth century. In older texts ‘rake’ may occur vocatively in the sense of… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

  • thin — /θɪn / (say thin) adjective (thinner, thinnest) 1. having relatively little extent from one surface or side to its opposite; not thick: thin ice. 2. of small cross section in comparison with the length; slender: a thin wire. 3. having little… …  

  • thin — 1 /TIn/ comparative thinner superlative thickest adjective 1 NOT THICK having a very small distance or a smaller distance than usual between two sides or two flat surfaces: a thin nylon rope | She s only wearing a thin summer jacket. | two thin… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • rake — Synonyms and related words: Casanova, Don Juan, Lothario, aim at, angularity, ascend, backset, bank, barrage, be promiscuous, beat, blast, blitz, bombard, bounder, bring up, cad, cannon, cannonade, cant, card, careen, chase women, clear, climb,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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