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but they cannot blush

  • 1 Бумага все терпит

    You can write whatever lie or tendentious statement you like
    Var.: Бумага от стыда не краснеет. Бумага терпит, перо пишет
    Cf: A document does not blush (Br.). Letters blush not (Am.). Paper bleeds little (Am., Br.). Paper does not blush (Am.). Paper is patience; you can put anything on it (Am.). Pens may blot, but they cannot blush (Br.)

    Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > Бумага все терпит

  • 2 бумага всё терпит

    Set phrase: paper won't blush, pens may blot, but they cannot blush (used ironically to mean: one can write down anything (e.g., any nonsense, any lie)), the fairer the paper, the fouler the blot, white paper takes any impression, youth and white paper take any impression

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > бумага всё терпит

  • 3 бумага все терпит

    Set phrase: paper won't blush, pens may blot, but they cannot blush (used ironically to mean: one can write down anything (e.g., any nonsense, any lie)), the fairer the paper, the fouler the blot, white paper takes any impression, youth and white paper take any impression

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > бумага все терпит

  • 4 PEN

    • Pens may blot, but they cannot blush - Ill (Б)

    Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > PEN

  • 5 Б-243

    БУМАГА HE КРАСНЕЕТ БУМАГА ВСЁ СТЕРПИТ VP subj. these forms only fixed WO
    (used to express an ironic or scornful attitude toward sth. written or published because it contains lies, tendentiousness etc) paper can bear absolutely anything
    paper won't (doesn't) blush
    pen and ink never blush.
    «Алексей Фёдорович, - писала она, -...я не могу больше жить, если не скажу вам того, что родилось в моём сердце, а этого никто, кроме нас двоих, не должен до времени знать. Но как я вам скажу то, что я так хочу вам сказать? Бумага, говорят, не краснеет, уверяю вас, что это неправда и что краснеет она так же точно, как и я теперь вся» (Достоев- ский 1). uAlexei Fyodorovich," she wrote, "...I cannot live any longer without telling you what has been born in my heart, and this no one but the two of us should know for the time being. But how shall I tell you that which I want so much to tell you? Paper, they say, does not blush, but I assure you that it is not true, and that it is blushing now just as I am blushing all over" (1a).
    The first variant of this phrase goes back to Cicero's Epis-tulae ad Familiares, "Epistula non erubescit," V, 12,1.

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > Б-243

  • 6 бумага все стерпит

    БУМАГА НЕ КРАСНЕЕТ; БУМАГА ВСЕ СТЕРПИТ
    [VPsubj; these forms only; fixed WO]
    =====
    (used to ex-press an ironic or scornful attitude toward sth. written or published because it contains lies, tendentiousness etc) paper can bear absolutely anything:
    - pen and ink never blush.
         ♦ "Алексей Фёдорович, - писала она, -...я не могу больше жить, если не скажу вам того, что родилось в моём сердце, а этого никто, кроме нас двоих, не должен до времени знать. Но как я вам скажу то, что я так хочу вам сказать? Бумага, говорят, не краснеет, уверяю вас, что это неправда и что краснеет она так же точно, как и я теперь вся" (Достоевский 1). "Alexei Fyodorovich," she wrote, "...I cannot live any longer without telling you what has been bom in my heart, and this no one but the two of us should know for the time being. But how shall I tell you that which I want so much to tell you? Paper, they say, does not blush, but I assure you that it is not true, and that it is blushing now just as I am blushing all over" (1a).
    —————
    ← The first variant of this phrase goes back to Cicero's Epistulae ad Familiares, "Epistula non erubescit," V, 12,1.

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > бумага все стерпит

  • 7 бумага не краснеет

    БУМАГА НЕ КРАСНЕЕТ; БУМАГА ВСЕ СТЕРПИТ
    [VPsubj; these forms only; fixed WO]
    =====
    (used to ex-press an ironic or scornful attitude toward sth. written or published because it contains lies, tendentiousness etc) paper can bear absolutely anything:
    - pen and ink never blush.
         ♦ "Алексей Фёдорович, - писала она, -...я не могу больше жить, если не скажу вам того, что родилось в моём сердце, а этого никто, кроме нас двоих, не должен до времени знать. Но как я вам скажу то, что я так хочу вам сказать? Бумага, говорят, не краснеет, уверяю вас, что это неправда и что краснеет она так же точно, как и я теперь вся" (Достоевский 1). "Alexei Fyodorovich," she wrote, "...I cannot live any longer without telling you what has been bom in my heart, and this no one but the two of us should know for the time being. But how shall I tell you that which I want so much to tell you? Paper, they say, does not blush, but I assure you that it is not true, and that it is blushing now just as I am blushing all over" (1a).
    —————
    ← The first variant of this phrase goes back to Cicero's Epistulae ad Familiares, "Epistula non erubescit," V, 12,1.

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > бумага не краснеет

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