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1 дырявые руки
• ДЫРЯВЫЕ РУКИ у кого coll[NP; pl only; usu. VPsubj with быть]=====⇒ s.o. is clumsy, drops and/ or breaks everything he touches:- X is butterfingered < a butterfingers>;- X has two left hands.♦...Разве стала бы я огорчаться подобными мелочами, если бы в лаборатории хоть что-нибудь получалось? Если бы Петя, застенчиво улыбаясь, не спрятал от меня стеклянный колпак от микроскопа - я била посуду. Если бы красивая, гордая ассистентка не сказала Николаю Васильевичу, думая, что я не услышу: "Никогда ничего не выйдет. Дырявые руки!" (Каверин 1)....Would I have been depressed by such trifles if I'd managed to achieve [at least] something in the laboratory? If Petya, smiling shyly, had not hidden the glass cover of the microscope from me in the cupboard? (I had broken some glassware.) Or if the handsome, proud woman assistant had not told Nikolai Vasilyevich, thinking that I wasn't listening...: "Nothing will ever come of her. All her fingers are thumbs" (1a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > дырявые руки
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2 руки как крюки
• РУКИ-КРЮКИ( РУКИ КАК КРЮКИ) у кого coll[NP; these forms only; VPsubj with быть; usu. pres]=====⇒ s.o. is awkward, clumsy, and drops everything:- X has butterfingers.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > руки как крюки
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3 руки-крюки
• РУКИ-КРЮКИ ( РУКИ КАК КРЮКИ) у кого coll[NP; these forms only; VPsubj with быть; usu. pres]=====⇒ s.o. is awkward, clumsy, and drops everything:- X has butterfingers.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > руки-крюки
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4 неловкий
1) General subject: angular, angulous, awkward, blundering, bouncing, bumbling, cack-handed, clumsy, cubbish, embarrassing, fumbling, gawky, heavy-handed, ill at ease, inconvenient, maladroit, oafish, splayfooted, stiff, three corner, three cornered, three-cornered, uncomfortable, uncouth, uneasy (о движениях и т. п.), ungainly, unhandy, unskilful, artless, ham-fisted, ham-handed, ungraceful2) Colloquial: cringe-making3) American: klutzy4) French: gauche5) Sports: unskillful6) Diplomatic term: untoward7) Psychology: self-conscious8) Jargon: butterfingers, raunchie, raunchy, ronchie, slob-foot9) Makarov: backhand (особ. в работе), backhanded (особ. в работе), helpless, strange10) Taboo: galoot -
5 неуклюжий
1) General subject: awkward (о людях, движениях и т. п.), boorish, bouncing, bulky, bumbling, bungling, cack-handed, chuckle, chunking, cloddish, clumsy, cowish (в движениях), cubbish, elephantic, elephantine, footless, fumbling, gawky, gnarled, gnarly, graceless (о стиле), ham fisted, ham handed, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, inert, left-handed, lob, loose as goose, loosey goosey, lout, lubber, lubberly, lumbersome, lumping (о походке), lumpish, maladroit, oaf, oafish, ouph, ouphe, oxy, shambling, slouchy (особ. о походке), splay, splayfooted, stiff, three corner, three cornered, three-cornered, uncouth, ungainly, unskilful, unwieldy, ursal, clutz (как сушествительное), cumbersome, chimsy3) American: klutzy, loosey-goosey4) French: gauche5) Bookish: ambilaevous (в обращении с вещами), ambilevous (в обращении с вещами)6) Scottish language: corrie-fisted7) Jargon: butterfingers, flubdubbed, goon, goony, horsey (о человеке), horsy (о человеке), kack-handed, keck-handed, schleppy, slob-foot, clunker (игрок в гольф, теннис и др.), ropey, slewfoot8) Makarov: backhand (особ. в работе), backhanded (особ. в работе), inartificial, lumpy, rustic, shambling (о стихах, стиле)9) Taboo: bear, clumsy as a cub bear handling his prick, gangly, lummox10) Non-profit-making organization: tipsy -
6 неумёха
1) General subject: botch, bush leaguer, bush-leaguer, butcher, dabster, goof up, tawpie, all thumbs (ex. She is all thumbs - Она такая неумёха), kaputnik, clumsy2) Colloquial: butter-fingers, butters4) Jargon: butterfingers (у которого руки растут не из того места), goof-up -
7 разиня
1) General subject: a gaping fool, gaper, gawk, day-dreamer, easy touch, soft touch, dawdler, dullard, idler, jackanapes, starer, scatterbrain2) Colloquial: cuckoo3) Jargon: butterfingers -
8 растяпа
1) General subject: a sad sack, drip, goof ball, goof up, goof-ball, softie, softy, stick in the mud, stick-in-the-mud2) Colloquial: Sad Sack, butter-fingers, butters, slugger3) Jargon: goof-up, muff, schlemiel, klutz, schlemazel, schlemozzle, schlimazl, (у которого всё из рук вываливается) butterfingers, goof ball goof-ball, sack, tourist4) American English: clutz -
9 растяпа (у которого всё из рук вываливается)
Jargon: butterfingersУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > растяпа (у которого всё из рук вываливается)
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10 Р-287
ДЫРЙВЫЕ РУКИ у кого coll NP pl only usu. VP subjw,m бытье) s.o. is clumsy, drops and/or breaks everything he touches: у X-a дырявые руки = X is (X's fingers are) all thumbs X is butterfingered (a butterfingers) X has butter-fingers X has two left hands....Разве стала бы я огорчаться подобными мелочами, если бы в лаборатории хоть что-нибудь получалось? Если бы Петя, застенчиво улыбаясь, не спрятал от меня стеклянный колпак от микроскопа - я била посуду. Если бы красивая, гордая ассистентка не сказала Николаю Васильевичу, думая, что я не услышу: «Никогда ничего не выйдет. Дырявые руки!» (Каверин 1)....Would I have been depressed by such trifles if I'd managed to achieve (at least) something in the laboratory? If Petya, smiling shyly, had not hidden the glass cover of the microscope from me in the cupboard? (I had broken some glassware.) Or if the handsome, proud woman assistant had not told Nikolai Vasilyevich, thinking that I wasn't listening...: "Nothing will ever come of her. All her fingers are thumbs" (1a). -
11 Р-317
РУКИ-КРЮКИ (РУКИ КАК КРЮКИ) у кого coll NP these forms only VP subj. with быть» usu. pres) s.o. is awkward, clumsy, and drops everything: у X-a руки-крюки — X is (X's fingers are) all thumbs X is butterfingered (a butter-fingers) X has butterfingers. -
12 квашня
ж.1) ( посуда для заквашивания теста) kneading trough [trɒf], dough [dəʊ] trough2) (о несобранном, ленивом человеке) slouch; ( неумёха) butterfingers -
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