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1 couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery
Австралийский сленг: безмозглый, глупый, неспособный, неумелый, тупойУниверсальный англо-русский словарь > couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery
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2 couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery
неспособный, неумелый, глупый, тупой, безмозглый и т.п. -
3 couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery
неспособный, неумелый, глупый, тупой, безмозглый и т.п.English-Russian australian expression > couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery
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4 He couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery
Он не может устроить вечеринку даже на пивзаводеDifficulties of the English language (lexical reference) English-Russian dictionary > He couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery
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5 безмозглый
1) General subject: addle brained, addle-brained, addle-pated, addlebrained, brainless, headless, hen witted, hen-witted, mindless, pinheaded, rattle brained, rattle headed, rattle pated, rattle-brained, rattle-pated, shatter brained, shatter-brained, short witted, short-witted, stupid, witless2) Colloquial: pinhead4) Australian slang: couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery, couldn't run a chook raffle in a country pub, couldn't tell his ass from a hole in the ground5) Jargon: mishoogeh, mishugah, neutral, numb-brained, numb-head, numb-head-ed, Lame-brained, nipple-headed6) Makarov: addle-headed, rattle-headed -
6 неспособный
1) General subject: bad, bankrupt in ability, inapt, incapable, incapable (на что-л.), incompetent, ineffective, inefficient, inept, insufficient (к чему-л.), unable, unapt, unfit3) Agriculture: inable4) Mathematics: be incapable of5) Australian slang: couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery, couldn't run a chook raffle in a country pub, couldn't tell his ass from a hole in the ground6) Automobile industry: disabled7) Psychology: unfitted8) Euphemism: not very quick10) Psychoanalysis: slow-learning (о ребёнке)11) Makarov: bedrid in his faculties, inadequate, under a disability, weak -
7 неумелый
1) General subject: amateurish (an amateurish attempt - неловкая попытка), artless, awkward, bad, blundering, botchy, bumbling, bungling, doggerel (о стихах), fumbling, handless, helpless, inapt, incapable, incompetent, ineffective, inefficient, inexpert, left-handed, peddler, pedlar, pedler, shiftless, unapt, unskilful, unskilled, unskillful, untrained, unpracticed, unpractised2) American: footless3) Australian slang: couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery, couldn't run a chook raffle in a country pub, couldn't tell his ass from a hole in the ground5) Business: inept -
8 whelk stall
Ларёк, где продают съедобных моллюсков, в частности, на берегу моря.He couldn't run a whelk stall. — Он даже с ларьком с моллюсками не справится (т. е. он ни на что не способен).
Существует также выражение that's no way to run a whelk stall - так не подобает вести дело (в США: that's a hell of a way to run a railroad!). Есть также вульгарная, но очень колоритная фраза, обозначающая невысокое мнение о чьих-либо организаторских способностях:He/she couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery. — Он/она не может организовать даже выпивку в пивоварне.
См. также в других словарях:
Couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery — can t organise anything … Dictionary of Australian slang
couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery — Australian Slang can t organise anything … English dialects glossary
couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery — Phrs. Of a person, totally incompetent … English slang and colloquialisms