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1 CROOKED
• Crooked furrows grow straight grain - Криво дерево, да яблоки сладки (K)• Crooked log makes a good fire (A) - Кривы дрова, да прямо горят (K)• Crooked logs make a straight fire (straight fires) - Кривы дрова, да прямо горят (K)• Crooked stick makes a straight fire (A) - Кривы дрова, да прямо горят (K)• Crooked tree will never straighten its branches (A) - Кривое дерево не разогнется прямо (K)• Crooked wood makes an even fire - Кривы дрова, да прямо горят (K)• That which is crooked cannot be made straight - Кривое дерево не разогнется прямо (K) -
2 STICK
• Any stick /will do/ to beat the dog - Была бы собака, а палка найдется (Б)• Crooked stick throws a crooked shadow (A) - Как живешь, так и слывешь (K), Каков Савва, такова ему и слава (K)• Crooked stick will cast (will have) a crooked shadow (A) - Как живешь, так и слывешь (K), Каков Савва, такова ему и слава (K), По Павушке и славушка (П)• Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick - Наряди пенек в вешний денек, так и пенек будет паренек (H)• He who has a mind to beat a (his) dog will easily find a stick - Была бы собака, а палка найдется (Б)• It's an easy thing to find a stick to beat a dog with - Была бы собака, а палка найдется (Б)• It sticks out a mile - Ясно, как дважды два - четыре (Я)• Little sticks kindle large fires - Москва от копеечной свечки сгорела (M)• One stick is easier broken than a bunch - Веника не переломишь, а по пруту весь веник переломаешь (B)• Stick is quickly (soon) found to beat a dog with (A) - Была бы собака, а палка найдется (Б)• Stick together or get stuck separately - Веника не переломишь, а по пруту весь веник переломаешь (B), Дружно - не грузно, а врозь - хоть брось (Д)• When you pick up a stick at one end, you also pick up the other end - Палка о двух концах (П)• You can't make a crooked stick lay straight - Кривое дерево не разогнется прямо (K) -
3 Каков Савва, такова ему и слава
A mean person has a bad reputation. See Как живешь, так и слывешь (К), По Павушке и славушка (П)Var.: Какова пава, такова ей и славаCf:A crooked stick throws a crooked shadow (Br.). A crooked stick will cast (have) a crooked shadow (Am.). A crooked tree throws only a crooked shadow (Am.). If the staff be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight (Br.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > Каков Савва, такова ему и слава
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4 Как живешь, так и слывешь
See Каков Савва, такова ему и слава (К)Cf: A crooked stick throws a crooked shadow (Br.). A crooked stick will cast (will have) a crooked shadow (Am.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > Как живешь, так и слывешь
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5 Кривы дрова, да прямо горят
See Корова черна, да молоко у нее бело (К)Cf:A crooked log makes a good fire (Br.). Crooked logs make a straight fire (Br.). Crooked logs make straight fires (Am.). A crooked stick makes a straight fire (Am.). Crooked wood makes an even fire (Am.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > Кривы дрова, да прямо горят
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6 Кривое дерево не разогнется прямо
See Горбатого могила исправит (Г)Cf: A crooked tree will never straighten its branches (Am.). That which is crooked cannot be made straight (Br.). What is bred in the bone will not /come (go)/ out of the flesh (Am., Br.). Wood that grows warped can never be straightened (Br.). You can't make a crooked stick lay straight (Am.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > Кривое дерево не разогнется прямо
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7 По Павушке и славушка
See Каков Савва, такова ему и слава (К)Cf: A crooked stick will cast (will have) a crooked shadow (Am.). If the staff be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight (Br.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > По Павушке и славушка
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8 нечестный
1) General subject: crook, crooked, devious, dirty (dirty player - нечестный игрок), dishonest, disingenuous, dodgy, foul, ickie, indirect, mean, mendacious, one eyed, rascally, raw, shifty, sinister, snide, sordid, twisty, unfair, unrighteous, unsporting, unsportsmanlike, sharp, shabby2) American: one-eyed3) Australian slang: rigged4) Psychology: untrue5) Jargon: crooked stick, dirty work, feather-legs, hooked up, kinky, shady, bent, cross, low down6) Business: mala fide8) Archaic: unjust9) Taboo: shitty -
9 лгун
2) Colloquial: storyteller, twister3) Jargon: crooked stick, holy friar (He’s a bit of a holy friar), bull dog4) Makarov: lier5) Taboo: bad shit, bullshit-artist, crock of shit, jive ass, shit-ass, shit-head, shit-heel, shit-hook -
10 обманщик
1) General subject: bluff, bluffer, charlatan, cheat, counterfeit, counterfeiter, cozener, crook, deceiver, delusionist, dissembler, double dealer, double-dealer, double-face, doubleface, duffer, faker, false, flimflamer, four flusher, four-flusher, fraud, gagger, gouge, hawk, heel, hoaxer, humbug, humbugger, impostor, jockey, juggler, mountebank, phoney, phony, pretender, pseud, quack, quacksalver, sham, shammer, sharper, shoddy character, slick, swindler, take in, take-in, tregetour, trepan, trickster, twicer, two timer, two-timer, victimizer, scammer (американизм), cheater, beguiler, yentzer5) Bookish: inveigler6) Law: confidence trickster7) Economy: double-cross, fraudster9) Scottish language: intake10) Jargon: bilk, chiseler, con man, crooked stick, designer, dipsy doodle, double-crosser, fiddler, four-flusher four-flushing, grifter, gyp artist, gypper, gypster, sell, worm, hoser, foney, fony, shark, sharpie11) Simple: bamboozler -
11 WOOD
• Don't go through the woods and pick up a crooked stick - По лесу ходит, дров не найдет (П)• If you cut down the woods, you'll catch the wolf - Держи карман шире! (Д), Когда рак свистнет и рыба запоет (K)• It is a strange wood that never has a withered bough in it - В семье не без урода (B)• Knock on wood - Чтоб не сглазить (4)• Like wood, like arrows - Каково волокно, таково и полотно (K)• Sometimes one can't see the wood for the trees - Из-за деревьев леса не видать (И)• Touch wood - Чтоб не сглазить (4)• Wood that grows warped can never be straightened - Кривое дерево не разогнется прямо (K)• You can't see the wood for the trees - Из-за деревьев леса не видать (И) -
12 По лесу ходит, дров не найдет
People fail to find things which are in abundanceCf: Don't go through the woods and ick up a crooked stick (Am.). Some men go through a forest and see no firewood (Br.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > По лесу ходит, дров не найдет
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13 костыль
1) General subject: a pair of crutches (обыкн. plural), crutch (обыкн. plural), spike, spike-nail2) Aviation: parking stand (мотоцикла)3) American: gimp stick4) Military: (cut) spike5) Engineering: cotter, crooked nail, dog nail, dog-nail, drift-bolt, driftbolt, driftpin, drive-bolt, spike nail6) Rare: brob7) Construction: cup hook nail, cut spike, dog spike, dog-headed spike, drift bolt, end-nail, lean stick, plate nail, toggle, track spike, drive8) Railway term: iron spike9) Automobile industry: skid10) Architecture: dog nail (крепежный элемент)12) Forestry: clasp nail, rafter nail, skeleton nail14) Oil: tubing hook (для подвески труб), wall hook (для подвески труб)15) Arms production: sprag16) Makarov: dog17) Tengiz: (rail holding) spike -
14 дело
ср.1) affair, business, work; occupation, pursuit; lineвмешиваться/лезть не в свое дело — to interfere in other people's affairs, to stick one's nose into smb.'s business
что за дело? (кому-л.) — what is it (to)?, what does it matter (to)?
не у дел — (to be) out of work/job
при деле — to have smth. to keep one busy, to keep oneself busy/occupied
2) только ед. (цель, интересы и т. п.) causeвступать в дело — to go into the action, to come into play
гиблое дело, пропащее дело, дохлое дело — it's a lost cause, hopeless undertaking
дело чьих-л. рук — this is smb.'s handwork/doing
черное дело — dirty deed, crime, black deed
4) (событие, происшествие) affair, business5) обыкн. мн. ч. (положение, обстоятельства) things, matters; affair, occasion, work, doingдело усложняется тем, что — the added complication is that
как его дела? — how is he getting on?, how are things going with him?
ясное дело — matter of course, sure enough
такие-то дела! разг. — so that's how things are!, that is the way it is!
вот это дело! — good!, now you are talking sense!
за чем дело стало? — what's holding matters/things up?, what's the hitch?
дело прошлое — that's a thing of the past, that's all over now
6) (вопрос, предмет чего-л.) matter, point, concernбыть делом далекого будущего — to be a good distance in the future, to be a long way in the future
ближе к делу — come to the point, get down to business
говорить дело — разг. to talk sense, to have a point
дело хозяйское — разг. it's up to you, it's your choice/business
другое дело, совсем другое дело — it's quite another matter, that's a horse of a different colour идиом.
7) обыкн. ед. (специальность)автомобильное дело — motoring, automobile business
бухгалтерское дело — accountancy, accounting
- библиотечное деловоенное дело — soldiering, military science
- военно-инженерное дело
- гончарное дело
- горнорудное дело
- рекламное дело
- скорняжное дело
- стеклодувное дело8) юр. caseвозбуждать дело — (против кого-л.) to bring an action against smb., to take institute proceedings against smb.
отстаивать дело — ( в суде) to fight a suit
пришить дело, намотать дело — сленг to cook up charges against smb.
9) канц. file, dossierличное дело — personal file; personal record(s) мн. ч.
подшить к делу, приложить к делу — to file
10) устар.; воен. action, battle•На самом деле, все происходит как раз наоборот. — What actually happens happens the other way round.
обычное дело — commonplace, something common
••- в том то и дело
- делать дело
- дело в том что
- дело в шляпе
- за дело
- и на словах и на деле
- иметь дело
- испытывать на деле
- как дела?
- между делом
- на деле
- на самом деле
- нет дела
- первым делом
- сделать свое дело
- то и дело
- то ли дело
- употреблять в дело
См. также в других словарях:
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