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1 расколотая головка сахара
Food industry: cut loafУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > расколотая головка сахара
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2 отрезанный ломоть
разг.1) (человек, отделившийся от семьи, ставший самостоятельным) a son (a daughter) cut off from the parent stem (strayed from his (her) family)Лиза... Она ту меньше любила, да ведь она уж и отрезанный ломоть: у неё свои обязанности, своё семейство... (А. Писемский, Тюфяк) — Liza... Your mother never loved her so much, and anyhow she's what you call cut off from the parent stem. She has duties of her own, a family...
2) (человек, порвавший связь с привычной средой) one estranged; a severed branch (limb); a loner; a lone wolf; lit. a slice severed from the loafСтарик жалел его, но делать было нечего. Солдатство было - как смерть. Солдат был отрезанный ломоть, и поминать о нём - душу бередить - незачем было. (Л. Толстой, Хаджи-Мурат) — The old man regretted his going away, but there was no help for it. Conscription in those days was like death. A soldier was a severed branch; and to think about him at home was to tear one's heart uselessly.
Слёз не было, не плачут по отрезанном ломте, но всё по-своему провожало Матвея: прохожие без шапок сторонились на обочину, жавороночек малость позвенел в высоте... (Л. Леонов, Русский лес) — There were no tears, for one does not weep over a severed limb, but all took their leave of Matvei in their own fashion: the passers-by bared their heads and stepped back to the roadsides, a lark trilled briefly in the sky...
Кузьма решил, что брат для деревни совсем уж отрезанный ломоть... потому, что его не манит сюда приехать, посмотреть, как живут свои и не свои... (В. Распутин, Деньги для Марии) — Kuzma concluded that, as far as the village was concerned, his brother was a slice severed from the loaf. Nothing would induce him to come back and see how his kinsmen and friends were getting on...
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > отрезанный ломоть
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3 Чужим добром подноси вед ром
You take or give away willingly things that belong to other people. See Из чужого кармана платить легко (И)Cf: All men are free of other men's goods (Am.). Hens are free of horse corn (Br.). It is easy to be generous with what is another's (Br.). It is easy to spend someone else's money (Am.). Men cut large shives of another's loaf (Br.). Men cut large thongs of other men's leather (Br.). Somebody else's wealth is easy to dispose (Am.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > Чужим добром подноси вед ром
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4 SHIVE
• Men cut large shives of another's loaf - Чужим добром подноси вед ром (4) -
5 благословение хлебов
Русско-английский большой базовый словарь > благословение хлебов
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a slice off a cut loaf isn’t missed — 1592 SHAKESPEARE Titus Andronicus II. i. 87 More water glideth by the mill Than wots [knows] the miller of; and easy it is Of a cut loaf to steal a shive [slice]. 1639 J. CLARKE Parœmiologia Anglo Latina 118 ’Tis safe taking a shive of a cut… … Proverbs new dictionary
a slice off a cut loaf is never missed — Used colloquially to describe having sexual intercourse with someone who is not a virgin, especially when they are in a relationship. The analogy refers to a loaf of bread; it is not readily apparent, once the end has been removed, exactly how… … The small dictionary of idiomes
cut — participial adjective see a slice off a cut loaf isn’t missed verb see don’t cut off your nose to spite your face cut your coat according to your cloth diamond cuts diamond measure seven times, cut once … Proverbs new dictionary
loaf — see half a loaf is better than no bread a slice off a cut loaf isn’t missed … Proverbs new dictionary
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loaf — loaf1 [ləuf US louf] n plural loaves [ləuvz US louvz] [: Old English; Origin: hlaf] 1.) bread that is shaped and baked in one piece and can be cut into ↑slice s ▪ a loaf of bread white/wholemeal/granary etc loaf BrE a sliced loaf … Dictionary of contemporary English
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cut — I n. wound made by smt. sharp 1) a clean; deep; superficial cut reduction 2) to take a cut 3) a budget; pay; personnel; tax cut 4) a cut in (we had to take a cut in pay) haircut 5) a crew cut II v. 1) ( to gash ) to cut deeply 2) (C) ( to seve … Combinatory dictionary
loaf — 1 noun plural loaves, (C) 1 bread that is shaped and baked in one piece and can be cut into slices: a loaf of bread 2 meat/nut loaf meat or nuts that have been cut very finely, pressed together, and baked 3 use your loaf BrE old fashioned used to … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
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