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1 демобилизоваться
1) General subject: take discharge2) Military: go into civvies, hit the beach (из ВМС)3) Makarov: quit the army, enter civil life -
2 уходить в отставку
2) American: check out3) Military: go into civvies, quit, retire (по истечении установленного полного срока службы с пенсией и льготами), take felt4) Rare: demit5) Economy: retire from a post, vacate6) Politics: stand down (англ. термин взят из статьи в журнале Time, США)7) Business: vacate a post8) Psychoanalysis: retireУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > уходить в отставку
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3 гиблое дело
разг.lost cause (hope); bad job; hopeless job; it's all up; it's a gone case; it's a dead frost; it's all day (domino) with smb., smth.- Скажи, Лео, ты понимаешь, что случилось? - Нет, не понимаю... Никто ничего не знает. Генералы сами лезут в плен. Офицеры переодеваются в штатское и говорят: всё равно дело пропащее... (И. Эренбург, Буря) — 'Tell me, Leo, do you understand what's happening?' 'No, I don't... Nobody knows anything. The generals surrender. Officers change into civvies and say: 'It's all up, anyhow.'
Теперь я понимаю, что это был замечательный боевой петух, но он не вовремя родился. Эпоха петушиных боёв давно прошла, а воевать с людьми - пропащее дело. (Ф. Искандер, Петух) — Now I realise that he was really a splendid fighting cock, but born too late. The days of cock fighting have long since passed, and fighting the human race is a lost cause from the start.
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