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1 правда глаза колет
1) General subject: nothing hurts like the truth, the truth is hard to swallow2) Set phrase: home truths are hard to swallow, home truths are usually unpalatable, nothing stings like the truth (bitter truth makes no pleasure. said to or about a person who is not in the right and does not like to hear the truth), the sting of a reproach is in its truth a truth has thorns, truths and roses have thorns about them, the truth hurts, The truth tastes bitterУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > правда глаза колет
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2 правда глаза колет
посл.truth has thorns; truths and roses have thorns about them; cf. home truths are hard to swallow (are usually unpalatable); nothing stings like the truth- Ты что, Лида Харитоновна, вздумала изгаляться над нами? - вызывающе спросила Мавра. - На что это мне изгаляться? Правда глаза колет. Муженёк-то твой помалкивает. Да и ты знаешь, о каком деле разговор. (К. Федин, Костёр) — 'How did it enter your head that you can scoff at me like that?' Mavra asked Lidia with a challenge. 'Why, I wasn't going to scoff at you. Home truths are hard to swallow, are they not? Your hubby keeps mum, and you know damn well what I'm talking about.'
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