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1 Educated Idiot Box
Rude: EIBУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Educated Idiot Box
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2 телевизионный приемник
idiot box проф., box, television, home screen, receiver, television set, TV set, set, boob tube, boob-tube, tellyРусско-английский словарь по электронике > телевизионный приемник
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3 телевизионный приемник
idiot box проф., box, television, receiver, home screen, television set, TV set, set, boob tube, boob-tube, tellyРусско-английский словарь по радиоэлектронике > телевизионный приемник
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4 телевидение
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5 телевидение
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6 телевизор
1) General subject: TV set, box, dead-head, deadhead (и т.п.), goggle-box, set, teevee set, tele receiver, television receiver, television set, televisor, tellies, the box2) Colloquial: goggle (the goggle), gogglebox, telly, the goggle4) Engineering: receiver, television5) Jocular: idiot box, idiot's lantern6) Cinema: small screen, tube7) Telecommunications: TV receiver8) Jargon: boob tube, boob-tube, goggle, idiot box (set), custard (As usual, nothing on the custard tonight.), eye9) Advertising: receiving set10) Mass media: TV-set11) Business: television (TV)13) Makarov: radiovisor14) Taboo: glory hole (гомос.)) -
7 ящик
1) Colloquial: the box2) Jocular: idiot box, idiot's lantern (телевизор) -
8 ящик
1) Colloquial: the box2) Jocular: idiot box, idiot's lantern (телевизор) -
9 ящик
м.1) ( вместилище) box; case [-s]; ( ларь) chestму́сорный я́щик — dustbin
почто́вый я́щик — letterbox; ( на цоколе) pillar box
вещево́й я́щик (в автомобиле) — glove compartment
я́щик для инструме́нтов — toolbox
2) ( выдвижной) drawer [drɔː]; (с папками, подшивками) file box3) разг. пренебр. ( телевизор) the (idiot) box; the boob tube амер.что там пока́зывают по я́щику? — what's on the box today?
••откла́дывать в до́лгий я́щик (вн.) — shelve (d); put off (d)
почто́вый я́щик — см. почтовый
сыгра́ть в я́щик прост. — kick the bucket
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10 автоматическая коробка передач
1) Military: automatic transmission gear box2) Automobile industry: automatic gearbox, automatic transmission, hydro, idiot box, (АКП) A/T (automatic transmission)3) Jargon: slushmatic (с гидротрансформатором), slushbox (с гидротрансформатором)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > автоматическая коробка передач
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11 зомбоящик
1) General subject: idiot box (телевидение в его "отупляющем" смысле)2) Politics: zombie-box (or "zombobox" - Russian TV broadcasting state propaganda) -
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13 В семье не без урода
In every community there is sure to be at least one disreputable personVar.: И в хорошей семье выродок бываетCf: Every family has a black sheep (Br.). An idiot - they happen in the best of families (Am.). It is a strange wood that never has a withered bough in it (Br.). There is a black sheep in every flock (Am., Br.). There is at least one rotten apple in every barrel (Am., Br.). There's a bad apple in every box (Am.). There's a black sheep in every family (Am.). There's always a bad egg in every crowd (Am.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > В семье не без урода
См. также в других словарях:
Idiot box — is slang for a television and may also refer to: * Idiot Box (webcomic), by Matt Bors * Idiot Box (1996 film), an Australian movie starring Ben Mendelsohn and Jeremy Sims * Idiot Box (song), from the 1997 album S.C.I.E.N.C.E. by Incubus *Idiot… … Wikipedia
idiot box — n. Slang television or a television set … English World dictionary
idiot box — N SING: the N The idiot box is the television. [mainly BRIT, INFORMAL] The original script was written with the idiot box in mind. (in AM, use boob tube) … English dictionary
idiot box — Some people consider television to lack educational value and refer to it as the idiot box. He spends all his free time in front of the idiot box … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
idiot box — n. a television set. □ You spend too much time watching the idiot box. □ What’s on the idiot box tonight? … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
idiot box — {n.} A television set. * /Phil has been staring at the idiot box all afternoon./ … Dictionary of American idioms
idiot box — {n.} A television set. * /Phil has been staring at the idiot box all afternoon./ … Dictionary of American idioms
idiot box — np TV set, a television. Turn on the idiot box and let s catch the weather. 1960s … Historical dictionary of American slang
idiot\ box — noun A television set. Phil has been staring at the idiot box all afternoon … Словарь американских идиом
idiot box — n a television set. A less common alterna tive to gogglebox, dating from around 1960, by which time the mind numbing effects of TV viewing were attracting criti cal comment. ► An entertaining and salutary study of the tangled, dishonest and… … Contemporary slang
idiot box — television set He sits in front of the idiot box all day and never gets any work done … Idioms and examples