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1 хлеб
м.1) ( изделие из муки) breadчёрный хлеб — brown bread, rye bread
бе́лый хлеб — white bread
дома́шний хлеб — homemade bread
пеклева́нный хлеб — wholemeal bread
све́жий хлеб — fresh-baked / newly-baked bread
хлеб с ма́слом — bread and butter
сажа́ть хлеб (в пе́чку) — put the bread into the oven ['ʌvn]
2) (мн. хлебы) ( каравай) loaf3) (мн. хлеба́) ( в поле) crops pl; cereals [-rɪəlz] pl; corn брит.хлеб на корню́ — standing crops
яровы́е хлеба́ — spring crops
ози́мые хлеба́ — winter crops
4) ( зерно) grainссы́пка хлеба — delivery of grain to granaries
э́кспорт хлеба — grain export
5) разг. ( средства к существованию) living; means of subsistence pl, daily breadзараба́тывать себе́ на хлеб — make one's bread, earn [ɜːn] one's living
лиши́ть кого́-л куска́ хлеба — deprive smb of a livelihood
отби́ть у кого́-л хлеб — take the bread out of smb's mouth
••хлеб да соль! — 1) уст. ( пожелание приятного аппетита) enjoy your meal! 2) ( приветствие в знак гостеприимства) welcome!
хлеба и зре́лищ! — (give us) bread and circuses!
хлеб наш насу́щный дай нам на сей день [даждь нам днесь уст.] библ. — give us this day our daily bread
быть у кого́-л на хлеба́х уст. — eat smb's salt
жить на чужи́х хлеба́х — ≈ be a dependant, live at smb else's expense
да́ром хлеб есть — ≈ not to be worth one's salt
и то́ хлеб — that's at least something; that's better than nothing
не хлебом еди́ным жив челове́к библ. — man cannot live by bread alone
(от)пуска́ть хлеб по во́дам библ. — cast one's bread upon the waters
перебива́ться с хлеба на во́ду / квас — ≈ live from hand to mouth
посади́ть на хлеб и во́ду кого́-л — put smb on bread and water
э́то наш хлеб — it's our bread and butter
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2 хлеб
м.1. тк. ед. breadчёрный хлеб — brown bread, rye-bread
белый хлеб — white bread, wheat bread
сажать хлеб (в печку) — put* the bread into the oven
свежий хлеб — fresh-baked / newly-baked bread
2. (мн. хлебы) ( каравай) loaf*4. ( зерно) grainзарабатывать себе на хлеб — make* one's bread, earn one's living
лишить кого-л. куска хлеба — deprive smb. of a livelihood
отбить у кого-л. хлеб — take* the bread out of smb.'s mouth
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быть у кого-л. на хлебах — eat* smb.'s saltжить на чужих хлебах — be a dependant, live at smb. else's expense
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3 кисейная барышня
пренебр.namby-pamby miss; bread-and-butter miss- Грешен, больше боюсь амазонок! - Я вовсе не амазонка, а всего только не кисейная барышня. (А. Степанов, Порт-Артур) — 'I confess that I am afraid of Amazons!' 'I am not an Amazon, but I am not just a bread-and-butter miss!'
- Ох, и тяжело сейчас Татьяне! - сказал вдруг Беридзе... - Напрасно мы ушли от неё, очень пригодилась бы ей наша помощь. - Она не кисейная барышня и не одна, с коллективом, - возразил Алексей. (В. Ажаев, Далеко от Москвы) — 'It's hard on poor Tanya!' Beridze said suddenly... 'We shouldn't have left her, our help would have come in useful to her.' 'She's not a namby-pamby miss. And she isn't alone out there - she has the collective,' Alexei retorted.
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > кисейная барышня
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4 отбивать хлеб
take (steal) the bread out of smb.'s mouth; win one's bread away from smb.; take smb.'s bread and butterКоринкина.
А коли у неё деньги, так зачем она в актрисы пошла, зачем рыщет по России, у нас хлеб отбивает? (А. Островский, Без вины виноватые) — Korinkina. And if she has so much money, why should she be an actress? Why should she go travelling about Russia, stealing the bread out of our mouths?- Посмотри-ка на солнце, Платон, и к вечности прикоснись, земные заботы забыв... Ничего себе, дую гекзаметром, кажется, отбиваю хлеб у поэтов? (Ю. Бондарев, Берег) — 'Just have a look at the sun, Platon, and touch eternity, earthly cares forgotten... Not bad, I'm knocking off hexameters, it seems I'm winning my bread away from the poets?'
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5 На безрыбье и рак рыба
We must do with the thing or man we have at our disposal for want of a better one. See В поле и жук мясо (B), В темноте и гнилушка светит (B), Ешь щи с мясом, а нет, так и хлеб с квасом (E), За неимением гербовой пишут на простой (3), Кривой среди слепых - король (K), На безлюдье и сидни в чести (H), На бесптичье и ворона соловей (H),2028 (C)Cf: All is good in a famine (Am., Br.). Among the blind the one-eyed man is king (Br.). A bad bush is better than the open field (Am., Br.). Make the most of what you have (Am.). There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples (Am.). There is small choice in rotten apples (Am., Br.). There's no choice among stinking fish (Am.). They that have no other meat, bread and butter are glad to eat (Br.). They that have no other meat, gladly bread and butter eat (Am.). When /all/ fruit fails, welcome haws (Br.). When the fruit fails, welcome haws (Am.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > На безрыбье и рак рыба
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