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I м.1) (предельная линия, часть чего-л) border, edge; ( сосуда) brim; (пропасти и т.п.) brinkна са́мом краю́ — on the very brink
по края́м — along the edges
по́лный до краёв — full to the brim, brimful(l)
ли́ться че́рез край — overflow; brim over
край ра́ны — lip of a wound [wuː-]
край тротуа́ра — curb
пере́дний край (оборо́ны) воен. — first line; forward positions pl
выра́внивать текст по ле́вому [пра́вому] краю — left-align [right-align] the text
2) ( часть туши) sideто́лстый край — rib steak
то́нкий край — chine (of beef), upper cut
••краем гла́за — out of the corner of one's eye
услы́шать (вн.) краем у́ха — hear (d) from a distance
моя́ ха́та с краю (, ничего́ не зна́ю) погов. — ≈ that is nothing to do with me, it is no business / concern of mine
на краю́ (рд.) — on the verge / brink (of)
на краю́ ги́бели — on the verge / brink of ruin
край све́та — the world's end, the ends pl of the earth
на краю́ све́та — at the back of beyond
пойти́ / побежа́ть на край све́та (за тв.) — follow (d) to the ends of the earth
хвати́ть че́рез край — go overboard
II м.хлебну́ть (рд.) че́рез край — have more than one's share (of)
1) (страна, местность) land; countryродно́й край — native land
2) ( административно-территориальная единица) krai, territory••в на́ших [ва́ших] края́х — in our [your] part of the world
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I муж.1) edge, border, fringe; (b)rim (сосуда); brink (пропасти и т. п.)на краю гибели — on the brink/verge of disaster/ruin
на краю могилы, у края могилы — at death's door, one foot in the grave
с неровными краями — ( о бумаге) deckle-edged
литься через край — overflow, brim over
полный до краев — full to the brim, brim-full
через край — limitless, without limit, enough and to spare
2) (часть туши)- тонкий край••бить через край — to burst forth, to brim over
краем уха — half listen ( слушать); to overhear, happen to hear ( слышать)
хватить через край — разг. to go a little too far, to carry things to extremes
- на край светахлебнуть через край — разг. to have (more than) one's share of sorrow/misfortune
- на краю света II муж.1) (страна, местность)land, countryв наших краях — in our corner of the world, in our neck of the woods
чужие края — foreign/strange lands
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1. м.полный до краёв — full to the brim, brim-full
литься через край — overflow; brim over
передний край (обороны) воен. — first line; forward positions pl.
2. ( часть туши) sideтонкий край — chine (of beef), upper cut
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моя хата с краю (... ничего не знаю) погов. — that is nothing to do with me, it is no business / concern of mine2. м.на краю гибели — on the verge / brink of ruin
1. (страна, местность) land; country2. ( административно-территориальная единица) krai, territory♢
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ВИСЕТЬ (ДЕРЖАТЬСЯ)/ПОВИСНУТЬ НА ВОЛОСКЕ (НА НИТОЧКЕ, НА НИТКЕ) VP subj: human or abstr, often жизнь if subj: human, usu. one's life or career is involved) to be in a perilous position or condition, be threatened by imminent danger, ruin, or deathX висит на волоске = X is hanging by a threadperson X is within a hairbreadth (a hairsbreadth etc) of death person X is on the brink of death (in limited contexts) X is within a hairbreadth of disaster (ruin) X is on the brink of disaster (ruin) thing X is touch and go.Долгое время жизнь князя висела на волоске (Окуджава 2). His (the prince's) life hung by a thread for a long time (2a).«Жить в городе стало невозможно, скажите спасибо вашему Голему -кстати, вы знаете, что Голем - скрытый коммунист?.. Да-да, уверяю вас, есть материалы... он на ниточке висит, ваш Голем...» (Стругацкие 1). "It's impossible to live in this town, for which you can say thank you to your buddy Golem-incidentally, are you aware of his Communist leanings? Yes, I assure you, we have evidence, he's hanging by a thread, your Golem" (1a).(Елена Федотовна:) Ты обострил с ним отношения?.. Ах, молчишь... Ты повис на волоске! (Салынский 1). (Е.Е:) You've spoilt your relations with him? Why don't you answer?...You are on the brink of disaster! (1a).Мне претила ложь и скука старой семьи, и я участвовала в её разрушении. Выход я нашла в свободном союзе. Случайно мой опыт удался, но всё всегда висело на волоске (Мандельштам 2)....Repelled by the hypocrisy and tedium of conventional family life, I helped to undermine it...by seeking my own solution in a free union based on love, not marriage. It so happens that in my particular case it succeeded-though it was very much always touch and go (2a).From the story of Damocles, courtier of the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius in classical mythology. At a banquet, Dionysius had Damocles seated under a sword suspended by a single hair to show him how precarious power and the ruler's happiness were. -
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НА КРАЮ ГИБЕЛИ (ПРОПАСТИ) PrepP these forms only usu. subj-compl with copula (subj: human or collect) fixed WOone is very close to serious, mortal dangeron the brink (the verge) of disaster (catastrophe, ruin)on the edge (the brink) of the (an) abyss on the edge of the precipice.Во время войн в Италии он несколько раз находится на краю гибели и всякий раз спасается неожиданным образом (Толстой 7). During the wars in Italy he is several times on the brink of disaster and each time is saved in some unexpected way (7a).(Лунц) всё рос да рос и уж совсем, видимо, стал считать себя неуязвимым, как вдруг в один миг оказался на краю пропасти (Буковский 1). Lunts...continued to grow and grow, and it seems that he had already come to regard himself as invulnerable, when suddenly, overnight, he found himself on the edge of an abyss (1a). -
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• ВИСЕТЬ < ДЕРЖАТЬСЯ>/ПОВИСНУТЬ НА ВОЛОСКЕ <НА НИТОЧКЕ, НА НИТКЕ>=====⇒ to be in a perilous position or condition, be threatened by imminent danger, ruin, or death:- person X is within a hairbreadth (a hairsbreadth etc) of death;- [in limited contexts] X is within a hairbreadth of disaster (ruin);- thing X is touch and go.♦ Долгое время жизнь князя висела на волоске (Окуджава 2). His [the prince's] life hung by a thread for a long time (2a).♦ "Жить в городе стало невозможно, скажите спасибо вашему Голему - кстати, вы знаете, что Голем - скрытый коммунист?.. Да-да, уверяю вас, есть материалы... он на ниточке висит, ваш Голем..." (Стругацкие 1). "It's impossible to live in this town, for which you can say thank you to your buddy Golem - incidentally, are you aware of his Communist leanings? Yes, I assure you, we have evidence; he's hanging by a thread, your Golem" (1a).♦ [Елена Федотовна:] Ты обострил с ним отношения?.. Ах, молчишь... Ты повис на волоске! (Салынский 1). [E.F:] You've spoilt your relations with him? Why don't you answer?...You are on the brink of disaster! (1a).♦...Мне претила ложь и скука старой семьи, и я участвовала в её разрушении. Выход я нашла в свободном союзе. Случайно мой опыт удался, но всё всегда висело на волоске (Мандельштам 2)....Repelled by the hypocrisy and tedium of conventional family life, I helped to undermine it...by seeking my own solution in a free union based on love, not marriage. It so happens that in my particular case it succeeded - though it was very much always touch and go (2a).—————← From the story of Damocles, courtier of the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius in classical mythology. At a banquet, Dionysius had Damocles seated under a sword suspended by a single hair to show him how precarious power and the ruler's happiness were.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > висеть на волоске
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• ВИСЕТЬ < ДЕРЖАТЬСЯ>/ПОВИСНУТЬ НА ВОЛОСКЕ <НА НИТОЧКЕ, НА НИТКЕ>=====⇒ to be in a perilous position or condition, be threatened by imminent danger, ruin, or death:- person X is within a hairbreadth (a hairsbreadth etc) of death;- [in limited contexts] X is within a hairbreadth of disaster (ruin);- thing X is touch and go.♦ Долгое время жизнь князя висела на волоске (Окуджава 2). His [the prince's] life hung by a thread for a long time (2a).♦ "Жить в городе стало невозможно, скажите спасибо вашему Голему - кстати, вы знаете, что Голем - скрытый коммунист?.. Да-да, уверяю вас, есть материалы... он на ниточке висит, ваш Голем..." (Стругацкие 1). "It's impossible to live in this town, for which you can say thank you to your buddy Golem - incidentally, are you aware of his Communist leanings? Yes, I assure you, we have evidence; he's hanging by a thread, your Golem" (1a).♦ [Елена Федотовна:] Ты обострил с ним отношения?.. Ах, молчишь... Ты повис на волоске! (Салынский 1). [E.F:] You've spoilt your relations with him? Why don't you answer?...You are on the brink of disaster! (1a).♦...Мне претила ложь и скука старой семьи, и я участвовала в её разрушении. Выход я нашла в свободном союзе. Случайно мой опыт удался, но всё всегда висело на волоске (Мандельштам 2)....Repelled by the hypocrisy and tedium of conventional family life, I helped to undermine it...by seeking my own solution in a free union based on love, not marriage. It so happens that in my particular case it succeeded - though it was very much always touch and go (2a).—————← From the story of Damocles, courtier of the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius in classical mythology. At a banquet, Dionysius had Damocles seated under a sword suspended by a single hair to show him how precarious power and the ruler's happiness were.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > висеть на нитке
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• ВИСЕТЬ < ДЕРЖАТЬСЯ>/ПОВИСНУТЬ НА ВОЛОСКЕ <НА НИТОЧКЕ, НА НИТКЕ>=====⇒ to be in a perilous position or condition, be threatened by imminent danger, ruin, or death:- person X is within a hairbreadth (a hairsbreadth etc) of death;- [in limited contexts] X is within a hairbreadth of disaster (ruin);- thing X is touch and go.♦ Долгое время жизнь князя висела на волоске (Окуджава 2). His [the prince's] life hung by a thread for a long time (2a).♦ "Жить в городе стало невозможно, скажите спасибо вашему Голему - кстати, вы знаете, что Голем - скрытый коммунист?.. Да-да, уверяю вас, есть материалы... он на ниточке висит, ваш Голем..." (Стругацкие 1). "It's impossible to live in this town, for which you can say thank you to your buddy Golem - incidentally, are you aware of his Communist leanings? Yes, I assure you, we have evidence; he's hanging by a thread, your Golem" (1a).♦ [Елена Федотовна:] Ты обострил с ним отношения?.. Ах, молчишь... Ты повис на волоске! (Салынский 1). [E.F:] You've spoilt your relations with him? Why don't you answer?...You are on the brink of disaster! (1a).♦...Мне претила ложь и скука старой семьи, и я участвовала в её разрушении. Выход я нашла в свободном союзе. Случайно мой опыт удался, но всё всегда висело на волоске (Мандельштам 2)....Repelled by the hypocrisy and tedium of conventional family life, I helped to undermine it...by seeking my own solution in a free union based on love, not marriage. It so happens that in my particular case it succeeded - though it was very much always touch and go (2a).—————← From the story of Damocles, courtier of the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius in classical mythology. At a banquet, Dionysius had Damocles seated under a sword suspended by a single hair to show him how precarious power and the ruler's happiness were.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > висеть на ниточке
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• ВИСЕТЬ < ДЕРЖАТЬСЯ>/ПОВИСНУТЬ НА ВОЛОСКЕ <НА НИТОЧКЕ, НА НИТКЕ>=====⇒ to be in a perilous position or condition, be threatened by imminent danger, ruin, or death:- person X is within a hairbreadth (a hairsbreadth etc) of death;- [in limited contexts] X is within a hairbreadth of disaster (ruin);- thing X is touch and go.♦ Долгое время жизнь князя висела на волоске (Окуджава 2). His [the prince's] life hung by a thread for a long time (2a).♦ "Жить в городе стало невозможно, скажите спасибо вашему Голему - кстати, вы знаете, что Голем - скрытый коммунист?.. Да-да, уверяю вас, есть материалы... он на ниточке висит, ваш Голем..." (Стругацкие 1). "It's impossible to live in this town, for which you can say thank you to your buddy Golem - incidentally, are you aware of his Communist leanings? Yes, I assure you, we have evidence; he's hanging by a thread, your Golem" (1a).♦ [Елена Федотовна:] Ты обострил с ним отношения?.. Ах, молчишь... Ты повис на волоске! (Салынский 1). [E.F:] You've spoilt your relations with him? Why don't you answer?...You are on the brink of disaster! (1a).♦...Мне претила ложь и скука старой семьи, и я участвовала в её разрушении. Выход я нашла в свободном союзе. Случайно мой опыт удался, но всё всегда висело на волоске (Мандельштам 2)....Repelled by the hypocrisy and tedium of conventional family life, I helped to undermine it...by seeking my own solution in a free union based on love, not marriage. It so happens that in my particular case it succeeded - though it was very much always touch and go (2a).—————← From the story of Damocles, courtier of the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius in classical mythology. At a banquet, Dionysius had Damocles seated under a sword suspended by a single hair to show him how precarious power and the ruler's happiness were.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > держаться на волоске
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• ВИСЕТЬ < ДЕРЖАТЬСЯ>/ПОВИСНУТЬ НА ВОЛОСКЕ <НА НИТОЧКЕ, НА НИТКЕ>=====⇒ to be in a perilous position or condition, be threatened by imminent danger, ruin, or death:- person X is within a hairbreadth (a hairsbreadth etc) of death;- [in limited contexts] X is within a hairbreadth of disaster (ruin);- thing X is touch and go.♦ Долгое время жизнь князя висела на волоске (Окуджава 2). His [the prince's] life hung by a thread for a long time (2a).♦ "Жить в городе стало невозможно, скажите спасибо вашему Голему - кстати, вы знаете, что Голем - скрытый коммунист?.. Да-да, уверяю вас, есть материалы... он на ниточке висит, ваш Голем..." (Стругацкие 1). "It's impossible to live in this town, for which you can say thank you to your buddy Golem - incidentally, are you aware of his Communist leanings? Yes, I assure you, we have evidence; he's hanging by a thread, your Golem" (1a).♦ [Елена Федотовна:] Ты обострил с ним отношения?.. Ах, молчишь... Ты повис на волоске! (Салынский 1). [E.F:] You've spoilt your relations with him? Why don't you answer?...You are on the brink of disaster! (1a).♦...Мне претила ложь и скука старой семьи, и я участвовала в её разрушении. Выход я нашла в свободном союзе. Случайно мой опыт удался, но всё всегда висело на волоске (Мандельштам 2)....Repelled by the hypocrisy and tedium of conventional family life, I helped to undermine it...by seeking my own solution in a free union based on love, not marriage. It so happens that in my particular case it succeeded - though it was very much always touch and go (2a).—————← From the story of Damocles, courtier of the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius in classical mythology. At a banquet, Dionysius had Damocles seated under a sword suspended by a single hair to show him how precarious power and the ruler's happiness were.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > держаться на нитке
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• ВИСЕТЬ < ДЕРЖАТЬСЯ>/ПОВИСНУТЬ НА ВОЛОСКЕ <НА НИТОЧКЕ, НА НИТКЕ>=====⇒ to be in a perilous position or condition, be threatened by imminent danger, ruin, or death:- person X is within a hairbreadth (a hairsbreadth etc) of death;- [in limited contexts] X is within a hairbreadth of disaster (ruin);- thing X is touch and go.♦ Долгое время жизнь князя висела на волоске (Окуджава 2). His [the prince's] life hung by a thread for a long time (2a).♦ "Жить в городе стало невозможно, скажите спасибо вашему Голему - кстати, вы знаете, что Голем - скрытый коммунист?.. Да-да, уверяю вас, есть материалы... он на ниточке висит, ваш Голем..." (Стругацкие 1). "It's impossible to live in this town, for which you can say thank you to your buddy Golem - incidentally, are you aware of his Communist leanings? Yes, I assure you, we have evidence; he's hanging by a thread, your Golem" (1a).♦ [Елена Федотовна:] Ты обострил с ним отношения?.. Ах, молчишь... Ты повис на волоске! (Салынский 1). [E.F:] You've spoilt your relations with him? Why don't you answer?...You are on the brink of disaster! (1a).♦...Мне претила ложь и скука старой семьи, и я участвовала в её разрушении. Выход я нашла в свободном союзе. Случайно мой опыт удался, но всё всегда висело на волоске (Мандельштам 2)....Repelled by the hypocrisy and tedium of conventional family life, I helped to undermine it...by seeking my own solution in a free union based on love, not marriage. It so happens that in my particular case it succeeded - though it was very much always touch and go (2a).—————← From the story of Damocles, courtier of the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius in classical mythology. At a banquet, Dionysius had Damocles seated under a sword suspended by a single hair to show him how precarious power and the ruler's happiness were.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > держаться на ниточке
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13 повиснуть на волоске
• ВИСЕТЬ < ДЕРЖАТЬСЯ>/ПОВИСНУТЬ НА ВОЛОСКЕ <НА НИТОЧКЕ, НА НИТКЕ>=====⇒ to be in a perilous position or condition, be threatened by imminent danger, ruin, or death:- person X is within a hairbreadth (a hairsbreadth etc) of death;- [in limited contexts] X is within a hairbreadth of disaster (ruin);- thing X is touch and go.♦ Долгое время жизнь князя висела на волоске (Окуджава 2). His [the prince's] life hung by a thread for a long time (2a).♦ "Жить в городе стало невозможно, скажите спасибо вашему Голему - кстати, вы знаете, что Голем - скрытый коммунист?.. Да-да, уверяю вас, есть материалы... он на ниточке висит, ваш Голем..." (Стругацкие 1). "It's impossible to live in this town, for which you can say thank you to your buddy Golem - incidentally, are you aware of his Communist leanings? Yes, I assure you, we have evidence; he's hanging by a thread, your Golem" (1a).♦ [Елена Федотовна:] Ты обострил с ним отношения?.. Ах, молчишь... Ты повис на волоске! (Салынский 1). [E.F:] You've spoilt your relations with him? Why don't you answer?...You are on the brink of disaster! (1a).♦...Мне претила ложь и скука старой семьи, и я участвовала в её разрушении. Выход я нашла в свободном союзе. Случайно мой опыт удался, но всё всегда висело на волоске (Мандельштам 2)....Repelled by the hypocrisy and tedium of conventional family life, I helped to undermine it...by seeking my own solution in a free union based on love, not marriage. It so happens that in my particular case it succeeded - though it was very much always touch and go (2a).—————← From the story of Damocles, courtier of the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius in classical mythology. At a banquet, Dionysius had Damocles seated under a sword suspended by a single hair to show him how precarious power and the ruler's happiness were.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > повиснуть на волоске
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• ВИСЕТЬ < ДЕРЖАТЬСЯ>/ПОВИСНУТЬ НА ВОЛОСКЕ <НА НИТОЧКЕ, НА НИТКЕ>=====⇒ to be in a perilous position or condition, be threatened by imminent danger, ruin, or death:- person X is within a hairbreadth (a hairsbreadth etc) of death;- [in limited contexts] X is within a hairbreadth of disaster (ruin);- thing X is touch and go.♦ Долгое время жизнь князя висела на волоске (Окуджава 2). His [the prince's] life hung by a thread for a long time (2a).♦ "Жить в городе стало невозможно, скажите спасибо вашему Голему - кстати, вы знаете, что Голем - скрытый коммунист?.. Да-да, уверяю вас, есть материалы... он на ниточке висит, ваш Голем..." (Стругацкие 1). "It's impossible to live in this town, for which you can say thank you to your buddy Golem - incidentally, are you aware of his Communist leanings? Yes, I assure you, we have evidence; he's hanging by a thread, your Golem" (1a).♦ [Елена Федотовна:] Ты обострил с ним отношения?.. Ах, молчишь... Ты повис на волоске! (Салынский 1). [E.F:] You've spoilt your relations with him? Why don't you answer?...You are on the brink of disaster! (1a).♦...Мне претила ложь и скука старой семьи, и я участвовала в её разрушении. Выход я нашла в свободном союзе. Случайно мой опыт удался, но всё всегда висело на волоске (Мандельштам 2)....Repelled by the hypocrisy and tedium of conventional family life, I helped to undermine it...by seeking my own solution in a free union based on love, not marriage. It so happens that in my particular case it succeeded - though it was very much always touch and go (2a).—————← From the story of Damocles, courtier of the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius in classical mythology. At a banquet, Dionysius had Damocles seated under a sword suspended by a single hair to show him how precarious power and the ruler's happiness were.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > повиснуть на нитке
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15 повиснуть на ниточке
• ВИСЕТЬ < ДЕРЖАТЬСЯ>/ПОВИСНУТЬ НА ВОЛОСКЕ <НА НИТОЧКЕ, НА НИТКЕ>=====⇒ to be in a perilous position or condition, be threatened by imminent danger, ruin, or death:- person X is within a hairbreadth (a hairsbreadth etc) of death;- [in limited contexts] X is within a hairbreadth of disaster (ruin);- thing X is touch and go.♦ Долгое время жизнь князя висела на волоске (Окуджава 2). His [the prince's] life hung by a thread for a long time (2a).♦ "Жить в городе стало невозможно, скажите спасибо вашему Голему - кстати, вы знаете, что Голем - скрытый коммунист?.. Да-да, уверяю вас, есть материалы... он на ниточке висит, ваш Голем..." (Стругацкие 1). "It's impossible to live in this town, for which you can say thank you to your buddy Golem - incidentally, are you aware of his Communist leanings? Yes, I assure you, we have evidence; he's hanging by a thread, your Golem" (1a).♦ [Елена Федотовна:] Ты обострил с ним отношения?.. Ах, молчишь... Ты повис на волоске! (Салынский 1). [E.F:] You've spoilt your relations with him? Why don't you answer?...You are on the brink of disaster! (1a).♦...Мне претила ложь и скука старой семьи, и я участвовала в её разрушении. Выход я нашла в свободном союзе. Случайно мой опыт удался, но всё всегда висело на волоске (Мандельштам 2)....Repelled by the hypocrisy and tedium of conventional family life, I helped to undermine it...by seeking my own solution in a free union based on love, not marriage. It so happens that in my particular case it succeeded - though it was very much always touch and go (2a).—————← From the story of Damocles, courtier of the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius in classical mythology. At a banquet, Dionysius had Damocles seated under a sword suspended by a single hair to show him how precarious power and the ruler's happiness were.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > повиснуть на ниточке
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16 на краю гибели
• НА КРАЙ ГИБЕЛИ < ПРОПАСТИ>[PrepP; these forms only; usu. subj-compl with copula (subj: human or collect); fixed WO]=====⇒ one is very close to serious, mortal danger:- on the brink < the verge> of disaster (catastrophe, ruin);- on the edge of the precipice.♦ Во время войн в Италии он несколько раз находится на краю гибели и всякий раз спасается неожиданным образом (Толстой 7). During the wars in Italy he is several times on the brink of disaster and each time is saved in some unexpected way (7a).♦ [Лунц] всё рос да рос и уж совсем, видимо, стал считать себя неуязвимым, как вдруг в один миг оказался на краю пропасти (Буковский 1). Lunts...continued to grow and grow, and it seems that he had already come to regard himself as invulnerable, when suddenly, overnight, he found himself on the edge of an abyss (1a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > на краю гибели
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17 на краю пропасти
• НА КРАЙ ГИБЕЛИ < ПРОПАСТИ>[PrepP; these forms only; usu. subj-compl with copula (subj: human or collect); fixed WO]=====⇒ one is very close to serious, mortal danger:- on the brink < the verge> of disaster (catastrophe, ruin);- on the edge of the precipice.♦ Во время войн в Италии он несколько раз находится на краю гибели и всякий раз спасается неожиданным образом (Толстой 7). During the wars in Italy he is several times on the brink of disaster and each time is saved in some unexpected way (7a).♦ [Лунц] всё рос да рос и уж совсем, видимо, стал считать себя неуязвимым, как вдруг в один миг оказался на краю пропасти (Буковский 1). Lunts...continued to grow and grow, and it seems that he had already come to regard himself as invulnerable, when suddenly, overnight, he found himself on the edge of an abyss (1a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > на краю пропасти
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18 П-376
НА ПОРОГЕ lit PrepP Invar1. \П-376 чего (the resulting PrepP is adv or subj-compl with copula (subj: human or collect)) in the period or stage immediately preceding sth.: on the threshold (the verge, the brink) ofна пороге смерти = at deathfc door.Абрам Менделевич стал ему рассказывать, что мы находимся «на пороге открытия новой науки»... (Копелев 1). Abram Mendelevich began telling him that we were "on the threshold of discovering a new science..." (1a).(Андрей:) Итак, Кавалеров, мы находимся на пороге великих событий (Олеша 6). (A.:) So, Kavalerov, we're on the verge of great things, eh? (6a).2. ( subj-compl with бытье, стоять ( subj: abstr)) very near, very soon to comeX на пороге = X is very close (near) at handX is right on the doorstep X is just (a)round the corner X is (knocking) at s.o. (the) door.Потеплело, растаял снег - весна была на пороге. It got warmer and the snow melted-spring was just around the corner. -
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• НА ПОРОГЕ lit[PrepP; Invar]=====⇒ in the period or stage immediately preceding sth.:- on the threshold (the verge, the brink) of;♦ Абрам Менделевич стал ему рассказывать, что мы находимся "на пороге открытия новой науки"... (Копелев 1). Abram Mendelevich began telling him that we were uon the threshold of discovering a new science..." (1a).♦ [Андрей:] Итак, Кавалеров, мы находимся на пороге великих событий (Олеша 6). [A.:] So, Kavalerov, we're on the verge of great things, eh? (6a).2. [subj-compl with быть, стоять (subj: abstr)]⇒ very near, very soon to come:- X is (knocking) at s.o.'s (the) door.♦ Потеплело, растаял снег - весна была на пороге. It got warmer and the snow melted-spring was just around the comer.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > на пороге
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20 Ш-4
НА ШАГ от чего PrepP Invar the resulting PrepP is usu. subj-compl with copula (subj: human) (often in refer, to death, committing a sin, being in an accident etc) one is very close to (doing) sth.: X был на шаг от Y-a = X was one step away from (doing) Y X was on the verge (the brink) of (doing) Y.Михаил так переживал смерть жены, что был на шаг от самоубийства. Mikhail took his wife's death so hard that he was on the verge of committing suicide.
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