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НИ В СКАЗКЕ СКАЗАТЬ, НИ ПЕРОМ ОПИСАТЬ folk poet ( Invar predic ( impers or with subj: any common noun) fixed WO(used to describe the highest degree of some quality, characteristic, attribute etc) a person, thing etc is too extraordinary to be described: (mere) words cannot (begin to) describe itone (you) couldn't begin to describe it (with words)(some person or thing is) more AdjP than words can tell (say). (6ii) "Я видел, как они (американцы) Германию разделывали. Ни в сказке сказать, ни пером описать... Летели сотни-тысячи в два, три слоя» (Копелев 1). UI saw them (the Americans) deal with Germany. You couldn't begin to describe it. Hundreds and thousands flew in two or three formations" (1a)....Она (няня) нашёптывала ему (Обломову) о какой-то неведомой стороне... где никто ничего круглый год не делает, а день-деньской только и знают, что гуляют всё добрые молодцы, такие, как Илья Ильич, да красавицы, что ни в сказке сказать, ни пером описать (Гончаров 1)....(Oblomov's nurse) was whispering a fairystory to him about some wonderful country...where no one did a stroke of work all the year round, and fine fellows, like Oblomov, and maidens more beautiful than words can tell did nothing but enjoy themselves all day long (1a). -
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• НИ В СКАЗКЕ СКАЗАТЬ, НИ ПЕРОМ ОПИСАТЬ folk poet[Invar; predic (impers or with subj: any common noun); fixed WO]=====⇒ (used to describe the highest degree of some quality, characteristic, attribute etc) a person, thing etc is too extraordinary to be described:- (some person or thing is) more [AdjP] than words can tell (say).♦ "Я видел, как они [американцы] Германию разделывали. Ни в сказке сказать, ни пером описать... Летели сотни-тысячи в два, три слоя" (Копелев 1). "I saw them [the Americans] deal with Germany. You couldn't begin to describe it. Hundreds and thousands flew in two or three formations" (1a).♦...Она [няня] нашёптывала ему [Обломову] о какой-то неведомой стороне... где никто ничего круглый год не делает, а день-деньской только и знают, что гуляют всё добрые молодцы, такие, как Илья Ильич, да красавицы, что ни в сказке сказать, ни пером описать (Гончаров 1)....[Oblomov's nurse] was whispering a fairystory to him about some wonderful country...where no one did a stroke of work all the year round, and fine fellows, like Oblomov, and maidens more beautiful than words can tell did nothing but enjoy themselves all day long (1a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > ни в сказке сказать, ни пером описать
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