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41 златые горы
• ЗОЛОТЫЕ < ЗЛАТЫЕ> ГОРЫ сулить, обещать и т.п.[NP; pl only; obj or (with verbs in passive) subj; fixed WO]=====⇒ (to promise s.o.) exaggerated amounts of sth., great riches, everything imaginable:- (promise s.o.) the moon (and the stars);- (promise s.o.) mountains of gold <a gold mine, the world>.♦ Бургонцы и Театр на Болоте, пользуясь тем, что Мольер временно остался без театра, стали сманивать актёров. Они сулили золотые горы мольеровским комедиантам... (Булгаков 5). Taking advantage of the fact that Moliere was temporarily without a theater, the Hotel de Bourgogne and the Marais did everything they could to tempt his actors away from him. They promised his players mountains of gold (5a).♦ Маляр безнадёжно махнул рукой... и пошёл между койками к двери, истошно выкрикивая на ходу: "Вербовщик, гадёныш, золотые горы сулил, а вышло по семь бумаг на рыло и - крышка!.. Вот-те и заработки!.." (Максимов 3). The painter waved his hand helplessly...and passed between the rows of beds on his way to the door, yelling at the top of his voice as he went. "That rat of an agent promised us a gold mine, and it works out at seventy rubles per head, and that's it....That's what you get when you try to earn a bit!" (3a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > златые горы
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42 золотые горы
• ЗОЛОТЫЕ < ЗЛАТЫЕ> ГОРЫ сулить, обещать и т.п.[NP; pl only; obj or (with verbs in passive) subj; fixed WO]=====⇒ (to promise s.o.) exaggerated amounts of sth., great riches, everything imaginable:- (promise s.o.) the moon (and the stars);- (promise s.o.) mountains of gold <a gold mine, the world>.♦ Бургонцы и Театр на Болоте, пользуясь тем, что Мольер временно остался без театра, стали сманивать актёров. Они сулили золотые горы мольеровским комедиантам... (Булгаков 5). Taking advantage of the fact that Moliere was temporarily without a theater, the Hotel de Bourgogne and the Marais did everything they could to tempt his actors away from him. They promised his players mountains of gold (5a).♦ Маляр безнадёжно махнул рукой... и пошёл между койками к двери, истошно выкрикивая на ходу: "Вербовщик, гадёныш, золотые горы сулил, а вышло по семь бумаг на рыло и - крышка!.. Вот-те и заработки!.." (Максимов 3). The painter waved his hand helplessly...and passed between the rows of beds on his way to the door, yelling at the top of his voice as he went. "That rat of an agent promised us a gold mine, and it works out at seventy rubles per head, and that's it....That's what you get when you try to earn a bit!" (3a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > золотые горы
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