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1 недоброжелатель
malevolent/spiteful person* * ** * *malevolent/spiteful person, evil-wisher* * *ill-willerill-wisher -
2 недоброжелатель
1) General subject: foe, ill willer, ill wisher, ill-willer, ill-wisher, evil-wisher, malevolent person, spiteful person, detractor2) Religion: ill-wilier -
3 недоброжелатель
м.malevolent / spiteful person, evil-wisher, ill-wisher -
4 недоброжелательница
ж.malevolent / spiteful person, evil-wisher, ill-wisherРусско-английский словарь Смирнитского > недоброжелательница
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5 Я-13
ЗЛОЙ ЯЗЫК NP sing only)1. \Я-13 чей, когоNP sing only) a person's habit of saying unkind, mocking etc things at the expense of s.o. or sth.: malicious (spiteful, vicious, evil, sharp etc) tongue.Так как никому не было пощады, то никто особенно не сердился на злой язык доктора (Герцен 1). Since no one was spared, по one particularly resented the doctor's spiteful tongue (1a)....Его обыкновенная угрюмость, крутой нрав и злой язык имели сильное влияние на молодые наши умы (Пушкин 3)....His habitual sullenness, acrimonious temper, and sharp tongue made a strong impression on our young minds (3a).2. \Я-13- у когоVP subj. with copula) s.o. speaks in an unkind, mocking, sarcastic manner: у X-a злой язык - X has a malicious (spiteful, vicious, evil etc) tongue X is evil-tongued.У него был злой язык: под вывескою его эпиграммы не один добряк прослыл пошлым дураком (Лермонтов 1). Не had a malicious tongue, and, branded by his epigrams, more than one good soul came to be regarded as a vulgar fool (1b). -
6 злой язык
[NP; sing only]=====⇒ a person's habit of saying unkind, mocking etc things at the expense of s.o. or sth.:- malicious <spiteful, vicious, evil, sharp etc> tongue.♦ Так как никому не было пощады, то никто особенно не сердился на злой язык доктора (Герцен 1). Since no one was spared, no one particularly resented the doctor's spiteful tongue (1a).♦...Его обыкновенная угрюмость, крутой нрав и злой язык имели сильное влияние на молодые наши умы (Пушкин 3)....His habitual sullenness, acrimonious temper, and sharp tongue made a strong impression on our young minds (3a).2. у кого [VPsubj with copula] s.o. speaks in an unkind, mocking, sarcastic manner: у X-a злой язык ≈ X has a malicious <spiteful, vicious, evil etc> tongue; X is evil-tongued.♦ У него был злой язык: под вывескою его эпиграммы не один добряк прослыл пошлым дураком (Лермонтов 1). He had a malicious tongue, and, branded by his epigrams, more than one good soul came to be regarded as a vulgar fool (1b).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > злой язык
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7 злопыхатель
malignant person, disingenuous/spiteful critic* * ** * *malignant person, disingenuous/spiteful critic -
8 злопыхатель
1) General subject: bench jockey, spitpoison, spitter, ill-wisher, devil's advocate2) Military: malignant person, spiteful critic -
9 злопыхатель
м.malignant person, spiteful critic -
10 злопыхатель
м.malignant person, spiteful critic -
11 ходить по струнке
ходить по струнке (по ниточке) (у кого, перед кем)разг.be reduced to servile obedience; be obedient to the point of servility; be on one's best behaviour in smb.'s presence; cf. walk on tip-toe; walk the chalk; toe the line; dance to smb.'s pipingЭта генеральша, самое важное лицо во всём этом кружке и перед которой все ходили по струнке, была тощая и злая старуха, вся одетая в траур. (Ф. Достоевский, Село Степанчиково и его обитатели) — Madame la Generale, the most important person of the party, in whose presence all the others were on their best behaviour, was a lean spiteful old woman, dressed in mourning.
Василиса Перегриновна.
Я сама была помещица, у меня такие-то, как ты, пикнуть не смели, по ниточке ходили. Не давала я вашей сестре зазнаваться. (А. Островский, Воспитанница) — Vasilisa Peregrinovna. I once owned serfs myself; at my place, such people as you didn't dare peep, they walked the chalk. I didn't let your sort get highheaded!- По струнке ходить будете!.. Не таким рога обламывал! Разболтанной разгильдяйщины в батарее не допущу! (Ю. Бондарев, Горячий снег) — 'You'll be walking on tip-toe, my lad! I've broken in far worse than you before now. I won't allow sloppiness in my battery!'
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > ходить по струнке
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12 перемывать косточки
[p'er'emyvat' kostochki]
To wash someone's bones.
To gossip, to say spiteful things about someone; to find detailed faults in a person.
Cf. To pick/pull someone to pieces. Русские фразеологизмы в картинках (русско-английский словарь) > перемывать косточки
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