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141 уйти в свою скорлупу
• ЗАМЫКАТЬСЯ/ЗАМКНУТЬСЯ (УХОДИТЬ/УЙТИ, ПРЯТАТЬСЯ/СПРЯТАТЬСЯ) В СВОЮ СКОРЛУПУ[VP; subj: human; usu. this WO]=====⇒ to stand aloof from one's surroundings, isolate o.s. from the world around one:- X retreated into himself. "...Считай я, например, того, другого, третьего за преступника, ну зачем, спрошу, буду я его раньше срока беспокоить, хотя бы я и улики против него имел-с?.. Ведь засади его не вовремя, - хотя бы я был и уверен, что это он, - так ведь я, пожалуй, сам у себя средства отниму к дальнейшему его обличению, а почему? А потому что я ему, так сказать, определенное положение дам, так сказать, психологически его определю и успокою, вот он и уйдёт от меня в свою скорлупу: поймет наконец, что он арестант" (Достоевский 3). "...Suppose I think, for example, that this man or that or somebody else is a criminal;- now, why, I ask you, should I bother him too soon, even if I had evidence against him, eh?...Suppose I lock him up too soon, even though I'm absolutely positive it's him;- well, then, more than likely I'm depriving myself of the means to incriminate him further. Why so? Because I'm giving him, so to speak, a definite status, yes;- I'm defining him, so to speak, psychologically, and putting his mind at rest, and then he'll go away from me and retreat into his shell - he'll realize, at last, that he's a suspect" (3a).♦ В эпохи насилия и террора люди прячутся в свою скорлупу и скрывают свои чувства, но чувства эти неискоренимы, и никаким воспитанием их не уничтожить (Мандельштам 1). In periods of violence and terror people retreat into themselves and hide their feelings, but their feelings are ineradicable and cannot be destroyed by any amount of indoctrination (1a)Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > уйти в свою скорлупу
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