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1 мрут как мухи
прост.- Больных не оберёшься... дети как мухи мрут. (А. Куприн, Молох) — 'No end of sick people, children dying like flies.'
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2 мереть
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3 мереть
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4 муха
ж.••му́хи до́хнут — you could die of boredom
быть под му́хой разг. — be mellow, be tight, be under the sauce
как му́хи на мёд — ≈ like wasps [wɒsps] around jam
де́лать из му́хи слона́ — ≈ make a mountain out of a molehill
как со́нная му́ха — like a sleepy fly
кака́я му́ха его́ укуси́ла? — ≈ what's got into him?, what's bitten him?
до бе́лых мух — till snow falls
он и му́хи не оби́дит — he wouldn't hurt a fly
слы́шно, как му́ха пролети́т — one could hear a pin drop
счита́ть мух — gape
они́ мрут как му́хи — they drop like flies
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5 В-77
ВЕТРОМ ШАТАЕТ кого coll VP impers fixed WO(a person is) unable to walk steadily, hardly able to stand up (from weakness, old age, drunkenness etc)X-a ветром шатает - a (good) breeze could knock (blow) X over(in limited contexts) X trembles in the wind (X is so drunk) he can't stand up straight."...Колыма, Воркута, Тайшет. Так ведь там от истощения подыхали пачками, доходяг буквально ветром шатало...» (Марченко 1). "...Kolyma, Vorkuta, Taishet. There they used to die like flies from exhaustion, 'goners' would literally tremble in the wind..." (1a). -
6 ветром шатает
• ВЕТРОМ ШАТАЕТ кого coll[VP; impers; fixed WO]=====⇒ (a person is) unable to walk steadily, hardly able to stand up (from weakness, old age, drunkenness etc):- [in limited contexts] X trembles in the wind;- (X is so drunk) he can't stand up straight.♦ "...Колыма, Воркута, Тайшет. Так ведь там от истощения подыхали пачками, доходяг буквально ветром шатало..." (Марченко 1). "...Kolyma, Vorkuta, Ikishet. There they used to die like flies from exhaustion, 'goners' would literally tremble in the wind..." (1a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > ветром шатает
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7 М-301
КАК МУХИ мрут, дохнут highly coll (как + NP Invar adv(people die) in great numbers: (drop) like flies."И вы говорите, что у него, точно, люди умирают в большом количестве?» - «Как мухи мрут» (Гоголь 3). "Do you really mean that his people are dying in great numbers?" "They're dropping like flies" (3e). -
8 как мухи
• КАК МУХИ мрут, дохнут highly coll[ как + NP; Invar; adv]=====⇒ (people die) in great numbers:- (drop) like flies.♦ "И вы говорите, что у него, точно, люди умирают в большом количестве?" - "Как мухи мрут" (Гоголь 3). "Do you really mean that his people are dying in great numbers?" "They're dropping like flies" (3e).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > как мухи
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