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41 к лицу
[PrepP; Invar]=====1. [subj-compl with copula (subj: a noun denoting an item of clothing, a hairdo, jewelry, a facial expression etc) or adv; often neg]⇒ sth. befits s.o., makes him look more attractive:♦ "[ Я] делаю ей походя комплимент: "Валентина Михайловна, какой на вас прекрасный жакет... Прекрасный, - повторяю, - жакет, и очень вам к лицу"" (Войнович 4). " paid her an offhanded compliment-'Valentina Mikhailovna, what a pretty jacket you're wearing....It's beautiful and it suits you very well'" (4a).♦ О молодость! молодость!.. Ты как будто бы обладаешь всеми сокровищами вселенной, даже грусть тебя тешит, даже печаль тебе к лицу... (Тургенев 3). Oh youth, youth!... You seem to own all the treasures of the world; even sorrow amuses you, even grief becomes you... (3a).♦...Сама Анна Дмитриевна была игрушечка - маленькая, худенькая, с свежим цветом лица, с хорошенькими маленькими ручками, всегда весёлая и всегда к лицу одетая (Толстой 2)....Anna Dmitrievna herself was a pretty toy, small, thin, with a fresh complexion and pretty little hands, always gay and always becomingly dressed (2a).2. [subj-compl with быть (subj: abstr or infin; usu. neg]⇒ sth. is suitable, right for s.o., befits s.o.'s position:- it is not fitting < becoming> for Y to do X;- X ill becomes Y.♦ [Саша:] Пора уже тебе оставить выпивку и скандалы. Предоставь это тем здоровилам... Они молодые, а тебе всё-таки, старику, не к лицу, право... (Чехов 1). [S.:]... It's time you gave up drinking and making scenes. Leave it to these hearty types. They're young, and it really doesn't suit an old man like you (1b).♦ Восьмой [член правления], академик и герой труда, решил, что ему участвовать в этой склоке совсем не к лицу... (Войнович 3). The eighth [member of the board], an academician and Hero of Labor, decided that for him to participate in this squabble was not at all becoming... (3a).♦ "Вчера вы изволили фокусы делать..." - " Я? - воскликнул в изумлении маг. - Помилосердствуйте. Мне это даже как-то не к лицу!" (Булгаков 9). "The other day, if you don't mind, it was your pleasure to perform some tricks..." "TYicks?" the magician exclaimed with astonishment. "Surely, you don't mean it! Such things would ill become me!" (9a). -
42 больное место
[NP; sing only; usu. obj or compl of copula with subj: inanim; fixed WO]=====⇒ a very sensitive, vulnerable aspect (of s.o. or sth.); a matter that causes s.o. (or a group of people) feelings of grief, anxiety, resentment:- sensitive (tender, vulnerable) spot;- [in limited contexts] what troubles s.o. most;- hit s.o. where it hurts (most) (where it hurts him the most).♦ Сидящие на стульях, и на столах, и даже на двух подоконниках [литераторы]... серьезно страдали от духоты... "А сейчас хорошо на Клязьме", - подзудила присутствующих Штурман Жорж, зная, что дачный литераторский поселок Перелыгино на Клязьме - общее больное место (Булгаков 9). They [the writers] sat on chairs, on tables, and even on the two window sills.suffering extremely from lack of air...."It must be beautiful on the Klyazma," Pilot George egged on her colleagues, knowing that the vacation village of Perelygino on the Klyazma River was everybody's sore spot (9a).♦...Что касается национальности, то отношение к ней... было больным его [Пастернака] местом. Не то чтобы он ее стеснялся - этого не было. Но, являясь по духу глубоко русским поэтом, он терялся и не знал, что делать и что говорить, когда оказывалось, что его еврейское происхождение никогда не забывают и никогда не прощают (Ивинская 1). The matter of his origins... was a sore point with him [Pasternak]. It wasn't that he was embarrassed by them - there was no question of this. But as a Russian poet to the core of his being, he was at a loss what to do or say whenever he was brought up against the fact that his Jewish descent would never be forgotten or forgiven (1a).♦ Одно она [свекровь] не хотела ей простить -то, что у Настены не было ребятишек. Попрекать не попрекала, помня, что для любой бабы это самое больное место, но на сердце держала... (Распутин 2). The only thing she [the mother-in-law] could never forgive was that Nastyona had no children. She didn't rebuke her, remembering that for any woman that was the most sensitive spot, but she stored it away... (2a).♦ [Маша:] Чего вы от него хотите? Чтобы он в гениях числился? Главные роли играл? Как вам не стыдно долбить еговбольное место! (Розов 1). [М.:] What do you want of him? То be a genius? To play only the leading roles? Aren't you all ashamed to keep hitting him where it hurts most' (1a)Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > больное место
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43 иметь свою крышу над головой
разг.Уже следующим летом они могут приехать сюда, имея собственную крышу над головой, приехать в этот заповедный деревенский уголок, омолаживающий их души. (Ю. Бондарев, Мгновения) — They would be able to come next summer already, and have their own roof over their heads; they would be able to come to this beautiful little spot in the country, which refreshed the very soul.
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