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1 bluff
► nombre masculino (pl bluffs)1 bluff* * *SM bluff* * *[bluf]a) (Jueg) bluffb) (fam) ( fanfarronería)ser puro bluff — to be all talk (colloq)
* * *[bluf]a) (Jueg) bluffb) (fam) ( fanfarronería)ser puro bluff — to be all talk (colloq)
* * */bluf/(pl bluffs)1 ( Jueg) bluff2 ( fam)(fanfarronería): ser puro bluff to be all talk ( colloq), to be full of hot air ( colloq) o (sl) bullshit* * *
bluff /bluf/ sustantivo masculino (pl◊ bluffs)a) (Jueg) bluffb) (fam) ( fanfarronería):◊ es puro bluff he's all talk (colloq)
' bluff' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
farol
- blof
- blofear
English:
bluff
- call
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2 bluff
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3 уличать в блефе
Jargon: call someone's bluff -
4 уличить в блефе
Jargon: call someone's bluff -
5 blöfe meydan okumak
v. call smb.'s bluff -
6 blöfünü görmek
v. call smb.'s bluff -
7 es darauf ankommen lassen
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8 hodri meydan demek
to call one's bluff -
9 felveszi a kihívást
to call sy's bluff -
10 színvallásra kényszerít vkit
to call sy's bluff -
11 вывести на чистую воду
1) General subject: bring to light, smoke out, call( smb).'s bluff, call the bluff of somebody, call bluff, bring out into the open, reveal2) Jargon: smoke( something or someone) out4) Saying: blow the lid offУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > вывести на чистую воду
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12 подбивать
1) General subject: call smb's bluff, call somebody's bluff (на что-либо), cripple, draw on to do (кого-л., на что-л.), egg, egg on, fur, half sole, half-sole, hit, incite, injure, instigate, line, rouse (на что-л.), shoe (чем-либо), sole, tamp, tempt, tweedle into (кого-л., на что-л.), draw upon to do (кого-л., на что-л.)2) Colloquial: lead on (на что-л.)4) Engineering: line (снабжать обивкой)7) Forestry: wad (мягкую мебель)8) Jargon: shill, jack up (на что-то)9) Arms production: knock out of action -
13 провоцировать
1) General subject: call smb's bluff, call somebody's bluff (на что-либо), engineer, get a rise out of, instigate, provoke, incite, bring on, dare, induce, cause2) Medicine: encourage, predispose, promote, precipitate (явление, феномен, реакцию)3) Colloquial: start in with4) Law: invite6) Phraseological unit: egg somebody on -
14 ловить на блефе
1) General subject: call bluff2) Jargon: call someone's bluff -
15 mur
mur [myʀ]masculine noun• les murs ont des oreilles ! walls have ears!• franchir le mur du son to break the sound barrier ► mur végétal or végétalisé or vivant living wall* * *myʀ
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nom masculin wallrester or être entre quatre murs — to be cooped up
c'est à se taper (colloq) or cogner (colloq) la tête contre les murs — you feel like banging your head against the wall (colloq)
faire du mur — (colloq) ( au tennis) to practise [BrE] hitting a ball against the wall
faire les pieds au mur — lit to do a handstand against the wall; fig to tie oneself up in knots
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Phrasal Verbs:••faire le mur — ( s'échapper) to go over the wall; ( au football) to make a wall
* * *myʀ nm* * *A nm1 gén, Archit, Constr wall; un mur de pierre/de briques a stone/brick wall; il y avait des tableaux aux murs there were pictures (hanging) on the walls; monter or élever un mur to put up a wall; mur mitoyen/de clôture/d'enceinte party/boundary/outer wall; les murs de la ville the city walls; hors des murs (de la ville) lit outside the city walls, fig outside the city limits; coller qn au mur to put sb up against the wall and shoot him/her; être le dos au mur to have one's back to the wall; rester or être entre quatre murs to be cooped up; c'est à se taper or cogner la tête contre les murs you feel like banging your head against the wall○; les murs ont des oreilles walls have ears; faire du mur○ ( au tennis) to practiseGB hitting a ball against the wall; faire les pieds au mur lit to do a handstand against the wall; fig to tie oneself up in knots;2 ( obstacle) wall; se heurter à un mur de silence to come up against a wall of silence;3 ( personne froide) cold fish; parler à un mur to be talking to a brick wall.B murs nmpl ( local) ( d'entreprise) premises; (d'ambassade, de palais) confines; le ministre est dans nos murs aujourd'hui the minister is with us today; être dans ses murs to own one's own house.mur d'appui ( de soutènement) retaining wall; ( parapet) parapet; mur de l'Atlantique Atlantic Wall; mur de Berlin Berlin wall; mur portant or porteur load-bearing wall; mur du son sound barrier; franchir le mur du son to break the sound barrier; mur de soutènement retaining wall; Mur des Lamentations Wailing Wall.faire le mur ( s'échapper) to go over the wall; ( au football) to make a wall; mettre qn au pied du mur to call sb's bluff; être au pied du mur to be up against the wall; aller dans le mur to be heading for disaster.[myr] nom masculin1. [construction] wallmur aveugle blank ou windowless wallmur d'enceinte outer ou surrounding wallmur porteur ou portant load-bearing wallmur de soutènement retaining ou breast wall2. [escarpement] steep slopemur artificiel rock-climbing ou artificial wall[de silence] wall6. AÉRONAUTIQUE————————murs nom masculin pluriel[remparts] (city) wallsles murs [d'un commerce] the building -
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mur [myʀ]masculine noun• les murs ont des oreilles ! walls have ears!• franchir le mur du son to break the sound barrier ► mur végétal or végétalisé or vivant living wall* * *myʀ
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nom masculin wallrester or être entre quatre murs — to be cooped up
c'est à se taper (colloq) or cogner (colloq) la tête contre les murs — you feel like banging your head against the wall (colloq)
faire du mur — (colloq) ( au tennis) to practise [BrE] hitting a ball against the wall
faire les pieds au mur — lit to do a handstand against the wall; fig to tie oneself up in knots
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Phrasal Verbs:••faire le mur — ( s'échapper) to go over the wall; ( au football) to make a wall
* * *myʀ nm* * *A nm1 gén, Archit, Constr wall; un mur de pierre/de briques a stone/brick wall; il y avait des tableaux aux murs there were pictures (hanging) on the walls; monter or élever un mur to put up a wall; mur mitoyen/de clôture/d'enceinte party/boundary/outer wall; les murs de la ville the city walls; hors des murs (de la ville) lit outside the city walls, fig outside the city limits; coller qn au mur to put sb up against the wall and shoot him/her; être le dos au mur to have one's back to the wall; rester or être entre quatre murs to be cooped up; c'est à se taper or cogner la tête contre les murs you feel like banging your head against the wall○; les murs ont des oreilles walls have ears; faire du mur○ ( au tennis) to practiseGB hitting a ball against the wall; faire les pieds au mur lit to do a handstand against the wall; fig to tie oneself up in knots;2 ( obstacle) wall; se heurter à un mur de silence to come up against a wall of silence;3 ( personne froide) cold fish; parler à un mur to be talking to a brick wall.B murs nmpl ( local) ( d'entreprise) premises; (d'ambassade, de palais) confines; le ministre est dans nos murs aujourd'hui the minister is with us today; être dans ses murs to own one's own house.mur d'appui ( de soutènement) retaining wall; ( parapet) parapet; mur de l'Atlantique Atlantic Wall; mur de Berlin Berlin wall; mur portant or porteur load-bearing wall; mur du son sound barrier; franchir le mur du son to break the sound barrier; mur de soutènement retaining wall; Mur des Lamentations Wailing Wall.faire le mur ( s'échapper) to go over the wall; ( au football) to make a wall; mettre qn au pied du mur to call sb's bluff; être au pied du mur to be up against the wall; aller dans le mur to be heading for disaster.1. [fruit, graine, abcès etc] ripetrop mûr overripe, too ripepas mûr unripe, not ripe2. [personne] matureaprès mûre réflexion after careful thought ou consideration5. (familier) [tissu] worn -
17 выводить на чистую воду
разг.expose, unmask, show up; cf. put light through smb., smth.; bring smb., smth. to light; bring smb., smth. in (into) the open; show smb. up in his true colours; call smb.'s bluffЯ сделал вид, что верю ему, и решил сразу вывести его на чистую воду. (М. Горький, Один из королей республики) — I pretended to take him at his word, but decided to call his bluff there and then.
- Вы разве не знаете сами, что человек, идущий против всего народа, против его воли, рано или поздно будет выведен на чистую воду, разоблачён и вышвырнут за борт. (В. Беляев, Старая крепость) — 'Don't you know yourself that any man who goes against the will of the whole people is bound sooner or later to be brought out into the open and thrown overboard?'
Если он и дальше согласен смотреть на расхитителей сквозь пальцы, то другие уже насмотрелись, хватит. Не здесь, так в другом месте Клавдия выведет их на чистую воду. (А. Калинин, Цыган) — If he wished to close his eyes to the pilfering that went on under his nose, other people were not going to stand for it any longer. Klavdia was determined to show them up, if not here, then at some other place higher up.
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > выводить на чистую воду
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19 поймать на блефе
Jargon: call someone's bluff (I called his bluff and he admitted he had made up the whole story.) -
20 подбить
1) General subject: beguile into doing (кого-л., на что-л.), bung (глаз в драке), call smb's bluff, half sole, pip, put out of action (танк и т. п.), salavate, shoe2) Naval: disable3) Military: knock down, shoot down4) Engineering: pad5) Railway term: tamp6) Makarov: damage
См. также в других словарях:
call someone's bluff — To expose or challenge someone s show of strength, confidence, etc • • • Main Entry: ↑bluff * * * call someone’s bluff phrase to ask someone to do what they are threatening to do because you believe they do not intend to do it, but want to trick… … Useful english dictionary
call someone's bluff — call (someone s) bluff to make someone prove that what they are saying is true, or to make someone prove that they will really do what they say they will do, because you do not believe them. Alice called his bluff and dared him to tell everyone… … New idioms dictionary
call someone's bluff — ► call someone s bluff challenge someone to carry out a stated intention, in the expectation of being able to expose it as a pretence. Main Entry: ↑bluff … English terms dictionary
call somebody's bluff — call sb s ˈbluff idiom to tell sb to do what they are threatening to do, because you believe that they will not be cruel or brave enough to do it Main entry: ↑callidiom … Useful english dictionary
call someone's bluff — If you call someone s bluff, you challenge them to do what they threaten to do (while believing that they will not dare to do it). After the neighbour s threats to demolish the fence, when Jack decided to call his bluff, there were no more … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
call someone's bluff — idi call someone s bluff, to challenge someone to carry out a threat … From formal English to slang
call one's bluff — challenge someone to prove what they say is true I decided to call his bluff and asked him to show me the evidence … Idioms and examples
call one's bluff — See bluff, call one s … A concise dictionary of English slang
call one's bluff — {v. phr.}, {informal} To ask someone to prove what he says he can or will do. (Originally from the card game of poker.) * /Tom said he could jump twenty feet and so Dick called his bluff and said Let s see you do it! / … Dictionary of American idioms
call one's bluff — {v. phr.}, {informal} To ask someone to prove what he says he can or will do. (Originally from the card game of poker.) * /Tom said he could jump twenty feet and so Dick called his bluff and said Let s see you do it! / … Dictionary of American idioms
call\ one's\ bluff — v. phr. informal To ask someone to prove what he says he can or will do. (Originally from the card game of poker.) Tom said he could jump twenty feet and so Dick called his bluff and said Let s see you do it! … Словарь американских идиом