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1 висеть на волоске
1) General subject: be in the balance, cliff-hang, hang by, hang in the balance, hang on a thread, on a thread, swing in the balance, tremble in the balance, hang on by eyebrows, hang on by eyelashes2) Colloquial: cliffhang3) Set phrase: hang by a thread4) Makarov: hang by a hair, hang by a single hair, hang by the eyelids, hang on by ( one's) eyebrows, hang on by (one's) eyelashes, hang on by on's eye brows, hang on by on's eyelashes, hang on by the eye brows, hang on by the eyelashes, hang on by the eyelids, to cliff-hang -
2 быть в критическом положении
Универсальный русско-английский словарь > быть в критическом положении
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3 висеть на волоске
Русско-английский синонимический словарь > висеть на волоске
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4 сомневаться
1. questionне сомневаться; вполне допускать — make no question of
2. distrust3. hang in doubtсомневаться, колебаться — to hang in the balance
4. hang in the balance5. hesitate6. tremble in the balance7. doubtя не сомневаюсь, что он придёт — I do not doubt but he will come
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5 находиться в критическом положении
General subject: tremble in the balance, hang in the balance, be in the balanceУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > находиться в критическом положении
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6 висеть на волоске
висеть (держаться) на волоске (на нитке, на ниточке)hang by a thread (on a thread); hang on a hair; be (hang, swing, tremble) in the balance- Нет, довольно плавать! Сколько раз моя жизнь висела на волоске! Ни за что больше не пойду в море! (А. Новиков-Прибой, Подводники) — 'No, enough of the sea for me! How many times my life hung by a thread! Nothing in the world will make me go to sea again!'
Когда она это сказала, мы все окаменели от неожиданности. Я думаю: "Что же ты, отчаянная голова, делаешь?" Ведь знает она, что и так висит в МТС на ниточке! (Г. Николаева, Повесть о директоре МТС и главном агрономе) — We were dumbfounded with surprise at her words. 'What are you doing, you crazy fool?' I thought. She knew quite well that she was hanging on to her job at the MTS a thread.'
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > висеть на волоске
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7 держаться на честном слове
разг., шутл.cf. hang by a < single> hair; hang by (on) a thread; hang (swing, tremble) in the balanceРусско-английский фразеологический словарь > держаться на честном слове
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8 колебаться
1) General subject: alternate, be in a state of uncertainty, be in two minds, be of two minds, boggle (at, about, over), chop, crane, demur, dilly-dally, dillydally, doubt, flicker, fluctuate, go seesaw, halt, hang in the wind, hover, hover on the brink of decision, hum, hum and haw, jib at (сделать что-либо), librate, make boggle, nibble, nutate, oscillate (тж. перен.), pendulate, quake, rock, scruple (особенно в отриц. предложениях), seesaw, shake, shilly-shally, shimmy, shuffle, stagger, stick (перед - at), stickle, straddle, stumble, stumble at, sway, teeter, temporize, thrill, throb, to be in (of) two minds, totter, wabble, wabble (тж. перен.), waffle, whiffle, wibble wobble, wobble, balance, beat up and down, blow hot and cold, boggle, falter, hang back, hem and haw, hesitate, hum and ha, jib at, range, swing, swing in the balance, vary, vibrate, waver, (при выборе,принятии решения) spinning, buffet about2) Aviation: wave4) Medicine: surge5) Colloquial: shillyshally, weaken, wibble-wobble, wiggle6) American: back and fill, sit on the rail7) Engineering: fluctuate (изменяться по величине), hunt (о стрелке прибора), modulate, pulsate, pulse, ripple, sweep, tremble, vary (изменяться по величине)8) Rare: dubitate9) Construction: jiggle10) Mathematics: be variable, vacillate13) Automobile industry: flare (о пламени), flutter, jar, wag, waggle (напр. о стрелке измерительного прибора), weave15) Diplomatic term: (свободно) float (о курсах валют), shy16) Electronics: ring18) Special term: librate (тж. перен.)19) Simple: yoyo20) Metrology: range (в пределах)21) Business: deliberate, float (о курсах валют)22) Automation: see-saw23) Makarov: dither, fluctuate (по величине), hang (hung, hanged), hang in the balance, jib (at), poise, roll, to dilly-dally, twist in the wind, waverer, chop and change24) Taboo: hang an arse, hang the arse, undulate
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