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1 OMELET(TE)
• You cannot make an omelet(te) (pancakes) without breaking eggs - Где дрова, там и щепа (Г), Лес рубят - щепки летят (Л), 2160Ь (У)• You can't have an omelette unless you break the eggs - Лес рубят - щепки летят (Л) -
2 лес рубят-щепки летят
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3 лес рубят - щепки летят
1) General subject: you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs2) Set phrase: if you sell the cow you will sell her milk too, one (you) cannot make an omelet(te) without breaking eggs, one (you) cannot make an omelet(te)s without breaking eggs, splinters will fly when the axe you ply, you can't chop wood without making the chips fly, you can't make omelet without breaking eggs, you can't make omelette without breaking eggs, More rubble, less trouble (употребляется применительно к войне США в Ираке), omelettes are not made without breaking eggsУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > лес рубят - щепки летят
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4 Л-56
ЛЕС (ДРОВА) РУБЯТ - ЩЕПКИ ЛЕТЯТ (saying) a major undertaking cannot be accomplished without errors, casualties etc (often used to justify the cost paid in lives during political purges etc): - you cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs if you hew trees the chips must fly.Ведь именно люди двадцатых годов разрушили ценности и нашли формулы, без которых не обойтись и сейчас: молодое государство, невиданный опыт, лес рубят - шепки летят... Каждая казнь оправдывалась тем, что строят мир, где больше не будет насилия, и все жертвы хороши ради неслыханного «нового» (Мандельштам 1). It was, after all, these people of the twenties who demolished the old values and invented the formulas which even now come in so handy to justify the unprecedented experiment undertaken by our young State: you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs. Every new killing was excused on the grounds that we were building a remarkable "new" world in which there would be no more violence, and that no sacrifice was too great for it (1a).Одно распоряжение, которое... в этот доклад сделал Кутузов, относилось до мародерства русских войск... «Пускай косят хлеба и жгут дрова на здоровье. Я этого не приказываю и не позволяю, но и взыскивать не могу. Без этого нельзя. Дрова рубят — щепки летят» (Толстой 6). The only instructions he I Kutuzov)... added to the report concerned the looting by Russian troops.."Let them (the soldiers) cut down crops and burn wood to their heart's content! I do not order it, I do not permit it, but neither can I enforce punishment for it. It cannot be helped. If you hew trees the chips must fly" (6a). -
5 дрова рубят - щепки летят
• ЛЕС < ДРОВА> РУБЯТ - ЩЕПКИ ЛЕТЯТ[saying]=====⇒ a major undertaking cannot be accomplished without errors, casualties etc (often used to justify the cost paid in lives during political purges etc):- if you hew trees the chips must fly.♦ Ведь именно люди двадцатых годов разрушили ценности и нашли формулы, без которых не обойтись и сейчас: молодое государство, невиданный опыт, лес рубят - шепки летят... Каждая казнь оправдывалась тем, что строят мир, где больше не будет насилия, и все жертвы хороши ради неслыханного "нового" (Мандельштам 1). It was, after all, these people of the twenties who demolished the old values and invented the formulas which even now come in so handy to justify the unprecedented experiment undertaken by our young State: you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs. Every new killing was excused on the grounds that we were building a remarkable "new" world in which there would be no more violence, and that no sacrifice was too great for it (1a).♦ Одно распоряжение, которое... в этот доклад сделал Кутузов, относилось до мародерства русских войск... "Пускай косят хлеба и жгут дрова на здоровье. Я этого не приказываю и не позволяю, но и взыскивать не могу. Без этого нельзя. Дрова рубят - щепки летят" (Толстой 6). The only instructions he [Kutuzov]... added to the report concerned the looting by Russian troops.."Let them [the soldiers] cut down crops and burn wood to their heart's content! I do not order it, I do not permit it, but neither can I enforce punishment for it. It cannot be helped. If you hew trees the chips must fly" (6a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > дрова рубят - щепки летят
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6 лес рубят - щепки летят
• ЛЕС < ДРОВА> РУБЯТ - ЩЕПКИ ЛЕТЯТ[saying]=====⇒ a major undertaking cannot be accomplished without errors, casualties etc (often used to justify the cost paid in lives during political purges etc):- if you hew trees the chips must fly.♦ Ведь именно люди двадцатых годов разрушили ценности и нашли формулы, без которых не обойтись и сейчас: молодое государство, невиданный опыт, лес рубят - шепки летят... Каждая казнь оправдывалась тем, что строят мир, где больше не будет насилия, и все жертвы хороши ради неслыханного "нового" (Мандельштам 1). It was, after all, these people of the twenties who demolished the old values and invented the formulas which even now come in so handy to justify the unprecedented experiment undertaken by our young State: you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs. Every new killing was excused on the grounds that we were building a remarkable "new" world in which there would be no more violence, and that no sacrifice was too great for it (1a).♦ Одно распоряжение, которое... в этот доклад сделал Кутузов, относилось до мародерства русских войск... "Пускай косят хлеба и жгут дрова на здоровье. Я этого не приказываю и не позволяю, но и взыскивать не могу. Без этого нельзя. Дрова рубят - щепки летят" (Толстой 6). The only instructions he [Kutuzov]... added to the report concerned the looting by Russian troops.."Let them [the soldiers] cut down crops and burn wood to their heart's content! I do not order it, I do not permit it, but neither can I enforce punishment for it. It cannot be helped. If you hew trees the chips must fly" (6a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > лес рубят - щепки летят
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7 снявши голову, по волосам не плачут
снявши (сняв) голову, по волосам не плачут (не тужат)посл.lit. it's no use bewailing the loss of your hair when your head's cut off; once your head's cut off, no sense in crying about your hair; cf. if you sell the cow, you sell her milk too; you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs; it's no use crying over spilt milk; care is no cure- Да уж теперь нечего горевать-с, - ввязалась вдруг девица Перепелицына... - Снявши голову, по волосам не плачут-с. Послушали бы маменьку-с, так теперь бы и не плакали-с. (Ф. Достоевский, Село Степанчиково и его обитатели) — 'It's no use grieving now, sir,' Miss Perepelitsyna put in suddenly... 'If you take off your head you don't weep for your hair. You should have listened to your mamma, sir, and you would have had no cause for tears now.'
- Я именно потому не позволяю себе переписки, чтоб не делать девушке ещё большего зла. - Снявши голову, по волосам не тужат! (А. Писемский, Тысяча душ) — 'It is precisely because I do not wish to grieve the girl that I deny myself the pleasure of corresponding with her.' 'Aren't you straining at a gnat after having swallowed a fly?'
- Снявши голову, по волосам не плачут. Сдавши крепость, об условиях капитуляции не говорят. (А. Степанов, Порт-Артур) — 'It's no use bewailing the loss of your hair when your head's cut off. You can't bargain for terms when you have surrendered.'
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > снявши голову, по волосам не плачут
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8 цель оправдывает средства
1) General subject: the end justifies the means2) Latin: exitus acta probatУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > цель оправдывает средства
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9 Цель оправдывает средства.
фраз. You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.Дополнительный универсальный русско-английский словарь > Цель оправдывает средства.
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10 Лес рубят — щепки летят
To feel the consequences of others' actions/You can't make an omelet without breaking eggsСловарь переводчика-синхрониста (русско-английский) > Лес рубят — щепки летят
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11 Лес рубят — щепки летят
To feel the consequences of others' actions/You can't make an omelet without breaking eggsРусско-английский словарь переводчика-синхрониста > Лес рубят — щепки летят
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12 дрова рубят - щепки летят
Set phrase: if you sell the cow you will sell her milk too, one (you) cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs, one (you) cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs, one (you) cannot make omelets without breaking eggs, one (you) cannot make omelettes without breaking eggs, splinters will fly when the axe you ply, you can't chop wood without making the chips flyУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > дрова рубят - щепки летят
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13 лес
м.1) ( множество деревьев) wood(s) (pl); ( большой) forestхво́йный лес — coniferous forest / wood
ли́ственный лес — deciduous forest / wood
сме́шанный лес — mixed forest / wood
охра́на лесо́в — forest conservation
2) ( материал) timber; lumber амер.лес на корню́ — standing timber
лес в плота́х — timber float
••тёмный лес (для кого́-л) — ≈ it's Greek (to smb); smb is completely in the dark about it
как в лесу́ разг. — ≈ all at sea
смотре́ть / гляде́ть в лес — ≈ look for greener pastures
чем да́льше в лес, тем бо́льше дров — ≈ the further you get the harder the going
лес ру́бят - ще́пки летя́т посл. — ≈ you can't make an omelet(te) without breaking eggs
кто в лес, кто по дрова́ погов. — ≈ all at sixes and sevens
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14 Лес рубят - щепки летят
When doing a great job, it is not without sacrificing, hurting someone or damaging something. See Где дрова, там и щепа (Г), У хлеба не без крох b (У)Var.: Дрова рубят - щепки летят Cf: You cannot make an omelet(te) (pancakes) without breaking eggs (Am., Br.). You can't have an omelette unless you break the eggs (Am.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > Лес рубят - щепки летят
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