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1 FOOLISHNESS
• Foolishness grows by itself - no need to sow it - Дурак не дурак, а от роду так (Д), Дураков не сеют, не жнут - сами родятся (Д)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > FOOLISHNESS
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2 неблагоразумие
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3 неразумие
foolishness* * *foolishness, folly -
4 глупость
ж.1. foolishness, folly, stupidity2. ( глупый поступок) foolish / stupid action / thing; folly; ( глупое поведение) foolishness, nonsense, follyбросьте эти глупости! — stop this nonsense / foolishness!
3. ( бессмыслица) nonsense, rubbishглупости! — nonsense!, stuff and nonsense!, rubbish!
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5 несуразность
разг.
1) (нескладность)
awkwardness, clumsiness; foolishness, senselessness (бестолковость)
2) (нелепость)
nonsense* * ** * *awkwardness, clumsiness; foolishness* * *foolishnessstupidity -
6 глупость
ж.1) ( недостаток ума) foolishness, folly, stupidity2) ( глупый поступок) foolish / stupid / silly thing; ( глупое поведение) foolishness, nonsense, follyсде́лать (большу́ю) глу́пость — do a (very) foolish thing
бро́сьте э́ти глу́пости! — stop this nonsense / foolishness!
3) ( бессмыслица) nonsense, rubbishон таки́х глу́постей не чита́ет — he never reads such rubbish
болта́ть глу́пости — talk nonsense
глу́пости! — nonsense!, stuff and nonsense!, rubbish!
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7 глупость
1) General subject: a silly thing, absurdity, asininity, density, desipience, fatuity, folly, foolery, foolishness, footle, humbug, idiocy, imbecility, inanities, inanition, inanity, ineptitude, jackassery (поступок), long ears, mindlessness, nonsense, obtuseness, obtusity, opaqueness, owlery, sheepishness, silliness, stupidity, torpor, unreason, unwisdom, dumb thing (That was a really dumb thing to say. I was so embarrassed...), mishmash, absurdness, thoughtlessness, dislate3) French: sottise4) Bookish: crassitude, hebetude5) Rare: goosery6) Religion: desipiency7) Jargon: apple sauce, bosh, cheese, claptrap, footie-footie, goofiness, real cheese, skinned mush, snafu, banana oil, boloney baloney, bull, drool, dumb, knuckle, scag, schmeggery, skag, squish8) Invective: crap -
8 глупость
1) stupidity
2) foolish/stupid action/thing, folly, foolery, (глупый поступок); foolishness, nonsense, folly (глупое поведение)
3) (бессмыслица)
nonsense, rubbish; мн. fiddle-faddle* * ** * *stupidity, foolishness, folly* * *absurditydensityfollyineptitudeinnocencemindlessnesssheepishnesssillinessstupidity -
9 глупость
жен.1) stupidity, foolishness, folly2) foolish/stupid action/thing, folly, foolery, ( глупый поступок); foolishness, nonsense, folly ( глупое поведение)3) ( бессмыслица)nonsense, rubbish; мн. ч. fiddle-faddle, flapdoodleглупости! — nonsense!, stuff and nonsense!, rubbish!
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10 выбивать дурь из головы
выбивать (вышибать, выколачивать) дурь из головы (кого, чьей, у кого), тж. выбить (вышибить, выколотить, вытрясти) дурь ( из кого)прост.knock the nonsense (foolishness) out of smb.; beat the folly out of smb.; take the nonsense out of smb.; whip the nonsense out of smb.- Ты дурака тут не разыгрывай, - предупредил я. - Мы быстро из тебя всю дурь вытрясем. (П. Нилин, Жестокость) — 'Stop playing the fool! We'll knock the foolishness out of you if need be!'
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > выбивать дурь из головы
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11 Мидас
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12 безрассудство
1) General subject: audacity, blindness, dare devilry, dare-devilry, derring do, derring-do, desperateness, desperation, folly, foolishness, headiness, imprudence, madness, temerity, unreason, act of folly, devil-may-careness, devil-may-carishness, thoughtlessness2) Law: heedlessness, recklessness3) Makarov: insanity -
13 дурацкий поступок
General subject: foolishness -
14 жертва собственной глупости
1) General subject: the victim of his own foolishness2) Makarov: the victim of his own folly, victim of his own follyУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > жертва собственной глупости
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15 на грани
1) General subject: at the brink, on the brink of (...), on the edge of (smth.) (чего-л.), on the verge (чего-л. - of), on the verge (чего-л. - of), to the point of (this would be optimistic to the point of foolishness), within an inch of (чего-либо), on the edge, on the verge, at the edge of (doing smth)2) Makarov: on the brink of (...) (...), within an ace of -
16 неблагоразумие
1) General subject: imprudence, indiscretion, unwisdom2) Religion: foolishness -
17 нелепость
1) General subject: absurdity, bull, cockamamie, extravagance, extravagancy, foolishness, grotesqueness, my rot, ridicule, ridiculousness2) Colloquial: Irish bull, rot, tommyrot3) American: cockamamy4) French: sottise5) Mathematics: absurd6) Architecture: incongruity7) Makarov: a piece of nonsense, piece of nonsense -
18 он поплатился жизнью за свою глупость
General subject: he paid for his foolishness with his lifeУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > он поплатился жизнью за свою глупость
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19 расплачиваться за свои ошибки
General subject: pay the penalty of foolishnessУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > расплачиваться за свои ошибки
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20 чепуха
1) General subject: Mickey Mouse, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, apple sauce, applesauce, balderdash, balls, ballyhoo, bavardage, blague, boloney, crap, crud, drivel, drool, dust, fiddle de dee, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlededee, fiddlesticks, flam, fudge, gallimatia, gallimatias, havers, hogwash, humbug, jiggery pokery, jiggery-pokery, mush, my foot, nonsense, nonsense my (good) man!, oh, rubbish, pulp, punk, rubbish, ruck, shenanigan, skimble skamble, skimble-skamble, snap, stuff (stuff and nonsense! - вздор!), tilly vally, toys, trifle, twaddle, gobbledygook, blarney4) French: galimatias5) Obsolete: bilk6) Rare: squish7) Mathematics: trash8) Australian slang: borac, borack, borak, borax, codswallop, cowyard confetti, rot9) Diplomatic term: baloney10) Irish: codology11) Scornful: bollocks12) Jargon: bunk, chicken, crock, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, flannel, flub-dub, flush it, guff, hokum, holly-golly, hooey, hop, hully-gully, kibosh, phedinkus, piffle, radpberry, rats, razzberry, song and dance, spinach, toss, tripe, beans (Come on, talk straight.No more beans! Кончай, говори прямо.Довольно чепухи.), birdseed (Cut the birdseed. I'm not stupid, you know. Коняай пороть чепуху. Я не настолько глуп, ты знаешь.), gas (Hey, that's about enough of your gas. Эй, достаточно твоей чепухи.), macca (I'm off for a macca.), phooey (I've heard enough phooey. Let's get out of here.Я достаточно наслушался чепухи. Уходим отсюда.), falderal (Stop the falderal and get to work. Хватит молоть чепуху пошли работать.), bull-pucky (That's all just bull-pucky. Don't believe a word of it. Это всё чепуха. Не верь и слову.), Jackson, nurts, gubbish, hoo-ha (Stop talking hoo-ha and tell the truth. Прекрати болтать чепуху говори правду.), schmegegge, schmegeggy, horse hockey, slobber, fadoodie, fluff, fooey, fun and games, garbage, gibber-gabber, rhubarb13) Simple: tosh15) Makarov: a farrago of nonsense, a hill of beans, a piece of nonsense, apple, farrago of nonsense, hill of beans, nonsense (часто как восклицание), nonsense my good man!, nonsense my man!, nonsense, man!, piece of nonsense
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