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1 Rumour has it that ...
Общая лексика: По слухам,... (Rumour has it that the spirit at the 1911 Century House bank building is a young bank teller who was killed in a bank robbery in the early 1900s.)Универсальный англо-русский словарь > Rumour has it that ...
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2 Python (In Greek mythology, a huge serpent that was killed by Apollo either because it would not let him found his oracle, being accustomed itself to giving oracles, or because it had persecuted Apollo's mother, Leto, during her pregnancy)
Религия: ПифонУниверсальный англо-русский словарь > Python (In Greek mythology, a huge serpent that was killed by Apollo either because it would not let him found his oracle, being accustomed itself to giving oracles, or because it had persecuted Apollo's mother, Leto, during her pregnancy)
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3 Seven Against Thebes (In Greek mythology, the seven champions who were killed fighting against Thebes after the fall of Oedipus, the king of that city)
Религия: Семеро против ФивУниверсальный англо-русский словарь > Seven Against Thebes (In Greek mythology, the seven champions who were killed fighting against Thebes after the fall of Oedipus, the king of that city)
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4 Taraka (In Hindu mythology, the demon who had been granted a boon that he could only be killed by a son of Shiva)
Религия: ТаракаУниверсальный англо-русский словарь > Taraka (In Hindu mythology, the demon who had been granted a boon that he could only be killed by a son of Shiva)
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5 he killed ten good years on that job
Универсальный англо-русский словарь > he killed ten good years on that job
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6 individual risk - the probability that a particular individual is killed in one year
Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: индивидуальный рискУниверсальный англо-русский словарь > individual risk - the probability that a particular individual is killed in one year
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7 I nearly killed myself getting that essay done
English-German idiom dictionary > I nearly killed myself getting that essay done
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8 stone-dead
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9 kill
vt infml1)My girdle is killing me — Я не дождусь, когда сниму этот пояс
2)A screamingly funny play, it nearly killed me — Пьеса была такая смешная, что я умирал со смеху
3)There's just one drink left, kill it — Остался один глоток - на, допей
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10 the Black Death
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11 allusion
an indirect reference, by word or phrase, to a historical, literary, mythological, biblical fact or to a fact of everyday life made in the course of speaking or writingNo little Grandgrind had ever associated a cow in a field with that famous cow with the crumpled horn that tossed the dog that worried the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt, or with that yet more famous cow swallowed Tom Thumb; it had never heard of those celebrities (Ch.Dickens - Hard Times)
(The meaning that can be derived from the two allusions, one to the nursery rhyme "The House that Jack build" and the other to the old tale "The history of Tom Thumb")Source: I.R.G."Don't count your boobies until they are hatched"(J.Thurber)
See: set expressions, lexical SDsEnglish-Russian dictionary of stylistics (terminology and examples) > allusion
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12 whiz-bang
I n AmE slII adj AmE infmlWasn't it one of those whiz-bangs that killed whatsisface? — Это не одна ли из тех наркотических смесей, от которой умер как его, уже не помню имя?
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13 the Black Death
noun (the plague that killed large numbers of people in Europe in the 14th to 18th centuries) peste negra -
14 the Black Death
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15 the Black Death
noun (the plague that killed large numbers of people in Europe in the 14th to 18th centuries) fekete halál, pestis -
16 arrow
N1. तीर/बाण/शरRam shot the arrow that killed Ravana.2. `-->' चिह्नA few steps down the lane you can see the arrow showing the direction of the park. -
17 sorcerer
N1. जादू-टोना करने वालाThe sorcerer that killed the boy was detained by police. -
18 the Black Death
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19 the Black Death
noun (the plague that killed large numbers of people in Europe in the 14th to 18th centuries) veba salgını -
20 the Black Death
noun (the plague that killed large numbers of people in Europe in the 14th to 18th centuries) kuga
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