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Who by fire

  • 1 огнепоклонник

    2) Religion: fire handler (Member of the fire-worshiping sect), fire-worshipper ( One who honors fire as a supernatural power), pyrolater (One who worships fire as a god), pyrolator

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > огнепоклонник

  • 2 огнедышащий

    fire-spitting, fire-spouting

    огнеды́шащий драко́н — dragon who spouts [breathes out] fire

    огнеды́шащая гора́ уст. — volcano

    Новый большой русско-английский словарь > огнедышащий

  • 3 HIDE

    • Fire cannot be hidden in a flax (in straw) - Шила в мешке не утаишь (Ш)
    • Those who hide know how to find - Крепче запрешь - вернее найдешь (K)
    • Wicked deeds will not stay hid - Шила в мешке не утаишь (Ш)
    • You cannot hide an eel in a sack - Шила в мешке не утаишь (Ш)

    Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > HIDE

  • 4 пуганая ворона куста боится

    2) Set phrase: a bitten child dreads the dog, a burnt child dreads the fire, a scared crow is afraid of a bush, he that hath been bitten by a serpent, is afraid of a rope (contrast: threatened folk(s) live long), he thinks every bush is boggard, once bit, twice shy, once bitten (or bit), twice shy (he who happened to suffer much (or who was once frightened), fears everything), once bitten, twice shy (дословно: Однажды укушенный вдвойне пуглив), once frightened, twice shy, the scalded cat fears cold water

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > пуганая ворона куста боится

  • 5 О-65

    ПРОЙТИ (СКВОЗЬ (ЧЕРЕЗ, И)) ОГОНЬ И ВОДУ (ОГНИ И ВОДЫ) (И МЕДНЫЕ ТРУБЫ) coll VP subj: human usu. past the verb may take the final position, otherwise fixed WO
    (of a person who, in the course of a difficult or complex life, has acquired vast life experience
    occas. of a person with a tarnished reputation, undiscriminating sexual experiences etc) to experience, endure much
    X прошёл огонь и воду (и медные трубы) - X has been (gone) through fire and water
    X has survived fire and water X has been through the mill (through it all, through hell, through the wringer) X has been there and back (in limited contexts) there's nothing X doesn't know.
    Осталась она (при немцах) потому, что как пострадавшая от Советской власти ждала себе от немцев много хорошего и, пройдя огни и воды и медные трубы... решила, что и здесь не пропадет (Рыбаков 1). She had stayed behind because she thought that, as someone who had suffered under Soviet rule, she could do well for herself with the Germans, and as she had already survived fire and water...she thought she would survive this, too (1a).
    Её (Одинцову) не любили в губернии... рассказывали про нее всевозможные небылицы, уверяли, что она помогала отцу в его шулерских проделках... «Прошла через огонь и воду», — говорили о ней (Тургенев 2). She (Madame Odintsov) was not popular in the province:...all sorts of impossible stories were invented about her: it was asserted that she had helped her father in his gambling escapades... /There's nothing she doesn't know," they said of her... (2c).

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  • 6 пройти и огни и воды

    • ПРОЙТИ (СКВОЗЬ <ЧЕРЕЗ, И> ОГОНЬ И ВОДУ < ОГНИ И воды> (И МЕДНЫЕ ТРУБЫ) coll
    [VP; subj: human; usu. past; the verb may take the final position, otherwise fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ (of a person who, in the course of a difficult or complex life, has acquired vast life experience; occas. of a person with a tarnished reputation, undiscriminating sexual experiences etc) to experience, endure much:
    - X has been through the mill (through it all, through hell, through the wringer);
    - [in limited contexts] there's nothing X doesn't know.
         ♦ Осталась она [при немцах] потому, что как пострадавшая от Советской власти ждала себе от немцев много хорошего и, пройдя огни и воды и медные трубы... решила, что и здесь не пропадёт (Рыбаков 1). She had stayed behind because she thought that, as someone who had suffered under Soviet rule, she could do well for herself with the Germans, and as she had already survived fire and water...she thought she would survive this, too (1a).
         ♦ Её [Одинцову] не любили в губернии... рассказывали про неё всевозможные небылицы, уверяли, что она помогала отцу в его шулерских проделках... "Прошла через огонь и воду", - говорили о ней (Тургенев 2). She [Madame Odintsov] was not popular in the province:...all sorts of impossible stories were invented about her: it was asserted that she had helped her father in his gambling escapades....'There's nothing she doesn't know," they said of her... (2c).

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  • 7 пройти и огни и воды и медные трубы

    • ПРОЙТИ (СКВОЗЬ <ЧЕРЕЗ, И> ОГОНЬ И ВОДУ < ОГНИ И воды> (И МЕДНЫЕ ТРУБЫ) coll
    [VP; subj: human; usu. past; the verb may take the final position, otherwise fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ (of a person who, in the course of a difficult or complex life, has acquired vast life experience; occas. of a person with a tarnished reputation, undiscriminating sexual experiences etc) to experience, endure much:
    - X has been through the mill (through it all, through hell, through the wringer);
    - [in limited contexts] there's nothing X doesn't know.
         ♦ Осталась она [при немцах] потому, что как пострадавшая от Советской власти ждала себе от немцев много хорошего и, пройдя огни и воды и медные трубы... решила, что и здесь не пропадёт (Рыбаков 1). She had stayed behind because she thought that, as someone who had suffered under Soviet rule, she could do well for herself with the Germans, and as she had already survived fire and water...she thought she would survive this, too (1a).
         ♦ Её [Одинцову] не любили в губернии... рассказывали про неё всевозможные небылицы, уверяли, что она помогала отцу в его шулерских проделках... "Прошла через огонь и воду", - говорили о ней (Тургенев 2). She [Madame Odintsov] was not popular in the province:...all sorts of impossible stories were invented about her: it was asserted that she had helped her father in his gambling escapades....'There's nothing she doesn't know," they said of her... (2c).

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  • 8 пройти и огонь и воду

    • ПРОЙТИ (СКВОЗЬ <ЧЕРЕЗ, И> ОГОНЬ И ВОДУ < ОГНИ И воды> (И МЕДНЫЕ ТРУБЫ) coll
    [VP; subj: human; usu. past; the verb may take the final position, otherwise fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ (of a person who, in the course of a difficult or complex life, has acquired vast life experience; occas. of a person with a tarnished reputation, undiscriminating sexual experiences etc) to experience, endure much:
    - X has been through the mill (through it all, through hell, through the wringer);
    - [in limited contexts] there's nothing X doesn't know.
         ♦ Осталась она [при немцах] потому, что как пострадавшая от Советской власти ждала себе от немцев много хорошего и, пройдя огни и воды и медные трубы... решила, что и здесь не пропадёт (Рыбаков 1). She had stayed behind because she thought that, as someone who had suffered under Soviet rule, she could do well for herself with the Germans, and as she had already survived fire and water...she thought she would survive this, too (1a).
         ♦ Её [Одинцову] не любили в губернии... рассказывали про неё всевозможные небылицы, уверяли, что она помогала отцу в его шулерских проделках... "Прошла через огонь и воду", - говорили о ней (Тургенев 2). She [Madame Odintsov] was not popular in the province:...all sorts of impossible stories were invented about her: it was asserted that she had helped her father in his gambling escapades....'There's nothing she doesn't know," they said of her... (2c).

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  • 9 пройти и огонь и воду и медные трубы

    • ПРОЙТИ (СКВОЗЬ <ЧЕРЕЗ, И> ОГОНЬ И ВОДУ < ОГНИ И воды> (И МЕДНЫЕ ТРУБЫ) coll
    [VP; subj: human; usu. past; the verb may take the final position, otherwise fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ (of a person who, in the course of a difficult or complex life, has acquired vast life experience; occas. of a person with a tarnished reputation, undiscriminating sexual experiences etc) to experience, endure much:
    - X has been through the mill (through it all, through hell, through the wringer);
    - [in limited contexts] there's nothing X doesn't know.
         ♦ Осталась она [при немцах] потому, что как пострадавшая от Советской власти ждала себе от немцев много хорошего и, пройдя огни и воды и медные трубы... решила, что и здесь не пропадёт (Рыбаков 1). She had stayed behind because she thought that, as someone who had suffered under Soviet rule, she could do well for herself with the Germans, and as she had already survived fire and water...she thought she would survive this, too (1a).
         ♦ Её [Одинцову] не любили в губернии... рассказывали про неё всевозможные небылицы, уверяли, что она помогала отцу в его шулерских проделках... "Прошла через огонь и воду", - говорили о ней (Тургенев 2). She [Madame Odintsov] was not popular in the province:...all sorts of impossible stories were invented about her: it was asserted that she had helped her father in his gambling escapades....'There's nothing she doesn't know," they said of her... (2c).

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  • 10 пройти огни и воды

    • ПРОЙТИ (СКВОЗЬ <ЧЕРЕЗ, И> ОГОНЬ И ВОДУ < ОГНИ И воды> (И МЕДНЫЕ ТРУБЫ) coll
    [VP; subj: human; usu. past; the verb may take the final position, otherwise fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ (of a person who, in the course of a difficult or complex life, has acquired vast life experience; occas. of a person with a tarnished reputation, undiscriminating sexual experiences etc) to experience, endure much:
    - X has been through the mill (through it all, through hell, through the wringer);
    - [in limited contexts] there's nothing X doesn't know.
         ♦ Осталась она [при немцах] потому, что как пострадавшая от Советской власти ждала себе от немцев много хорошего и, пройдя огни и воды и медные трубы... решила, что и здесь не пропадёт (Рыбаков 1). She had stayed behind because she thought that, as someone who had suffered under Soviet rule, she could do well for herself with the Germans, and as she had already survived fire and water...she thought she would survive this, too (1a).
         ♦ Её [Одинцову] не любили в губернии... рассказывали про неё всевозможные небылицы, уверяли, что она помогала отцу в его шулерских проделках... "Прошла через огонь и воду", - говорили о ней (Тургенев 2). She [Madame Odintsov] was not popular in the province:...all sorts of impossible stories were invented about her: it was asserted that she had helped her father in his gambling escapades....'There's nothing she doesn't know," they said of her... (2c).

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  • 11 пройти огни и воды и медные трубы

    • ПРОЙТИ (СКВОЗЬ <ЧЕРЕЗ, И> ОГОНЬ И ВОДУ < ОГНИ И воды> (И МЕДНЫЕ ТРУБЫ) coll
    [VP; subj: human; usu. past; the verb may take the final position, otherwise fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ (of a person who, in the course of a difficult or complex life, has acquired vast life experience; occas. of a person with a tarnished reputation, undiscriminating sexual experiences etc) to experience, endure much:
    - X has been through the mill (through it all, through hell, through the wringer);
    - [in limited contexts] there's nothing X doesn't know.
         ♦ Осталась она [при немцах] потому, что как пострадавшая от Советской власти ждала себе от немцев много хорошего и, пройдя огни и воды и медные трубы... решила, что и здесь не пропадёт (Рыбаков 1). She had stayed behind because she thought that, as someone who had suffered under Soviet rule, she could do well for herself with the Germans, and as she had already survived fire and water...she thought she would survive this, too (1a).
         ♦ Её [Одинцову] не любили в губернии... рассказывали про неё всевозможные небылицы, уверяли, что она помогала отцу в его шулерских проделках... "Прошла через огонь и воду", - говорили о ней (Тургенев 2). She [Madame Odintsov] was not popular in the province:...all sorts of impossible stories were invented about her: it was asserted that she had helped her father in his gambling escapades....'There's nothing she doesn't know," they said of her... (2c).

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  • 12 пройти огонь и воду

    • ПРОЙТИ (СКВОЗЬ <ЧЕРЕЗ, И> ОГОНЬ И ВОДУ < ОГНИ И воды> (И МЕДНЫЕ ТРУБЫ) coll
    [VP; subj: human; usu. past; the verb may take the final position, otherwise fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ (of a person who, in the course of a difficult or complex life, has acquired vast life experience; occas. of a person with a tarnished reputation, undiscriminating sexual experiences etc) to experience, endure much:
    - X has been through the mill (through it all, through hell, through the wringer);
    - [in limited contexts] there's nothing X doesn't know.
         ♦ Осталась она [при немцах] потому, что как пострадавшая от Советской власти ждала себе от немцев много хорошего и, пройдя огни и воды и медные трубы... решила, что и здесь не пропадёт (Рыбаков 1). She had stayed behind because she thought that, as someone who had suffered under Soviet rule, she could do well for herself with the Germans, and as she had already survived fire and water...she thought she would survive this, too (1a).
         ♦ Её [Одинцову] не любили в губернии... рассказывали про неё всевозможные небылицы, уверяли, что она помогала отцу в его шулерских проделках... "Прошла через огонь и воду", - говорили о ней (Тургенев 2). She [Madame Odintsov] was not popular in the province:...all sorts of impossible stories were invented about her: it was asserted that she had helped her father in his gambling escapades....'There's nothing she doesn't know," they said of her... (2c).

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  • 13 пройти огонь и воду и медные трубы

    • ПРОЙТИ (СКВОЗЬ <ЧЕРЕЗ, И> ОГОНЬ И ВОДУ < ОГНИ И воды> (И МЕДНЫЕ ТРУБЫ) coll
    [VP; subj: human; usu. past; the verb may take the final position, otherwise fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ (of a person who, in the course of a difficult or complex life, has acquired vast life experience; occas. of a person with a tarnished reputation, undiscriminating sexual experiences etc) to experience, endure much:
    - X has been through the mill (through it all, through hell, through the wringer);
    - [in limited contexts] there's nothing X doesn't know.
         ♦ Осталась она [при немцах] потому, что как пострадавшая от Советской власти ждала себе от немцев много хорошего и, пройдя огни и воды и медные трубы... решила, что и здесь не пропадёт (Рыбаков 1). She had stayed behind because she thought that, as someone who had suffered under Soviet rule, she could do well for herself with the Germans, and as she had already survived fire and water...she thought she would survive this, too (1a).
         ♦ Её [Одинцову] не любили в губернии... рассказывали про неё всевозможные небылицы, уверяли, что она помогала отцу в его шулерских проделках... "Прошла через огонь и воду", - говорили о ней (Тургенев 2). She [Madame Odintsov] was not popular in the province:...all sorts of impossible stories were invented about her: it was asserted that she had helped her father in his gambling escapades....'There's nothing she doesn't know," they said of her... (2c).

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  • 14 пройти сквозь огни и воды

    • ПРОЙТИ (СКВОЗЬ <ЧЕРЕЗ, И> ОГОНЬ И ВОДУ < ОГНИ И воды> (И МЕДНЫЕ ТРУБЫ) coll
    [VP; subj: human; usu. past; the verb may take the final position, otherwise fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ (of a person who, in the course of a difficult or complex life, has acquired vast life experience; occas. of a person with a tarnished reputation, undiscriminating sexual experiences etc) to experience, endure much:
    - X has been through the mill (through it all, through hell, through the wringer);
    - [in limited contexts] there's nothing X doesn't know.
         ♦ Осталась она [при немцах] потому, что как пострадавшая от Советской власти ждала себе от немцев много хорошего и, пройдя огни и воды и медные трубы... решила, что и здесь не пропадёт (Рыбаков 1). She had stayed behind because she thought that, as someone who had suffered under Soviet rule, she could do well for herself with the Germans, and as she had already survived fire and water...she thought she would survive this, too (1a).
         ♦ Её [Одинцову] не любили в губернии... рассказывали про неё всевозможные небылицы, уверяли, что она помогала отцу в его шулерских проделках... "Прошла через огонь и воду", - говорили о ней (Тургенев 2). She [Madame Odintsov] was not popular in the province:...all sorts of impossible stories were invented about her: it was asserted that she had helped her father in his gambling escapades....'There's nothing she doesn't know," they said of her... (2c).

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  • 15 пройти сквозь огни и воды и медные трубы

    • ПРОЙТИ (СКВОЗЬ <ЧЕРЕЗ, И> ОГОНЬ И ВОДУ < ОГНИ И воды> (И МЕДНЫЕ ТРУБЫ) coll
    [VP; subj: human; usu. past; the verb may take the final position, otherwise fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ (of a person who, in the course of a difficult or complex life, has acquired vast life experience; occas. of a person with a tarnished reputation, undiscriminating sexual experiences etc) to experience, endure much:
    - X has been through the mill (through it all, through hell, through the wringer);
    - [in limited contexts] there's nothing X doesn't know.
         ♦ Осталась она [при немцах] потому, что как пострадавшая от Советской власти ждала себе от немцев много хорошего и, пройдя огни и воды и медные трубы... решила, что и здесь не пропадёт (Рыбаков 1). She had stayed behind because she thought that, as someone who had suffered under Soviet rule, she could do well for herself with the Germans, and as she had already survived fire and water...she thought she would survive this, too (1a).
         ♦ Её [Одинцову] не любили в губернии... рассказывали про неё всевозможные небылицы, уверяли, что она помогала отцу в его шулерских проделках... "Прошла через огонь и воду", - говорили о ней (Тургенев 2). She [Madame Odintsov] was not popular in the province:...all sorts of impossible stories were invented about her: it was asserted that she had helped her father in his gambling escapades....'There's nothing she doesn't know," they said of her... (2c).

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  • 16 пройти сквозь огонь и воду

    • ПРОЙТИ (СКВОЗЬ <ЧЕРЕЗ, И> ОГОНЬ И ВОДУ < ОГНИ И воды> (И МЕДНЫЕ ТРУБЫ) coll
    [VP; subj: human; usu. past; the verb may take the final position, otherwise fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ (of a person who, in the course of a difficult or complex life, has acquired vast life experience; occas. of a person with a tarnished reputation, undiscriminating sexual experiences etc) to experience, endure much:
    - X has been through the mill (through it all, through hell, through the wringer);
    - [in limited contexts] there's nothing X doesn't know.
         ♦ Осталась она [при немцах] потому, что как пострадавшая от Советской власти ждала себе от немцев много хорошего и, пройдя огни и воды и медные трубы... решила, что и здесь не пропадёт (Рыбаков 1). She had stayed behind because she thought that, as someone who had suffered under Soviet rule, she could do well for herself with the Germans, and as she had already survived fire and water...she thought she would survive this, too (1a).
         ♦ Её [Одинцову] не любили в губернии... рассказывали про неё всевозможные небылицы, уверяли, что она помогала отцу в его шулерских проделках... "Прошла через огонь и воду", - говорили о ней (Тургенев 2). She [Madame Odintsov] was not popular in the province:...all sorts of impossible stories were invented about her: it was asserted that she had helped her father in his gambling escapades....'There's nothing she doesn't know," they said of her... (2c).

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  • 17 пройти сквозь огонь и воду и медные трубы

    • ПРОЙТИ (СКВОЗЬ <ЧЕРЕЗ, И> ОГОНЬ И ВОДУ < ОГНИ И воды> (И МЕДНЫЕ ТРУБЫ) coll
    [VP; subj: human; usu. past; the verb may take the final position, otherwise fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ (of a person who, in the course of a difficult or complex life, has acquired vast life experience; occas. of a person with a tarnished reputation, undiscriminating sexual experiences etc) to experience, endure much:
    - X has been through the mill (through it all, through hell, through the wringer);
    - [in limited contexts] there's nothing X doesn't know.
         ♦ Осталась она [при немцах] потому, что как пострадавшая от Советской власти ждала себе от немцев много хорошего и, пройдя огни и воды и медные трубы... решила, что и здесь не пропадёт (Рыбаков 1). She had stayed behind because she thought that, as someone who had suffered under Soviet rule, she could do well for herself with the Germans, and as she had already survived fire and water...she thought she would survive this, too (1a).
         ♦ Её [Одинцову] не любили в губернии... рассказывали про неё всевозможные небылицы, уверяли, что она помогала отцу в его шулерских проделках... "Прошла через огонь и воду", - говорили о ней (Тургенев 2). She [Madame Odintsov] was not popular in the province:...all sorts of impossible stories were invented about her: it was asserted that she had helped her father in his gambling escapades....'There's nothing she doesn't know," they said of her... (2c).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > пройти сквозь огонь и воду и медные трубы

  • 18 пройти сквозь через огни и воды

    • ПРОЙТИ (СКВОЗЬ <ЧЕРЕЗ, И> ОГОНЬ И ВОДУ < ОГНИ И воды> (И МЕДНЫЕ ТРУБЫ) coll
    [VP; subj: human; usu. past; the verb may take the final position, otherwise fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ (of a person who, in the course of a difficult or complex life, has acquired vast life experience; occas. of a person with a tarnished reputation, undiscriminating sexual experiences etc) to experience, endure much:
    - X has been through the mill (through it all, through hell, through the wringer);
    - [in limited contexts] there's nothing X doesn't know.
         ♦ Осталась она [при немцах] потому, что как пострадавшая от Советской власти ждала себе от немцев много хорошего и, пройдя огни и воды и медные трубы... решила, что и здесь не пропадёт (Рыбаков 1). She had stayed behind because she thought that, as someone who had suffered under Soviet rule, she could do well for herself with the Germans, and as she had already survived fire and water...she thought she would survive this, too (1a).
         ♦ Её [Одинцову] не любили в губернии... рассказывали про неё всевозможные небылицы, уверяли, что она помогала отцу в его шулерских проделках... "Прошла через огонь и воду", - говорили о ней (Тургенев 2). She [Madame Odintsov] was not popular in the province:...all sorts of impossible stories were invented about her: it was asserted that she had helped her father in his gambling escapades....'There's nothing she doesn't know," they said of her... (2c).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > пройти сквозь через огни и воды

  • 19 пройти сквозь через огни и воды и медные трубы

    • ПРОЙТИ (СКВОЗЬ <ЧЕРЕЗ, И> ОГОНЬ И ВОДУ < ОГНИ И воды> (И МЕДНЫЕ ТРУБЫ) coll
    [VP; subj: human; usu. past; the verb may take the final position, otherwise fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ (of a person who, in the course of a difficult or complex life, has acquired vast life experience; occas. of a person with a tarnished reputation, undiscriminating sexual experiences etc) to experience, endure much:
    - X has been through the mill (through it all, through hell, through the wringer);
    - [in limited contexts] there's nothing X doesn't know.
         ♦ Осталась она [при немцах] потому, что как пострадавшая от Советской власти ждала себе от немцев много хорошего и, пройдя огни и воды и медные трубы... решила, что и здесь не пропадёт (Рыбаков 1). She had stayed behind because she thought that, as someone who had suffered under Soviet rule, she could do well for herself with the Germans, and as she had already survived fire and water...she thought she would survive this, too (1a).
         ♦ Её [Одинцову] не любили в губернии... рассказывали про неё всевозможные небылицы, уверяли, что она помогала отцу в его шулерских проделках... "Прошла через огонь и воду", - говорили о ней (Тургенев 2). She [Madame Odintsov] was not popular in the province:...all sorts of impossible stories were invented about her: it was asserted that she had helped her father in his gambling escapades....'There's nothing she doesn't know," they said of her... (2c).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > пройти сквозь через огни и воды и медные трубы

  • 20 пройти через огни и воды

    • ПРОЙТИ (СКВОЗЬ <ЧЕРЕЗ, И> ОГОНЬ И ВОДУ < ОГНИ И воды> (И МЕДНЫЕ ТРУБЫ) coll
    [VP; subj: human; usu. past; the verb may take the final position, otherwise fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ (of a person who, in the course of a difficult or complex life, has acquired vast life experience; occas. of a person with a tarnished reputation, undiscriminating sexual experiences etc) to experience, endure much:
    - X has been through the mill (through it all, through hell, through the wringer);
    - [in limited contexts] there's nothing X doesn't know.
         ♦ Осталась она [при немцах] потому, что как пострадавшая от Советской власти ждала себе от немцев много хорошего и, пройдя огни и воды и медные трубы... решила, что и здесь не пропадёт (Рыбаков 1). She had stayed behind because she thought that, as someone who had suffered under Soviet rule, she could do well for herself with the Germans, and as she had already survived fire and water...she thought she would survive this, too (1a).
         ♦ Её [Одинцову] не любили в губернии... рассказывали про неё всевозможные небылицы, уверяли, что она помогала отцу в его шулерских проделках... "Прошла через огонь и воду", - говорили о ней (Тургенев 2). She [Madame Odintsov] was not popular in the province:...all sorts of impossible stories were invented about her: it was asserted that she had helped her father in his gambling escapades....'There's nothing she doesn't know," they said of her... (2c).

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